God how I love Keith Olbermann. His complete disregard or stretching of the truth gives me so much material, I simply don't know what to do with myself when he jumps on air. But he's almost frightened here to say anything negative about Hillary, even though he's "forced" to do so. Listen to him kiss a LOT of ass at the beginning of the broadcast.
I particularly enjoy the fact that if this were a Republican, we'd be hearing a much swifter, nastier opinion piece from Olbermann. However, because it's a Democrat, we have him "imploring" Hillary to do something, rather than his usual tirade of idiocy.
I thought Keith was a "journalist". I thought he was supposed to give an unbiased view of the day's events. Yet, here we have Keith almost pissing himself because he has to "come down" on a fellow Democrat.
Nevermind that he didn't even bother to understand that Ferraro was saying: That Obama is riding on a wave of hype, in part because he's black, and that he's not being asked the tougher questions like other candidates have been.
Even the liberal media is starting to notice that the candidates are having racial and sexist overtones.
Yet race, as well as sex, have been unavoidable subtexts of the Democratic campaign since the two candidates began seeking to be the first African-American or the first woman to lead a party’s presidential ticket. In the primaries and caucuses this winter, too, Mrs. Clinton has enjoyed substantial support from women, while Mr. Obama has increasingly drawn overwhelming votes from blacks.
Unfortunately for Keith AND the liberal media, even their own supporters are starting to turn the TV off in disgust:
You *used* to be my nightly news guy. My 12 year old daughter, “Brook”, and I used to watch you faithfully. We recorded you on our DVR. But you turned on us, Keith, with your partiality towards Obama and hostility towards all things Clinton. MSNBC went full tilt in the sexist direction and as a result, we removed you from the DVR and we don’t watch your channel at all anymore. I want her to believe that there are no limits to what she can do and MSNBC undermines my parental encouragement.
Now I understand you are going to do a self-righteous comment tonight, highlighting the illusory offensive racism of the Clinton campaign. No doubt you will sprinkle your 3 minute hate with pictures of slaves and sharecroppers and shame us all into remembering how bad African-Americans had it and have it. And all of this is very true. They *do* have it worse off than we privileged white people. No one is going to argue with that. But if you think you can paint Geraldine Ferraro as a racist because of an unfortunate proximity of the word “lucky” to the word “black” or paint the Clinton's, who are life long advocates of healing the racial divide as being latent Klan members, you will find out that it will backfire in the most spectacular way.
Because here’s the truth of the matter, Keith: Woman is the ni**er of the world. And every time you and Tweety and Obama and David Axelrod go off on the Clinton campaign like this without curbing your own speech and body language, you reinforce that message. And whenever Kerry or Kennedy or Dean don’t stand up and demand respect for Hillary from you and condemn the words that flow out of your mouths when Tweety refers to her as ‘babe’ and Obama tells everyone that she gets angry at him when she’s feeling emotional, you reinforce that message. And any time Howard Fineman or Jonathan Alter or Eugene Robinson appear on Countdown with you to say how it’s urgent for the sake of the party that Hillary drop out of the race in spite of the fact that she has *earned* more votes in more crucial states than Barry ever has or will, you reinforce that message.
I wonder if she can be arrested for child abuse for letting her daughter watch Keith. I know if I were a cop, I'd be wondering out loud if a crime has been committed. :)
Let's not forget which party Lincoln was a member of. Let's not forget which party wants to get rid of Affirmative Action and base decisions of hiring on the person's character instead of the color of their skin. That's right, as much as you all hate to admit it, it's Republicans who are the real color blind. Democrats LIKE to talk a good game, but when you delve deeper, you see racists all over the place.
Travis
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