What message do we send to our children……….? Ah, never mind because I’m sure Keith Olbermann and just about every other Tom, Dick or Harry could really care less. They have successfully convinced themselves that practice makes perfect but only when learning to play a musical instrument. Nothing else has an affect on children.
But honestly, a regular presentation for Keith Olbermann, news anchor for MSNBC, is called the “Worst Person in the World” award. Can you imagine. We have come to a point in this country where we are angry enough, bold enough, secure enough and dumb enough to find satisfaction in recognizing what one person would judge to be the worst person in the world – for what benefit? Is this entertainment? If so, move it to Comedy Central or Saturday Night Live. A nightly news show? I guess ratings are bad. Or am I supposed to “lighten up”?
I remember several years ago, a friend of mine was working tirelessly to raise two children. As parents we all have our own little “techniques” we used to “reach” our kids. For these two parents, they found it effective to insist that their kids ask themselves if something had “social redeeming value” as a way of putting substance toward making a decision. I don’t want to get into a “touchy-feely” moment but I do recall the young boy, who at the time was perhaps four, say, “But Mom. I don’t think that has any social redeeming qualities!” Had me understanding that kids understand perhaps more than us “educated” adults.
So now the question might be, does Keith Olbermann’s “Worst Person in the World” award have any social redeeming qualities. Obviously it does to enough people to justify the continuation of presenting the award. Therefore I rest my case.
Unfortunately for Olbermann, whom I’m sure doesn’t really pick the recipients all be himself, doesn’t know the difference between a person and an entity. Mind you this is not a yearly award, nay, not even a monthly or weekly award. This is an award in which human beings, who have nothing better to do with their lives than dream up who fits their description of a loser, sit around daily mulling over the choices. That’s right! This is a nightly ritual on his show. This just might qualify as lacking in social redeeming qualities.
So what’s this got to do with hunting? Second place last night went to the National Rifle Association.
Our silver medalist tonight: The National Rifle Association. Perhaps the most famous rifle hunter is Jim Zumbo… Or he was. He had the top-rated show on Outdoor Channel TV, a column for Outdoor Life Magazine, and he worked for most of the big gun-makers.
And then he wrote of using assault weapons, “Excuse me, maybe I’m a traditionalist, but I see no place for these weapons among our hunting fraternity. As hunters, we don’t need to be lumped into the group of people who terrorize the world with them… I’ll go so far as to call them ‘terrorist’ rifles.”
Zumbo’s contracts, TV show, and column are all gone now, and an NRA spokesman pointed his fate out to anyone, including, “a fellow gun owner,” who challenges the right of Americans to own assault weapons.
Mind you the NRA was up there with some pretty elite company – a woman arrested for pedaling a stationary bicycle under the influence of alcohol, came in third. Does it matter the bike was in a gym? And a White House spokesman who said the United States didn’t “invade” Iraq, was the gold medal winner. Evidently it’s more important to argue semantics’s than talk about things like homicide bombers attempting to assassinate the Vice President. Oh,yeah! That’s right! The left want him dead anyway.
Obviously Olbermann has a left-wing agenda in selecting the recipients of the three biggest losers. I wonder if he knows that the National Rifle Association is not “a person”?
Tom Remington
