Of course, as you would expect of executives at MSNBC, his boss has a powerful excuse for his precipitous decline (get this):
He attributes Olbermann's January ratings slip to a news cycle in which international news, rather than domestic politics, was the No. 1 story. "On big, breaking international news, CNN tends to do better than us. They did a great job in Haiti, and I tip my hat to them," he says. "We're the place for politics, and there are times when politics does great, and there are times when it doesn't." With primaries in the midterm elections already looming, he says, "I think we'll get our momentum back."
Yeah, I'd have to agree. I mean, it's not like Massachusettes voters put turd icing on the President's health care cake in January, or that there was any controversy building to the President's first State of the Union address during January. Yep, pretty darned slow month for politics, I'd say.
Look, the only time an hysterical (in the emotional, maniacal context) guy like Olbermann can get ratings is when an hysterical audience exists. The rallying point for all that hysteria was one George W. Bush. Without him, the emotional maniacs are lost in the woods.
If an emotional maniac cries in the woods and there is no one to hear him, does he make a noise? Sounds like it's just a faint, high-pitched whine. The kind you hear just before a bearing finally seizes up.
I chuckle at the prospect.
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