This isn't going to be about your comments about the President's Gulf speech, or the ongoing META event her at Daily Kos. This isn't about your celebrity, or your status, or your politics, or your right to say anything you want wherever you want.
It's just about civility and good manners.
I'll be honest with you, sir, I don't watch your show. I don't get it on my cable channel, since I live in French-speaking Canada. I've heard you say things that need to be said when nobody else was saying them and a great many people like you for that. I've read your words here and you seemed to me to be an authentically upstanding man.
I won't speculate as to why you wrote an angry diary decrying this community. As others have noted, it seems more than a little strange to have gotten upset based on the comment of one random, little-known user who receved no support for his/her comment.
What I do know is that this internet blog is filled with a whole host of extraordinary people. They may not make millions of dollars or have a TV show, but they often work tirelessly and anonymously doing things that are far more useful than emoting on a TV screen. They hold the hands of stranger's while they spend their last few hours on Earth. They continuing pleading for coins and shipping tents to suffering people in Haiti even as the media spotlight has predictably moved on to other things. They give legal advice and sometimes simply provide friendship to someone who has no one to talk to.
I also know for a fact that when your father was ill, Mr. Oblermann this community showed you unfailing support and sincere concern and showered you with a real outpouring of love. If you don't remember, have your intern do a search of the kind things that were said to you here in thos difficult days. The record will show that this community "had your back" and the support outnumbered any criticism you have ever been given here by 1000 to 1.
One Kossack, Sara R, even gathered up scraps of cloth and sewed you a quilt to allow the community to share with you their most personal feelings of sorrow in the moment of your grief.
I know for a fact that she never asked you for "the check."
You could have at least acknowledged that people like that write here too.
Good night, and good luck...indeed.