Tumbleblogging Olbermann

Frum goes on to use standard Right Wing Umbrage form 047/332(a), sarcastically calling “my” remarks “an excellent riposte” and marveling at the idea of “the most partisan Democratic broadcaster in the country call John McCain a Nazi!”

Yeah.

Here’s the problem, Bub.

The Reichstag quote is from blogger Ian Gurvitz at the satirical 23/6 website. Gurvitz was reacting yesterday to Frum’s self-mutilation on Rachel’s show Monday.

Since somebody “told” Frum I said all this, it obviously wasn’t necessary to even check a tape or a transcript or put the phrase in The Google. You know: invade first, ask questions second.

I’m told last night he spoke about my outing on the Rachel Maddow show. Called me “naively idiotic or idiotically naive.” Then he said

McCain and Palin have set the table for these outbursts with their attacks and then committed the sin of omission by not truly quelling them. Sort of like standing outside the Reichstag holding a gas can, and calmly suggesting that someone might want to call the fire department.

The Reichstag fire! What an excellent riposte to the half dozen lunatics who have said foolish/offensive things at McCain-Palin rallies - have the most partisan Democratic broadcaster in the country call John McCain a Nazi!

“There aren’t many renaissance men in any age, but Gil was one of them,” MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, a former co-worker, told the Los Angeles Times via e-mail. “He knew everybody and everything and seemed to delight in them all.”

Well, almost everything.

“In ‘56 or ‘57,” Olbermann wrote, “he had it on the highest authority that the Dodgers would not be moving to L.A. … In fact he told his viewers on KNXT that if the Dodgers did move to L.A., he’d jump off the end of the Santa Monica pier. “

They did, and so he did.”

The easy fix would be if we could wave a legally binding magic wand and get the MLB out of the horrible contract they signed to these two companies and move their coverage elsewhere. If I could do such a thing my solutions would be 3 very simple letters, NBC. Dig if you will this picture…

NBC’s sports division is sadly underused these days and with some of the talent that they employ that is a shame. I’d love for them to have a game of the week for baseball during the summer like they do for the NFL. Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann could host the studio shows and actually be both informed and entertaining. Al Michaels and Bob Costas, both who have called multiple World Series and are award winners in their field, could call the games. I am sure they’d have no trouble finding a few former players to fill the same small but effective roles given to their current former NFL’ers to round out these broadcasts. Not to mention the people listed actually like if not love the sport and would give post-season play the type of coverage it deserves. I think I just made my brain hurt with how much better this would be than the coverage we now receive. It would probably make me upset that we only got this once a week, so maybe we could get a Saturday afternoon and Sunday night match-up each week to appease me.