Channel surfing summary

One show for dumb guys and one for smart guys

Posted by biodiversivist (Guest Contributor) at 8:27 PM on 23 Sep 2007

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I channel surf (I'm a guy). I find something of interest and as soon as a commercial hits, I move on. I landed on Keith Olbermann's show, Countdown, just as he was launching into Bush. I sat there shaking my head in awe. When Olbermann lets loose, he is intelligent, courageous, and articulate -- the polar opposite of Glenn Beck, the smarmy bobblehead clown who also has a show that attempts to mix humor with news. One show is funny, the other comical. There's a difference. One show is for smart guys, the other for dummies. Everybody is covered.

Here's Olbermann:

Here's Beck, doing what he does best (from earlier this year). If television had existed when Darwin published The Origin of Species, Beck would have been right there poking fun at a man who claimed we were descended from monkeys. The intellectual chasm is vast:

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"Welcome to Crazytown USA"

Thanks. Watcha got?

"When are these scientists going to lose their arrogance?"

What a...um... pertinent question.

I wonder why Beck didn't "ask the hard questions" of Lomborg when he stated unequivocally that GW was happening, and that those arrogant euro-scientists--thousands of them!--at the IPCC are the unquestioned authority...

I wonder why Lomborg, with his zeal to bring clear thinking to the climate debate didn't take Beck to task for that "Global Cooling" stunt...

Thanks for posting this, BD. I think you've given me a migraine.

by Jones at 6:49 AM on 24 Sep 2007

Sorry bout that

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by biodiversivist at 7:41 AM on 24 Sep 2007

Olbermann

Love every minute of his smackdowns, but I wished he used more of that passion when he commentates on NBC's "Football Night in America", especially for the hated Patriots "camera gate". Go 'hawks!

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by Jerome Woody at 11:44 AM on 24 Sep 2007

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