I was wakened from a nap this evening by my brother, who I knew on seeing his caller ID had called to tell me that Scott Brown had won. We gloated over the delicious fact that socialized medicine, or this version of it, was very probably going to die, and that from the very seat that the loathsome Teddy Kennedy had filled for nearly a half a century, when he wasn't killing women or making waitress sandwiches, and socialized medicine was Teddy's pet project. I don't think that Shakespeare could have written it better.

Of course we both turned to MSNBC, to see the quivering lips. I haven't had so much fun since 1994 when I recorded six hours of Dan Rather and Bob Schieffer, and I don't care how I spelled his name, talking. "Bob, do you think that there's any way that the Democrats can retain control of the Senate?"

"Well, Dan, if Sakhalin Island joins the U.S., divides into five states and all elect Democrat Senators, it might happen. All this before 8 PM PST."

I kept that tape for years and played bits of it for laughs when I was feeling down.

Wanting to drink a cup of the delicious salty tears of Keith Olbermann, I stayed for his show. Olbermann said that he was going to offer an apology for a comment he made last night:

In Scott Brown we have an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, tea-bagging supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees...The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is close to sending this bad joke to the Senate of the United States.

Olbermann then went onto to say that he apologized because he didn't add in "sexist."

He went on to repeat his charge, with a few embellishments, and then added, "...and if he, or you, don't like that characterization, then my answer is simple. Disprove it."

Well, Keith, the bluest of all states threw your sort out of office. Other Democrats are putting on the breaks on socialized medicine--they know they might be next. Your freight train into socialism is getting derailed. People of your ilk are being rejected, Keith, even in Massachusetts. No matter how you scream, you lost, Keith. Your lies didn't work; your character assassination didn't work. Your solipsism isn't convincing. Your kind lost.

I've often thought Olbermann delusional and it is true. I'll add to this charge megalomaniacal. And of course the nastiest jerk on the air, even worse than the thug Ed Schultz. I have maintained for years that the left is nothing but infantile rage against reality and I don't know a better proof of my claim than that jumped-up sportscaster and communications major Keith Olbermann.

Who is crying delicious salty tears right now.