Is Making a Racist Remark Worse Than Wishing Someone Dead?

Is making a racist remark about President Obama's daughter worse than wishing a conservative talk show host would die?

Such should be asked of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann who on Monday was quite angered by some truly tasteless comments about Malia Obama posted last week at Free Republic.

Yet, back in April when Olbermann published a diary at the liberal website Daily Kos concerning his waterboarding challenge to Sean Hannity, the "Countdown" host wasn't at all outraged by the venomous attacks made on the Fox News star which included some Kossacks wishing he would die.

For those that can stand it, here's a sampling of such commentary:

prefer if you paid for Sean to be parachuted  into rural Iraq without backup.  Shitbird vs. wild.

Give to netroots for the troops!

by bubbanomics on Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 09:54:37 AM PDT [...]

•  What does this mean? n/t 

  by dibsa on Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 10:04:50 AM PDT

   

  •  step by step?
    

    (1) Put Sean on an airplane.
    (2) Fit him with a parachute.
    (3) About 10 miles outside Falloujah, let him jump.

    Give to netroots for the troops!

    by bubbanomics on Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 10:07:36 AM PDT

    •  Ha ha that's not a torture because he will be  shot and killed before he gets to the ground

      by dibsa on Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 10:17:45 AM PDT

      •  Only if you don't include him soiling himself on  the way down.

        It's about WAR PROFITTERING, stupid.

        by flyonawall on Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 02:32:18 PM PDT

    •  he doesn't deserve a parachute, but how about  fitting him with a strait-jacket then giving him a shove.

      by owendebanks on Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 10:26:51 AM PDT

    •  One more step. 4) Happy hour! As we drink to being one step closer to democracy.

      It's about WAR PROFITTERING, stupid.

      by flyonawall on Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 02:31:43 PM PDT

    •  One missing step:  (4) Bailout point must be directly above a starving village.  

      The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -Bertrand Russell

      by littlenomad on Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 04:16:35 PM PDT

•  I'll donate a grand  if I can fold the parachute.

  http://dumpjoe.com/

  by ctkeith on Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 10:37:45 AM PDT

  •  have to fight me for that privilege...
    heh!

    Give to netroots for the troops!

    by bubbanomics on Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 10:39:28 AM PDT

  •  No! No! Me! I don't know how to do it. 

    But I'm willing to take a wild guess with his.

    It's about WAR PROFITTERING, stupid.

    by flyonawall on Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 02:33:21 PM PDT

•  And Without a parachute.

  by Prince Nekhlyudov on Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 10:42:44 AM PDT

•  I like the parachute idea. Just before you push him out, switch the parachute bag for the one with the utensils. Then push him out.

  It's a tactic I learned watching a Wile E Coyote cartoon.

  The results were hilarious.

  It's about WAR PROFITTERING, stupid.

  by flyonawall on Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 02:35:40 PM PDT

Nice, huh? Or how about these Kos Kids who want to urinate in the bucket that will be used:

•  I'll give a thou  For a mere piss in the bucket.

  by mudslide on Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 09:44:45 AM PDT

  •  If they charged $1,000 to piss in the bucket  used on Hannity, they'd need a swimming pool to hold all the donations.

    It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what? --Steve Forbert

    by darthstar on Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 09:48:47 AM PDT

    •  Remember... I offered first....eom
      

      by mudslide on Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 09:49:42 AM PDT

 I'll throw in a grand if they end up trach-ing Hannity and he has to spend the rest of his life putting a finger over the tube in order to say 'it wasn't torture'...

It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what? --Steve Forbert

by darthstar on Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 09:46:18 AM PDT

Or this:

inanity
I've got a better idea. Let's just keep the water flowing until he goes limp, and the world is suddenly a slightly nicer place to live.

by sicsemtyr on Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 10:21:04 AM PDT

Now, these comments were posted almost three months ago, and are still up...in a thread created by Olbermann no less.

Did he enter this thread and chastise those making such remarks?

Not that I can see.

Did he contact Markos Moulitsas and complain about this behavior?

Well, if he did, the comments are still available.

Did he make Moulitsas the "Worst Person in the World" for allowing such commentary at his website?

Of course not.

Has he boycotted the site as a result?

Nope, he's written three diaries since.

As such, I guess in Olbermann's view, it must be worse to make racist remarks about Malia than talk about Sean Hannity's death.

Any questions?