This has been an eventful week. Wednesday, Rino and I signed our lease and we are getting ready to move into our new place. I'm enjoying the new computers at work, but it is much harder getting them all ready to go than I thought it would be. This Monday is my Mom's birthday. I'm not going to make it down this weekend to celebrate.
Coming after the other nights Countdown news show, similar thoughts to mine are summed up here: (http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/4/7/202333/8404)
I remember when I was little and would watch Rush Limbaugh on TV. It was my first introduction to US politics and I learned that Democrats were evil and Republicans wanted you to be rich. I grew up to find that not only was he full of crap, but that he was really off the wall wrong and I was buying that shit. I was little, but that isn't an excuse, I still should of tried to think about what he was saying. I'm very careful of trusting people in that respect anymore. Now that I am a liberal, my favorite commentators are Jon Stewart, Bill Mahr, Colbert and Olbermann. Jon Stewart once made a comment about how people would tell him, "oh you are very funny, I love you, but that comment you made about that one thing, oh no that was wrong." He was making the point that people love you when they agree with you, but when you don't then you are not as funny. So my favorite thing about Bill Maher is that he takes a lot of unconventional views that I don't agree with at all. (ie racial profiling I think was one he alluded to a few years back.) But I respect his views and still learn a lot from him even though I'm not completely in the tank for him. Stewart, well he is great. This was really supposed to be about Kieth Olbermann (my Cornell Alumn) though. So I watch his show daily and agree with most of the wonderful points he has made. I'm so glad his show exists and that is where I get a lot of my news. Lately I was worried that maybe I'm just like those right wing idiots believing what I am told and not thinking for myself. The thing is, I do think for myself. So now that Olbermann is going crazy attacking the Clintons, (picking a topic I don't agree with), I'm so happy to see that I'm not blinded by my respect for Olbermann. Now I do listen to his arguments, and it is sometimes hard to get past the disdain to see his points objectively, but in the past, his disdain he had for the administration I shared, so I was able to move past it quickly. Now I'm not saying what he is saying is false, and right now I won't even say it is unfair. I have seen him defend Hillary from the Republicans, but also attack her as if she were one. What I would want, or what would make me feel better is if Olbermann would just say he doesn't support her and give his reasons why, instead of hinting at it every chance he gets. The guy is awesome, and I'll still watch him even when I don't agree, but when you are fighting monsters, you have to make sure you don't become one in the process. He sometimes comes off a bit Billo in my opinion when it comes to the Clintons. Note, this isn't just because I supported Clinton, I also support Obama and want him to be president more than anything.
Here is another article to add:
Gov. Rendell: ‘Keith Olbermann Should Be On The Obama Payroll’
It sucks when you know what the inevitable is and instead of watching it slowly creep your way, you choose to confront and rip off the band-aid because your naive beliefs were misplaced to begin with. Yeah, it does suck to feel like a fucking dope. You have the feeling of anger, sadness, disappointment and another lesson learned. If what you have is so weak that it can fall to something so abstract, then this is how it was meant to be. What really gets me is the idea of believing what a person is telling you. You feel like they are not being completely honest, but they tell you they are. Then you find out they were lying. Now, the truth is probably at the time they didn't know they were lying, but does that really matter? She was right, but I didn't listen. Maybe I knew all along. I guess it is better knowing.
contempt
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