Replies

I hate to agree with you about the 9-11 Widows but you are correct. The "Jersey Gals" are especially revealing in their addiction to TV cameras; they were on Chris Matthews once, and I was very tolerant of their position (I figured let 'em get through their grief their way), but they were the most ill-informed bunch you can imagine. In fact, that was what broke me of the Softball habit--I didn't want him to be nasty to them, but he just sat there telling them how much he admired them while they babbled DU misinformation without him pointing out the very obvious flaws in their "facts" (Joe Wilson figured prominently in their "data").

As for Olberman, he certainly comes across as a bitter, nasty jerk. I really enjoyed him laying into Tom Cruise's criticisms of psychiatry; he went on about how he's been in therapy himself since '98, and it never seemed to occur to him that maybe, just maybe, that meant he wasn't quite objective enough to be discussing the story. Cruise could have been refuted, but the segment, with a bubblehead shrink and Olberman praising therapy and prescription drugs, was simply THEIR subjective point of view on psychiatry, as opposed to Cruise's. Neither of them seemed to grasp the irony, or admit the truth, that psychotherapy is as much an art as a science.