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Originally Posted by transplant99
I think Olberman is among the most cerebral talking heads on TV anywhere. I have enjoyed him since his days at ESPN and his radio show that he co-hosted with Dan Patrick, as he was a guy that departed from the tried and true stuff that every talk show host was doing and articulated his thoughts/arguments really well. On top of that he is/was enetertaining and quite humorous in his delivery and targets.
That being said, what he has become on MSNBC is nothing short of a shame. Anyone who doesn't believe that he isnt doing exactly the same thing as Beck and Hannity need to step back and look at it. He is nothing more than a Democratic lackey, and its quite transparent. It's sad to me because I know he is capable of so much better as his history has shown. I don't necessarily blame him because he is/was getting paid big big bucks to assume that role and run with it, but it doesn't make him beyond reproach in regards to what it is he does. He has become as unwatchable as Beck or Hannity, as unlistenable as Limbaugh and no diffrent than Rachel Maddow or any of the previous listed.
As for him contributing to this candidate or that candidate, no one should really care one way or the other, but when he clearly broke company policy in doing so the way he did, there has to be consequences and he is seeing them.
If anything, this illustrates what the media has become IMO. Its all about putting on a show and long gone are the days of hard-hitting journalism that reported only the story with the facts as they were known and allowed viewers/readers/listeners to interperet things as they saw fit and draw their own conclusions.
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Excellent post! I think people tend to miss the point that MSNBC, a very liberal source, and CNBC, a very conservative source, are all operated out of the same building with the same management. It's all info-tainment. The interpretation and actions of the individual are most important in the end. The problem is that the extremists on the left have been effectively eliminated from the discourse over the past 60 years while the extremists on the right have yet to be weeded out. The fringe in the United States more often than not ascribes to the right wing ideology than the left. It is this fringe that is being manipulated to continue the manufactured cultural unrest, and for only one reason. Conflict sells.