Some advice for Keith Olbermann

You know what the sad part about this story is, that I honestly used to respect this man in a big way. I am referring, of course, to Keith Olbermann. I know, it sounds crazy coming from a Conservative blogger; but, yes, I actually used to a respect this guy. As it says in my bios, long and short, I was a skeptical left of center type. I never was really a fan of Bush and Co. I felt, then, which was in 2006, when I started blogging; that Keith Olbermann’s commentary on Bush’s handling of Iraq was very much on point. In fact, my calling my original written pieces “Special Comment” is a direct influence of his, as Keith Olbermann and, ironically, Lou Dobbs were the main figures that inspired me to start writing again, after a long hiatus since my childhood.

Then something happened somewhere in the middle of 2007, MSNBC and Keith Olbermann went into the tank for Obama, in a big way. It was at that point that I decided that I could no longer watch the man. It should be noted that this also coincided with me giving up on the Democrats.

Now we have this: Keith Olbermann, one of the biggest Limousine liberals on the planet, is now complaining that Donald Trump is a supposedly a bad property owner:

Okay, Donnie, you win.

I’m moving out.

Not moving out of the country — not yet anyway. I’m merely moving out of one of New York’s many buildings slathered in equal portions with gratuitous gold and the name “Trump.” Nine largely happy years with an excellent staff and an excellent reputation (until recently, anyway) — but I’m out of here.

I’m getting out because of the degree to which the very name “Trump” has degraded the public discourse and the nation itself. I can’t hear, or see, or say that name any longer without spitting. Frankly, I’m running out of Trump spit.

It gets better, Keith wails, while counting his money:

There could still be enough idiots to elect Trump this November. Hell, I was stupid enough to move into one of his buildings. But here in those buildings, even as I pack, is the silver lining hidden amid the golden Donald trumpery.

One day Trump appeared in person and, with what I only later realized was the same kind of sincere concern and respect that Eddie Haskell used to pay “Beaver” Cleaver’s mother, asked me how I liked the place and to let him know personally if anything ever went wrong. About 15 months ago, when the elevators failed and many of the heating-unit motors died and the water shut off, I wrote him. He sent an adjutant over to bluster mightily about the urgency of improvements and who was to blame for the elevators and how there would be consequences, and within weeks Trump’s minions were obediently and diligently installing — a new revolving door at the back of the lobby.

That three-week project stretched past three months, smothered the lobby in stench and grime, required the repeated removal and reinstallation of a couple of railings, and for a time created a window frosting problem even when it wasn’t cold out.

He goes on to use the above silliness to make a very silly point or shall I say, political dig; that it would take forever to get a wall built at our southern border. This is simply a childish attempt a score a political point with the opposing team. This reeks of childish, third grade antics.

Please note, dear reader that this blog entry is wrote by someone, whose financial situation is not the best; is writing this blog entry. Anyone who has come here running an ad blocker knows to what I am referring. So, before anyone hollers, “Class warfare!” Keep this in mind, please. Now that I have gotten that little disclaimer out of the way, let me proceed to my next point.

What is being lost here or at least, seems to be lost on Keith Olbermann, as he does seem to have a great lack of self-awareness — is that Keith Olbermann actually has to the means to live in a building like Trump Towers! Now to be clear, Keith Olbermann earned his success, he started out as a local sportscaster at a local TV station, he slowly, but surely, worked his way up to where he is today. Nobody handed it to Keith on a silver platter. He worked for all of it. I have no quarrel with that at all. At some point, while at MSNBC, Keith was given the chance to take over the show “Countdown” on MSNBC, which afforded him some very good success in the field of broadcasting.

Unfortunately, the success went straight to Keith Olbermann’s head. I read the news reports of Keith Olbermann being outright abusive to his staff, acting like a child, when he did not get his way with the management over at MSNBC and finally being let go from the Network entirely. Then Keith lands a job at Al Gore’s Current TV, gets a show there, with the same name, and then ends up being fired from there, for the same reason as his firing from MSNBC.

This obviously points to an ego and to someone who has forgotten where he has come from and has forgotten where he started and, what it actually means to have to work for a living. Put simply: Keith money and success had caused him to become out of touch with the rest of the working class people in America. This is a very common trait among those, who are wealthy Democrats.

