Does the Beltway create an IQ suppression field?

What other explanation for Dan Froomkin's piece today?

The traditional media has been slow to come to grips with the American public's distrust and dislike of President Bush -- sentiments clearly reflected in opinion polls dating back well over a year.

Almost alone among the network newscasters, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann is channeling that sensibility. Channeling it -- and amplifying it.

Slow to come to grips with it? They created it. The "traditional media" has been more nakedly partisan in its attacks on Bush and the war than it's ever been toward any politician in my lifetime with so little basis for its bias.

And to praise Olberman's pretentious, pompous, unending bloviations is practically an admission that you know nothing about good writing yourself. Olbermann obvious thinks he's reading pearls of rhetoric, but his pieces are trite, overheated and way overwritten. If he weren't so egotistical he'd see that himself. He's a self-parody! I'm no great stylist, but if I were on television, I'd be editing and trimming my comments before reading them on-air. Olbermann is a good sportswriter, but that comes from his sense of irony, which curiously gets jettisoned when he tries to be serious. Then he's only tendentious and boring.