Irony

Keith Olbermann is a one trick pony... unfortunately for him his current gig is not it.. After his sports casting career tanked he found a new career as a shill for liberals. The problem is that being a sports caster is what he was good at, he had a phenomenal ability to know (not simply read) stats and had a passion for it.

As a political analyst he sucks. And I don't mean solely because he has chosen to spin everything from his left of socialism viewpoints... he is just not good.

He has no grasp for politics, no idea what is happening, or has happened, in Washington, and is clueless on social and economic matters.

You see when it came to sports he learned the facts that were pertinent. He understood the history of the sports, he knew the players and the teams and when he spoke he did so from a position of authority. But more although all talking head news readers sound vacuous and a hit hollow Olbermann takes it to an art level.

If he merely spun reality through the narrow prism of his leftist beliefs he would be tolerable as people can unspin his take on things... but he is guilty of not just adding a spin to events, he allows his view to blind him to everything other than his belief of what is, or should be.
You see everything that he did to build his career as a sports caster is everything he is not an a news reader/political analyst.

Which brings me to the irony... you see Olbermann in his somewhat crazed BDS mode recently decided Cheney should just leave the country. And what did Cheney do to make Olbermann announce to his ever shrinking audience that the former vice-president should leave his country? It seems Cheney had a mild criticism of the Obama administration.

And Olbermann in full-blown MSNBC Obamalation declared Cheney persona non grata. Olbermann who spent the past half decade criticising the government unilaterally decided that anyone else who does the same should leave the country.

You see, in Olbermann's leftcentric world free speech is permissible only if it concurs with his narrow-minded, ignorant views. If you engage in independent, reasoned speech the left invites you to leave your country... or finds other ways to silence you.

Irony.