Re: Keith Olbermann booted from MSNBC
Bathtub Boy's not going anywhere... I don't think anything less than slitting the throat of a Conservative live on the air would get them fired.
Right on Ock.
I mean, I get it. After all, it is America. We are all given the tools to make our own success here in this country. The media has been given the right to free speech. Many have fought and died to protect such freedom. As Americans, Olbermann, O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, et al., have every right to attempt to prosper within the laws and regulations of our system. I understand that.
It's like a double edged sword, this thing we call American freedom.
Since the advent of cable news channels and 24/7 news cycles, the competition has become fierce amongst the many players in the media industry. Each have to out-do the others and constantly re-invent themselves as the bar of attrocity becomes higher and higher. For a while I thought Glen Beck's eyes were going to bulge out. I'm still waiting for that vein in Maddow's neck to blow a gasket. The absurd things Limbaugh, Hannity say. Just to name a few.
To the level headed masses, MSNBC/FOXNews, <fill in your favorite TV station or political website here> it is recognized to be for what it is. Entertainment. But to the challenged masses, it might as well be the gospel. Sometimes it seems as if it soaks into their tiny brains. It washes their thought patterns and steals their ability to think freely. And that is shaping our country into a tower of babble where "up" to one person is "down" to another. The further the divide, the higher the rating. The higher the rating, the bigger the paycheck. Like I said, I get it.
When the sensible GOP party I have long belonged to became saturated with these louder FAUXNews type sheeple, and battempted to become the world's moral police, it left me in it's wake. I was too embarassed to call myself republican and to smart to call myself a democrat.
That Tea Party idea, when I first heard of it, I thought was a FABULOUS idea. Then the usual suspects came out of the woodwork and hijacked it (much as they hijacked the GOP during the Newt/Rove/Wingnut years and redefined the term "conservative.") Along comes Palin (the very person who cost my support for McCain) and became Miss Tea party and there went my dream of a party of the people, leaning anti-status-quo (both democrat AND republican) against professional politicians.
Then I thought, this could be a good thing. It seperates the wheat from the chaff. Perhaps the Tea Party could draw away the wingnuts that I felt was giving the GOP an undeserving bad name. But, lo and behold, beside the Tea Party candidates name on the ballots, more times than not, had an "R" beside it.
Sorry for my non-directional rant. I guess the point I'm trying to make is we are being scttered like dead leaves in the wind all in the name of ratings and mind-control. Sometimes I long for the days of 3 channels when the news was the news. No more, no less. Didn't matter what channel you watched. It was the same. No spin. No propaganda. No B.S. Just news. Boring, bland, news.
I have resigned myself to focus more on fishing. This politics thing is a dog chasing it's tail. I'm thinking what if the dog DID catch his tail? Then what?
Thus my rare appearance these days.
