Olbermann’s Secret Racism Decoder Ring

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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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  3. Keefy’s hyperbole reminds me of something NRA talking head Cam Edwards (who used to be a radio guy here in the 405) said about a certain Democratic pol:

    “I look at Howard Dean and see a guy who’s going to invade Mexico because Taco Bell got his order wrong.”

  4. Keefy’s hyperbole reminds me of something NRA talking head Cam Edwards (who used to be a radio guy here in the 405) said about a certain Democratic pol:

    “I look at Howard Dean and see a guy who’s going to invade Mexico because Taco Bell got his order wrong.”

  8. Clearly it is the right that is guilty of racism. When is the last time you heard someone on the right even mention the fact that our President is black? It is part of the right wing racist conspiracy to pretend Obama’s race is not an issue. Luckily, we have people like Chris Matthews and Harry Reid to make sure that doesn’t happen.

  9. Clearly it is the right that is guilty of racism. When is the last time you heard someone on the right even mention the fact that our President is black? It is part of the right wing racist conspiracy to pretend Obama’s race is not an issue. Luckily, we have people like Chris Matthews and Harry Reid to make sure that doesn’t happen.

  10. Clearly it is the right that is guilty of racism. When is the last time you heard someone on the right even mention the fact that our President is black? It is part of the right wing racist conspiracy to pretend Obama’s race is not an issue. Luckily, we have people like Chris Matthews and Harry Reid to make sure that doesn’t happen.

  11. Thanks for the link in your headlines. You’re making my dismal day much better!

    As for Olbermann there is only one word to describe him and it rhymes with douchebag. Waste of skin is a good three word description though.

    BTW, there ought to be a book in your last sentence, “Liberalism is like a free pass to ride the Irresponsibility Express.”

  12. Thanks for the link in your headlines. You’re making my dismal day much better!

    As for Olbermann there is only one word to describe him and it rhymes with douchebag. Waste of skin is a good three word description though.

    BTW, there ought to be a book in your last sentence, “Liberalism is like a free pass to ride the Irresponsibility Express.”

  13. Thanks for the link in your headlines. You’re making my dismal day much better!

    As for Olbermann there is only one word to describe him and it rhymes with douchebag. Waste of skin is a good three word description though.

    BTW, there ought to be a book in your last sentence, “Liberalism is like a free pass to ride the Irresponsibility Express.”

  17. Hey, someone call Keith and tell him I am willing to give him a ride to work, as long as his arrogant ass can fit in my pickup truck.
    And in other thoughts, F*** Y** Keith, I am not even sure why whatever company bought you’re formerly sad/clueless employer out still pays your salary.
    EFN DICK

  18. Hey, someone call Keith and tell him I am willing to give him a ride to work, as long as his arrogant ass can fit in my pickup truck.
    And in other thoughts, F*** Y** Keith, I am not even sure why whatever company bought you’re formerly sad/clueless employer out still pays your salary.
    EFN DICK

  19. Hey, someone call Keith and tell him I am willing to give him a ride to work, as long as his arrogant ass can fit in my pickup truck.
    And in other thoughts, F*** Y** Keith, I am not even sure why whatever company bought you’re formerly sad/clueless employer out still pays your salary.
    EFN DICK

  21. A commentator and two readers take Andrew Sullivan to the woodshed (could it be a moment of clarity on Sully’s part?):

    Sonny Bunch raises an eyebrow:

    Let me see if I understand Andrew correctly: President Obama engages in an unprecedented attack on the judiciary, botches the facts of the case at hand (or willfully distorts them for partisan political purposes), and has yet to correct himself…and Justice Alito is at fault for politicizing the judiciary? Seriously? Did that just happen?

    A reader is less restrained:

    I can’t help but think if Sarah Palin had mischaracterized a ruling you agreed with and if a Supreme Court justice you liked had done what Alito did, you’d be raking Palin across the coals for lying about the Supreme Court’s decision, for ignoring the separation of powers and you’d be lauding the counter-Alito.

