Keith Olbermann, over at MSNBC, has been a comer for a while now. As he has snarked at the various mouthpieces for the Reaganazis, pronouncing 'Coulter-geist' or O'Reilly the "Worst...Person..In The WOOORLLD!", at least for that evening, his writing has become more pointed and (to mix geometric metaphors) more edgy. And his ratings have climbed.
Well, last night, he arrived. Taking more than five minutes to give as good as he thinks we got from Rumsfeld, Olbermann took not only Rummy but the whole Administration to the public square, and flogged them for the miserable little people they are, and for what they are doing to America. No pulled punches, but no name-calling, the preferred tactic of the little minds that are trying to justify their support of this Administration. Just excellent analysis, perspective, and rhetoric in the classic sense of that word.
His blow-off is a long quote from Edward R. Murrow, eerily appropriate to the current situation, though Murrow spoke the words in 1954, at the height of the Joe McCarthy's manipulation of the Red Scare. If he seeks to wear Murrow's shoes, that ghost would have permitted it, at least this once.
Without further ado, watch this. And welcome Keith Olbermann to the A-list or journalistic analysts.
A while in coming, but worth the wait.
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