He also went off on The Mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford. He quoted the CBC reports, which had changed somewhat since the initial reports, but he didn't bother to update himself before making his comments. It appears that the comments, that he quoted, were quite incorrect and that the CBC report was based on rumour, not fact.
It's unusual for the CBC to be this wrong, as they generally triple check their sources, but in this case it appears that they screwed up badly. Even Toronto's Chief of Police, who doesn't have a lot of reason to protect the mayor at this point given what is happening with his budget, said that the 911 recordings say nothing like what Olbermann reported in his "worst person" segment.
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