Leave to a brilliant mind like Keith Olbermann, who finally decided to show his face on live TV after Nov. 3's Democratic defeat, to throw a temper tantrum about the public display of opposition to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's that occurred on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Nov.5.
After Olbermann and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson all but declared Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., organizer of the "House Call" event, an enemy of the state, they predictably came to the conclusion the event was racist. However to overcome that hurdle, Olbermann suggested organizers "pay" minorities to show up to make the cause look more diverse.
"On an associated point with this, how do the organizers of this not realize, ‘You know what, we had better get somehow, even if we have to pay them to show up, some black faces, some brown faces, some Asian people or somebody in this crowd other than the crowd we were seeing?'" Olbermann said. "Every piece of videotape I looked at looks exactly the same. This is otherwise going to look like a pro-Apartheid rally in South Africa 35 or 40 years ago."
Robinson concurred and took it even further by suggesting not just today's event, but the entire Republican Party was "hostile to minorities."
"Well, now this is going to sound tendentious, Keith," Robinson said. "But I went to the Republican National Convention last year and you did not see many minorities there. And look, this is a party that has been more and more hostile to minorities, to Latinos, to African-Americans - it's certainly perceived that way. And this didn't help that image at all. That seems to be the hand they've decided to play."
"It's terrifying," Olbermann replied.
Olbermann's "terrifying" declaration was unclear if it was in reference to Robinson's breakdown or the actual Republican Party itself.
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→ Olbermann rules!!!
November 5, 2009 - 21:34 ET by Cool ArrowObviously Olbermann has it in his lily-white head that he has the mental capacity to command the actions of the brown and black skinned people.
His patronizing condescension knows no bounds.
Wait a sec! I just described the typical white liberal.
Sorry for singling you out Olby. You're just the latest name in a litany. Go on out there and stir up the folk, Olby.
LYDSEXICS UNTIE!
Come on Cool.
November 5, 2009 - 22:00 ET by HeavyChevyOlby is right all those people of color were paid to be there. Each and every last one were paid to tip the scales by showing a faux solidarity to get a policy changed in their favor. Oh wait that was the Acorn and SEIU rallies...sorry...carry on!
As usual...
November 6, 2009 - 00:38 ET by RukusYour sarc is dead on! Acorn/SEIU indeed! Good point sir, carry on, indeed! : )
Lord knows I love to see our good African Americans (can I say that and still be PC?) understand our conservative values? Heavy, I can say... YES WE CAN! Bless you freind!!! PM!!!
Gary
POLITICS: poly (many) + ticks (blood sucking parasites)
You can but BE very
November 6, 2009 - 11:15 ET by rockyracoonYou can but BE very careful!!!
Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.
It's all good Ruckus
November 6, 2009 - 14:56 ET by HeavyChevynot all of us are eager to jump in the "tank" and know when to call "wrong" wrong.
Just like Bill Maher..
November 6, 2009 - 09:09 ET by adamsmithOlbergoebbels is cut from the same pseudo-intellectual cloth as Bill Maher. They both think they speak for black people because they're cool, or something like that. Honorary African Americans. If I were black, I'd be pissed these racists had anything to say at all. The hell with that, I'm white and I'm pissed they pretend to like black people. How many black friends do you have Olbergoebbels? I'd bet dollars to donuts he treats any blacks that work for MSNBC like "house Negroes". It's got to be hard work to be as superior as Olbergoebbels and Maher are. Tiring enough to say, "Calgon, take me awaaaaaaayyyyy..." Bathtub Boy is a mental case.
Perhaps Keith Ubernut Should Relinquish...
November 6, 2009 - 13:30 ET by Mitch NJhis seat 3 days per week and allow black, brown and Asian persons the opportunity to peddle the Libturd diversity of appearance, but not opinion, idiocy.
Come on Keith, make yourself a sacrifice
to the diversity god. Doesn't (S)he feed on
angry old white men?
HATE SPEECH...
