Keith Olbermann, the go-to guy for the left-wing netroots, slammed me twice this week on his show for being the 'Worst Person in the World" first on Wednesday and then on Friday.
Twice in the same week--A Badge of Honor that I will wear proudly in my Marin County, California neighborhood.
To see how truly disturbed and desperate for ratings KO really is --hop over to Olbermannwatch.com
If Keith Olbermann wants to be taken seriously (although I doubt that premise) he needs to get his butt off the anchor chair at MSNBC and on a plane to Iraq. Let him say the same horrendous things he intones in his stentorian delivery straight to the faces of the troops. Now THAT would be entertainment.
(For more on the controversy scroll down two blog entries)
After Olbermann's diatribe, this is a representative sampling I've recieved from his viewers.
"You are a worthless c---. Your family is embarrased over you and want you to kill yourself.. Please make them happy."
I know it's difficult for liberals to understand the concept 'literal' versus 'metaphorical' in a written column. And Olbermann deliberately overlooks the fact that his guy Soltz was the REAL bully, intimidator and thug to a young American soldier who merely pointed out the burgeoning success of the surge in Iraq (the horror!)
And then there's this one at Talking Points
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/016773.php What I love about Talking Points Memo is they cite Glenn Greenwald's post about the worldview of the right about the dangers of Islamic jihadists.
While it is a tad overstated, I think the jist of what Greenwald gets at, and that Talking Points Memo cites, is dead-on right.
It's not that we believe jihadists will be landing Jihadist Marines on the beaches of South Carolina or Oregon… but we really do believe they will continue to use political intimidation backed by acts of violence to weaken the resolve of those who oppose their efforts to spread their beliefs as part of their Islamic caliphate.
I think that when you listen to what they say, and when you witness the incredibly high number of violent acts of terrorism they've waged - I mean folks, we're talking THOUSANDS of such attacks - I then don't understand why our bretheren on the Left see our worldview as that irrational.
Look at our friends in the UK - there is a real change going on there and the normally liberal British media have done a number of stories about the rise of radical Islam within Britain and the relative inability of the government to contain it.
But then again, those same British journalists then say how awful it is trying to wipe out the origins of radical Islam in the Middle East.
I think that Philadelphia Inquirer columnist was right -- we probably do need another 9/11 sooner rather than later because people would much prefer to ignore the problem and hope it goes away, which is exactly what the jihadists need to grow their network… undisturbed and unchallenged.
Don't misunderstand me. I wake up at nights sweating out the real possibility that the Islamists will hit us again, and hard. I don't wish for that. What I really want is for the American public to understand that we believe the jihadists are working as hard as they possibly can to raze American icons in order to terrorize us into submission.