A nagging techno-glitch has had the mighty Lambert mainframe down for a few days. Anyone out there who knows a sure-fire, never fail fix for preventing a router from crashing the cable internet connection, drop me a line.
As on election night, I spent the post-Bush “surge” speech with MSNBC. Since Fox is … well, Fox … and useful only as a window into the White House spin room, and CNN wouldn’t say “feces” if it had a mouthful, the Chris Matthews-Keith Olbermann act is my idea of the going gold standard in cable chatter. Besides, damn me to hell, but I love so splendid a clash of titanic egos.
Not to be a complete sexist swine, but watching Keith and Chris maneuver for higher ground is like watching a couple society divas duel for preeminence at a power lunch. See, the thrust of top end jewelry! Watch, the parry of the finest cosmetic surgery hedge fund money can buy!
Olbermann has been where he has been since Bush Co. started taking this thing — this Iraq-muddled-with-terror thing — over the cliff five years ago. That said, his latest “Special Comment” was unusually angry/passionate, which is damned refreshing, even if it is garnering him ratings. But what was noteworthy was Matthews, who, in answering a simple question from Olbermann about the White House’s political strategy, delivered his own angry stemwinder, lacerating the neo-cons and snapping at the end that it isn’t so much what Bush knows that we don’t, but rather what we know that Bush doesn’t. (Olbermann gives that rhetoric another twist in his “Special Comment” by wondering if even Bush knows what Bush knows.)
There may be some degree of theatrical shtick to this burst of passion, but I’m not one to complain. This isn’t Nancy Grace harping on some missing teenager, or homicidal husband, or Sean Hannity gasbagging Nancy Pelosi’s winery. Iraq is a monumental disaster and its encouraging to see someone in the MSM, say so … loudly.
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