Keith left his mark on 21st century cable news in a way only overshadowed by the keen intellect and biting questions of the late Tim Russert. Unafraid to speak vehemently against the forces of the Republican Party, Olbermann, with his verbose and stern comments, undoubtedly left wounds in Republican politicians and pundits whose rhetoric often falls to plebeian quality when compared to Olbermann's poetic, allusive, historical, professorial, and venomous candor. In an era where what is termed "elitism" is shunned and scorned, and the " simple " is uplifted, perhaps it was Keith's intellectualism that spelled his downfall from the increasingly sensationalist and incoherent blather that passes for visual news media in this era.

I am reminded all too ominously of the Spiritual Mappers' fantasized demon opponent, "The Prince of Greece." This demon has been stated by the New Apostolic Reformation to control Europe and be the source of "rationalism and humanism." With Keith's removal from television, and Russert's recent death, I cannot but help feel this "demon" has been cast out from television news. Though certainly those of us who pursue the written word as sources for our news know that Keith is not the sole source of rational thought and humanistic viewpoints within the vast media complex, he was an important strategic outflow point for these ideologies is cable news. And, Keith was everything we could want in an ideological figurehead: masculine, intelligent, humorous, and able to form complete sentences without stuttering. He persona was the antithesis of the Conservatives' straw man for liberals: he was masculine, stern, commanding, and dominating. In short (no pun intended), he was everything that Alan Colmes is not.

Regardless of the yet to be learned reasons for his split with MSNBC, it is important to note that Keith was one of the few pundits on television news with the courage to approach the tangled, dangerous, and apocalyptic webs of right wing theology, that role now solely falling to the interesting and intelligent, but less authoritative, Rachel Maddow. Yes, fellow anti-dominionists, with Keith's loss, we have lost our alpha male.

In memory of Keith's ability to rightfully criticize the dangers of right wing theology, I have selected a few videos of Keith's best moments concerning Palin and the dominionist agenda:

1> Olbermann blasts Pat Robertson for stating Haiti made a pact with the devil to rebel against French Slave Masters.

2> Olbermann directly questions what Palin's belief about the rapture, apocalypse, Israel, and "Prophetic Foreign Policy."

3> Countdown on Palin's witch hunting friend, Pastor Muthee.

4> Special Comment on the assassination of Dr. George Tiller quoting Frank Schaeffer, repentant son of dominonist Francis Schaeffer.

5> Keith on Blackwater's theocratic agenda and motives.

6> Olbermann asking if Palin is a horsewoman of the apocalypse and trying to understand the Religious Right's "end of days" theology without having read Tim LaHaye (unfortunately).

7> Keith comparing Ted Haggard's church in Jesus Camp to Islamic Terrorist Indoctrination, perhaps an excessive analogy were it not for the fact that the leaders make the analogy themselves.

8> Finally, and a fitting tribute to this titan of the English Language, his own comment about the nature of "objective" news reporting in the current era. And, with what may be one of the simplest comments uttered by this man, an underhanded, brilliant, and common sense remark that should resound through the Democracy and the foundation of all thought: "Once you got a false God, you're gonna get false priests;" a fitting final deduction for what now remains of television news media, and the hope that one voice of historical context might remain in the eyes and ears of the Nation's viewers of television news.

To Olbermann who once made our news cogent, linguistic, visceral, and historical, we must all wish him "good night and good luck."









