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I never noticed Keith Oberman until the night of September 11, 2006, when he used the phrase, "impeachable offense". I couldn't believe anyone had the guts to actually say on mainstream television what so many AMERICANS are thinking. I'd just seen the Tim Russert interview of Dick Cheney and the quip to Cheney about the shotgun. I had an eerie feeling that Cheney really could go after Russert if he wanted to. It was as if in that moment, Cheney was a man possessed by a very large demon. Then this fellow Oberman came on on 9/11 and wow! This really is a free country, I thought. (At least, freer than most) For the first time, I actually wrote a letter of congratulations to MSNBC. And the other news that day was soooo depressing, bleak. And the photo ops, sooooo silly. Then here's this man on mainstream news un-afraid! Fear, says Michael Crichton, is to be eliminated. Both Democrats and Republicans and Libertarians can take a lesson from Oberman. Then again, they might be afraid of a shotgun in the face, or, an undisclosed prison sentence.
Rock on Mr Oberman! This is totally Thoreau, totally American! (And rock on Chris Matthews too!)
