(Reuters) Olbermann navigates tightrope minus a net [feel the love!]

[StrictlyRockers]

forgot the link...doh!

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=televisionNews&storyID=2006-09-19T075408Z_01_N19319823_RTRIDST_0_TELEVISION-OLBERMANN-DC.XML

Olbermann navigates tightrope minus a net
Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:53am ET
By Ray Richmond

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Keith Olbermann sometimes feels as if he's out there by himself on the high wire, a lone (or nearly lone) voice of reason in a world gone mad. Emboldened by the left as the right man in the right place at the right time, dismissed by the right as a Bush-bashing tool of liberal propagandists, the host-anchor of MSNBC's nightly "Countdown" newsmagazine has long been a zealous polarizing force as a journalist who wears his heart in plain sight.

But while using his platform in part to protect what he sees as truth, justice and the American way and its ongoing assault from the Bush administration, Olbermann has suddenly evolved into more than merely Bill O'Reilly's sardonic whipping post. He's morphed before our eyes into the second coming of Howard Beale.

Surely you remember Howard. He was the character (played with Oscar-winning brilliance by Peter Finch) who took on the establishment with his televised "mad as hell" rants in the seminal and prescient film "Network," which this fall marks 30 years since its release.


While Olbermann has fully embodied the Beale zeitgeist more than ever, he has done so with decidedly more clear-eyed focus than the manic rage practiced by that particular fictitious icon. Over the past three weeks, he has crafted and delivered a pair of impassioned, acerbic essays that first slammed defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld (on August 30) and then, on September 11, one skewering President Bush for his politicizing the events of five years before.

An excerpt: "How dare you, Mr. President, after taking cynical advantage of the unanimity and love, and transmuting it into fraudulent war and needless death, after monstrously transforming it into fear and suspicion and turning that fear into the campaign slogan of three elections?"
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Feel the love!

My letter today to the big wigs at MSNBC on Keith Olbermann.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2174903

SR

[debbierlus]

1. I love Keith Olbermann - LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE

LOVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVE

Did I say I love him?

Because

I LOVE HIM

:loveya:

[rurallib]

4. Stephanie Miller has dibs on him.

He's Steph's #1 future husband

[dave502d]

2. The Constitution is why Keith Olbermann is the great guy he is. n/t

[waiting for hope]

3. Dawg gone....

I'm listening to him from last night as I read this......:loveya: When are Stewart and Colbert (again) going to have him on? BTW, fantastic letter - :thumbsup:

[Berry Cool]

5. Are you the same one who asked this before? Colbert already had him on

ages ago. I'm sure you can find the video on YouTube.

[waiting for hope]

7. No - I saw Olbermann on

Colbert when it came on. I was just wondering if they were to have him on again since he's been "in the news" for his courageous commentaries.

[Ecumenist]

6. If I weren't already HAPPILY married to a "wunerful" Bohemian

angel, I'd be EXTREMELY tempted to chase this man down and snatch him up for myself....:evilgrin:
He's lovely, "LOVERLY", I say... I love INTELLIGENT and lovely men and he's..MMMM... I could just sop him up with a fluffy, buttermilk "biskit"!!
Did I tell you that I think he's cute??