Thursday March 13th, 2008 11:19 AM by BHDC Staff
Filed under: MSNBC, Keith Olbermann, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Geraldine Ferraro
Filed under: MSNBC, Keith Olbermann, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Geraldine Ferraro
Did Keith Olbermann, MSNBC’s chief political anchor, step over the line in criticizing Sen. Hillary Clinton’s response to the Geraldine Ferraro controversy?
And do you believe his claim that he wasn’t implicitly endorsing Sen. Barack Obama?

I would like to know where Keiths outrage was towards Obama for the *monster* remark. Obama, as far as I can find, never even personally responded. All I found was this:
“Statement from Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton: Sen. Obama decries such characterizations, which have no place in this campaign.”
He did not fire Samantha, she resigned. he didn’t come out and reject her comment did he?
What did Keith want Hillary to do? Spit on Geraldine? She rejected her comment and said she did not believe it. (Sorry, I believe what geraldine said is true). Geraldine was not speaking for the Clinton camp. She was excercising her right to free speech.
So, again, where is Keith’s outrage at the lack of response from Obama on one of his advisors calling the Former First Lady and Senator from NY a *monster*. Or for Axelrod blaming Clinton for the death of Bhutto. Or his outrage for the onesidedness of the media (especially msnbc). Where is Keith’s outrage towards Obama for saying that Hillary will do anything to win, and that she is injecting racism with her 3am ad. Where is his outrage when Obama suggests that Hillary is where she is because her husband was president. Where is the outrage that Obama says her experience is nothing more than pouring tea? Where was his outrage when Obama said McCain was an American war hero and a respected American Senator. Or that the republicans were the party of ideas, not Clinton or the democrats.
Sounds to me like Keith should be outraged at himself for his onesided, bias towards Obama, and his sexist attitude towards Hillary. He has been for Obama for months.
I agree with Sara. Keith gave Power a free ride for sexism.
Keith is Outraged !!!
Oprah rages: “It’s a Smear”…
This protect the Puppy crap is going to backfire bigtime..
Overlyman is a sexist Obama loving crush boy idiot. Is he married? God, I can’t imagine it! I hope he gets fired! Then he can squeeze his He-man Woman’s Hater card at night for comfort before he goes to sleep. Someone said it before, about Paul, I think Keith’s mom spank him too much or not enough.
everywhere i post now i say this,
OBAMADRAMA QUEEN
SPITZER SCANDAL CHILD’S PLAY COMPARED TO LARRY SINCLAIR
OBAMA HAS GAY SEX AND SMOKES THE CRACK PIPE
OBAMA CAMPAIGN TRYS TO COVER IT UP
LARRY SINCLAIR COMMUNICATES WITH GAY CHOIR LEADER FROM OBAMA’S CHURCH BEFORE HE WAS MURDERED
CLINTON/EDWARDS ‘08
and i agree with Paul’s Ex
Overlymann is overly raged!
Keith blew this way out of proportion. I believe that in fact Sen. Obama is where he is at because african-american voters have overwhelmingly supported him. I also believe that this is more because they want to support an african-american than because they believe he is the best candidate. I have yet to see an analysis of the votes for Obama in the african-american community. This is the point that Ms. Ferraro was talking about. Keith and MSNBC is doing a dis-service to the public in not talking about this. Unfortunately, the white men who run the media are so afraid of their own racism, that they cannot bring themselves to discuss all aspects of the election. Shame on Keith for being so patronizing and petty. Ms. Powers not only called Hillary a vile name, she also went on to analyse the Ohio results as being because people without jobs will believe anything you tell them. Ms. Powers and Senator Obama are so elitist that I cannot stomach them. Mr. Ollberman owes an apology to Senator for this tirade. I for one am sick and tired of watching and hearing these sexist men put down Sen. Clinton. I started watching this last night, and changed the channel when I heard his tone. I’m sure other people are doing the same thing. Does anyone have the e-mail address to write MSNBC to complain?
Keith’s old girlfriend did a tell-all radio interview…
Apparently Keith is not very large down there…
I think he’s overcompensating a bit…
we gotta know about the blow !!!
Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Chuck Todd, Joe Scarborough, Tim Russert, and Rachael Maddow, along with Obama and his campaign, have all been complicit in creating the most venomous, racist campaign environment this country has seen since the bitter days of George Wallace,Lester Maddox, and Mississippi Judge Tom P. Brady. When the dust settles and the fall out becomes evident to all; they will rue the day that they did this. It has taken death (the riots of the 60’s and the deaths of those three men), constant toiling on the part of the NAACP, and unknown input from throngs of unknown Americans to bring enough civility to America so that blacks and whites can begin to dialogue and interact with each other in such a way that a Black person can run for President (Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, Carole Moseley Braum and now Barack Obama). And now, to have these personalities, for their own narrow minded, selfish, vindictive, destructive and cruel reasons undermine and eradicate this, fledgling but stable, foundation of “workable race relations in America,” is tragic. Only Hillary Clinton will be able to repair such damage.
truth rules!
Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s Pastor: “Hillary Ain’t Never Been Called A N****r”
Huffington Post | March 13, 2008 09:46 AM
STORY AND VIDEO:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/13/jeremiah-wright-obamas-_n_91312.html
Just a question but am I the only one that likes Hillary because she can run a campaign like a Republican?
We need Hillary to take it to the GOP and all associated special interest groups.
Obama’s Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11
Obama’s Pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Has a History of What Even Obama’s Campaign Aides Say Is ‘Inflammatory Rhetoric’
STORY AND VIDEO:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4443788&page=1
Obama’s Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11
Obama’s Pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Has a History of What Even Obama’s Campaign Aides Say Is ‘Inflammatory Rhetoric’
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4443788&page=1
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Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s Pastor: “Hillary Ain’t Never Been Called A N****r”
Huffington Post | March 13, 2008 09:46 AM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/13/jeremiah-wright-obamas-_n_91312.html
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What a joke! Honestly, people think that can just say whatever they want to Hillary, because they are afraid to say a word againt Obama. What a coward this Olbermann is. I will change the channel whenever I see his face on the screen. What about fair and balance reporting. He needs to make a statement like that about all of the Obama radical rhetoric we are hearing from his radicle supporters. Birds of a feather, flock together.
What are you deaf and blind Olbermann, or just ignorant?
It is sad to accept that even the icons of the Democratic Party are now unable to express their views. That 1st amendment is such a #@**!!
I am old enough to respect Ferrarro, and Lie
berman…THESE PEOPLE WERE VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!!!! Are we just throwing out all decency??? Or is it safe to attack Ferrarro BECAUSE she is a woman telling her version of the truth?
The “young ladies” shown here ,that now toss spit balls with such disrepect ,will cost Obama ALOT of women voters!!!
The women of my generation are much tougher than the MSM. We will not forget. We were the ones to stand up for ourselves. GO MCCAIN!!!!
OLBERMANN IS RIGHT SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRED, AND I DON’T EVEN LIKE THE GUY! HILLABITCH IS USING RACE AS A WEDGE ISSUE SO SHE CAN RACK UP VOTES IN PA. THE MUSLIM DOESN’T HAVE A CHANCE IN HELL OF WINNING THERE AND SHE IS PLAYING TO THE DEMOGRAPHICS IN THAT REGION. HILLABITCH IS POWER HUNGRY AND EVIL AND WITH THE INEXPERIENCED MUSLIM FIGHTING BACK AND FORTH OVER WHO IS POLITICALLY CORRECT YOU IDIOTS ARE DESTROYING YOUR OWN PARTY! FROM AN OBJECTIVE PERSPECTIVE, I THINK BOTH CANDIDATES ARE UNFIT FOR THE POSITION OF PRESIDENT, BUT I DO SEE WHERE THE DEMS (BOTH SIDES) ARE PLAYING THE RACE AND GENDER CARD! I COULD CARE LESS WHO WINS THE DEM NOMINATION, BECAUSE IN THE FALL I KNOW MCCAIN WILL HAVE A VERY, VERY STRONG SHOWING…ESPECIALLY AFTER AT LEAST HALF OF THE PARTY WILL TOTALLY HATE THEIR NOMINEE. WORKS OUT GOOD FOR US ANY WAY YOU LOOK AT IT. IF YOU WEREN’T SO BUSY TRYING TO PUT A BLACK OR A WOMAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE YOU WOULD SEE THAT THE BEST CANDIDATE IS JOHN MCCAIN. HE HAS MORE EXPERIENCE THAN EITHER OF THESE TWO AND UNDERSTANDS THE IMPORTANCE OF BIPARTISANSHIP. THESE TWO CAN’T EVEN BRING THEIR OWN PARTY TOGETHER. NOVEMBER THIS COUNTRY IS GOING TO BE COVERED IN RED AND YOU HAVE NOBODY TO BLAME BUT YOURSELVES.
