Olbermann Bashes Timing of Palin's Tucson Remarks Day After Attacking Her Silence on Shootings
It is crystal clear that whatever Sarah Palin does, she is going to be mercilessly lambasted by America's so-called journalists.
Roughly 24 hours after attacking the former Alaska governor for having not spoken publicly since Saturday's tragic shootings in Tucson, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann criticized Palin for issuing a videotaped statement the morning of that event's memorial (video follows with transcript and commentary, h/t Ann Coulter):
KEITH OLBERMANN: Is Sarah Palin being unfairly blamed for violence by others? Well, then, she must have a sense of what it was like to be an American-Muslim when she demanded that New Yorkers refudiate the so-called Ground Zero mosque.
More importantly, her crosshairs map, or were they crop circles, has now been criticized by a potential rival for the Republican nomination. And it's quiet, isn't it? It`s too quiet.
Our fourth story: when does the normally, supremely efficient, self- publicizing machine that is Sarah Palin come out from behind the proverbial skirts of her mouthpieces in the media and foreswear the rhetoric of violence? When, or is it if?
That was Olbermann during Tuesday's "Countdown" with the caption on the screen under Palin's picture reading "Silent Sarah":
A little over 24 hours later, during a special airing of "Countdown" after Wednesday's memorial service in Tucson, Olbermann took a different position:
OLBERMANN: Earlier, as Richard suggested, it may have easily been the worst timed political statement ever, the morning of the memorial ceremony. Was it also the worst, most self-damaging statement ever?
So, on Tuesday Palin is wrong for being silent; on Wednesday she's wrong for not being silent.
Don't be confused: this has nothing to do with the timing, for if Palin hadn't have said something Wednesday, Olbermann would have continued to admonish her for not commenting on a tragedy he believes her to be indirectly responsible for.
Sadly, this is not at all surprising, for the same was true of Olbermann's colleagues Chris Matthews and Ed Schultz who also complained about Palin's silence Tuesday only to rip her apart for her video message Wednesday.
What must be learned from this is that when it comes to the folks at MSNBC, no matter what Sarah Palin says or does, she is going to be demonized for it.
Makes you wonder if anyone at MSNBC, NBC, GE, or Comcast is concerned that death threats on the former Alaska governor have risen to unprecedented levels since the media chose to implicate her in Saturday's killings.
Is anyone asking that network's commentators to tone down their rhetoric, or is it only incumbent upon conservatives to do so?
Once again, that is indeed a rhetorical question.
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Comments
Keefy.....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 12:58pm.
is hardly a "so-called journalist". Heck, he was barely a "so-called sportscaster".
What a friggin' loon.
Submitted by NeoKong on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 12:59pm.
Seriously....what is the difference between Olberman and Jared Loughner....? They are both crazed stalkers.
So far
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 1:02pm.
the only differences are that Uberman gets paid to spit poison and so far he hasn't gone out shooting people.
so far....
Submitted by jon_torlin on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 1:08pm.
Yeah, so far. And seargent schultzie, also of msnbc(they are all nuts) was the one who threatened to burn the place down. Where I work that, that's usually grounds for firing and reporting them to the police.
-Jon
Well
Submitted by panzerakc on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 4:10am.
Keith does have hair.
UberMan is a moron
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 1:00pm.
Why he is still on cable is a mystery. Crap merchants like him and tingles and malloy are the biggest nastiest most divisive scum buckets to be found. Although, I'm sure the libertards have more.
In A Related Story
Submitted by JustAl on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 1:04pm.
A poll conducted by MSNBC showed that two of Olberman's three viewers approved. . . this was indicated by blinking twice instead of once.
I only watch FoxNews and sometimes CNN
Submitted by c5then on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 1:06pm.
Most of my news I get from the Internet because I can choose multiple site to find out what is really going on and not get fed a one sided crap sandwich like you get on the MSM channels and newspapers.
All the so-called journalists in the MSM are nothing more than charicatures of journalists and they seem to be directed by the left-wing of the democrat party.
They should all open their shows with "Hi, I'm not a real journalist, but I play one on TV. Now to the infornmation that we want you to hear."
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Cancel
Submitted by grammajane on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 1:10pm.
Cancel Comcast, cancel GE products and maybe these businesses will take a hint that their prime time hero's are so far in the gutter with hate and extreme radical beliefs.
If...
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 1:18pm.
...Something awful happens to Sarah Palin, I will hold the MSM (especially this pile of wasted skin) personally accountable!
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
Fat Edward: "The bosses didn't tell me to tone it down"
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 1:22pm.
So then they wouldn't DARE say anything to their star Olbermann.
Guns
Submitted by grammajane on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 1:39pm.
If they bring knifes, YOU bring guns
I suggest grenades or more
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 6:57pm.
I suggest grenades or more effective a nuke. I might go back to my old tag line.
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.
This is what desperation looks like
Submitted by cestes on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 1:55pm.
They are losing!!! Totally ignorant of Ghandi's proclamation: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you and then you win". Please remind these fools of the eventual outcome.
Does Olbermann know.....
Submitted by Texndoc on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:27pm.
I wonder if he knows (he must) that Stephanoupolis, Brokaw, Jon Stewart, Joe Scarborough, Mika, CBS, NBC, ABC and on and on have the same respect for him that they do Sarah Palin?Classic mindset of a progressive
Submitted by djwolf12 on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:54pm.
History begins today! History begins today! Nothing in the past matters (unless it is cherrypicked to fit our agenda, nothing to see here). History begins today!
Sounds like Luke 7:33-35
Submitted by Wonder95 on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 7:52pm.
This reminds me of what Jesus said to the Pharisees in Luke 7:33-35:
No matter what we do, liberals will find a way to criticize us.
UberMan
Submitted by Hausmaus on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 9:11pm.
UberMan is a half-way educated moron, who is extremely overpaid by MSNBC news. But, like most liberals he is like calcified human waste at the bottom of the toilet, not even pure chlorine can deal with him. What keeps UberMan going is not his intellect, or demeanor, is his ability to fecalize every word that comes our of his (rectum) mouth. America is the only country in the world where we can dress somebody like UberMan, put him in front of a television camera facing national attention, give him a protacted script, and pretend he is telling us the truth.