Dan Cooper, formerly of Fox News,
was maliciously smeared by
Keith Olbermann on March 20th.
Recently, Keith Olbermann has been guilty of some pretty embarrassing lapses of research. Today at Redstate.com I wrote about one of the biggest. To summarize, about a week ago Olbermann named Twitter his “Worst Person in the World” for allegedly refusing to stop a fraudulent imposter account.
It seems that Olbermann received an email addressed to Dan Cooper which referenced the @KeithOlbermann Twitter feed. Olbermann implies that Dan, as part of an apparent Fox News plot to defame him, is running the account. Small problem in this theory: the account was valid. MSNBC held the account in Olbermann’s name. Also, as my interview with Cooper illuminates, the idea that he would be a part of some conspiracy with Fox is absurd on its face. But the fact that a conspiracy theory is absurd hasn’t hampered Olbermann flogging it in the past, sir.
The whole report was sloppy. At Redstate I’ve posted screenshots of Olbermann’s second Twitter account, which actually Tweeted the very segment in which he rants about not being a Twitterer. Yeesh. It’s funny, but the casual manner with which Olbermann maligns Dan Cooper is anything but amusing.
Dan is a media professional and a writer. He’s had a long career in journalism. What’s more, he’s a progressive Democrat who is at odds with former employer Fox News. In short, nothing Olbermann slyly implies could be further from the truth. A fact which I emphasize in my story.
It is extremely damaging, both to my business and emotional state. Never in my life have I been accused of shoddy journalism. Let alone of such activity as violating the rules of a web site, as happened here. Far more important, I am at a critical point in the launching of a new media venture, and taking the time to deal with Keith Olbermann’s insanity and NBC’s lack of ethics and irresponsibility has cost me valuable time and energy. I do not, and have never, colluded with Fox News. I have never impersonated Keith Olbermann. – Dan Cooper, interview with Redstate.com
It won’t take long, we all know, for Olbermann apologists to come out and defend him. Take, for example, Tommy Christopher.
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