Keith Olbermann, Muslim Reformer

Summarizing Olbermann's deft argument that the lower Manhattan mosque isn't at Ground Zero (it's two blocks away), the "Huffington Post" reveals that the MSNBC muckraker and other unnamed bigmouths have an ambitious liturgical and theological agenda:

[The controversy has] inspired people like Olbermann and others who hope to encourage religious worship that doesn't resemble the extremism behind al Qaeda.

The Silent Majority Lives

A friend sent a link to the Rick Santelli "Rant of the Year" on CNBC, which attracted the White House's ire but which I'd missed until now. Hard to see why people got so upset. He obviously had the moral support of the folks on the trading floor. It's not any harsher that Keith Olbermann's periodic rants, though it comes from a different ideological perspective (or in Santelli's case, a non-ideological, middle-class, "Network," I'm-not-going-to-take-it-anymore kind of a place). Interesting that he invokes RN's silent majority.