Donny Deutsch Off the Air after Criticism of Keith Olbermann

Olbermann's show is inconsistent, depending on what is driving the news (liberal blogs) on a given day. When he is pursuing a good story with good guests from his stable of regulars, the show is good. If he is just name calling and trying to reinforce what idiots Palin and Bachmann are, then the show is not as good. I guess you could call it mean spirited infotainment, but he is usually returning salvos from the right rather than initiating them out of the blue.

Olbermann's definitely not in the tank for Obama anymore. If you think that, you probably only sample his show occasionally rather than watch it consistently. Olbermann was very critical of the health care bill. He's very critical of how the war efforts and anti terrorism policies continue the Bush policies without all that much change. He's critical of broken campaign promises.

The criticism of the show and MSNBC that is valid, is that they waste far too much time on the redundant spotlighting of what idiots Michael Steele, Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann are. It does in fact crowd out opportunities for explaining the issues to the public. Michael Steele is an idiot. Ok. got it. Can we now drill down on how the financial reform bill is shaping up? Is it getting strengthened or weakened? Should we support it or oppose it?

They hit the important stuff now and then, but not often enough in my book.