NBC gave him a news desk
It’s been six years since 9/11 and I marvel now as I marveled then at how detached people can be from the world around them. Back in 2001, I arrived home after a long day and cried together with my wife as we embraced. A client of hers standing nearby, whispered to LeAnn, “Is Pat okay? Did he lose his job or something?” She knew about the towers, but it wasn’t an event that had any affect on her personally nor did she fathom that it would have that affect on another.
Six years later, we are more detached than ever, as evidenced by the unhinged rantings of Keith Olbermann:
Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda - worse for our society. It’s as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.
Before this it would have been hard to fathom an individual so obsessively partisan that he would consider a cable news channel exercising free speech more dangerous than an organization that has killed thousands of Americans, or a group that oppressed countless African Americans for generations.
Six years later, Olbermann is completely unable to separate personal animosity from the global scourge of radical Islam and even lacks the sense to be embarrassed by that sad fact.
Is it any wonder people are losing faith in the American media?