I totally missed this last night. Keith Olbermann responded yesterday to yesterday’s Page Six item on him and deservedly shredded the New York Post for their antics.

And one of the reasons I offered no comment, was obvious: the authorities asked me not to.

Also, a New York Post reporter attempted to gain access to me by falsely identifying herself as a friend of mine.

And, most relevantly, the New York Post never called NBC News or MSNBC seeking any comment. They would have been told that the FBI had requested we try to keep this quiet.

But of course that would have interfered with the New York Post making fun of a terror threat.

It’s almost melodramatic to ask why the New York Post would choose the side of domestic terrorism, rather than choose the side of the FBI.

An interesting side note in Olbermann’s commentray is something I had long suspected but didn’t know for sure. According to Olbermann, FNC had contacted other networks when Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig were kidnapped and asked them to keep the coverage to a minimum. This should serve as a rality check to the critics of the time who were speculating that nobody was covering the story because it concerned FNC.