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My favorite bumper sticker of the day. May get one tonight.

My response to today's Glenn Greenwald post

I have to say that this was a bit of an absurd post. MSNBC could not keep Olbermann as a political coverage anchor. While I agree with GG and Olbermann politically, Olbermann is too overtly partisan for an anchorship. The comparison with Bill O'Reilly is more valid than with Brit Hume (does Keith attack Hume almost every night like he does Billo?). Hume, while known to be conservative, does not wear it on his sleeve like Olbermann wears his liberalism. The last straw was Olbermann's comment about the 9/11 RNC video being inappropriate. Maybe, but it was certainly inappropriate for Olbermann to be making such a comment as an anchor. "Removing" himself as he said from the MSNBC team does not cut it.

Matthews being cut. Well, that's how it goes sometimes when you're part of a team.

Matthews and Olbermann are still to be part of the MSNBC/NBC coverage as analysts but not as anchors. I think really that that is their proper role. GG cannot say at the moment that they won't be prominent.

Greenwald's post. I submitted the above text to his response page for the post.

The Story of this Blog

Was referred to this by Jennifer. One has to laugh at their own blog, particularly this one. A t-shirt with this can be ordered here.

Ron Suskind's New Book

I'm intrigued to read Ron Suskind's new book "The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism". It supposedly has a revelation of the White House directing the CIA to create a forged back-dated letter by the then Iraqi intelligence chief stating that Mohammed Atta, one of the 9/11 terrorists, trained in Iraq. This would create an appearance of an operational relationship between Al Quaeda and Iraq, one of the White House's highly suspect excuses for invading Iraq. This sort of thing would be grounds for impeachment the author says. Well, if so and I agree so, why did we have to wait for a book to learn of it? The book is about much more than that episode, but the episode has been a newsmaking revelation in the media.

I thought I would not buy this book on the grounds that I'd be contributing to the author's profits when he should have revealed this information to the authorities or the press. We've had so many books about the scandalous George Bush White House, but we've got to allow someone to make a profit first before anything is possibly done.

However, the book is getting very good reviews, and I noticed in B&N Sunday "Pulitzer Prize Winner" on the cover. I thought that meant the book, but it may have meant Suskind who is a prize winner for journalism over 10 years ago. I hate marketing that I know intentionally plants an idea in one's mind that is known to be untrue.

I'll probably pick up a copy at some point. I can't resist.