10 REASONS ESPN IS MSNBC WITH BETTER VIDEO: Just as MTV used to run rock videos many years ago*, ESPN used to show sports programming until it became all politics, all the time. Olbermann transferring there really was simply a lateral move for him, wasn’t it?

In the second of his Three Laws of Politics, Robert Conquest famously noted, “Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.” Not coincidentally, in the media, anything that’s non-political will become absolutely saturated with left-wing politics during that transformation, and both print and TV sports journalism is one of the worst offenders in this area.

Kids, ask your parents about this. It’s true, I swear.