The two obvious observations though are (1) America must be still a democracy if this guy can tell the President to "Shut the hell up" in such a thorough fashion. So there is hope. Not a lot, but Stalin or Hitler or etc would have taken this guy out by now. Though I wonder how long before some NRA nut decides Olbermann is annoying and assassinates him. (2) So how come there are commentaries like this available, and still so many Americans (and not a few Canadians) believe in Bush? Admittedly you had to find this on the humor channel, but it is there available somewhere....
(This contrasts with my attempts to find Gywn Dyer's analysis of the Iraq war (a very cogent and convincing essay) and discovered the book was not available in the US. Made me a bit paranoid about freedom of speech there.)
Okay, that was great.
ReplyDeleteThe two obvious observations though are (1) America must be still a democracy if this guy can tell the President to "Shut the hell up" in such a thorough fashion. So there is hope. Not a lot, but Stalin or Hitler or etc would have taken this guy out by now. Though I wonder how long before some NRA nut decides Olbermann is annoying and assassinates him. (2) So how come there are commentaries like this available, and still so many Americans (and not a few Canadians) believe in Bush? Admittedly you had to find this on the humor channel, but it is there available somewhere....
(This contrasts with my attempts to find Gywn Dyer's analysis of the Iraq war (a very cogent and convincing essay) and discovered the book was not available in the US. Made me a bit paranoid about freedom of speech there.)