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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.
By Alex Koppelman

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  • Monday, September 11, 2006 01:22 PM

    What's wrong with a blowhard?

    We need someone blowing hard from our point of the compass. If using big, strong words and compound sentences to shout out the emperor's state of nakedness will convince some of the two-digit population (those with IQ's under a hundred) that no, George Bush is NOT the savior of this country and YES we'd better wake up and do something while we're still the United States of America and not the Fractured States of Fear -- if all that is being a blowhard, then have at it, Mr. Olbermann.

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