This is another Olbermann diary.
I am stunned. I am sad.
I feel like another true progressive voice, has been silenced -- talk about First Amendment Remedies!
You see Keith Olbermann was is still one of my heroes.
It may seem funny for a grown man to have heroes -- but in a Nation that has Fast Food, Fast Imports, and Fast and careless War plans
-- sometimes people like me, need "a hero" -- someone brave enough to speak out against the madness.
Someone to give Voice to the voiceless -- Mr. Keith Olbermann was such a spokesman, to me.
I grew up with the News Habit. Many of my friends thought it was "weird" that I had to get home to watch the Nitely News each night, as many stations as feasible. But I saw it as my window on the world. I saw it as my civic duty.
Besides Walter Cronkite, always made me think. Challenged assumptions. Widened my world view.
Even though he sealed each Broadcast with the iconic tag line "That's the way it was."
I generally took Mr. Cronkite's word for it -- THAT WAS, the way it was today.
Keith had become my Walter Cronkite, in today's world, so often devoid of real news, of real commentary, ... devoid of real courage.