there's a huge argument on my facebook page about Olbermann. and it is partly because of this strained equivalency (perpetuated by Jon Stewart) of the rhetoric on the left and the right. (I said "strained" and not "false." I'm already succumbing to the reality-creating of the rightwing establishment.) The equivalency is FALSE, facile and unhelpful. I'm so upset about it. And I didn't love Olbermann. All cable news is crap to a certain degree. But Olbermann was a dissident voice in those horrible Bush years. And was a proponent for meaningful healthcare reform. And I love Maddow, but we have to face she was buffered by the "white male establishment" Olbermann. Notice how Lawrence O'Donnell is replacing his spot, not Maddow. And Schultz and O'Donnell are lightweights.
and i watch Jon Stewart. mainly because he skewers stupid cable news. but an anti-establishment ideological beacon he is not. and that's why he'll stay on the air.
