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Monday, September 11, 2006 12:00 AM

The Olbermann factor

The MSNBC maverick gives Salon the countdown on his anti-Bush orations, battling with Bill O'Reilly, and the nauseating truth about cable news.

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  • Tuesday, September 12, 2006 08:40 PM

    how bad things really are

    it is funny to watch countdown and see how they spend the time; to see the crap nbc makes olbermann report on as recompense for the few moments of....(what do you call it?)

    i have a deep respect for olbermann, in how he is using the time given to him. it is so funny to watch the passoff between him and scarborough. there is almost a glint of envy in scarborough's eye, these days.

    the only real thing i have to say is if everybody were contributing to reality as olbermann is, as opposed to the pseudo reality everyone else is spinning; if cnn, fox and the bc's, and bs's, were equally contributing to reality, olbermann would find himself right of where i think we really should be. nevertheless, i realize this is so because of the nature of how bad things really are.

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