The start of a newly emboldened media? Or an anomoly?

[Stinky The Clown]

Olbermann, tonight, in a follow up a bit less stirring than his comments about Rumsfeld's connection of us to Nazi appeasers just last week, went straight ahead, like a determined pug nosed, cauliflower eared fighter, at George Bush. Calling him on both his threat to the media disguised as a 'report' that Al Qaeda will be launching a media campaign to drive a wedge between this country's government and her people, and on Bush's invocation of Adolph Hilter, Olbermann asked directly of Mr. Bush, with appropriate citation, "Have you no decency left, Sir?"

Is Olbermann's now seemingly recurrent outraged commentaries to be a regular part of his informative hour? And is the very presence of broadacst outrage on the nation's cable network, if not yet its broadcast airwaves, a harbinger of more evidence of an emboldened media?

Or is Keith Olbermann simply an anomoly, allowed to function in the backwaters of cable news on its lowest rated franchise? Eye and ear candy to keep us appeased and hopeful?

[Newsjock]

1. Take the Wal-Mart poll

Go stand in front of your local Wal-Mart tomorrow morning, and ask random adults, "Say, did you hear what Olbermann said last night?"

I'll give you a dollar if more than three people know what you're talking about.

[blm]

2. I think a FEW are so disgusted by the 98% of corpmediawhores who are still

protecting BushInc that THEY are becoming more pointedly candid in their own remarks.

[Berry Cool]

3. Keith's been speaking to progressive ears for years now,

but only a few have heard. In fact, this is the one-year anniversary of his magnificent post-Katrina rant. I will post a link to it here later, although it can be found on YouTube with ease as well.

He's ALWAYS been like this.

[blm]

5. I've been watching him for decades - he can be very barbed on any subject

but I think in the past couple years, he has been even more direct on exactly WHO is being targeted and it is showing up in the choices he makes on what stories get airtime.

[rzemanfl]

6. I almost forgot the "Louisianna is a city under water" rant.

Keith is a national treasure.

[rubberducky]

4. Did you happen to notice.....

that in msnbc`s line-up on tommorow`s day long show on the mid-term elections. Who is missing from this line-up?? Hint---- it`s not tweety,scarborough,or tucker. Kieth is sadly missing from this day long orgy. At least in the promos.

[Berry Cool]

7. Yeah. I'd like to think it's because he does an hour of radio tomorrow

(he joins Dan Patrick's ESPN Radio show for an hour weekdays), but he can usually get out of that if he wants to.

Somehow, when MSNBC wants political commentary, they always go to everyone BUT Keith. *sigh*

[Stinky The Clown]

8. Correct, Keith has never once been a part of the political commentary

[globalvillage]

10. I noticed that.

:-(

[Rageneau]

9. Olberman is a lone voice and he won't have it long.

Keith is the one Diogenes of the MSM. He has been allowed to speak the truth for a while only because no one in power thinks MSNBC has a significant audience. If they ever start to suspect that he does -- or if his audience starts to grow appreciably -- he will be chopped off at the knees the same way Phil Donahue was.

[Berry Cool]

11. I don't believe they will chop him off at the knees.

Times were different then. MSNBC thought the war was going to be popular with the public. They also thought it would be relatively quick and dirty like the first Gulf War and forgotten by summer. That's why they pushed Donahue off the air.

Now they realize that the war is going to last a long time, and the majority of people are not happy with it one bit. They realize Keith is giving voice to those people--and to everyone else who feels hoodwinked by Bushco. And in that there is advertising $$ to be made.

Trust them on this much: they like money. And right now, Keith's audience means $$.