January
24th 2011
Posted under Culture War & Media
Good riddance! Apparently he was fired but details remain sketchy. While Olbermann was right about the Irag War and civil liberties among other issues, he is in general a cookie-cutter modern elitist liberal. His snide, snarky condescending elitism in lieu of argument was infuriating to watch. Olberman epitomizes the “ruling class” Blue America stereotype. I couldn’t stand the guy, and I’m glad he is gone.
James on 24 Jan 2011 at 5:10 pm #
I actually enjoyed Olberman’s harangues of Bush and his unconstitutional and incompetent regime. You certainly weren’t finding any criticism of the Neoconservative cronies on the “conservative” Fox network on the “conservative” Rush Limbaugh or Hannity shows at the time. In fact, I am an ideological sadist and somewhat enjoy that whole MSNBC line up because I feel like after watching its run of shows I know what the Left thinks about the issues of the day. I know what I believe and would rather listen to people I disagree with because I love argument and debate. As for Fox, it just disgusts me. Give me hardcore liberals to scream at instead of Faux conservatives like the regular crew of Fox. Glen Beck is, well, I don’t know what he is except inconsistent. The Fox Business channel people, however, are different. Napolitano and Stossel are doing good shows with interesting topics. As far as I can tell, they are the only non-mainstream voices on the major networks. Still, Olberman was the poster-boy for the arrogrant liberal elitist: self-rightious and condecending. The worse is Chris Mathews who is not only the above but inarticulate and an ignorant boob to boot. You would think someone who has been around politics as long as he has would be smarter but that is what you get for thinking.
RedPhillips on 24 Jan 2011 at 7:05 pm #
I actually used to like Chris Matthews. He seemed to me to still have some real empathy for the blue-collar working class base that the Dems supposedly used to represent. He seemed to go over to the dark side of Blue America elitism when he went in the tank for Obama.
I also think the guy has ADD, and I thought it was fun to watch his ADD addled interview style. (Buchanan once told him he seemed like he forgot his Ritalin that day.)
Olberman was good on the War and Bush ,and I often did enjoy watching his anti-War and anti-Bush rants back when Bush was still in office, and I just couldn’t bring myself to watch the apologists at FOX. But as it became more and more apparent that Obama was going to win the nomination and the election, his Blue America smuggness became insufferable.
Compare Olbermann to Greenwald, for example. Both were great on the War and Bush, but you never get the impression that Greenwald views his opponents with contempt. In fact, he sometimes has to throw a bone to his liberal base so they don’t think he is going native. That is because Greenwald is a decent human being. Olbermann is an a**.
RedPhillips on 24 Jan 2011 at 7:17 pm #
Re. Napolitano: contrary to popular belief, I have never thought that Murdoch is an agenda driven conservative. His agenda is making Murdoch money so he found a niche with FOX News and went with it. My impression is that FOX Business is becoming to libertarians what FOX News is to conservatives. Murdoch is carving himself out another niche.
While it is amazing that someone like Napolitano is getting on the air, and he has much good to say from a non-mainstream conservative standpoint, I am growing more skeptical of him over time. He has swallowed the libertarian Kool-Aid entirely. He endorses the “free movement of peoples” pro-immigration libertarian line which is suicidal. And while he often invokes the Constitution and original intent, he tries to cram purist libertarianism into the document. (He seems to have very little real understanding of the document or the actual circumstances from which it arose. I hate to say that since Constitutionalists have so few high profile allies, but it’s true.)
Bill Fanning on 24 Jan 2011 at 7:48 pm #
“He endorses the “free movement of peoples” pro-immigration libertarian line which is suicidal.” – So true! Apparently, Murry Rothbard was one of the Founders, according to “the Judge.”
roho on 24 Jan 2011 at 11:02 pm #
O’lberman has never been quite sane since Laura Ingram kicked him to the curb, and moved on without him. Neocons and Liberals in a relationship sounds crazy, but they share more than most realise?
But O’lberman launched some kind of rant against Joe Lieberman shortly before his legs were cut out from under him, and that was the “Unforgivable Sin” according to some?……I never liked the guy, and suspect that he sucked as a sports guy at espn as well?
For me, he was simply textbook “white guilt”.
Captainchaos on 25 Jan 2011 at 5:47 am #
Polarizing rhetoric is one of the key mechanisms by which the lemmings will be stirred to racial consciousness. Olbermann deprived of his megaphone will not be able to fulfill that function as effectively. That is not good.
Sometimes I wonder if faileos do well and truly know that were their professed political objectives realized the result would only be a managed decline of America during which our race whithered on the vine. Something like the “Sailer Strategy” in which the one drop rule is dispensed with, mongrels are accepted as “white”, and Whiteness is defined down until it and our race are no longer recognizable as their former selves.
Hey Red, I take it you agree with the good senator from Mississippi, Theodore Bilbo, in that our choice is ultimately separation or mongrelization. I mean, the dude didn’t relate his wisdom in a German accent, so what’s the big deal?
Nate on 25 Jan 2011 at 7:39 am #
“I am an ideological sadist and somewhat enjoy that whole MSNBC line up because I feel like after watching its run of shows I know what the Left thinks about the issues of the day.”
That is the exact reason that I read Conservative Heritage Time.
Bruce on 25 Jan 2011 at 12:07 pm #
I read CHT because I love to read comment threads where both Captainchaos and Nate leave their nuggets of wisdom. They’re a whole 360 (180?) degrees from each other but it’s so much fun to juxtapose their comments.