House of Eratosthenes

I don’t think there’s too much that’s worthy of comment here. Keith Olbermann said stuff, Glenn Beck said some stuff back. Neither one of them said much that was substantial.

I just think this comment is a real hoot. And representative of what passes for discourse nowadays, particularly among those with more sympathy for Keith than for Glenn.

beck did not comment on the CONTENT of anything Keith said.
this is a very typical right-wing tactic, attack so they don’t have to address issues.
the right-wingers are starting to get worried and it shows.

The content of anything Keith said? And that would be what, exactly?

I’m thinking somewhere, out on DailyKOS or maybe one of those mass e-mails from Howard Dean, a talking point has gone out that when liberals argue with conservatives, what the liberals need to do is trot out the adjectives “desperate” and “worried” and affix those descriptors to the conservatives. I notice for the last two years they’re employed where they don’t fit very well.

I could come up with some shining examples of this if I really put some thought into it, and some time I don’t necessarily have at the moment. But the situation at hand demonstrates things well enough. Once again…all you have to do to devastate a silly idea, is take it seriously. Let’s take this one seriously and see what happens.

Beck is “worried.” You can tell because he’s taking the time to respond to Olbermann, instead of ignoring him. Huh. Okay, perfectly sound logic so far…a little bit skewed, a little anxious to come to the conclusion desired, but alright let’s go with it.

Now then, who is Keith Olbermann? He’s a guy who rants on some television show called “Countdown,” and his rants come out in clips five or six minutes long promptly uploaded to YouTube with dizzying speed. Among these clips — do any of them say things that aren’t already said in some of the other clips? Not really. Not much. They say bad things about President Bush, and anyone who might defend him. There’s some variety in whatever late happening inspired the content of the clip, but not much of that either — nine times out of ten, or better, it’s something President Bush said. And a good portion of that remaining one-tenth of inspiring phenomena, is something said by someone defending President Bush, or someone who has been known to do so in the past.

What would you say about extended-family relatives who conducted themselves in this way? “Morning Grandma, isn’t it a wonderful day!” “It would be, if President Bush didn’t give me a leak in my roof.” Eh, I shouldn’t say that…a lot of us have relatives just like this.

Desperate? Well. Whether that fits or not, I’ll leave to the readers to decide. Point made, I think.

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Thursday, March 1st, 2007