November 5, 2009 - 21:37 ET by danybhoyIf Robinson was to look up the real history of racist politics, you know, Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, segregation, you know, those sorts of things, & look into who were the people behind those laws & which party they belonged to, Eugene would see the word Democrat used very liberally. Names like George Wallace, Bull Conner, Orville Faubus, J.William Fulbright, & everyones favorite Klansman, Sen Robert Byrd, are all Dems. Robinson is today's classic LBJ "Great Society" black Democrat, & he believes that the Dems care about black America. If fact, they have helped destroy it. The out of wedlock birthrate, their abortion rate,the black prison population rate, their graduation/dropout rates, their employment rates, all of them, can all be traced back to Democratic policies.
As for BathTubBoy, your days at GE/NBC/MSNBC are numbered. I gotta believe that he will be gone sometime soon. He is too much of a liability, & will play his way out of 30 Rock at some point. Sooner rather then later I hope.
"...How blind can you be, don't you see...
...that the gambler lost all he does not have..."
Nightwish
Hate Indeed
November 6, 2009 - 00:53 ET by ptsonThis clown not only should be blacklisted from buying a NFL Team (not that he would ever have the money to participate) but should be thrown off the NBC Networks for his racist rants. Seemingly, the knife does not cut both ways! How long can the mentally ill be ignored by management, however incompetent.
Anti-socialism.....anti-Marx
November 5, 2009 - 21:40 ET by GregEAnti-socialism.....anti-Marxism......anti Nanny state......is pro-Apartheid to Olbermann. Very nice.
Those who are Anti-socialism, anti-Marxism, anti-Nanny state, that are blue faces, black faces, yellow faces, green faces, turquoise faces, white faces, etc, will all show up, and/or speak out, and/or hold their own when talking to the worshippers of the Left, etc etc. Those that are on the Left, backing socialism, marxism, and the nanny state, will remain so. If they stay there because of their color, buy into viewpoints because of their color, shun other viewpoints because of their color, then so be it. The Left is begging the Right to move in their direction, away from what most Americans actually are.
There are many people of all colors who are Anti-socialism, anti-Marxism, anti-Nanny state. Those things don't see color.
It is said that beauty is only skin deep. It is also as deep as the Leftist is able to see.
Pathetic
November 5, 2009 - 21:40 ET by JoniThe 'race card' is all the Leftists have left and it's really wearing embarrassingly thin.
Time to shuffle the deck and pick a new card to play.
Hey Keith, racist much?
November 5, 2009 - 21:42 ET by Radical1979Hey Keith, racist much? You'd never catch me evaluating a crowd based on race.
By the way, they would have had a lot more people if they held the rally on the weekend when people were off of work, or even on a Friday. But of course no one from Congress would be working on a Friday.
hot button
November 5, 2009 - 21:46 ET by soosanthese racist comments drive me nutty - so nutty I'd be willing to suggest that some folks might reply that you can't protest higher taxes if you don't pay them and you can't protest the cost of health care if you get it for free - why show up. Is this really where these two bozos want the debate to go? Yuk.
soosan I'm with you.
November 5, 2009 - 22:39 ET by Radical1979soosan I'm with you. However, when there's a rumor that Obama's giving money away the crowds show up. The color of those crowds is never discussed. Hmm, why is that?
And all those damn racist voters!!!
November 5, 2009 - 21:54 ET by Patrick MichaelHow dare those racist voters in Virgnia and New Jersey not vote for Obama's candidates!!! What are they thinking? I'm sure the brillant journalist Keith Olberman is only moments away from figuring out the whole dastardly plot.
Stay Free!!!
→ Patrick
November 5, 2009 - 21:58 ET by Cool ArrowAccording to Olbermann, people of color won't act in their own best interest unless they get paid to do it.
It's condescending, and it's racist, but that's how Olbermann and his liberal buddies think.
LYDSEXICS UNTIE!
It's past time for
November 5, 2009 - 22:23 ET by ConservativeRexIt's past time for Olbermann to put an end to his pathetic career. He is an embarrassment. It's not even fun anymore to make fun of him. He is just pathetic. Pitiful. A real sorry individual.
Quit Olby, you can do it! Yes you can!!
Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
Keith is teriffying
November 5, 2009 - 22:32 ET by Cho Yi Fan"It's terrifying," Olbermann replied.
What is really terrifying is that Keith seriously thinks that there are enough people watching his drivel to make a difference. The only one making this protest in DC about race is Keith and Mr. Robinson. So who is the real racist?
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have".
Thomas Jefferson
Condescention at its best
November 5, 2009 - 22:52 ET by octaviojAre not liberals very condescending? They simply come out and say that a minority person would only go to one of these protests if they are paid. Cannot the minorities think for themselves? Are they to be an unified block? Are the the liberals supposed to be the champions of diversity? They seem not to accept diversity of thought though.
What a schmuck. I dont think
November 5, 2009 - 22:57 ET by toneyukiWhat a schmuck.
I dont think its a republican rally, its a conservative rally. We don't pay people to show up, that would be astro turf,
Why are you here?
To get some money.
What kind of money?
Obama money.
And where did Obama get it?
I dont know, his stash?
I left the Republican party because the Republic party went to the LEFT of me.
Sounds a lot like Lindsey Graham--
November 5, 2009 - 23:17 ET by carolina09--who likes to sneer about how white some people are. There's a certain fatuous class of white person (and Lindsey is very pasty, indeed) who likes to claim some kind of solidarity with those of greater pigment in an effort to seem more cool. Jon Stewart, very short white person, is of similar ilk. Nothing can make Lindsey Graham cool, not even a tan or dark makeup.
He's wrong
November 5, 2009 - 23:29 ET by TheAssessorObie boy should watch the videos of the crowd. Not only were there people of color there, one guy was even interviewed. It was on Fox about an hour ago. Woopsie.
It's America, not Omerica
So, is Keith and his
November 6, 2009 - 00:45 ET by ckc1227So, is Keith and his ignorant guest implying that if a crowd protesting slavery, or rape, or murder, etc is overwhelmingly white, they must be wrong on the issue?
"And look, this is a party that has been more and more hostile to
minorities, to Latinos, to African-Americans - it's certainly perceived
that way."
And who mostly perceives it that way? Geniuses like yourself who worship at the alter of the party of slavery. Talk about irony.
Damn it must be nice getting paid millions to be a complete moron for an hour each night. It can't get much better that.
Well there is a left wing
November 6, 2009 - 00:56 ET by MightyMouth(ignorant) bunch that cater to this stuff. Keith must be hitting his numbers or they couldn't keep the doof on, right?
"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"
Apartheid Rallies?
November 6, 2009 - 01:33 ET by CiampinoFrom someone who lived there at that time for 30+ years - there were never PRO-apartheid rallies, rather lots of ANTI-apartheid rallies, specially by the university student population, both Balck and White and every shade in between.
Olby need not have bothered
November 6, 2009 - 05:26 ET by RR GOPOlby need not have bothered as the MSM probably didn't cover the Bachmann rally anyway, and at any rate some Muslim (surely a man of peace) shot many of my Army bros to death today at around the same time.
On Malkin's site the posts about the rally got taken over quickly by the Ft. Hood murders.
Now, of course I would never wonder about the timing...
One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.
Do they ever......
November 6, 2009 - 07:19 ET by John WIThe likes of Keith, and this Robinson guy.......do they ever shut up and think about what they are saying?
Talk about filling the heads, of those who have yet to discover what real America is all about, with a bunch of bullshit comments and world views.......it's no wonder so many of the young have such a warped view of reality!
It's just like listening to the likes of Wright, Jackson and Sharpton.......misleading those who listen to them, into thinking that ALL white people are racist, and that ALL white people want them to be miserable.
What a bunch of f*cking crap!
Seems to forget...
November 6, 2009 - 07:50 ET by CCsteelcityOgremann must not watch too much tv on the side... if anyone had seen the actual amount of people there and not just clips of what liberal media took, they would have seen the people of ALL races, creeds and sexes. I wonder if Robinson saw the black man being interviewed in Atlanta for the mayoral election that said, "we need to keep black people in office"... uhhh, isn't that racism? Not one person or media tv station has made an ounce of complaint.
