Who Said Mass Media Was Completely Pointless?

Apparently, there is at least one guy who still makes sense. Unfortunately, he comes from the same network that still carries primetime slots for Jo Scarborough, Tucker Carlson, and until recently, Don Imus.

As you all know, while hosting Russian President, Vladimir Putin, in a fence mending affair at the family summer residence in Maine, Bush attempted to inch closer to Putin’s position. What a better way to relate to the man accused of cracking down on democracy than by showing Bush’s own sheer contempt of the rule of law, and reaffirm the far-reaching corruption in his own administration that had been veiled by throwing around charges of other regimes’ corruption and autocracy?

That, of course, was translated into the commutation of Scooter Libby’s prison sentence, stating that his sentence was too harsh. In other news, Bush decided to commute the sentences and issue pardons to inner city kids thrown in jail for 5 years after being picked on the sidewalk with 2 grams of weed.

This commentary by Keith Olbermann is perhaps the best commentary to make mainstream TV on what should be a scandal filling the waves, but Bush and Cheney have done a marvelous job thickening America's skin, so the next one will not make much of a splash, no matter how big it is.