
In September, Playboy ran an interview with Keith Olbermann where he said something like "Fox News is worse than Al Aqaeda - worse for our society." In our book, it's six of one, half dozen of the other.
But Playboy readers were offended, wrote in letters saying so. And Playboy editors wanted to keep their "Dear Playboy" page looking balanced, so they did a little recruiting and found "Becky Liebowitz," the author of Either Relevant Or True, a Keith Olbermann fan blog, to write in.
As she explains on her blog:
I was contacted by Playboy editor Chip Rowe via the site’s contact form. He said that they were getting overwhelmingly negative response on the interview* - mostly for the Fox Noise remarks, though some were just general anti-KO sentiment - and that he’d like to balance that with something positive from someone with my “expertise.†(No, really, that’s the word he used. I quickly denied being an expert on a man I’d never met.) After exchanging several emails, I wrote up a couple of hundred words for him to use on the “Letters to Playboy†page. The letter appears in the January issue, along with this blog’s address.
Playboy let Liebowitz use her pseudonym, which it didn't inform its readers about. Good thing people read Playboy for the articles, not for the letters page.
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Why didn't they just ask Olbermann himself to write positive remarks about himself and cut out the girly fan middleman?
Is this guy still on the air?
The guy's a lot of hot air for sure, but I love him!