Now having said all of the above: I offer some kind advice for a one Keith Olbermann — Shut your mouth, Pack your things and find somewhere else to live and do try to avoid bringing anymore sort of embarrassment to your political party and to your own self. Because frankly sir, there are many of us, of the plebeian sort, who find your complaining of your posh surroundings quite humorous and ironic.

Other Bloggers writing about this: John Hawkins’ Right Wing News, CANNONFIRE, Raw Story, Mediaite and TVNewser, Pirate’s Cove

A very good assessment of Detroit

I might not agree with this guy’s politics; but he is pretty much dead on with his assessment of Detroit and how it is exploited during elections.

You have to feel for the people of Detroit. The rest of the country mostly only pays attention to the city for the wrong reasons – say, when the Lions are setting records for competitive futility or some photographer starts jonesing for his own “ruins porn” project. Oh, and during election cycles, when Michigan becomes one of the battleground states that could decide the next leader of the free world. All of a sudden candidates from both parties descend on Detroit to shake their heads over its decline and promise to do something about it just as soon as its people vote for them. – Source: How Bernie Sanders & Ted Cruz are both misrepresenting Detroit – Salon.com

Go read that whole thing, it is pretty good. Again, I do not agree Salon.com’s politics, but this article is right on.

Video: My voting experience

As I wrote before, I went to vote. This is how things went:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgqjU6rgaQM

As you can, it was rather uneventful. I shot this to prove to those who enjoy watching these undercover videos; that not all places, especially in Democratic Party “strongholds”, that in itself is a myth; voter fraud takes place. Now, it was early, but, around there, nothing happens, at all.

 

Michael Bloomberg on Presidential run, “Nope, not me!”

A pretty smart move, as it is a little late in the game now.

Via Bloomberg report Michael Bloomberg writes:

My parents taught me about the importance of giving back, and public service has been an important part of my life. After 12 years as mayor of New York City, I know the personal sacrifices that campaigns and elected office require, and I would gladly make them again in order to help the country I love.

I’ve always been drawn to impossible challenges, and none today is greater or more important than ending the partisan war in Washington and making government work for the American people — not lobbyists and campaign donors. Bringing about this change will require electing leaders who are more focused on getting results than winning re-election, who have experience building small businesses and creating jobs, who know how to balance budgets and manage large organizations, who aren’t beholden to special interests — and who are honest with the public at every turn. I’m flattered that some think I could provide this kind of leadership.

But when I look at the data, it’s clear to me that if I entered the race, I could not win. I believe I could win a number of diverse states — but not enough to win the 270 Electoral College votes necessary to win the presidency.

In a three-way race, it’s unlikely any candidate would win a majority of electoral votes, and then the power to choose the president would be taken out of the hands of the American people and thrown to Congress. The fact is, even if I were to receive the most popular votes and the most electoral votes, victory would be highly unlikely, because most members of Congress would vote for their party’s nominee. Party loyalists in Congress — not the American people or the Electoral College — would determine the next president.

A smart move on his part, it is a bit late in the race now to try to start a campaign. This is why Bloomberg is as wealthy as he is; because he is a smart cookie. Bloomberg might be a Democrat, but he is not an idiot. I would say that he might end up a Vice President; but Bloomberg does not strike me as the type to be a second banana. So, I am thinking he will bide his type, until the next election. Because, if Trump is elected, and his Presidency is a huge flop, Bloomberg can run as a Savior-type.

Just my 2 cents.

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Quote of the Day

But it raises anew the question: Can the establishment stop Trump?

Answer: It is possible, and we shall know by midnight, March 15. If Trump loses Florida and Ohio, winner-take-all primaries, he would likely fall short of the 1,237 delegates needed for nomination on the first ballot.

How could the anti-Trump forces defeat him in Ohio, Florida and Illinois? With the same tactics used to shrink Trump’s victory margins in Virginia, Louisiana and Kentucky to well below what polls had predicted.

In every primary upcoming, Trump is under a ceaseless barrage of attack ads on radio, TV, cable and social media, paid for by super PACs with hoards of cash funneled in by oligarchs.

But Trump, who is self-funding his campaign, has spent next to nothing on ads answering these attacks, or promoting himself or his issues. He has relied almost exclusively on free media.

