In a room full of television industry executives, no one seemed inclined to defend MSNBC on Monday for what some were calling its lopsidedly liberal coverage of the presidential election.
MSNBC star Keith Olbermann was criticized by many who attended Monday's luncheon sponsored by the Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The event was dubbed "Hollywood, America and Election '08."
...writer-producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, a self-proclaimed liberal Democrat...added that she would prefer a lunch date with right-leaning Fox News star Sean Hannity over left-leaning Keith Olbermann.
That's inexplicable to me. Unless you shared his politics, why would anyone prefer eating with an idiot like Hannity to a sharpie like Olbermann?
Unless, of course, you're the sort of person who's so dangerously loyal to your best friend (which in Bloodworth-Thomason's case is Hilary Clinton) that you'd defend...
Bloodworth-Thomason even suggested a defense of [Sarah] Palin and her supporters should be written into TV programming, just as she went out of her way to portray Southern women as smart in her hit TV show "Designing Women."
Oh.
And now, back to the inspirational Larry G:
Attendee Michael Reagan, the radio talk-show host and son of President Ronald Reagan, said he no longer will appear as a guest on MSNBC because "I actually get death threats."
"I'll stop sending them," joked Larry Gelbart, the writer, producer and director best known for the "M*A*S*H" television series and such movie screenplays as "Tootsie" and "Oh, God!"
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