I’m not a huge fan of Keith Olbermann. At one time I was; I found his sharp closing comments to be a welcome relief from a media that was busy giving Bush and Cheney a collective suck-off. I liked that he railed against the administration and their policies when it was so dangerous to do so. That, and I liked his giant pin-striped suits and shiny purple ties with the wide French knots.

But I quit watching television for a gloriously long time and when I came back to him during the past few months, I found that he’d taken a turn down Dramatic Street, steering sharply away from his Edward R. Murrow-style homage in favor of Enquiring-minds-want-to-know antics. I find his “Stupidest Person in the World” as ghastly as O’Reilly’s “Pinhead of the Week” segment. That I even know what the Pinhead segment is makes my aortic valve stick in the closed position.

But.

Sometimes I’m able move past Olbermann’s self-aggrandizing oration and let myself focus on the words. Such as in this video where he absolutely nails It.