Keith Olbermann temporarily came back from vacation last night to do a special ’special comment’ on the Shirley Sherrod firestorm that has overtaken the newscycle this week. In the ten-minute long segment Olbermann compared the Sherrod case to the 19th century Alfred Dreyfus treason case, called Fox News’ “perpetual smear machine” and singled out “the scum that is this assassin ‘Breitbart.”
All of which may have been music to the ears of Olbermann fans and Fox News foes, but mainly just provided Glenn Beck with some extra good material with which to riff off on today’s radio show. And boy did he make the most of it. In his best Olbermann voice, between howls (and snorts) of laughter, Beck mocked the MSNBC anchor’s uber-serious (some might say pompous) tone: “I have sat at this desk for seven years and my ratings tell me I won’t be sitting here for very much longer. They’ve taken one of the worst guys on television and had him fill in for me and they’re already starting to hire a staff and graphics for his show.” And it’s all thanks to “that scoundrel…Brrrreeeiiiitbart.” Cue Dreyfus-inspired, pirate tongue roll.
Perhaps this is a good time to note that Beck, in his scathing reviews of both the White House and NAACP over their reaction to the Sherrod video, has barely mentioned Breitbart as a culpable party for releasing an edited clip in the first place and branding it as racist. And it any mention of it certainly didn’t make it into this jolly-fest.Beck concludes: “Thank you for that history lesson, Keith, you are so far from a joke.”
Olbermann's a joke and so are his ratings.
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ReplyDeleteYou know, I don't get how you think Limbaugh is far-right (he is), but Glenn Beck isn't. On your section on idiotic Republicans, you criticize Rush's race-baiting claims (rightfully), such as scary black kids beat up the white kids, and agree with Olbermann that he's a racist, but you don't go after Beck's claim that Obama "is a racist" who "hates the white culture", or any of the other race-baiting things that he does. You got after Limbaugh and others who thought McCain being elected was worse than anything in the world, but you did not go after Beck for saying McCain would be worse than Obama to Katie Couric. Is Glenn Beck beyond reproach? Is he sacred? Someone who, like MC Hammer, you can't touch? You think he's foolish to equate the Democrats and the Republicans, but you go after him in a much more gentle way. If you think he's some kind of "moderate" relative to some others because he claims not to be a Republican, then that's incredibly naive. He's not a Republican because he thinks the Republicans aren't far-right enough, he would even say so, like the John Birch Society before him. Honestly, I think the idea that he's so different, he's so non-partisan (blatantly dishonest) is held by the same people who beleive in a "no spin zone". Really, you don't represent a lot of the tea partiers at all, and would probably get some dirty looks from some of them, for (rightly) getting on to Rush and others. I still don't know why you can't call out Beck for his antics and "Bush was a progressive|progressives are fascists|you know what that means", and his extreme statements. Besides, since you're a Democrat, is there anything besides minutia you disagree with the GOP on? You'll fit in a lot better with them, since you share their platform and y'know, are the only Democrat in the world who would vote for Palin. Or if not them, then the Libertarians. If it quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it should hang out with ducks, instead of being a token (not talking about race) to say that something's bi-partisan when it's clearly not.
ReplyDeleteOf course, I don't know if he's your beloved, but he's like Rush's mini-me turned full-size in the third movie. Bush said "you're either with me or the terrorists", that's divisive.
ReplyDeleteDisregard that. I looked through your comments, and you have gotten onto him for that very incendiary remark. I jumped the gun on this, as is easy to do over the internet, and I was wrong. You clearly take issue with people like him, Limbaugh, and Malkin when they say something racially charged, but when you believe they're right on something, you post it. Sorry.
ReplyDelete*Sigh* if only you could delete comments. I wasted a lot of time jumping the gun on something that was pretty unsubstantiated.
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