{"id":23866,"date":"2016-09-15T14:17:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T21:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23866"},"modified":"2016-09-15T14:17:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T21:17:44","slug":"keith-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/15\/keith-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith is Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I think Jerry may well be the only person still with us from the time Politics Plus was on Blogger, and there was only one voice on cable news that defended the progressive view.&#160; He did it so well well that he butted heads with management, lost his job, and retreated back to sports broadcasting for ESPN.&#160; I am very grateful that Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell, and Tim Hayes are filling his shoes, but I cannot be more pleased that Keith Olbermann has returned to political reporting. Here he is with 192 reasons Trump should not be President.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"KeithO\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"KeithO\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/KeithO.jpg\" width=\"283\" align=\"left\" height=\"425\" \/>Every few generations, we Americans are called upon to defend our country. To defend it not so much from foreign dictators or war or terrorism, but from those here who have no commitment to progress or democracy or representative government\u2014no commitment to anything except their own out-of-control minds and the bottomless pits of their egos.<\/p>\n<p>Our society has thrown up these people before: Joseph McCarthy. George Wallace. Father Coughlin. Jefferson Davis. Aaron Burr. The Know-Nothings. The Blacklisters. The America-Firsters. And we have always thrown them out.<\/p>\n<p>And now our generation has its own: the most dangerous individual ever nominated by a major party for the highest office in this country&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/176-reasons-donald-trump-shouldnt-be-president-olbermann\" target=\"_blank\">GQ<\/a><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for the rest of the transcript, or here&#8217;s the video.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><script async src=\"\/\/player.cnevids.com\/embedjs\/51097beb8ef9aff9f5000006\/video\/57d7682bb57ac36c95000074.js\"><\/script><\/font><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin: 10px 0px\"><a title=\"TheScene.com\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-family: sans-serif; color: #444\" href=\"https:\/\/thescene.com\/watch\/gq\/176-reasons-donald-trump-shouldn-t-be-president\" target=\"_blank\">Watch this video on <span style=\"color: #0c48fe\">The Scene<\/span>.<\/a><\/div>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\"><em>He&#8217;s Ba-a-a-a-a-a-ack!!!!!<\/em><\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think Jerry may well be the only person still with us from the time Politics Plus was on Blogger, and there was only one voice on cable news that defended the progressive view.&#160; He did it so well well that he butted heads with management, lost his job, and retreated back to sports broadcasting <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/15\/keith-is-back\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}