A little background on Keith Olbermann

[burythehatchet]

http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/columnists/20011011thebig1011p2.asp

"There are moments when it still feels like it's late in the afternoon of Sept. 11," Olbermann said this week from his midtown Manhattan apartment. "There are moments when it feels like it happened a thousand years ago. The things that day that didn't change, you can count on both hands. At least in New York."

One month ago today, he awoke to find his hometown in terror, then the rest of America. He looked outside his 44th floor window at the Red Cross headquarters across the street, where hundreds already waited to help.

He telephoned Roger Nadel, an old West Coast friend and the general manager of talk-station KFWB-AM in Los Angeles. "He saw and needed an outlet to communicate," Nadel recalled. "He was clearly quite moved by it. And, in turn, the work he's done for us has been very moving."

[Killarney]

1. what a moving article

He seems like such a genuinely nice, caring person. He donated all that money. He really seems to care. Plus, he's smart and won't let the bad guys intimidate him. He's the real deal.

Thanks for posting this.

[Modem Butterfly]

2. How I love Keith Olbemann

He's brilliant and beautiful. And I thought my partner was the only man who fit both categories!

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Contrasting Tweety and Keith last night re. election irregularity story...

it occurred to me that Tweety was speaking from inside the Beltway, that self-satisified island of provincial ignorance, and Keith must have been speaking from New York City. This article indicates to me that I was right, and that this alone accounts for some of the difference in the worldviews of these two men.

[burythehatchet]

4. OMG That's exactly what I was thinking about tweety

get out of DC for a while!

[Kahuna]

8. I've been thinking that about tweety for the longest. It's so obvious..

that he is part of the beltway group think. Those people are clueless about what really goes on in the rest of the country. Or, what normal everyday people think and feel.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

5. Here's another piece you'll like

The 1998 Cornell Senior Convocation Speech that he gave at his alma mater. It's funny, intelligent and insightful. It made me like him even more.

http://www.news.cornell.edu/campus/Olbermann_speech.html

[burythehatchet]

7. nice find!

[msanthrope]

6. Keith was the only sane voice during impeachment, and

I will never forget the smackdown he gave to Dick Armey one night....

[Eric J in MN]

9. Was he on radio or tv during the impachment, and what station? nt

nt

[DeepModem Mom]

10. Wasn't he on MSNBC, and resigned rather than report all Monica...

all the time?