Keith Olberman comes into his own
Keith Olberman is distinguishing himself as one of the more articulate and pointed critic of the President in the mainstream media. Starting with a special comment on the President’s grisly failures in reponse to Katrina, and increasing in velocity and amplitude with recent lambastings of Donald Rumsfeld and the President, he’s been finding his voice. I now consider him at the vanguard of a long-overdue, Murrow-like stand against those who use the language of freedom and democracy to support efforts to destroy those very things. I hope this movement will grow in size and volume, and that Olberman is joined by other mainstream journalists in voicing outrage.
In his comment last night about the President’s failures post 9/11, he was eloquent, insightful, and unflinchingly critical of the President. This is not a rant, this is not venting, this is not partisan rancor. This is the media doing it’s job in the face of overwhelming evidence of mendacity, incompetence, and political thuggery by this administration. But Keith can say it so much better than I can…
September 13th, 2006 at 9:15 am
Yep - but the key factor is what people do to invoke change after they’ve watched the video…