Dan Abrams of MSNBC did an excellent job of following up on the unfair conviction and imprisonment of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. CBS News brought the story to national attention, but Abrams picked it up and methodically marched down the field with all of the efficiency of a perfectly clicking West Coast offense…Siegelman is now out of jail while he appeals his case and he has, in many ways, the media to thank.
Juan Cole is a flat out stud who wrote one of the most illuminating articles of the campaign when he traced the history of Barack Obama’s name. The right wing noise machine has been trying to make an issue out of the fact that Senator Obama’s middle name is Hussein because the two wars we are fighting, plummeting dollar and crumbling mortgage industry aren’t relevant.
Dan Froomkin has been keeping president Bush honest for years. More relentless than Ray Lewis, he does an excellent job of pointing out the evolving dishonesty of the administration’s positions…and in a sea of MSM enablers, Froomkin has been more honest than Andy Pettite in assessing the landscape.
Glenn Greenwald is the MVP of the blogosphere. One read through any of his posts and it is clear that he brings clarity to the issues that he covers, pointing out the extreme lack of hustle shown by the mainstream media in the process. Furthermore, what makes Greenwald so great is how much the opposition (Joe Klein, John King) hates going up against his fact based analysis.
If Greenwald is the best of the blogosphere, then Keith Olbermann is, without a doubt, the MVP of political television. Not only was he the first high profile talking head to take the factual fight directly to the administration, but he is undefeated in head-to-head match-ups with Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al. Olbermann has also shamed the Democratic leadership for not challenging president Bush on Iraq and has made a point to give a voice to veterans from Iraq.