Yet no amount of free media can match the shellfire falling on him every hour of every day in every primary state.

Our Principles PAC, backed by Nebraska’s billionaire Ricketts family, has poured millions into trashing Trump. American Future Fund is dumping $1.75 million in Florida this week; Club for Growth $1.5 million.

Hedge-fund billionaire Paul Singer is backing the Conservative Solutions PAC, which has dumped millions into anti-Trump ads and plans to spend more than $7 million between March 1 and 15, with $4 million of that going into Florida. The super PAC pile-on is unprecedented.

How well Trump fares in Michigan and Mississippi, measured against how well he was doing in polls last week, will reveal just how successful super PAC savagery has been in changing hearts and minds.

Can millionaires and billionaires who back open borders, mass immigration, globalization and the disappearance of nation states into transnational collectives overwhelm with their millions spent in ads the patriotic movements that arose this year to the wonderment of America and the world?

Has that proud 18th century boast of Americans, “Here, sir, the people rule!” given way to the rule of the oligarchs?

Quote of the Day

Reacting to the rise of Donald Trump, National Review’s Rich Lowry recently called on the Republican Party to get over its inordinate attachment to Ronald Reagan and his legacy. He suggests Reagan’s heirs must devise new policies to broaden the GOP’s appeal, and (implicitly) take down Trump. 
 
Meanwhile, such conventional Republican candidates for president as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio still lovingly invoke Reagan’s name nearly a quarter of a century since he left office. In Rubio’s words, it is “time for the children of the Reagan Revolution to assume the mantle of leadership.” 
 
By this he means, of course, people like himself, and not his nemesis Donald Trump who has a history of supporting Democrats, and can therefore be assumed not to be a “movement conservative,” and therefore, not a Reaganite.
 
Moreover, the “children of the Reagan Revolution” revile Trump for his opposition to the things they love the most—open borders, fast track trade deals, and military intervention overseas, which they habitually imply Reagan would have supported.

Well, I worked for Ronald Reagan, and Reagan stood for none of those things.

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The establishment is in a dither over Trump lest the rebellion he is leading presage the end of everything it holds most dear—open borders (paving the way for the disappearance of the old United States and its replacement by “the world’s first global society,” in the words of the late publicist Ben Wattenberg), our endless series of optional, illegal wars that bear scant relation to any discernible US interests, the subversion and overthrow of foreign governments, including secular ones in Moslem countries that protect Christian minorities, and wretched trade deals that enrich the oligarchy while leaving the rest of the nation in the lurch. 
 
Meanwhile, sovereign debt is $20 trillion and we have $200 trillion in unfunded liabilities.
 
Memo to Rich Lowry: the GOP’s problem is not Reagan and his legacy—it is the noxious brew of policies it is wedded to.
 
Still less is the party’s problem Trump—our only political leader who understands that we cannot go on like this.  

In focusing like a laser on establishment policies millions of Americans find intolerable—open borders, fast track and endless wars—he has become their tribune. That is why he is winning. And that is why I suspect that if my old boss Ronald Reagan were with us now, he would not be averse to the prospect of a Trump victory in November.

Is the Republican Party going to lose in 2016?

Please note: this posting was written last night at about 3 o’clock in the morning and I would have uploaded it then, but my blog was down so here’s the post in a few hours late.

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This is one of those late night postings, that I am dictating from my phone, using voice to text. So, if it comes out not looking like what I normally type, this is why.

Earlier tonight, I had a conversation with my mother about the Democratic Party debates and the Republican Party debates. During this conversation with my mother, my mother made a very astute observation about the debates of both parties.

Basically she told me this, that the Republican Party debates looked like a bunch of kids fighting and arguing up on stage. She also told me that the Democratic Party debates were much more civilized and much more adult like.

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Guest Voice: No Change in Foreign Policy from 2016 Standard-bearers

With all the turmoil and uncertainty coming from this election cycle, one constant is already known. U.S. Foreign Policy is well under the control of the international interventionists. The career globalists on the American payroll continue to push for more and greater engagements. Step back and consider the premise. Seldom is there an international involvement that is not eagerly embraced, funded and expanded. Based upon this premise, the record of continued failures is better understood. The systemic decline of a once great nation has developed into a pathetic deterioration of an imperial empire.

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