I miss Keith Olbermann. I miss his anger, I miss his humor, but most of all I miss his willingness to take on Bush, Cheney, the Republicans, the tea party, Rush, Fox News, and all the others trying to push us back to the dark ages. I mean really take them on, to call them liars, unAmerican, unpatriotic, all those things you and I scream at them too, but no one can hear us because we're nobody.
Keith will soon be back on TV on a cable network called Current. I know we don't have that network here at the cabin in West Virginia, and I'm not even sure we have it back in DC. Probably do but I don't recall seeing it as I clicked through the channels.
I'll try to watch for him when we get back to DC. I wish him well, but suspect his ratings won't threaten reruns of the Gong Show. The NY Times has a nice piece about him that describes a talented but thin-skinned, needy performer. Ouch, sounds like Bill O'Reilly. Still, Keith preserved my sanity during the bleakest years of the Bush/Cheney regime, and for that I'll be eternally grateful.
Here is the part of the Times article that really struck me.
Paul Begala, a commentator at CNN and a Democratic strategist, said that in spite of the obscurity of his new place in the cable world, Olbermann could find an audience. “I spend a lot of time talking to Democrats, and the question that you hear over and over is why nobody will stand up and fight back,” he said. “People are hungry for someone who will fight for them.”
Did you catch that? The question Paul Begala hears over and over is 'why won't anyone stand up and fight back?' I wonder what his answer is (because I sure as hell don't know)?
[h/t BitburgBuddy]
--Trakker
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