I saw on the internet the other day that Keith Olbermann had left MSNBC. I found this to be interesting as he seemed to me to be like MSNBC's version of BIll O'Reilly. He was sometimes annoying, he was very biased, and he got pretty good ratings. I can't imagine O'Reilly leaving Fox News and I certainly couldn't imagine Olbermann leaving MSNBC. But, leave he did. At this point, it doesn't appear that anyone truly knows why Olbermann left MSNBC but I am sure we will find out as time goes on.

The State of the Union

So...... Rumor has it that the President gave his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Did I watch it? No, I was too busy selling windows to people. Would I have liked to watch it? Yes, because it would be way more interesting than selling windows. I did, however, read the State of the Union transcript that was put out by the White House. The speech itself seemed to talk a lot about the shooting of Rep. Giffords in Arizona. The speech also talked about how the President believes that Social Security needs to be made stronger and how the economy is slowly recovering. I also read in an article on Yahoo! that all of the members of Congress sat together (instead of separated) for the first time at a State of the Union address in a while. This was done to show that politicians needed to be less angry with each other and that they needed to compromise a little bit more. The Washington Post was fairly balanced in their coverage of the speech. They appeared to pick on all different politicians in their articles on the State of the Union. They noticed that Republican Rep. Michelle Bachmann was playing with her Blackberrry throughout much of the address and they noticed that Democratic Senator Harry Reid was yawning at one point. They also did not appear to take sides on what parts of the speech were really good and what parts weren't, aside form the opinion articles that had ben written. The New York Times, however, appeared ti be biased towards Obama's speech. They stated that Republican plans to cut spending were just "smoke and mirrors" and that Obama confronted the Republicans in his speech and gave them some real solutions to help fix the economy. However, regardless of what was said and done at the State of the Union address I still think that politicians are not to be trusted and I don't think that any of them (or at least the large majority of them) are looking out for our best interests.