Note to Keith Olbermann: When you have lost Jon Stewart you have lost the country
Saturday January 23, 2010 6:30 PM  You know that you have really gone overboard if you are a liberal and Jon Stewart is calling you out for your behavior. That was exactly what happened on the day Scott Brown shocked those still basking in the glow of hope and change, completely mistaking their rise to power as a mandate to rape and pillage the taxpayers.
Even in a state where Democrats out number Republicans 3-1 and the GOP has not held a Senate seat in six decades, the overwhelming message of Scott Brown's ascension was lost on likes of Keith Olbermann. Instead of offering a reasoned argument for why Martha Coakley would be a superior candidate, he went on a slanderous tirade that made Ann Coulter's assaults on the left look like a melodic chant from Gandhi.
This is nothing new for the least watched place for politics in cable news. Even NBC's executives were compelled to pull Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from covering political events because of their blatant biased remarks and name calling during the Republican National Convention in 2008. To make matters worse they gave Rachel Maddow from the now bankrupt and defunct "Air America" and Ed Schultz television shows. During Schultz's radio show in speaking about the Massachusetts Senate race he proclaimed, "I'd cheat to keep these bastards out, because that's what they are." (LISTEN TO IT HERE)
Keith Olbermann has turned sophomoric and baseless insults into an art form. As if this wasn't enough he can always count on one of his guests to bring the discourse to a new low. About six months ago he had Janeane Garofalo on his show and Olbermann sat quiet as she in no uncertain terms said that everybody involved the Tea Party Movement is just mad because there is a black man in the White House.
During this ignorant display the term "teabagger" was repurposed. Now the left has made it acceptable to call people "teabaggers" on a nightly basis. Maybe its just me but I find this disgraceful and borderline profane. How can any news organization allow their commentators to repeat a term that less than a year ago was reserved for Frat parties and porn flicks?
I have watched Ann Coulter lob bombs, Limbaugh root for failure and Beck fall to pieces on my television but not once have any of these extremely polarizing pundits stooped so low on such a daily basis. The left screamed foul every time Sean Hannity would say that Obama pals around with terrorists but the fact is, Bill Ayres was a domestic terrorist and Barack Obama kicked off his political career in Bill Ayres's home. Was Hannity's analysis an exaggeration, of course but at least there was some concrete factual basis for the comment.
Keith Olbermann's commentary on Scott Brown was nothing short of slander. His justification for calling a politician with two daughters a man who "supports violence against women," a person at a rally shouted that someone should shove a curling iron up Martha Coakley's bottom. Immediately following that, Scott Brown said; "we can do this." Clearly there is about as much chance that he meant what Olbermann was implying as David Letterman believes in promoting sexual assault against minors. I find it equally disgusting that pundits on the right made that accusation against Letterman last year.
You would think that those in the mainstream media who support President Obama would take the criticism of his administration in stride. After all they mounted a daily assault on George W. Bush for everything from unproven allegations of skipping out on his Air National Guard duty to insulting his intellect. Nothing was off limits and facts were not required to launch an attack. Now that the shoe is on the other foot they can't take it.
Enter Jon Stewart, the satirical leftie from Comedy Central. He first burst onto the scene when he verbally backhanded Tucker Carlson on CNN Crossfire. That incident almost certainly ended Tucker's career, killed CNN Crossfire and made Stewart a star player on the left wing media's team.
I can't say that I am a huge fan of Stewart but he is the only liberal political satirist that I find funny. Most liberals aren't very entertaining. They spend their time indicting the character of conservatives by hurling insults and profanity. This usually includes the standard accusations of racism, sexism and homophobia because the right has the unmitigated gall to disagree. This lack of entertaining programming is why Air America failed and why Fox News Channel murders MSNBC in the ratings.
Stewart to his credit has accepted the reality that his team isn't above criticism and called out President Obama for his handling of the economy in a segment called "That's great, now fix the f%$*ing Economy". He also has had to stifle his ideology during the "Climate-Gate" scandal and even went for the jugular on Jim Krammer. Stewart demonstrated un-liberal like character when he apologized for the historically ignorant assertion that former President Truman was a war criminal for dropping the Atom Bomb on the relentless and unyielding Empire of Japan during WWII.
The main problem with politics and punditry today is not that there is such polarization between points of view; it is the total lack of civility and willingness to intelligently disagree. Neither side wants to acknowledge the legitimacy of the others point of view and since it is the left that is overwhelmingly in power, it is their duty to be responsible with the power they have been given.
You would think that after the Republican Party was fired by the American people in 2006 for abusing the public trust that Democrats on the Hill would have been more measured in the implementation of their agenda. Instead, with the urging of the President have gone on a spending spree that makes W. look like Ebenezer Scrooge. Just last month Nancy Pelosi spent millions on military aircraft, a private jet and luxury hotels on their recent Copenhagen excursion.
Between the Congressional spending spree, obvious flaws in the heath care plan, continued lack of job creation, plummeting dollar, back room union deals, buying off Senator Ben Nelson and lack of effective leadership internationally you would think that Olbermann and his cohorts would find some legitimacy in the opposition. I guess for them, ignorance is bliss but the voters seem to disagree.
It is said that ignoring history guarantees it's repetition and it looks like 2010 will be no exception. In three key races in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts the American electorate is speaking louder than any cable commentator. In spite of this overwhelming shift in public opinion, the likes of Olbermann continue to blindly defend their guy or gal with childish attempts at character assassination.
It is a sad statement on our country that now one of the more reasonable, if not entertaining places to get political perspective is a network that just broadcast the network television premiere of Nick Swardson: Seriously, Who Farted?
Stay Sharp!
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