Keith wants so bad to be like Beck and O’Reilly…unfortunately, the audience he developed in the back 9 of the Bush Administration (yes, count me in there,) had a few more functioning neurons than the followers of FOX News Pundits. That’s why he’s losing viewers.

Upon the election of the Democrats, Mr. Olbermann stopped talking about stupidity in Washington (where stupidity continuously needs to be exposed) and started focusing full-time on stupidity at FOX News (where stupidity is self-evident and requires no comment).

Keith lost his independent viewers as soon as it became clear that he would be spending his time on poking FOX News instead of focusing on the early-blooming faults of the current administration. I was hoping he’d continue to expose big government failures in a bipartisan way, but silly me. Once that “big government” wasn’t Bush’s big government, he lost interest.

Bill O’ recently proved he could tangle Keith up in his idiotic games when the parent company exec’s had to be brought in to make the boys shake hands. As a result, Bill O’ won by default, dragging Mr. Olbermann unmistakably down into the dregs with the Sean Hannitys and Ed Schultzs of the world. I was naive for thinking any different, but that’s what the Bush administration did to people: we were looking to anyone willing to criticize the government at that point. For the time being, Olbermann’s pointed assaults on the Bush cronies were our mental salvation. Those days are gone.

No one needs Keith Olbermann to illustrate Glenn Beck’s idiocy. Those of us that used to watch Olbermann did so because we wanted to get AWAY from Bill O’Reilly-style chicanery. We stopped watching him when he effectively became Bill O’s left hand.

Well said Joe. If Olbermann wants to be taken seriously, he needs to prove he’s not as much as a mouth piece for the left as Beck is for right wing loons.

There is effectively nowhere on cable news for people who want to be spoken to like adults.