Saturday, November 29, 2008
Dialogue/Soliloquy
Seriously, though, why the hell does Keith Olbermann even bother to have guests? This, I'm saying in that whenever I happen to watch his show, he always has a bunch of folks on who basically answer HIS questions....the same frigging way that he frigging would................................................Just take tonight (11/26/08), for example. He had Jonathan Alter from Newsweek on and, yeah, you better be believing it, folks, Mr. Alter gave Mr. Olbermann exactly what Mr. Olbermann wanted. I think the question was basically, "do the last eight years completely repudiate conservative economic policies?" - something like that. Nice, huh? - Jonathan's response of course being, "well, obviously, Keith." And, yes, folks, that was basically that................................................Now don't get me wrong here. Mr. Olbermann is certainly entitled to his opinion and all (hell, I even agree with him from time to time) but, hey, don't you think we might want to flush some of this stuff out a little more? Like, I don't know, instead of having somebody like Alter ricocheting back to Olbermann Olbermann's party-line, answering the above question in this manner: "I don't know, Keith. It definitely repudiates the policies of this particular Republican president/congress (though, please, Keith, keep in mind, the Dems have controlled the congress since'06). To go beyond that, though, I think you first have to ask yourself the following. Were the policies that this Republican president followed necessarily conservative ones? I mean, just the out of control spending alone would lead me to have some doubts."...................................................Oh, and, yeah, maybe then throw a little Jimmy Carter back at him. "And then there's Jimmy Carter. He and the Democratic congress of his era had 19% interest rates, a 12% inflation rate, unemployment up the poop-shoot, etc.. Did that scenario necessarily represent a repudiation of LIBERAL economic policies (liberals, of course, saying that Jimmy Carter wasn't a liberal)? No, huh? You do see what I'm saying, though, Keith, right?.....................................................I don't know, that's how I would have answered it anyway.
With that kind of an approach you are never going to be invited onto Olbermann's show.
ReplyDeleteI remember feeling so relieved to hear Olbermann when he first showed up on my radar screen. Someone to point out the obvious madness of George. But I guess outrage fatigue kicked in - for me he's not nearly as interesting now.
And yes, wouldn't it be more interesting to let guys like Keith lead a conversation to redefine what works rather than attack or defend political goods that are past their expiration date?
I must admit, I actually liked Olbermann at first, too. Finally, somebody was standing up to O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, etc.. But lately, I swear, his mean-spiritedness and partisanship is actually starting to rival that of those folks. Thank God we still have Wolf Blitzer and Campbell Brown.
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