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-- stiff-arming budget-strapped states, and freezing out millions trapped by poverty, homelessness, hunger and despair;
-- militarizing Haiti and backing the Honduran coup, ousting a democratically elected leader;
-- supporting banker bailouts and bogus financial reform for Wall Street, not main street;
-- endorsing preventive detention, police state surveillance, and plans to assassinate US citizens named terrorists, with or without proof; and
-- bogus health care reform, for many weeks the top Countdown story, Olbermann flacking for Obamacare, now passed - a destructive program to enrich insurers and drug giants, making a dysfunctional system worse.
For months, he was unabashedly one-sided, feigning liberalism for a pro-business agenda - shamelessly pro-Obama when not jousting with Fox News or his nightly buffoonery, acting more like Bozo the Clown than a newsman, why critic David Forsmark calls his program "Meltdown," nightly "public ravings," not real news and information, evident by his topics, choice of guests, and discussions, supporting Democrat party politics, not good governance and public needs.
Georgetown history Professor Michael Kazin calls him "O'Reilly on the left - completely predictable, unfunny, and arrogant." University of Chicago Professor Harold Pollack said he "can be smart and funny, but I've basically had my fill. My life is full of shticky and rude blowhards already. Why add another?" Harper's editor Luke Mitchell described him as "irritating and his obvious sexism is reprehensible," despite some positive attributes.
On June 23, 2008, New Yorker writer Peter Boyer called him "One Angry Man," saying:
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