MCCAIN 08
He said he wasn’t “implicitly” endorsing Obama? It’s been obvious for quite a while that he favors Obama — that’s the reason I stopped watching him weeks ago and spend more time watching Fox now!
he is a horses ass
Olbermann isn’t perfect, and this is really his first major gaffe. He just buys the GOP-owned MSM fairy tale on Obama hook, line, and sinker, and doesn’t realize that Obama started out as Rove’s tool, backed by clandestine GOP front organizations expressly for the purpose of destroying Hillary’s inevitable Presidency by peeling off the Clintons’ legendary black support. (All polls showed Hillary winning against any GOP candidate with only 51% of the vote of women, and at the time, before Obama, she had over 61%). A brilliant strategy by Rove, although failing NOW due to people pointing it out early on and Larry Sinclair coming forward on his own eight months before Rove planned to unveil him and others in September, after Rove had secured the nomination for Obama.
Why Olbermann, with his strong bullshit detector, didn’t see the obvious is beyond me, except perhaps that he only turns it on when observing the GOP. Obviously he doesn’t think for a moment that the GOP would have everything in the world to gain by backing Obama and gaining him the nomination, indeed, if Obama hadn’t already existed Karl Rove would have had to invent him out of thin air.
I’m not saying that Obama doesn’t have actual real Democrat support from many demographics; I’m just saying that the taint of GOP involvement destroys the entire campaign and renders his candidacy and everything that comes out of his mouth highly suspect.
Pointing out the obvious, as Ferraro did, is not racist and won’t ever be. There are advantages in some circles to being another race; whether or not they cancel out against the disadvantages in a still very racist America is not the issue. If the same logic is followed one could be called racist simply for pointing out that America is still a very racist country, and that only fools in the deepest form of denial aren’t racist. Ignorance is bliss. Indeed.
Hopefully Olbermann will read this and have an “aha” moment; hopefully.
He is a chief political PROSTITUTE.
For Obama, his followers, and the MSM any little item that projects racism is a fair tool to create havoc. Kinda makes you wonder what the atmosphere would be like in a future Obama administration. Any remark, action or posture would be subject to the sensitivity we are experiencing now. I don’t get it. Pretty touchy, if you ask me.
Olbermann is quite obviously in love with Obama. What happened to the days when journalists were impartial?
This ugly guy is a piece of sh*t.
After watching the Wright videos today, this rant by Olbermann looks totally ridiculous now. Did Olbermann or MSNBC even mention the Wright videos today?
GERALDINE FERRARO WAS RIGHT - BARACK OBAMA’S RACIAL PATTERN
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yzD0y0ndpjU
OLBERMANN IS JUST ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE PRESS NOT DOING HIS JOB. OBAMA HAS ENOUGH STUFF OUT THERE AND OLBERMANN’S NETWORK CONTINUES TO GIVE OBAMA A FREE PASS.
I’m with #35 Democrat - It appeared that Keith Olbermann last night wanted to roll up in a corner and cry. He had blasted Clinton/Ferraro on Wednesday evening. It appears that he is a liberal bag of wind and this has come back and haunt. I have been saying for months the MSM was not exhibiting a vetting venue for Obama. It’s their job to exhibit a balanced context of where the all campaigns are. Obama’s bad stuff was not the back page, it never got into the cycle at all. I have been terribly confused that MSNBC has acted as they have unless it’s the individual commentator involved. Lately Saturday Night Live has portrayed a satire directly opposite of MSNBC. Aren’t NBC and MSNBC connected? We’ll see how this plays out.
oops, I meant #25 Democrat.
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