If you stop listening to him MSNBC will drop 5% in its viewing audience. Jonah Goldberg of NRO once referred to him as "the thinking man's idiot or the idiot's thinking man".
He's so bad he actually makes Chris Matthews look like he's of average intelligence!
I stopped viewing after he hammered the president for not having begun construction on the WTC site. The snafus and delays are purely a function of the fact that the WTC site itself is the most complex intersection of STATE and LOCAL jurisdictional matters one could conceive. The federal government has opened a spigot of money - there is no delay that the feds are responsible for. It's a local NY battle and Olbermann is quite stupid not to recognize that.