I'm not masochistic.  However, there is something mildly alluring about tuning in to a liar whose harangues are so out-of-touch that to hear them is to run, figuratively, across nails.  By watching Keith Olbermann, my goal wasn't to feel superior (which I did) or to view a hissy-fit (which I did), it was to experience happiness.  That a bombastic and ill-informed fool is allowed to make a living is awesome - What other country? Where else but America? - and knowing that it's real, and that Olbermann is employed, is an absolute marvel and testament to human kindness.  

That said, there's something "odd" about Keith, as if he knows he's lying, knows that you know, yet it doesn't matter, because he can't be taken seriously.  For example, in this program his commentary addressed the "community center" (not a mosque) at Ground Zero, and in particular the dangerous bigots who oppose it.  According to Keith, we have it backwards - it's Muslims, not infidels, who live under threat.  In Keith's "wink-wink" world, non-Muslim Americans pose a greater danger to Islamists than Islamists pose to non-Muslim Americans.  This is not a punch-line: 

"May 10^th.  Jacksonville, Florida.  A pipe-bomb at the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida.  It went off during evening prayers, and it was powerful enough to send shrapnel flying 100 yards.  Fortunately, the bomber didn't know where to place it, so the 60 Muslim worshippers were uninjured.  If he'd put it inside, they'd have been dead."