How can this jerk keep a job.. oh Obey.. "go to hell".
"But a constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever." - John Adams
Well Kieth
November 6, 2009 - 08:11 ET by John53Well Kieth, I am glad you recovered from post election meltdown, I have missed your comedy routine. Your eyes do appear a little red from the tears but your voice has recovered from all the shouting at the moon. We can always count on "Lapdog" Kieth to defend the administration with the most assine comments possible. "Lapdog" Kieth spends all his time the the DNC (white) elite and thinks he has the creditability to blame oours for his raaaaacist comments, he is either insinuating that black and brown will do anything for money or they are stupid to make their own minds up about healthcare and taxation.
Real news station?
November 6, 2009 - 09:38 ET by TomoramaHeroic americans are killed by a muslim bleephole and bathtub boy spends his show hammering white people and his dream girlfriend Shelly Bacchman?
Who is not a news network Obambi?
Obeydontwanttonobey, I bet the actual percentages of our population were there yesterday or at least close to it unlike your nightly audience of 8.
Pay people to show up at events bathtub boy, that would be out of the gutless liberal fraud Obambi's book as in ACORN and SEIU.
Obey is a wart on the backside of life, truth ointment makes it go away and that Robinson genius, I would school him, but he wonba a Pulitzer so he must be so smart...
Probably wrote something on the bad white man and the elites ate it up.
A great man once said, YOU only get out of life what YOU put into it, he obviously wasn't a liberal.
BATH-TUB-BOY...
November 6, 2009 - 17:31 ET by danybhoyBathTubBoy could never coexist with a woman like Michele Bachmann. See, Bachmann can make it on her own, & any woman worth her salt would "need" someone like Olby to get ahead in the world. Unlike his girlfriend Ms.Tur, who has since been hired at The Weather Channel, which is part of the GE/NBC family. She is right where BathTubBoy likes her to be, depending on his lame @$$ to move forward in the buisiness.
"...How blind can you be, don't you see...
...that the gambler lost all he does not have..."
Nightwish
Keithie
November 6, 2009 - 12:13 ET by NorthCoasterWHAT!!!! you don't have a clue . You are a useless twit, to use the "Race Card".
He wasn't trying to be mean,
November 6, 2009 - 12:58 ET by Mitchell BlattHe wasn't trying to be mean, he was just giving his honest advice, as a liberal.
The liberal plan already is to pay people to show up at rallies (ACORN) and to pay people to vote for bills (Pelosi), but I guess MSNBC doesn't have enough money to pay people to watch his show?
That's why they are called MINORITIES!
November 6, 2009 - 16:30 ET by BlueCat57I went to the convention and didn't see many minorities. America is still about 80% white, so what do you expect to see anywhere?
I think "many minorities" qualifies as an oxymoron. At the very least someone that says that is a moron.
I don't see many white people on tapes of Jerimiah Wright's church. That makes it a racist church.
And last time I looked Obama's cabinet, covey of czars and gaggle of advisors looked pretty white to me. That makes him, what, a racist?
I need something to drink. Is it Happy Hour yet?
BC... What the
November 6, 2009 - 16:38 ET by bigtimerBC...
What the heck...it's Happy Hour somewhere now...bottoms up!
By the way...Cheers to your post...you said it all.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Keep Stepping In It, Olberfuher, Susbtitute Rage For The Truth..
November 7, 2009 - 01:06 ET by The7SticksOlberfuher, you can't possibly be that stupid, can you? Come on, Rep. Bachmann has managed to show her own stupidity in what she says, and all you can do is slander her through wild accusations?
Here are the facts, Jack: In reference to our fallen soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan: "They laid their lives to be brought back home";
Or "I'd slit my wrist before I support the healthcare bill."
Keith, I'm giving you real gold here. These are statements that Rep. Bachmann made herself and was caught making them. And yet all you can do is make wild conjecture that wouldn't even hold up in the Scopes Monkey trials. This is why you are pathetic, Olberfuher.