I'm a fan of Keith Olbermann, the ESPN anchor. I realize that he left Craig Kilborn and Dan Patrick and the corporate Nazis at ESPN long ago, but I will never forget what he brought to the genre. "Robert Parrish gets some extra elevation on that jumper. Some might even say he got high." A reference to Parrish getting busted for marijuana sent to his house in a FedEx box. I still believe Olbermann to be the best pure writer of sports or news anywhere on any network. And I will always remember watching his first-ever anchor-cast on ESPN with Bobby Firenze as we sat frozen and speechless.
It's very difficult to describe other than to say TV sportswriting was changed in that moment and by that 1 guy, especially now that the Olbermann writing and thinking style has been adopted by so many journalists.
Olbermann loves Obama dearly. It's hard to see through his fog of passion sometimes, so I don't watch him anymore. My issue with Keith is his blindness to the truth if said truth in any way interferes with his thesis that Obama is god.
Is it not possible to support and criticize at the same time?
In this 3-minute tirade against the power of banksters in Washington as a political class, Keith points fingers at Goldman Sachs and Henry Paulson.
Yet he does not chastise Tim Geithner, the least qualified and most-highly conflicted Treasury Secretary of the modern era, except perhaps for Paulson. The only possible explanation is Obama love.
Keith, wake up. You are still the greatest, the Sportsinator if you will, but currently you suck.
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