Lionel, I listen to you everyday and I enjoy your show very much, but you have the same bug up your butt about Keith Olbermann that Olbermann has about O'Really?. Yes, Jon Stewart gives great news and interviews, but Olberman's show isn't NEWS, it clearly states that it is reflecting daily news stories. Reflecting. Olbermann comments, he gives opinion, that's his job. I love Countdown because it is the first show (aside from The Daily Show) in Bush's term that isn't overtly right wing propaganda.

I came to adulthood believing that American media told the truth, a conviction I never held about US government (10th grade civics question to my teacher: Why expect me to believe that the Soviets were the ONLY ones feeding propaganda to their citizenry?). The past 15 years have been pure torture for me because I saw lies and distortion grow and spread on the cable channels "news" shows. Five years ago I stopped watching FOX because I just couldn't take it anymore. Countdown's March 2003 inception brought a glimmer of hope that somebody (aside from Jon Stewart, who will NOT admit that he makes a difference in news coverage) would speak truth to power, and Olbermann does it splendidly.

Ragging on Hillary Clinton about her campaign is FINE with me. I want a woman president, but it isn't going to be Clinton. She feels no more like a Democrat than ex-Dem Liebermann did. She campaigns like a Republican, she is disconnected from reality like a Republican, and she seems to expect Democrats to follow her like unthinking sheep. I want her to stop, go home, lick her wounds and get on with her job as a US Senator. Keith Olbermann makes me feel better about this presidential race.