His toughest, angriest comment yet on the Bush/Libby decision. Increasingly, people either love Olbermann or hate him. Must viewing no matter what you think of him.
The one problem he now faces as a broadcaster: there is only so much outrage and anger you can display before it doesn’t have an impact on audiences and some begin to perceive it as schtick.
On the other hand, this IS an administration that seemingly prides itself on decisions that are made that fly in the face of consensus, bipartisanship and popular opinion and caters mostly to its own party’s hard-right base.
That is bound to provoke outrage not just among Democrats but also independent “swing” voters, who have broken with this administration in huge numbers, if you look at the polls. So dismissing Olbermann’s outrage as mere showcraft would not be accurate. He is not the only person in the nation to react this way to Bush’s decision (although Rush and Sean and Bill Kristol are very happy).
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.