Every person reading this story has had a parent, or they themselves, have had some news people they’ve grown to like over the years. Growing up through the years, I’ve been one of a handful of millennials that has had the privilege of sitting down to dinner every night with his family, watching the news. The news station of choice was Fox 2 News (WJBK) in Detroit. The quartet of Huel Perkins, Monica Gayle, Rich Luterman, and Dan Miller were the standard to match up to in the evening, and the trio of Alan Lee, Anquenette Jamison, and Alan Longstreet were excellence to wake up to in the morning.

As time as progressed, I’ve branched off of the Metro Detroit news scene, and took up an interest in national media. People have their preferences based on their own political views. My Republican friends generally will flock to Fox News with Bill O’Reilly and company, while my Democratic friends flock to MSNBC with Rachel Maddow and company. Naturally, I leaned more towards MSNBC in the summer of 2010. A man by the name of Keith Olbermann hosted a nightly show Monday-Friday at 8:00 on the predominantly liberal network called “Countdown.” The former co-host of the self-proclaimed "Big Show," along with Dan Patrick at ESPN, would countdown each of the ‘stories we would be talking about tomorrow.’ He came into MSNBC around the time when the Invasion of Iraq was just starting up, and would frequently give a "special comment" giving harsh criticism during the Bush administration for gross misconduct during his second term, as well as incompetence in the handling of Hurricane Katrina and the country. The largely liberal commentator would give comedic scathing to his rivals at the network he derisively coined as "Fixed News."

Unfortunately, Olbermann and MSNBC parted ways after the two parties were unable to come to a contract agreement. He would land at Current TV, where he did the same gig he did at MSNBC, where he would get fired for ‘breach of contract’ in March of 2012. In 2013, he returned to ESPN, where he would commentate on the societal issues in the sports, such as tarring of former Baltimore Ravens RB Ray Rice for treating his wife like a raggedy-Ann doll in an elevator and the frying of Minnesota Viking RB Adrian Peterson over beating his child with a ‘switch.’

Olbermann got what many at the Mothership received in July of 2015, and that was a showing of the door. As they say, timing is everything. Around that same time, the campaigns to win the 2016 election were just firing up. It felt like, as time wore on, America was missing the one voice they hadn’t heard since he rightfully took John McCain and Sarah Palin to task for failure to temper the acts and words of their supporters in 2008, directed at former President Obama. Olbermann was restored as a special correspondent for the magazine, “GQ.” He gives the same special commentaries Monday through Friday under what was ‘The Closer” that give current President Donald Trump the critique the current POTUS deserves. Now, since Trump’s victory* in the 2016 election, it has since been called ‘The Resistance’ to describe what we should all do during the illegitimate president’s term.

To all my fellow ‘resisters,’ take Olbermann’s word as gospel. He is one of three voices of sanity that has a large medium in the insanity known as the “Trump regime.” This is a man that can AND will hold Trump FULLY responsible for what he proposes and imposes. Simply put, he will NOT be one of Trump’s Yes Men. He will be the SERIOUS voice we need today.