Olbermann’s Secret Racism Decoder Ring
Posted on | January 29, 2010 | 29 Comments
My buddy Dan Collins is feeling kinda blue. So I’m featuring this video, just to cheer him up:
The best part? Olbermann says he’s narking out his family:
“Here’s a little secret, gathered, sadly, from witnessing it my whole life, even from some in my own family,” Olbermann said. “When racist white guys get together and they don’t want to be caught using any of the popular epithets in use every day in this country about black people – and there’s a chance one of them, or worse still a white guy who doesn’t get it, might wander in and hear the conversation, when there’s a risk even in saying “uppity” or “forgetting his place,” the racist white guys revert to euphemisms and code words.”
Euphemisms! Code words! Dark secrets of the white racist underworld that only Keith Olbermann was courageous enough to discover and tell the world about! But what’s strange is that, on Wednesday night, the racists were all (gasp!) conservative commentators:
[Olbermann] singled out Erick Erickson of RedState.com, John Stossel, host of the Fox Business Channel’s “Stossel”, Jay Nordlinger of National Review, former Bush speechwriter and Washington Post contributor Marc Thiessen, John Hood, also of National Review and Fox News host Glenn Beck as racist for criticizing the president’s demeanor during the Jan. 27 State of the Union address.
Isn’t it interesting that Olbermann, rather than noticing the guy on his own network who called attention to Obama’s race, instead takes to the air to denounce conservatives, who have a monopoly on euphemisms and code words?
OK, actually, it’s not interesting at all. Olbermann does this hysterical denunciation trip night after night. A Supreme Court decision on campaign-finance laws? It’s Dred Scott! You wonder if he carries this tendency over into his private life.
Waiter, I specifically ordered a merlot, and you’ve brought me burgundy instead. This is worse than McCarthyism. It’s worse than the Spanish Inquisition or the Jonestown Massacre. It’s . . . it’s Kristallnacht!
The astonishing thing is that he evidently expects these proclamations of his to be taken seriously.
UPDATE: Jay Nordlinger responds:
Being a conservative, or even somehow anti-Left, means that you will be called a racist. Period. It’s written in stone. You get used to it — but not really. . . . I have never — never really and truly — gotten used to being called a racist. I suppose I never will, even if I live to 143.
Read the rest. What’s amazing is how casually Olbermann makes the accusation, as if it were a thing of no consequence. And indeed, there will be no consequences for Olbermann. Liberalism is like a free pass to ride the Irresponsibility Express.

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