No, some people deserve to be hated because they are just plain hateful. I don't hate anybody nor do I need to automatically attack them just because they are who are they are. I feel it is my responsibility to actually hear what they say and not judge them on small sound bites or quotations plucked off the internet somewhere.
The fact is Olbermann and Maddow are both partisans to the core and I grow weary of their one-sided analysis of everything. That doesn't mean they are always wrong. But they are so incomplete and one dimensional--plus Olbermann IS hateful--that they bore me very quickly.
Beck does superb research, he doesn't have a partisan bone in his body, and Democrats, Republicans, and everything in between are going to be criticized or moved into the bullseye when he thinks criticism is warranted. Whether or not I agree with him--and I often don't or at least withhold judgment--he always gives you something new and different to think about. And for that reason he is interesting and he has a firm hold on #1 in his time slot and his books sell very well.
You're response was almost endearing in how you innocently hold Beck to be some non-partisan purist, who is somehow free from all the usual holdings of money and partisanship and allegiance to any particular dogma. In other words, you feel like he has integrity. Well, I would have to go ahead and say the opposite. I actually don't feel like Maddow WAS that partisan. She presents many facts about current things going on, and simply comments on them. So does Keith. Those two seem to have become more left, as Fox has been pressing more rightist views themselves, so, the two shows balance themselves out. The more to the right Fox goes, the more left MSNBC goes to counter that. I don't think it's intentional, I just think maddow and Olbermann are truly ticked about it what these people on Fox are saying, and I agree with them, because I think Fox is inflammatory, but that is just my opinion. I want to comment on what you said about Beck not being Partisan, because I don't see how that is possible. He spouts out all conservative talking points, paints the left as purely evil "leftist-progressive-liberall-socialist." I mean, how you can possibly say he is not partisan? Simply because he sometimes bashes his own party? So does Olbermann and Maddow, that doesn't make them non-partisan. I agree that maddow and Maddow are leftist. I'm not claiming they are non-partisan. certainly, they are, and that's okay. We are all entitled to our opinions. It's more the manner in which they conduct their show. maddow and Olbermann merely comment on things and yes, insert their educated opinions (and they are educated. don't play partisan willful ignorance and slam them because it's cool. You know they are intelligent.) Glenn is trying to 'teach' about what is going on, which implies that he really understands and also that he has the answer, both of which I think are false. He has a lot of evidence and facts about things, but they don't necessarily support his conclusions, because what he draws from facts is done so from a conservative mode of thinking, so although the facts themselves may be objective, he spins them to turn everything against the left, and that's not reality. Everything is not the lefts fault. The right do not have all the answers. Again, this is oversimplistic of reality, even if it were somewhat true. That kind of distortion of reality usually comes from the way someone has come to deal with the world, and in Becks case, being a recovering alcoholic, how one must re-accustom him/herself with reailty after such a radical shift in thinking, is to adhere to something very strongly, in an alcholics case, it is usually God, because that is the only piece of faith that gets an alcoholic through, and is step 1 in AA ("My problems have become unmanageable and have come to believe that a power higher than myself can restore me to sanity"). This faith is what makes AA possible. It doesn't have to be the christian God, but that's where Beck went, and his faith, his Christian faith drives everything he does, and I believe, is where the problem lies, because Christians are notorious for claiming reality for their own, and trying to impress it onto everyone else. At the center of all of Beck's whinings, is his concept of God, and again, it is only his god concept, not necessariliy true. That is why so many on the right like him as well, because he is a Christian. He is a conservative's wet dream, for so many reasons.
