Yes, it's a sad life for Dr. Olbermann. He started doing sports, but was always more a lefty than a sportsy. And so when baseball and football seemed insufficiently progressive, he turned to politics. And when Hillary Clinton proved insufficiently progressive, he turned to Barack Obama. And now, of course, President Obama is insufficiently progressive.
But Dr. Olbermann is stuck--trapped in the Bias of the Network, deep underneath NBC-Universal headquarters in Rockefeller Center in Manahttan. He and all his fellow wage-slaves in the NBC empire are under direct orders from Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Electric, to toe the pro-Obama line, as GE protects its bailout position, striving to stay on the federal government's good side as more bailout billions are needed.
So Dr. Olbermann must do his job, lonelier and lonelier, more and more cut off from ordinary media contact. You can see the pain in his eyes. (Fortunately, he is well paid, not covered by those salary caps, and that takes away some of the pain. Of course, it doesn't seem that anybody is covered by those caps.)
