The Liberal Learning Curve

Of all the people that Olbermann and Maddow have been putting on their show lately, far and away the most credible one is Jonathan Alter. Yes, folks, he's a liberal and, yes, he does have a tendency to agree with the hosts but, I'm telling you here, he is far from a rubberized stamp.........................................................................................................Just last week in fact, he essentially schooled Ms. Maddow. She tried to say that President Obama should personally fight back when the "right-wing smear merchants", etc. go after him. Alter (who, let's face it here, has already forgotten more about politics than Maddow herself will ever, EVER, know) responded by saying that it isn't the job of the President (assigning that task more to the DNC chairman, etc.) to get in the gutter with these folks. His job (and, yes, I totally agree with Alter here) is to lead the country and to get things accomplished...................................................................................................He also challenged Maddow on this whole Van Jones is a victim nonsense - citing specifically the fact that Mr. Jones had signed some petition saying that 9/11 was an inside job, had in fact made a huge litany of other idiotic statements, etc.. Why, Alter posited, would President Obama even want to spend a penny of political capital on him? Again, I agree with Mr. Alter.........................................................................................................P.S. This, folks, is the guy who should have his own frigging cable show. Not frigging.....