Keith Olbermann must be stopped
Alright, Keith. The pedantic, ego-driven “Special Comment” segment of your show must now die. It’s too much.
The first one was refreshing. It lacked the shmucky condescension of Anderson Cooper, and it had a level-headedness you’d never in a million years get from a Bill O’Reilly. And far smarter than that Wolf Blitzer lame-ass.
The second one was acceptable. Hell, the first was so good, why not try again.
Now, though, you’re killing me. Today’s rant, like a couple before it, is over the top. It’s bad enough that these “special” commentaries take on a forced, unnatural where’s-my-thesaurus tone. But when you’re taking this self-righteous high road, don’t do so based on a blatantly out-of-context quote.
In today’s rant against President Bush, Keith hangs his hat on the president’s need to apologize to the nation for having the audacity to say that “It’s unacceptable to think.” Pulling this out of what the president actually said is akin to me saying, “Sex with donkeys is disgusting,” and you saying, “Mike likes ’sex with donkeys.’ ”
What the president actually said: “It’s unacceptable to think that there’s any kind of comparison between the behavior of the United States of America and the action of Islamic extremists who kill innocent women and children to achieve an objective.”
Argue about the implications of that statement all day long. Go ahead. But Olbmermann fouled badly here.
If the president were to take a detractors words so far out of context and make a national media spectacle out of that abomination, surely Olbermann and his producers would shit themselves at the opportunity for some “let’s re-air Keith’s bit all day and ‘debate’ about it on cable news” attention.
I’m honestly surprised at this. I sincerely hope that I’m missing something here.
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