Olbermann named McGuirk "Worst Person" runner-up for Nazi comparison
 
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 15:08:03 -0400


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<p><b>Olbermann named McGuirk "Worst Person" runner-up for Nazi comparison </b></p>
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<p>On the April 30 edition
of MSNBC&#39;s <i>Countdown</i>, host Keith
Olbermann named Bernard McGuirk, former producer of MSNBC&#39;s <i>Imus in the Morning</i>, runner-up in his
"Worst Person in the World" segment for "compar[ing] the end of his show to the roundup of the communists, then the
liberals, then the Catholics, then the Jews in Nazi Germany." Olbermann added, "He even misquoted the famous <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=clip200705010005&http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/niemoeller.html">lament</a> of Pastor Martin
Niemoller, &#39;First they came.&#39; " Olbermann said, "Yeah,
you and [former host Don] Imus and those sent to the
concentration camps, Bernie."</p>

<p>On April 27, <i>Media Matters for America</i> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200704280001?src=clip200705010005">noted</a> McGuirk&#39;s comments on Fox
News&#39; <i>Hannity &amp; Colmes</i>.
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<p>From the April 30
edition of MSNBC&#39;s <i>Countdown with
Keith Olbermann</i>:</p><blockquote>

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OLBERMANN: Our runner-up tonight, former Imus producer Bernard
McGuirk, who on Fox Noise has compared the end of his show to the roundup of
the communists, then the liberals, then the Catholics, then the Jews in Nazi
Germany. He even misquoted the famous lament of Pastor Martin Niemoller,
"First they came." Yeah, you and Imus and those sent to the
concentration camps, Bernie. And Tom DeLay -- Tom DeLay made the same analogy.</p></blockquote><table width="100%" style="background: #e8e8e8; 
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