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I like how Jon Stewart kinda pokes the stick at The Fabulous Mr. O, but then doesn’t. By the way, I peed my pants watching this.

If you haven’t seen Keith Olbermann talking about Prop 8, I recommend you take a deep breath and watch below. I feel that we as a nation have taken a huge step backwards on this issue. We live next door to a same sex couple. They have been with each other as long as Hubbin and I have. They both have their names on the mortgage like Hubbin and I do. OBVIOUSLY in a committed relationship right? So why the hell do 27 states go out of their way to say No, to them being married, even by common law? I just don’t get it.

And what is California going to do with the +18,000 gay couples it has married so far? Do you unmarry them? Do they get Grandfathered in? And IF they get grandfathered in, why even bother? It’s like saying these marriages count but those going forward don’t? How can there be a constitutional ban on love? And why is CA going back to the days of segregation? Because that’s what this is. It’s saying you over here are OK, and you over here are not. And those with the nots have less rights than those with.

Love is love people. I’ve loved a few against my will, when I knew it was bad for me and only going to end in hair dye and tears. I didn’t choose it, it just happened and it was awful. Can there be a ban on that love too? Is my love for the fabulous Mr. O now going to be scrutinized as well? Sweet chocolate christ I hope not.

The Fabulous Mr. Olbermann cites Clarence Darrow at the end of his speech. Link provided.

Dear MSNBC,

Fuck you! How dare you pull Waldorf and Statler, I mean Olbermann and Matthews, from anchoring Election Coverage! Do you know how much I was looking forward to seeing Olbermann on and off for hours at a time during the debates and possibly during state primaries? I was looking forward to it…a lot, and glowingly. And now you’ve gone and fucked it all up, thwarting my one-sided-media-induced love for Olbermann. Shame on you!

Replacing Olbermann and Matthews with David Gregory is a huge mistake. I don’t give a good goddamn that you are grooming him to replace Tim Russert. He’s a putz and a dink and we ALL know it. Shame on you for taking a dipshit hockey Mom’s finger-waving too literally.

Yeah, yeah, yeah…they are still commentators, but still. Clipping their wings because of pressure from the Old Man and the Sea-Monster only goes to show that the news can be bought and sold. I hope and pray that Mr. Matthews and Mr. Olbermann continue their honest insight, I wish them continued courage to question the unreasonable, and to speak their minds.

A dissenting daughter of the revolution,
Jodie

we were in a really big house and some of my extended family was there…The Fabulous Mr. O (TFMO) was wearing light khaki pants, and white shirt and a light colored jacket (hummana hummana hummana). for whatever reason, Keith was running the show, we were all very concerned with when he was leaving, when he’d be back and what it all meant. i remember the sense that his job was in danger because some flashy young buck with earphones showed up and everyone went into hyper-protective mode about Keith.

there wasn’t a lot of talking.

i remember being around a table, and Keith wasn’t sitting down, he was standing behind my aunt iowa. and he gave me a look that makes me gooey inside still. the kind of look that says, even though you’ll never be mine, you’ll always be mine. and i held his stare for as long as i could, but the devil with the earphones was distracting me.

then i remember sitting on TFMO’s lap at one point and he was talking very softly, yet very sternly to me. telling me that if i wanted to be something else that i could. that america would love me for who i am, i just needed to be myself. then he pulled out video camera and started filming me talking. then he stopped and told me to do it for real, and i did.

TFMO has yet to make the DML, and i think that as soon as i stop watching five hours of MSNBC coverage in a row, right before bed, i’ll stop having dreams about him. but i don’t want that to happen. he’s like a sexy father-figure, always pushing me beyond what i think i can do. and i so need that right now.

after boo’s back to school picnic, i’m feeling very dowdy and invisible. i’m positive that i am meant to do more than this, but i’m not sure what that is yet. thankfully, i just saw a bit on TCM about Jimmy Stewart. there is a scene in “Harvey” that they showed that was like a slap in the face to me:

“Years ago my mother used to say to me, she’d say, “In this world, Elwood, you must be” - she always called me Elwood - “In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.” Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.”

i shall work on being more pleasant, you may quote me.

things….that…uhm….not so much…

a.) cindy mccain’s $300K outfit the first night. she reminded me of ivana trump, except cinds has more money.

b.) sarah palin - fuck her and her hockey mom bullshit

c.) huckabee and guiliani - thanks for the fear mongering guys!

d.) the WTC montage video - i didn’t watch this myself, but the fabulous Mr. O’s reaction was 100% right. i guess the GOP has to justify the war some how.

on the plus side

watching the coverage last night with JCSG was awesome. reading the FakeSarahPalin’s tweets on Twitter was hy-larious, and then making it home to see Triumph the Insult Comic Dog on Conan - best line ever…”she [Palin] will be a great-grandmother in 12 years.” it’s funny cuz it’s true!

you know who sucks today? MSNBC. know why? because they are keeping me and keith olbermann apart. fuckers!

sure, they said they are keeping the fabulous Mr. O in new york because of the hurricane coverage. but i think they just don’t approve of our one sided media induced love. or maybe it’s because he leans so far left that they were afraid of some snarky comment he’d make at the RNC. either way, his absence breaks my heart.

JCSG and i had grand plans of heading down to their broadcast site and holding up signs saying “Mathhews and Olbermann 08″ and “Circle Me Keith”. JCSG didn’t get the “circle me” reference, but she’s not a baseball fan like Mr. O and me. millions of fellow minnesotans would have loved it though.

also, in the “i’ve clearly been watching too much TV” category, i had a dream about Mr. O last night. he had this unnaturally large apartment in chaska and the only thing that happened in the dream was that he handed me a catalog for the Loft and told me that maybe i should take a class in political commentary. nice to know that he thinks i need a life too.