Countdown: Gloves Come Off in Olbermann-Grove Showdown

It’s a few notches below, say, Tim Robbins‘ infamous spat with the then-Washington Post columnist (“If you ever write about my family again, I will f*cking find you and I will f*cking hurt you”) but close. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann used his blog, Bloggermann, to take some roundhouse swings at Daily News‘ gossipist Lloyd Grove, who had recently thrown some “egregious” and “disgraceful” punches of his own at the Countdown host and MSNBC brass.

If you’re into this sort of stuff, pull up a lawn chair, perhaps a glass of iced tea, and revel in some well-groomed venom, Olbermann-style:

Lloyd Grove, his assistant Katherine Thomson, and their employers at The New York Daily News … are guilty of taking quotes out of context in such an egregious manner — and ignoring an extraordinary conflict of interest for Ms.

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