The weird thing is, Sklar seems to cover all things media, esp. media parties (where she is at her snarky best), in her “eat the press’ blog, so the fact that she didn’t write about Keith’s 5-years, seems like she didn’t attend. Maybe that is why he made that comment, because he didn’t get the coverage, (other than TVnewser).

When he says she “was not accompanying a guest,” that is not meant as a snark on her for not having a date. What he is saying is that even having been denied an invitation of her own, Sklar could have legitimately attended the party as a guest of someone who DID have an invitation. According to him, she did not attend with someone who was invited, so she was a crasher.

She says she didn’t even go.

Who’s telling the truth? We can’t tell from this. But please, rid yourself of the notion that the remark about Sklar not being accompanied by a guest was some sort of attempt to snark at her for not having a date. It’s obvious to me that what he meant was that she wasn’t present as the guest of an invitee.

“…In the comments section of a Daily Kos blog post he wrote, Olbermann responded to a commenter who questioned Sklar’s criticism of MSNBC and Olbermann. Sklar “has it in for you big time,” wrote the commenter. Olbermann responds:

Don’t know what to think about Ms. Sklar. Actually, I’m mildly alarmed, but not because of the criticism. She — let me phrase this gently — attended the Countdown 5th Anniversary Party in April, even though she had been denied an invitation and was not accompanying a guest.

But Sklar tells TVNewser, “Keith is mistaken. I’m sorry he was alarmed, but I was not at the event.”…”

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/msnbc/couric_v_olbermann_morphs_to_olbermann_v_sklar_87044.asp?c=rss

I am getting a little tired of Keith attacking someone in a personal manner, when they may have a valid criticism of his show. He seems to do this particularly when the criticism is coming from women. I am sorry, but what does whether Ms. Sklar has a date or not, or was invited or not to his party, in which she said she did not attend, have to do with the price of eggs in China. This is really an ugly side of Keith that he needs to really work on.

http://www.philipkdick.com/films_blade-young01.html

Keith can be a bit of a loyal attack dog when it comes to all things pertaining to the NBC family. Ms. Sklar may have cherry picked, but I can see a little bit why there is a bit of a backlash. It really has nothing to do with Couric. And lets be honest here, Keith certainly is not a saint. He’s uttered more than his fair share of snide little comments about women, in particular, their advanced age. (”flinch” worthy, indeed). But considering the flith and lies that the scum at FoxNews spew, I’ll put up with Keith’s occasional “guy’s locker-room” comments.