Freedom of Press, Freedom of Speech? Ya think..

Look, I KNOW Keith Olberman irritated a lot of people. I found an excerpt today on Scott's blog that I wish to quote. Am only doing it because his ads would probably offend some people, so it's cut and paste, but really supports my opinion. I will SO miss Countdown. I didn't agree with everything, I admired his humanistic activism, and the wonderful things he did, and his fearlessness in getting in people's faces when they were horribly wrong and more or less disgusting, the most recent being Arizona cutting off nearly 100 people waiting for organ transplants, and giving those people a face and a forum. He showed people who the REAL death panels are.

I think the following quote is fairly accurate for facts.

"So with Keith Olbermann’s by all accounts unceremonious firing last night by MSNBC there is one less liberal voice on the tee vee machine.

One less in a medium woefully bereft of liberal voices.

There are all sorts of conspiracy theories playing out over the blogosphere about why this happened — Comcast hates Olbermann and they told NBC to fire him as part of their unholy merger deal with Comcast.

Comcast is run by CEO and rabid republican Brian Roberts who is said to have long agitated to unload MSNBC’s biggest star from the networks highest rated show as part of a merger; the departure of Jeff Zucker as NBC prez removed the only layer of protection Keith had at the network; Keith was too difficult to deal with and they’d been looking to get rid of him for a while.

You choose. It’s probably a little of all of the above. Actually, its probably more of the first and second.

Love him or hate him there is simply no way that any honest, thinking person, either of the left or the right, can ever say that what Keith Olbermann said on the air was something he didn’t believe in.

You could see and feel the passion that he had for the positions that he took and advanced. And when he was wrong about something he corrected himself. Unlike pretty much everyone else in the public sphere who just assumes the viewing public is so deeply stupid and paying so little attention that there is no reason to correct one’s mistakes because . . . well, why fucking bother?

Apparently Keith is contractually obligated to remain off the television airwaves until 2012. Hopefully CNN will have the good sense to snap him up. Acquiring Olberman will go a long way toward rehabilitating their sadly diminished brand."

So yes, je suis d'accord. Genau meine Meinung. Agreed.