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Posts Tagged ‘Ken Burns’

Look, I appreciate Keith Olbermann. As an MSNBC celebrity, I don’t love him. He goes overboard and sometimes serves more as fodder for right wing mockery than for any appreciation of his humour, eloquence and withering critiques. In other words, I recognize him but don’t watch him any longer because of  his excesses.

Saying that, as a sports guy he is unequaled. His replay commentaries on Sunday Night Football were unparalleled. He took his MSNBC persona, softened it, kept the humour and slid in some zingers. He was perfection. He gave it up (or more likely was forced to give it up) to devote his energies to his news commentary show.

So, in tribute to Keith Olbermann the sportsman, this is a photo today from a playoff game with two luminaries, Ken Burns of the precise and historical docs and the much maligned Jon Klein, ex-head of CNN fired for not being right wing enough. Most of all, I love that Burns is wearing a baseball glove. Rock on Keith, Ken and Jon!

Cross posted at Let Freedom Rain