Why all the profanity on Current TV?

[frazzled]

17. I wouldn't know

I gave up watching Keith Olbermann three or more years ago when he was still on MSNBC, because his "style" really irritated me, even when he couldn't openly curse. He always had the air of a know-it-all bully: even when I agreed with the content of what he was saying, this macho, belligerent attitude really put me off.

I curse like a sailor in my own home, when I stub my toe or hear something on the TV I dislike (actually, I've stopped doing that because I've eliminated watching anything that gets me riled up: I simply stopped watching nonsense-news and have confined myself totally to PBS NewsHour or one of the foreign news broadcasts we get, like France 24). But there's something really obnoxious and childish about hearing supposed "commentators" throw around four-letter words. I'm fine with Jon Stewart's naughty language, because it's in the context of comedy, and I am fine with movies that get all the way to X ratings. What I don't like are "gross-out" movies like Superbad because of their juvenile, supercilious cursing and vomiting. Keith Olbermann is a little juvenile in that way, and it's simply not my cup of tea.

I'm afraid Olbermann is going to reduce his audience mostly to male viewers who enjoy having their anger stoked.