…and has to show ID no less. I will say this about the President. I might have many criticisms of him; however, I have no beef with his sense of humor:
“But Glenn Beck is the crazy one,” as Kate of the Small Dead Animals blog likes to say.
As much as I like Ed Driscoll; I must ever so politely disagree, as I am often prone to do. I really do not believe that Keith Olbermann is crazy. A bit over the top at times, but not crazy.
What happened with Keith is this here:
Keith worked for MSNBC, a network that did just what Fox News did during the Bush era. They traded honesty for access. Fox News during the Bush era, was fiercely loyal to the President; with the emphases being on fierce. Fox News on air talent, and yes, that does include Bill O’Reilly; would deride anyone, who even remotely criticized the President. Fox News did this, until it unfeasible to do it any longer. Also too, the Bush defense mode ended, when Rupert began to see his fortune slip away. When Keith left, I thought it was just Keith and his personality; however, when the host of “The Young Turks” basically was told, that he was not wanted. I knew what was going on.
Keith’s other problem was that he went horribly into the tank for President Obama rather early. Once President Obama was in the White House and began to continue most of President Bush’s policies. Keith turned on the criticism towards Obama. This did not abode well with the suits.
Another thing too, that I have noticed is that during the Bush era; Keith Olbermann would at least be civil to those who came on his show, who happened to disagree with his politics. Now, it seems that Olbermann has taken a new, intolerant tone towards those who disagree with him. Numerous times, I have seen Keith, on twitter, really take a nasty tone towards those who disagree with him; often blocking those who challenge him. This is a shift for him. I would imagine that he had to be civil to please the suits at MSNBC, but I thought some of it was genuine. Perhaps I was wrong about that, but I am not entirely sure. To be fair to Keith, I have also seen many on the so-called “right,” basically trolling Keith and baiting him into arguments and insults; which causes Keith to have to block them. I know all about the trolls on twitter, I have been there myself. So, I cannot criticize him for that.
Again, I just do not believe that there anything mentally wrong with Keith Olbermann at all. The man is a brilliant writer; however, he is a unabashed Liberal progressive, who does believe in what he advocates for. Some people believe that he is your a-typical “Limousine Liberal” type. Now, personally, I do not know this to be the case. However, it is the impression that he does give to many; including many in the “right-wing” Blogosphere, who take a rather perverse pleasure in mocking him.
I do true hope that Keith does find employment somewhere; I believe that just as there is a place for Conservative thought and discussion, like you see at Fox News —- that there is a place for progressive, liberal thought and discussion. I believe the free market, not the Government; should dictate that sort of a thing. Those in the market for that sort of a thing, should be able to buy it, just people, who are Conservative or Republican; should be able to buy their choice of programming as well. It is all about personal choice and preference.
However, because I am someone who is a non-partisan; and someone who believes that news, in itself; should not be partisan — I believe that “Advocacy Journalism” should not be allowed to happen. When you begin to blend fighting for a cause, with journalism; you can cross over into propaganda territory. To be fair, there are many, who do this on the right as well. One could day, that we bloggers are just that. For the record, I do not consider myself a journalist. I consider myself a writer, with a bit of an opinion and a bit of political slant. However, I believe in the world of corporate news organizations; politics should remain at the door. Newsgatherers main job is to gather news; not pepper it with their opinions — which happens a bit too often, on the right and the left. The left having the upper hand, of course.
In closing: I believe that Keith is a self-made man. As a Conservative-leaning person. I do not fault Keith for his success. Keith was blessed with a normal, non-ADD riddled brain; like mine. Keith went to school, got his diploma, and went to college and got a degree and made something of himself and is quite the respected person in his own circles. I have no quarrel with this at all. What I do have an issue with, is that he went hyper-partisan and did just what he lauded the right for doing with George W. Bush. Again, this is just my impression of the man. I am an opinion person and that is my feeling about him. As for his dealings with Al Gore; I hope he learned his mistake there; but I do hope he does get his money back. I think Keith deserved better than what he got, it is too bad that he still believes the B.S. that people like Gore pump out. I figured that would open his eyes. I guess not.
In an interview with CNN host Piers Morgan last week, Media mogul and CNN founder Ted Turner said the fact that there have been more suicides than combat deaths in the Army this year is not “shocking,” but “good.”
Highlighted first by Breitbart.com, the Oct. 19 interview has Turner speculating that “it’s time to put war and conflict behind us and move on,” and the rising rate of self-inflicted troop deaths is good because it brings attention to that view.
TURNER: It’s time to put war and conflict behind us and move on, and start acting like civilized, educated human beings.
MORGAN: You made the point to me in the break there, more American servicemen have –
TURNER: — are dying now from suicide over there than are dying in combat.
MORGAN: That’s shocking, isn’t it?
TURNER: Well, what — no, I think it’s — I think it’s good, because it’s so clear that we’re programmed and we’re born to love and help each other, not to kill each other, to destroy each other. That’s an aberration. That’s left over from hundreds of years ago. It’s time for to us start acting enlightened.
