Dear Keith Olbermann, please put your ego back in the box.

I have always liked Keith Olbermann's snarky, edgy political take on the mad mad world of politics, but lately his ego seems to be getting so large it is blotting out the good points he often makes. There's nothing new about producers trying hard to milk every cash cow that wanders into their barn, but the way they have extended the time Olbermann is allowed to rant on and on has totally taken the air of his once lustrous diatribes.

Lately, I find myself yawning or switching channels as the poor man grinds out yet another jaw-clenched hisss about the things that irk us all. It's not the point he is trying to make. It's the obviously laborious effort needed to fill the airspace he is allotted with witty, remarkable one liners that will hopefully be repeated the next day by all the news services. Yes, it was novel when this well known pundit first showed he had enough to balls to speak to our president mano y mano, for Olbermann to give him a piece of his mind, as if the Prez was some little teenage kid being scolded by a very angry parent, but that appeal quickly dimmed when it became apparent that the content was being obscured by Olbermann's ego. His sheer joy at listening to himself, even when what he had to say was simply blabber and cheap fill, became obnoxious.

Hey, if it worked once why not do it a million times?

That's media group-think, and it is very boring.

I still watch Olbermann's show, but now when he says he has a special "commentary" about something, I usually switch channels. Not just because his pumped up unauthentic style annoys me, but because it is painful to watch another intelligent man to prostrate himself before the almighty buck rather than refuse to tap dance for the big producers.

Olbermann's willingness to let himself be stretched beyond his own limits has diminished his stature. Instead of cutting edge, he has become irritating.

The WORST person in the world?

Too bad Keith. I think this week it is YOU!