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Why I will Miss Keith Olbermann, The Progressive Paul Revere (He's serious!)
London in New York ^ | January 23, 2011 | Christopher London

Posted on 01/23/2011 8:04:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

In the News & Opinion & Entertainment Media, the fringe lunacy represented by Beck, O’Reilly, Palin, Limbaugh et. al etc. or America’s Ministry of Disinformation & Propaganda had ONE MAN who was successfully able to cross their signals, get up in their face and get a wide swath of this country not simply to understand how truly ridiculous, dangerous and often manipulative was their rhetoric but also empowered the sleeping to get up and take them on.

That one person with all due respect was not Steven Colbert nor was it Jon Stewart on The Daily Show or even Rachel Maddow. That is no disrespect for Jon Stewart. He makes you laugh at the ministers of disinformation in American Media. Keith Olbermann on his show Countdown with Keith Olbermann with his combative liberal perspective made you understand the gravity of their disinformation and the depth of the harm being wrought on civil society, and just maybe made you angry enough to want to do something about it. Rachel Maddow is perhaps one of the most gifted media personalities in America today. Her intellect, charm and manners bode well for the future character of our media as well as the future of MSNBC. Maddow is dignified as she is hip in her simple brilliance and in exposing the hypocrisy of other media personalities. You become smarter for simply watching her. Maddow makes you understand it all intellectually so just maybe you can impress your friends at cocktail parties with your vivid dissection of the right; and after all wouldn’t a more dignified debate between the left and the right ultimately elevate our society?

Was Keith Olbermann equally over the top as some on the fringe right? Absolutely, but when Paul Revere went on his Midnight Ride and advised us ‘the British are coming’, would it have bothered you if that Midnight Ride took place in 2007 or 2008 and instead of a horse he did it in a PORSCHE 911 Turbo with a loud megaphone mounted atop his speedy vehicle? Keith Olbermann on MSNBC in the evening hours was a modern day Paul Revere awakening and rallying the masses from their stupefying slumber. That he ‘needed to go’ makes you realize why he and his anti-establishment rants and perhaps speaking truth to power was perceived as more dangerous to the members of the existing social order than those in the Ministry of Disinformation & Propaganda combined with the distraction culture of the entertainment industry. The combo not only gets America to regularly dine on their own excrement but also each other, rather than their ruling elite, keeping our citizenry disengaged and in a state of cannibalistic and coprophagiac bliss. Similarly, you can see why they may feel much safer with David Gregory at the helm on Meet the Press than they did with Tim Russert. You always got the sense that even Tim might deviate from the script and ask a question or share some information that might lead viewers to see the man in the curtained off booth which is why his mysterious death troubled me and others. In America, we no longer want or need you to see ‘The Great Oz’ or even understand the Zeitgeist.

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In America’s media you no longer even need the brain power of Christopher London as much as you may need the butt worshiping skills of a finely trained submissive. Just every once in a while when your master or your mistress looks down on you and asks ‘how does my ass taste’, look up and say ‘thank you, your ass tastes so good.’ And then after completing said task to further illustrate total and complete subservience to your mistress you may ask ‘may I also kiss your feet ?’ In fairness to NBC, beyond the merger with Comcast, it has a longer standing historical commitment to being perceived as a credible News medium and thus maybe even a duty to at least try to elevate the debate intellectually than the popular new network, FOX News. In that context one might see that NBC is thus more sensitive to undermining its brand for the sake of entertainment ratings garnered by one bombastic persona (who also donated to Democratic candidates) in a contest with right wing talk radio. Now even Piers Morgan, the rather douchie Englishmen who has replaced Larry King on CNN has apparently banned Olbermann from his show. A bit of advice to the bloke, perhaps you may want to actually get some ratings before banning folks, like Madonna or Keith Olbermann, who have actually accomplished something.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Music/Entertainment; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: glennbeck; keitholbermann; olbermann; palin; rachelmaddow; rush; talkradio; television
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To: csense

“I’ll say it again: we are as odd to them, as they are to us...”

Only I don’t insist on being odd with their money or their freedom.


21 posted on 01/23/2011 10:42:42 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I will kind of miss him too.

Olbermann’s meltdowns were more entertaining to watch than that prissy little Chris Hayes SWPL from The Nation.


22 posted on 01/24/2011 4:53:24 AM PST by WilliamHouston
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To: mplsconservative
Just another elitist jerk. He and his ilk are getting very tiresome.

Congratulations! Your comment is immortalized on his blog:

"This blog (Free Republic) pokes fun at me and refers to me as an elitist jerk. Gotta love it. Bring it."

23 posted on 01/24/2011 5:04:45 AM PST by Fresh Wind (TOTUS knows how to give a speech. Obama knows how to read.)
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To: csense

“I’ll say it again: we are as odd to them, as they are to us...”
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True enough, the difference is that most on the so called right are able to lay out in detail why they are crazy and prove that their ideas have never worked and never will. All they can do is rave and sputter.


24 posted on 01/24/2011 8:08:27 AM PST by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a liberal is like teaching algebra to a tomcat.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Can’t wait for Beck to mock him with his smoking pipe....


25 posted on 01/24/2011 8:20:47 AM PST by GraceG
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow, that was hard to read. I gather this jackass loves Olbermann.


26 posted on 01/24/2011 11:54:02 AM PST by ozzymandus
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To: Fresh Wind

LOL! This guy really is delusional in more ways than one.


27 posted on 01/24/2011 5:50:24 PM PST by mplsconservative (I stand with Israel.)
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