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I try to catch Olbermann every night. The way he nails the bullshitters for their bullshit, so articulately and sharply, makes me happy that someone like him has a show at the same time O'Reilly does. It's hilarious to compare their two shows. Olbermann attacks the facts and details with a critical eye, while O'Reilly behaves like a spoiled blowhard and hack on a nightly basis.

Rumsfeld can spit all the propaganda to his brainwashed comrades, if he has a reason to try and change American foreign policy, then he should be talking to senators whose opinion fucking matters. They make the goddamn decisions.

I met Olbermann a few years ago doing a commercial for his show. He was kind of an asshole. I've become such a fan of his show since then, however, that I could care less. He's brilliant.

Keith Olbermann in 2008.

Yeah, I think he's allowed to be an asshole, you know?

When I was a younger man, why, not even a man... When I was fourteen, fifteen, I remember Fox Network -- the over-the-air version, not FSN nor FNC -- having a short-lived magazine show, FrontPage. On said show, they featured a rotating cast of newspaper columnists reprising the Andy Rooney commentaries of Sixty Minutes. Now, two of these three or four I recall: Mike Lupica and Chris Matthews. And when FrontPage got axed, with Matthews moving, first, to CNBC, then to MSNBC, I followed. Over the years since, even as Matthews became enthralled by Bush's put-on machismo tejano and Reagan-lite optimism, I stayed tuned to Hardball. In the past year or two, but really, more like three, since I returned from Romania, I have migrated, little by little, to Countdown. Now, today, I opine: Olbermann is the leading newsman and opinion-maker of the day, and damn funny, when the lighter material calls for it.

Never thought I'd say that. Not of a sports-anchor, not even if his original MSNBC show (from '97?) was openly decent if not all that memorable -- save for his HOH monologue -- but, yes, I did.

Where do we go now?

I read the Atlantic, but more for the reviews and lifestyle pieces; the likes of Easterbrook and Hitchens, for all their bravura talk, bore me with their mealy-mouthed appeasement of those that wanted to destroy them when they were still unmarried hedonist idealists in their thirties. And I turn to a fired SportsCenter anchor as my source for news.

To think I used to be a paperboy, and loved the medium; loved the newsmedia, generally.

Damn.

I've never been more proud as an American than I am right now upon watching that.

i have magor respect for that man

He could be worse. He could be Mike Tirico, or Chris Berman.

"You're with me, leather, as I whisk you away for an adventure known as Mike Tirico Microphone Bukkake"....

Nice speech, Kieth. Good one.

That made me feel all tingly. How is it that I've never heard of this man?

These are the kind of people who should be leading a nation, not silver princes like one recent illustrious president.

I watched the movie "Good Night, And Good Luck", and I saw the parallel between that time and this. Im glad someone else noticed it too, and has the power to spread the message.

On a side note: I also expect Olbermann to be ejected from his position and subsequently "disappeared".

It's good to know there's some people of integrity left on TV news shows.

I really enjoyed his commentary ..... up until his conclusion during which he recited Edward Murrow. "...We must remember always that accusation is not proof....."

I don't disagree with his accusations and opinions about Rumsfield, but maybe he could have left that part out.