Keith Olbermann Signs New Contract to Stay at MSNBC and Also to Contribute to NBC Nightly News

That sound you hear is Fox News pundit Bill O'Reilly crying. GE has re-signed their most popular news personality Keith Olbermann to a new contract. In fact, not only will Keith Olbermann continue his job as the only journalist in American currently taking Pres. Bush to task for his continual incompetent leadership, but now Olbermann will also be a regular contributor to the NBC Nightly News.

Over the past year ratings for Keith Olbermann's MSNBC show Countdown have risen a spectacular 85%. By contrast, ultra-right wing O'Reilly has lost 3% of his viewership over that time. Olbermann's show has been airing for several years, but it has really only been since the anniversary of 911 and Olbermann's scathing indictment of Pres. Bush's use of the politics of fear that his show has received recognition, outrage and ratings increase.

In a country that has witnessed a near-total collapse of journalistic integrity in the last six years; a country in which not one single mainstream journalist stepped up to challenge the evidence that Pres. Bush was using to trump up support for a war he desperately wanted-evidence that even then was flimsy to anyone who cared to investigate it-Keith Olbermann's outrage is a welcome relief. Accused of being at the head of the Great Liberal Media Myth, it is certainly ironic that in a business supposedly hell-bent on turning American into a socialist dictatorship-despite that business being owned by some of the richest capitalists in the world-Keith Olbermann is the only mainstream media player on television who has faced the camera directly and called the President of the United States a liar.