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madrobinsPerhaps because I'm reading Walter Cronkhite's A Reporter's Life, I'm thinking about the difference that good writing can make to a news report--even a balanced report that is as close to unbiased as human nature permits. If it's an opinion piece, of course, there's real elbow-room for eloquence, if the writer wants to use it. Keith Olbermann clearly likes his elbow room, particularly when he's outraged. In this particular piece I have to say, I not only agree with him, but I really like the eloquence that flirts with orotundity but doesn't quite go there.
I particularly love his characterization of Robertson's comment as "dripping, self-satisfied, holier-than-thou senile crap, " and his coda: "You serve no good, you serve no God, you inspire only stupidity and hatred, and I would wish you to Hell, but knowing how empty your souls must be for you to be able to say such things in a time of such pain, I suspect the vacant, purposeless lives you both live now are Hell enough already..."
Dude.
I particularly love his characterization of Robertson's comment as "dripping, self-satisfied, holier-than-thou senile crap, " and his coda: "You serve no good, you serve no God, you inspire only stupidity and hatred, and I would wish you to Hell, but knowing how empty your souls must be for you to be able to say such things in a time of such pain, I suspect the vacant, purposeless lives you both live now are Hell enough already..."
Dude.