Flipping through channels, I made the mistake of stopping at MSNBC. It only took a few minutes for Keith Olbermann to tick me off. He's now making a big deal about the man who said, at a town hall, that he was proud to be a right wing terrorist and that the Representative who was holding the event didn't dress him down for saying it. However, when you watch the clip (which Olbermann showed on the show), I think it's pretty obvious that the guy was reacting to the media's portrayal of the entire right wing as terrorists. He cited things that he did, like go to a tea party website, and basically just left out one phrase, albeit a key phrase: "If that's what liberals want to call a terrorist, THEN I'm proud to be a right wing terrorist."

Unfortunately, Olbermann is too busy vilifying people to try to find the root of the problem. Maybe he could look at what the right is doing and look at what he is doing on his show and figure out that he is doing nothing to help his cause in the slightest. Glenn Beck preaches fear and tells the American people that the government is out to get them. Keith Olbermann says that people who watch Fox News are loons and racists and assorted other insults. And MSNBC is surprised that they can't get ratings. When will the Left learn that you can't win the people over by insulting them? Too often liberals go into a fight selling Hope but once the going gets rough, they just start bitching about how nobody is as smart as them. Only once in a blue moon do you actually get a situation (like Sen. John McCain's reaction to the fiscal crisis) when the Right actually shows that they don't really have a plan.

Whenever people whine about bailouts, nobody ever reminds them that if it wasn't for the bailouts a whole hell of a lot more of their fellow citizens would be out of a job right now. When the Right says that the government wants to take over health care, the Dems need to say that they are just trying to help people protect themselves against the big insurance companies. If Obama really wants to work with Republicans, make them come up with their own bill and to bring something to the table other than vague notions, plans that can't be funded, and ideas that protect everyone except the actual patients.

Needless to say, the whole thing is still frustrating me.