On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:24 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > What about this left you speechless?
>
> "A place where journalistic integrity and analytical honesty will
> never be compromised..."
>

You would rather his goal be to create a place where journalistic integreity
and analytical honesty is always compromised?


>
> He's calling the show the same thing, and his ego is still
> overinflated, so I'm not optimistic that he'll be meaningful in any
> way. I expect more worst person in the world, more stupid jabs at
> O'Reilly, and more of the opinionated blowhard that everybody except
> me seems to drool over.
>

I am not sure how you can justify that last claim - Olbermann is among the
more aggressively criticized news media personalities in recent memory. If
you wanted to get into the room for people who do not drool over Keith
Olbermann you would have to stand in a very long line, so it is hardly
everybody except you.

Olbermann is a mixed bag, he is arrogant and pompous and thinned skinned and
melodramatic. He is also brilliant and insightful and courageous and has
more integrity than the average bear. Because he is not perfect does not
make him nothing but an opinonated blowhard (though yes, obviously, he is an
opinonated blowhard).

He is also a reactionary - tell him he can not do something and he will do
it, just to be cantankorous. This is not his political ideology, it is his
neurosis (he was like that at ESPN). I think there is a chance that in a
less controlling situation he might be less defiant.

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