I gave up on watching MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, or even MSNBC in general, long ago, and this only serves to confirm that my decision was correct:
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann launched a tirade against the show, saying 24 “featured a mall attack, a would-be suicide bomber on a subway, and a successful suicide bombing on a passenger bus. Not in places where these things have already happened, but in a country called the United States of America. In case you missed the point, the show finished up with a nuclear weapon detonating in a major American city, literally conjuring up the administration’s imagery for the war in Iraq, the good old mushroom cloud.”
Olbermann continued: “Is 24 propaganda? Is it fearmongering? Or is it a program-length commercial for one political party?”
Olbermann is, of course, an idiot. He either doesn’t watch the show at all, or does so through ideological blinders so thick that they prevent him from seeing the show for what it really is, pure escapist entertainment. I watch the show not because I like the politics, but because I like the show. Heck, I hated the politics on The West Wing and yet, except for the last season, I still watched it, because it was good television.
Olbermann on the other hand is neither politically interesting nor entertaining.
January 21st, 2007 at 11:00 am
It wasn’t Olbermann’s best moment at all. His rant disrespects the common sense of viewers, and veered close to calling for censorship. http://paullevinson.blogspot.com/2007/01/olbermanns-suspension-of-rationality.html
March 18th, 2007 at 8:53 am
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