I haven’t talked about politics on this site in a while. It bugs me. I am tired of it. But, I want to point something out to everyone. This year is an amazing year in politics. We have two of the most interesting and electable people in my lifetime of elections. Barack Obama is the inexperienced new guy on the block with fresh ideas, and McCain is the maverick who will certainly change things in Washington even at the expense of some traditional Republican ideals. No matter which one gets elected, there will be great change from the current administration. It is going to be huge. And the big point? It will be fine no matter which guy gets in. They both have good and bad qualities.
If you are like I am this political season, you like about 30-40% of what either of the candidates stand for. If you are 100% on board with either of the candidates then I can’t talk politics with you. I have yet to meet the human on earth who I agreed with on most things on a broad spectrum of topics. So if you are that far into either camp for either one of these guys, I don’t understand you. I seriously considered putting both of their signs in my yard this year, but then I moved to a cul de sac. Nobody drives by.
I have certainly come a long way since the days where I was more republican. I voted for lots of Democrats, including the current Democratic governor of the state of Ohio. But more than anything, I clamor for a third party that somehow breaks the red vs. blue, up vs. down, black vs. white, two category system we have now. I don’t know that it will ever happen, but the further I get into my life the less I am impressed by our current system and the lack of choice it provides. If you think about the amount of choice we have in every other phase of our lives, why is it that we settle for a system that allows Barack Obama, Dennis Kucinich, Al Sharpton, Al Franken, and Tim Robbins to all be somehow magically aligned opposite John McCain, GW Bush, Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh and Carly Fiorina?
Anyway, this post is really about that back-stabbing sycophant loser Keith Olbermann. Out of all the people in media that I hate, Keith Olbermann is the worst. He didn’t have the balls to criticize Imus until after he was fired, at which time he said how he wanted Imus gone. He caved, and subsequently buried his co-worker when the Hillary Clinton / Chelsea Clinton / “pimping” hubub came up. You will remember that a commentator said that Chelsea was out “pimping” Hillary. Obermann, the jackass that he is, allowed that comment to be taken literally as in the prostitution way. He didn’t stand up for his coworker in a clear message to try and keep Hillary from being mad at him.
Now, Olbermann has been removed as anchor from MSNBC’s political coverage because he can’t be trusted not to be a douchey commentator when he is supposed to be an impartial anchor, reporting the facts. He most recently went off on this self-important rant during the Republican National Convention. You can see him looking down, presumably reading, his self-centered prepared statement. He feels it necessary to put himself in the story by talking about his loss of people on 9/11. As an anchor, his personal opinion shouldn’t matter in the slightest. Just another entry on the resume of reasons that I can’t stand Keith Olbermann and think his appearances are to television what chlamydia is to the human body.
