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Last night on Countdown, Keith Olbermann took a look at the current state of the Tea Party – or, as he dubbed it, “living on an entirely separate plane of existence with unicorns and optional gravity and intelligent design and flat Earth societies and Christine ‘you’re so dumb how do you find the front door every day’ O’Donnell.” You can guess how it went.

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The backlash against Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown, considered by some to be the first elected Tea Party politician, has Keith Olbermann worried about the state of the movement. After all, if Tea Partiers are “officially defriending” Brown on Facebook over financial regulation, what hope does any other Tea Party politician have, and if the Tea Party is inherently opposed to elected politicians as a whole, then won’t they always be against the people they elect as soon as they are sworn into office?

Long before Gawker Media changed the way we consume information, analysis and media, there was a surprising little literary journal out of Chicago’s south side called The Baffler. Edited by Thomas Frank, who’s also known as columnist for WSJ and best-selling author of What’s The Matter With Kansas, The Baffler compendium Commodify Your Dissent was a must-read for every literary hipster in lower Manhattan in the mid to late 90s. Well good news now-aging-hipsters. The Baffler is back with a brand new issue!

In a blistering Journal op-ed today, What’s The Matter With Kansas? author and liberal political commentator Thomas Frank came down on the side of the White House in the seemingly never-ending Fox News/Obama battle. He dismissed Fox as indulging in “persecution fantasy.”