Olbermann has gone the way of all the used and neck-jerked performers on the journalistic stage. He served well, and is now not needed to perform the task he did so well.
What task, you ask?
He constructed a bit more extreme format than his parent bosses in order to make the points about the administration, confront through his show's schtick the personal behaviors of Bush, and especially in this venue to confront the arrogance and elitist stances of the Administration in general. He did this quite well. His criticism and well-tuned responces to Bush personally were electric. I would have paid the rent to see Rove pace and rant, hissing in foamy spittle like he does.
He did for NBC what Murtha did for the Pentagon. He was used, was deemed competent, and was quickly retired.
He served well those top dogs who were still licking their wounds incurred when they laid down flat for the Neocon administration, and indirectly, those the Neocons serve--top level big corporations. The Bush Administration is about Cheney, but the Neocons are more about Halliburton than the expendable Cheney.
From my perspective, the country owes NBC and Olbermann a great gratitude.
They confronted the Neocons like Welsh confronted Joe McCarthy--a face to face call down, interrupting and smashing the lock on the long, confusing oppression.
Hurrah for Olbermann.
Then there's CBS, who left Rather hanging like Kerry left the Democrats hanging, and placed a ***CELEBRITY*** in the top chair, and if you are not already gagging, placed her on Sixty Minutes as well. Talk about a whore in church. Maybe CBS will make the next Idol winner their White House correspondent. They could seat her between NBC's awesome David and the highest knight in that roundtable--Helen. It will be as close to journalism as she or Katie will ever be.
