While sitting peacefully on my sofa eating popcorn and channel surfing I landed in the backwash of a wave I rarely see...MSNBC. What made me stay in this wilderness of sap I will never know but there I was. The program I was watching was The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell or Let's Slobber Over Keith Olbermann.
O'Donnell droned on about how Olbermann was a wonderful purveyor of truth and his sacrificial mentor. It got so sappy there for a while I picked my feet up from the floor to avoid ..... well you know what.
Now, it's admirable to love your friends no matter their proclivity toward absurdity, but it would be wise to keep it in the family. On the other hand I guess those who regularly watch MSNBC are family, all ten of them. I was just an uninvited intruder.
The point is, Keith Olbermann was a vendor of unbridled hatred. His Op-Ed pieces were so filled with vitriol that he makes Sen Steven Cohen look mild and Hannity look like a choir boy. O'Donnell picked up the mantel with great enthusiasm.
Even when O'Donnell digressed from his journalistic obituary and attempted the news it was the attitudinal shadow of Olbermann and very little commentary worth enduring. Then it was back to the ramblings about Keith O.
Oh well, I'm sure MSNBC, if such a poll were taken, would come in behind Peewee Herman marries Yvonne.
O'Donnell while gasping for air did mention West Wing and how it has run for 8 (?) seasons and is highly rated. Duh..what does that have to do with the MSNBC debacle?
Then came Rachel Maddow sloshing through mire with her comment about the "Republicans in disarray." Maddow did you miss November 2, 2010?
I headed for bed and decided to leave a night light on in case I had nightmares.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
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