Olbermann ..... he is ......

[Stinky The Clown]

Now nightly this man is speaking out as we've not heard a man speak out since his hero, Edward R. Murrow. Eschewing the omnipresent cigarette, but not the righteous indignation and outrage, today we have Olbermann.

And what is this man we cheer? How is he viewed by NBC?

[John Gauger]

1. WTF?

What are those three things supposed to mean? None of those makes any sense to me.

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Welcome to DU

[Berry Cool]

7. I didn't come up with it, but I'd guess this:

A test rocket = If he gets big ratings and kudos for saying this stuff, we'll let more people say it
A rougue missile = We'll let him do this, but if anyone else says it they get the smackdown
An bogie on their radar = He must be shot down and canceled

[mymomwasright]

3. Meaning: why would NBC let him speak this way?

EOM

[acmejack]

4. An Endangered Species

Watch him while you can, GE is cleaning house.

[RevCheesehead]

5. The voice of the people.

A ratings winner.
The future of journalism.

Oh, and my one, true love. :loveya::loveya::loveya:

[polmaven]

13. Move over, Rev....

You're going to need to fight for him.....He's MINE, I tell ya! MINE! ...Oh, alright....Maybe we can share!

Sigh! He is, I think, the sexiest man alive. His courage and straight forward truthfulness are beyond attractive. Man, I haven't felt this schoolgirl giddiness since..Oh...I dunno....John Lennon?

[AspenRose]

20. Good, then that means I get Colbert back to myself, then.

Rev: ;-) :hug:

[IndianaGreen]

6. GE loves Bush

and Keith will stay on for as long as Dan Abrams is allowed to run MSNBC, and the ratings continue to rise.

[mymomwasright]

8. Olberman's the man!

We've been waiting a very long time for this! I was screaming at the TV like I do during football; "Yeah, talk some s***!"

[rzemanfl]

9. Next on the list after Altermann. But what BALLS he has, to lead

into a Presidential speech by calling for his impeachment! Awesome.

[Stinky The Clown]

10. Awesome doesn't begin to say it

The man is single handedly leading the charge. He's got to know what he's doing ... and yet he does it.

[babylonsister]

11. A HERO! He is neck and neck with Morrow in the race to

speak to truth against this corrupted power when we so sorely need someone!
Please, everyone, thank KO but thank MSNBC even more so they don't can him for
telling the truth!

[AZBlue]

16. My feeling too. Why I voted "other."

eom

[NMDemDist2]

12. I looked at Mr. K after the comment and said

"How long will they let him keep his job? Holy SHIT!"


and that is a direct quote LOL

but seriously, I am a bit concerned he'll get the Alterman axe :scared:

[DeadManInc]

14. Keith rules!!

[stillcool]

15. a rogue missile...

holy crap...he sure lit a fire under my ass! I emailed every address at MSNBC I could find...and then made hubby do the same! There's motivational speaking for you!

[DeSwiss]

17. I suppose I'm a little older than many DUers...

... because Murrow's TV documentaries were still being shown when I was a kid. Reporters, anchors and commentators like Walter Cronkite, Eric Severide, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley and Frank Reynolds were a part of a long tradition in American journalism, that while not unscathed from its own yellow days, still principally sought to inform and expose to the people, what their government was doing in their names. LBJ famously said after Walter Cronkite informed America that there was no way we could win the war in Vietnam, that "we'd lost the war once we lost Cronkite." Of whom can we say this today?

Today, that press no longer exists. Corporations in America have befouled that tradition and replaced it with glitz, glamour and Katie's. And "reality" TV. And we can no longer depend on any TV network for the truth as we once did. The irony of it all is that as we became more technologically savvy with the means to broadcast things happening all over the world, the undercurrents of avarice and greed have twisted and obscured what we can see and know. And then came the net.

Olberman is different. He is part of a new tradition just now forming. He is definitely cut in the mold of the press of the past and has the chops to be added to the phalanx of press overseers mentioned above. He is the future. The networks are dinosaurs -- their time of dominance is waning which is why they seek to wrest control of the net away from the people. So that those "tubes" Sen. Stevens refers to, will have spigots and valves on them that only they can control. But until the net becomes ubiquitous and the availability of Olberman (and future Olberman's) is affodable for the "average person," there will still be just a few of us with access to the truth.

We are at a pivotal point right now in American history. We are at the precipice of a cliff and if we do not as a country pull back and grab hold of the true American values of individual liberty, we will surely go over. And 100 Olberman won't save us then. But for now, he and a few others like him are what we have. And I for one am glad he's with us.

Peace :-)

[MGD]

18. His rhetoric was unprecedented in my lifetime. I was rendered speechless

I'm still processing it. I hope he survives the backlash. I voted rogue missile.

[AspenRose]

19. In Need of a Bodyguard, stat

eom

[DeSwiss]

21. And under no circumstances....

...take any trip in a small plane. Mmmm... these days. ANY PLANE!

[maine_raptor]

22. I voted "Other", H2S.

Simple because there was no "All of the above".

He's a tester of ideas, a bit of a maverick, and a boogie on the radar all wrapped into one.

His commentaries float ideas out into people's homes each night that he is on and speaking his mind. He's become popular now because of his "maverick" style that has won him is audience, and he is "out there approaching from 10'O clock high"* for those he is gunning for, be it Bush or the Big Head.

I'm sure, though, that KKKarl's followers have other, much more descriptive (:sarcasm:) definitions of KO.


*The 10 O'Clock high position is one of the most advantageous positions in aerial combat. It usually means you're coming at the foe from out of the sun from his left-hand side, in a position that allows you to be ready to counter any move he might make. And with the hight comes speed which is energy, and energy is the key to winning in dogfighting. The "boogie on the radar" choice was most apt, H2S. :patriot:

[Totally Committed]

23. Other.

He's one of the few journalists on our side with the balls and the means to talk truth to power.

If every Democratic Party elected, and every fair-minded journalist had his level of courage and honesty, we would not be in the minority right now, and this country would not be in the shape it is now.

TC