Thank goodness for online video streaming. It’s about the only way I could watch Keith Olbermann.

Earlier this week, Keith, an MSNBC propagandist who has come to believe people care what he hopes/thinks/says/because-there’s-no-filter-in-between, smeared my colleague Howard Wolfson, who was Hillary Clinton’s communication director and is now a FOX News political analyst. Keith compared Howard to Tokyo Rose.

First of all, Tokyo Rose didn’t exist. It was a name bestowed on a half dozen or so women who broadcast propaganda in English to American soldiers during World War II. The various Tokyo Roses’ job was demoralize the enemy by telling them they could not win.

Second, Howard Wolfson is a proud liberal who, in his appearances on FOX, has outlined the Democrats’ battle plan for winning the White House. He is not preaching defeat to his party. After Sen. Clinton’s defeat, he threw his support to Barack Obama. There is room for that kind of opinion in the Big Tent known as FOX News.

But not in Keith’s head. Keith is too important to be constrained (restrained might be a different matter) by facts. He is the heir to Huntley, to Brinkley, to Chancellor, to Brokaw. (Sorry, NBC).

Keith thinks Democrats shouldn’t deign to appear on FOX. That’s the same philosophy that served John Edwards so well when he was an active candidate (among other things). Like Sen. Edwards, Keith is a non-factor now that the real decisions have been made. And like Tokyo Rose, he is a fictional conflation.