by Mark Finkelstein March 28, 2006 Keith Olbermann might be on vacation, but that doesn't mean MSNBC's mean-spiritedness took a day off. If guest host Alison Stewart was auditioning for the Olbermann seat, she might well have ingratiated herself with her MSNBC bosses by the nastiness she doled out on the day of Caspar Weinberger's death. Weinberger passed away today at age 88. He had served as President Reagan's Secretary of Defense. As Bloomberg News put it: "Weinberger . . . oversaw the U.S. military buildup under President Ronald Reagan that helped hasten the Soviet Union's collapse." Stewart managed to...
