I Couldn't Watch This Poisonous Hate – UPDATED

I tried, I really tried to watch this over-the-top rant by Keith Olbermann. I couldn’t do it. I kept thinking any second a fuse was going to pop out of the crown of his head and begin to sizzle and burn until his head exploded. Kaboom!

He opens his mouth and all I can hear is a guy completely owned by hate, and out of control with it.

I wonder if the irony is lost on Olbermann that this year he and his media co-horts (like Chris Matthews, David Schuster and others) have had to apologize (and in some cases face suspension) several times to the Clintons for their little slips of the tongue or thoughtless statements; Olbermann himself put out a floor-licking apology to the Clinton’s for Schuster’s “pimped out” remarks on Chelsea. Yet he offers these insipid rants with impunity almost every night, against the president, and he is still on the air. Nothing at all infringes upon his free speech – which is absolutely as it should be – but he would like the president to “shut up.”

I think Olbermann has misidentified who is out to either control him or shut him up, and who is trying to protect his foolish ass and his fundamental right to free speech.

People who have given free rein to their hatred are eventually consumed by it. Sometimes, once consumed, they become cathartic cartoons of that hate. The times are too serious for cartoons, cathartic or otherwise.

UPDATE: Had a further thought while waiting for a doc’s appt: I think Olbermann is going to miss Bush when he’s gone, for three reasons:

1) Once he starts kissing up to the Democrat president, people will cease to find him compelling or interesting.
2) He will have nowhere to direct all of his anger and hate
3) The next president – whoever that may be – may not be as respectful of Olbermann’s right to rant as this president has been.

But then again, I think they’ll be a lot of people missing Bush when he’s gone.

I couldn't watch this poisonous hate – UPDATED