Speaking of Olbermann...

[elfs]

Speaking of Olbermann, I'm gonna call bullshit on his "Worst Person" routine last night. He cannot legitimately ridicule Hugh Hewitt for using a Bizarro analogy (from the Superman comics) when he himself has talked favorably with Matt Yglesias (creator of the Green Lantern theory of politics) and Ezra Klein (creator of the Iron Man theory of politics). If Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein are good "comic book" guys-- and that was their whole point, that the Green Lantern and Iron Man represent a better pool of common cultural knowledge for the current wonk generation than the Bible or Shakespeare-- then he cannot and should not diss Hugh Hewitt for being "a comic book guy."

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[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

You missed the point. It wasn't so much that they were using comic books, but that just a few minutes prior had been knocking Olberman for his work as a sportscaster before his present position. To knock someone for having pop culture roots then tapping the same roots for your own stories is a textbook case of hypocrisy.

Mind you, at this point just being a neo-con is sufficient reason to stick someone on "Worst Persons." (Not that I disagree with that. =};-3 )