Liberal Vs. Liberal: Keith Olbermann Trashes Huff Po for Hiring a Truther

Scott Whitlock | September 5, 2014
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[For more, see NewsBusters.] What's a sign that a liberal media outlet has made a disastrous hiring move? Having fellow liberal Keith Olbermann publicly lambaste you for doing so. The former MSNBC anchor, now on ESPN, assailed the Huffington Post for hiring a 9/11 conspiracy theorist to cover national security. An outraged Olbermann quoted the tweets of former football player Donte Stallworth, including this one: "No way 9/11 was carried out by dying bin Laden, Nineteen men who couldn't fly a damn kite. Still have no evidence Osama was connected, like Iraq."      Olbermann noted that, despite dismissing his remarks as something that he doesn't believe anymore and that occurred five years ago, Stallworth was tweeting 9/11 truther propaganda only nine months ago.