In January, Mary Katharine Ham was named Olbermann’s “Worst Person in the World” for insinuating that Bill Clinton wasn’t prepared for the YouTubification of politics. From her defense in January:
My point, which I made fairly clear on the show was that Bubba’s not used to the quick and constant fact-checking of the Internet and 24-hour news cycle age and that it pisses him off when his mis-statements and blow-ups are routinely recorded and picked apart. Olbermann’s position is that because the media didn’t black out coverage of Clinton’s coitus internus in the Oval Office, he was never, ever treated with kid gloves by the press.
Clear to everyone but Olbermann. Let’s see what happens on “Countdown” now that MSNBC political director Chuck Todd is basically saying the same thing:
No one has seemed less prepared for the intense scrutiny of this campaign than Bill. He seems to forget that even when he’s in rural Indiana, he’s on the national stage. In ‘96, the Clinton campaign thought their local market strategy was innovative (it was), since it allowed him to talk to key media markets outside of the interference of the national press. Now, the national press is everywhere since local can become national in an instant.