In a recent blog, Stevendedalus was criticizing Don Rumsfeld for calling democrats isolationists.  When in truth, Rumsfeld was not talking about democrats at all.  Now along comes Keith Olberman, and not only is his ego the size of the grand canyon (comparison intentional), but he screwed up when referencing the author of the remarks.  Olberman goes off on his tirade:

Make no mistake here--the intent of that is to get us to confuse the psychotic scheming of an international terrorist, with that familiar bogeyman of the right, the "media."

The President and the Vice President and others have often attacked freedom of speech, and freedom of dissent, and freedom of the press.

Now, Mr. Bush has signaled that his unparalleled and unprincipled attack on reporting has a new and venomous side angle:

The attempt to link, by the simple expediency of one word--"media"--the honest, patriotic, and indeed vital questions and questioning from American reporters, with the evil of Al-Qaeda propaganda.

That linkage is more than just indefensible. It is un-American.

Well, now those are pretty strong words.  So Bush must have nailed the media right?  Unfortunately for Olberman, Bush did no  such thing.  Here is the referenced part of the speech by Bush:

Along with this campaign of terror, the enemy has a propaganda strategy. Osama bin Laden laid out this strategy in a letter to the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, that coalition forces uncovered in Afghanistan in 2002. In it, bin Laden says that al Qaeda intends to "[launch]," in his words, "a media campaign . . . to create a wedge between the American people and their government." This media campaign, bin Laden says, will send the American people a number of messages, including "that their government [will] bring them more losses, in finances and casualties." And he goes on to say that "they are being sacrificed . . . to serve . . . the big investors, especially the Jews." Bin Laden says that by delivering these messages, al Qaeda "aims at creating pressure from the American people on the American government to stop their campaign against Afghanistan."

Notice the bolded parts.  Those parts are where Bush is quoting from the captured document.  Bush is not saying the media is doing that, he is saying that bin Laden was trying to accomplish that!  Yet Olberman takes it as Bush stating it as fact!

Usually when someone goes off on a rant, over an issue that is not an issue, it is because they feel the barbs of guilt from a simple statement.  And indeed, while Bush has never stated the above as his opinion, it has been stated by other pundits on the right as the agenda of the Mainstream Media.

And apparently, at least in the case of Keith Olberman, those pundits are right. The truth hurts don't it Keith baby?