Saturday, November 6, 2010

Tuesday..Nov.2 and Keith O.

   Well ,Tuesday sure sucked!I honestly wasn't prepared for the way 3/4 of the Tealiban got in. I expected a few..I never expected the amount that did. It has left me a little shell shocked. I am so disappointed that so many of my country men would get sucked in like that.I am determined to never let this happen again.Whatever it takes ....whatever...I never want to see this travesty of the politcal landscape change   for the worse,like it has.
  I am prepared to help organize ,volunteer,join people united in the same cause.If Obama gives in to their whims,then he needs to go.This country might very well pay for this voter apathy for decades,or we can unite and make it a fleeting blip on the radar. It is up to us .Talk is cheap.It really is time to put up or shut up.And I am talking about me and like minded people.It is already starting ,the  pushing "their agenda.
  Keith Olberman got tossed off the air Friday. I think it is a direct result of the  huge move to the right ,the country took. They can deny it anyway they want,but it is pretty strange they get in on Tuesday and he is gone by Friday.
  I know they are saying he broke some kind of company policy,but I think that it a lot of smoke and  mirrors. He is the loudest voice of the left out there. The list is a small one who speak up the way he does 
  I have known about Keith ,since his days in Boston,as a local sportscaster. As with most of his jobs he wasn't here that long.He did leave an impression on me though.I liked his style. I have bumped into him around the dial here and there through out the years.He at some point fell of the radar. Imagine my surprise channel surfing one night  and there he was. As a newsman,no less. I was instantly hooked.That was around six years ago.
  A kind of  strange thing happened Monday night with me .I was watching his show and he dropped the Worst Persons  in a large part to what Jon Stewart had said  the previous Saturday . Stewart had commented on the fact that Fox and MSNBC ,in particular seemed to be a main reason for the hate being ratcheted up in the country.I tended to agree ,to a point,clearly, myself falling  on the MSNBC side. I will save it for another day my thoughts on Fox. Keith then did something that surprised me .He proceeded to rip Stewart for ten ,minutes  defending both himself and MSNBC.He was right on a few points ,but overall ,to me, it almost came off like sour grapes. I was extremely disappointed with his attitude.
  Tuesday arrived and as I have said ,it wasn't any fun. I made a decision to cut back on my TV politics viewing and rely more on what I pick up on the web.Newspapers and blogs that I trust.I thought that I would watch maybe a little more CNN  and maybe a little less MSNBC. Nothing cast in stone,but that was my short term  thoughts. Then Friday afternoon arrived. Keith Olberman had been stripped of his show for what amounts to a minor infraction.
  I am now outraged.I honestly think this is the start of something very ,very, wrong.You can justify his suspension, til the cows come home,but I truly think, this is exactly what I was afraid of, in the first place. Keep the voices quite,unless you agree with us. There was a country, back in 1930, that did this exact same thing,and we all know how that turned out.
  I am not going to be quite about this. It has started and now we must also. Who will be next?What minor infraction will Rachel Maddow do? What line will Micheal Moore cross,that will be deemed illegal? What will any Left thinking person do, that will cause the Right to  silence them?
  This isn't 1930,this is 2010!Let's act like it!

1 comment:

  1. Michael Moore crossed the line long ago - and yet he can not be silenced....

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