Yessir! That right there is your modern-day liberal left in this Country. It is good the United States Military staff are killing themselves. It will help us all become more enlightened. Wow…..Just wow…. This is why I quit voting for them. 😡
Needless to say, this is some interesting reading here:
Fellow Sportsman:
About this time four years ago, I penned an open letter to you that spoke of the Barack Obama I grew to know while I was a lobbyist in the Illinois State Capitol. At that time, I described Obama as a stony-faced liar who will do whatever it takes to force his extremist agenda on the American people. I warned you that electing Barack Obama would be something that hunters, sportsmen, target shooters and gun collectors would live to regret.
In writing to you four years ago, I backed my assertions about the danger of an Obama presidency by citing his legislative record. That record includes voting no less than 4 times against legislation that would allow law-abiding citizens to defend their families against home invaders without fear of being arrested or being sued. This shameful record of Obama’s also included his support for legislation that would run venerable Illinois firearm manufacturers such as Armalite, Lewis Machine & Tool, Rock River Arms, and Springfield Armory out of business.
I reminded you as well that Obama was a long-time member of the board of the rabidly anti-gun Joyce Foundation. As a member of the Joyce Foundation board, Obama approved the donation of millions of dollars to gun grabbing groups such as the Violence Policy Center and the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence. Those, and other groups funded by the Joyce Foundation, are bent on destroying the Second Amendment to our Constitution – and Barack Obama was always there with checkbook in hand to help them out.
No indictment of Obama’s anti-gun sentiment would be complete without dropping the names of some of his close friends and confidants. First, we have renegade Chicago priest Mike Pfleger. Many of you will recall that Pfleger openly called for the murder of gun shop owners and legislators who were pro-gun. Obama is also strongly affiliated with guys like former Chicago mayor, Richie Daley and international gun-hater George Soros. Truly, birds of a feather flock together.
Four years ago, there was overwhelming evidence that Obama was no friend to the law-abiding firearm owner. Nevertheless, many shooters bought in to Obama’s bogus claims of ‘respect’ for the Second Amendment. To their detriment, they believed Obama’s assertion that he would not take their guns away from them.
After issuing my open letter to firearm owners four years ago, I received a lot of emails, letters and calls from hunters and outdoorsmen who told me I was wrong about Obama. They claimed that Obama truly understood the Constitution and that the breaking of his ties with the Chicago establishment would move him towards a more gun-friendly state of mind.
Now, four years later, I’m afraid I must say, “I told you so.” Obama has repaid the gun owners who supported him with the appointments of two anti-gun, anti-freedom justices to the Supreme Court. And, just last week, we heard Obama promise millions of debate-watchers that he would work to reinstate Bill Clinton’s ban on semiautomatic rifles, pistols and shotguns. Obama went even a step further by hinting that he was contemplating actions to ban handguns as well.
I would advise everyone to finish reading this one. This is why I am voting for Mitt Romney. Because the second amendment is important and Mitt Romney will protect it.
With 12 days to go before the presidential election, Powell publicly endorsed President Obama for re-election on “CBS This Morning” Thursday
“I voted for him in 2008 and I plan to stick with him in 2012 and I’ll be voting for he and for Vice President Joe Biden next month.”
Powell explained his choice to Charlie Rose and Norah O’Donnell:
When he took over, the country was in very very difficult straits. We were in the one of the worst recessions we had seen in recent times, close to a depression. The fiscal system was collapsing. Wall Street was in chaos, we had 800,000 jobs lost in that first month of the Obama administration and unemployment peaked a few months later at 10 percent. So we were in real trouble. The auto industry was collapsing, the housing was start[ing] to collapse and we were in very difficult straits. And I saw over the next several years, stabilization come back in the financial community, housing is now starting to pick up after four years, it’s starting to pick up. Consumer confidence is rising.”
Summarizing the past four years under Obama, Powell said “Generally we’ve come out of the dive and we’re starting to gain altitude.” He acknowledged that problems remain, saying “The unemployment rate is too high, people are still hurting in housing but I see that we’re starting to rise up.”
Turning to foreign policy, Powell said he saw “the president get us of one war, start to get us out of a second war and did not get us into any new wars. And finally I think that the actions he has taken with respect to protecting us from terrorism have been very very solid. And so, I think we ought to keep on the track that we are on.”
He goes on in this story to bash Mitt Romney and his policies. What gets me, is that the man just cannot be honest and say that he support President Obama because he is black. What is so hard about just saying, “He’s a black brother and I support him.”? It just does not make sense.
Of course, if a White man like me says this; then the left likes to yell, RAAAAACIST! Which is what they are truly good for anymore. Just ask Chris Matthews.
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Makes me kinda wish I’d….No, Wait. *smacks self* Gotta snap out of it. No kids for this old bastard. 
Guess not! 
But, I figure they’d at least wait until the votes are counted. 
