R i g h t a r d i a: Keith Olbermann is back with a "not for profit" blog

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Keith Olbermann is back with a "not for profit" blog

Here is the link to the new Olbermann site: http://foknewschannel.com/

Olbermman has a column titled "Worst Person of the Days and the winner is, you would never guess:

. . . the increasingly hapless Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, who has now reportedly gone into the office remodeling business.

There are two accounts of why workers were seen altering windows at the Capitol in Madison this morning. The first is that many of the windows in the building’s public space have been damaged by protesters . . .

Prevents breakage. Or escape. Probably not a union job.

An alternate view originates at the AFL-CIO blog which insists those aren’t repairs, they’re welds or bolts designed to make it impossible to pass food or other supplies from outside the Capitol through the windows into the hands of the (protesters). . . .This protest the most effective American political sit-in in decades, maybe since Vietnam.

Either story could be true – Hell, they both could. Independent reporting seems to be too scarce yet to be decisive. (Update: the photo of the bolted window frame, with the head sawed off, courtesy of Tweeter @weezmgk)

But Governor Walker . . . still wins this contest because new polling suggests that if last November’s election were held anew today, the state would reject the ham-handed Koch-head and elect Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.

. . . In short, Governor Walker has managed to chase a lot of union members out of the Republican Party.

This is the unintended silver lining of awakening, which can be summed up by a line attributed to Harry Trumanand the “locking mechanisms” are being repaired. during the 1948 Presidential Election:

How many times do you have to get hit over the head before you figure out who’s hitting you?