I’m starting to think that MSNBC’s audience is made up of MSNBC employees, who then go on-air and talk about what they’ve just seen.
There is no shortage of leftists. Underestimating the number of them would be a mistake. Besides being comprised of loonie-lefties, MSNBC merely caters to that audience. MSNBC is an excellent bellwether for "progressive" reaction, lies, half-truths, and lines of argument.
I watched the same network after Sarah Palin's speech, just for that reason. Andrea Mitchell looked like she was on depressants - Nora O'Donnell was at first enthused by the speech, but soon picked up the contact "anti-buzz" from her peers in the network, that she needed to find ways to criticize.
Olbermann is the DU’s hero. And that’s who he plays to.