    Really Andrew, you’ve gone so far over to the other side, it’s now comical. Your sense of balance and fair play, your objectivity have been eroding for years. Now they’ve fallen completely apart. I still visit your site just to stay current on the cocoon you live in.

    I guess I am part of the great unwashed, those ignorant ya-hoo’s who just don’t appreciate all the fine work our president and congressional majorities are doing for us. Damn me all to hell, I read everything you say and I still don’t get it. I must be crazy. Of course I should trust fully a process where senators are openly bribed and where we are assured endlessly that a program that exempts unions and congress, that doesn’t go into effect until Obama has run for office a second time, that “will save us money” (our government’s track record in that regard is surely comforting) and that will cap our costs but provide everything we had before (sure, doctors and hospitals work more for less money: who wouldn’t, given the opportunity?). And when the president pumps his numbers of ‘jobs saved’, clearly misstates a Supreme Court opinion and other mistakes already documented by the NYT, among others, I should just sit still and realize that I am a nihilist, vicious dumbass. Please.

    Many conservatives were furious with Bush for his profligate spending. He had no choice on the bank bail out, nor did Obama (although Obama obscured his mere continuation of Bush’s policy, taking undue credit for his own role). But the continued spending is ridiculous. New programs are ridiculous and his fake freeze fools only those who were buying his BS in the first place.

    Another reader makes the same point with somewhat less malice:

    Judge Alito’s reaction was an honest response to a lie told about him, to him. It was no more a departure from protocol than Speaker Pelosi’s jack-in-the-box glee every time Obama proposed a vast new expenditure. Had Obama spoken honestly about a technical interpretation of a legal point, Alito should have been a statue. But that was not the case: Obama made up a fantasy–one which could easily cause a reasonable and learned judicial mind to have a reaction of revulsion. Had Alito sat stone-faced, the after-action report would have been that he “got told” and had to take it like a wayward toddler.

    You betray your hero-worship of Obama when, in times when he is behaving in a ridiculous and ineffective manner, you run pictures of him from the campaign when he was standing around looking thoughtful, or speaking to his favorite kind of audience: tearful worshippers. Now you betray yourself further when you seek to make him immune to opposition.

    No moments of clarity for Olbermann though, he is set at ramming speed on the Bad Ship Nutburgger,

  22. A commentator and two readers take Andrew Sullivan to the woodshed (could it be a moment of clarity on Sully’s part?):

    Sonny Bunch raises an eyebrow:

    Let me see if I understand Andrew correctly: President Obama engages in an unprecedented attack on the judiciary, botches the facts of the case at hand (or willfully distorts them for partisan political purposes), and has yet to correct himself…and Justice Alito is at fault for politicizing the judiciary? Seriously? Did that just happen?

    A reader is less restrained:

    I can’t help but think if Sarah Palin had mischaracterized a ruling you agreed with and if a Supreme Court justice you liked had done what Alito did, you’d be raking Palin across the coals for lying about the Supreme Court’s decision, for ignoring the separation of powers and you’d be lauding the counter-Alito.

    Really Andrew, you’ve gone so far over to the other side, it’s now comical. Your sense of balance and fair play, your objectivity have been eroding for years. Now they’ve fallen completely apart. I still visit your site just to stay current on the cocoon you live in.

    I guess I am part of the great unwashed, those ignorant ya-hoo’s who just don’t appreciate all the fine work our president and congressional majorities are doing for us. Damn me all to hell, I read everything you say and I still don’t get it. I must be crazy. Of course I should trust fully a process where senators are openly bribed and where we are assured endlessly that a program that exempts unions and congress, that doesn’t go into effect until Obama has run for office a second time, that “will save us money” (our government’s track record in that regard is surely comforting) and that will cap our costs but provide everything we had before (sure, doctors and hospitals work more for less money: who wouldn’t, given the opportunity?). And when the president pumps his numbers of ‘jobs saved’, clearly misstates a Supreme Court opinion and other mistakes already documented by the NYT, among others, I should just sit still and realize that I am a nihilist, vicious dumbass. Please.

    Many conservatives were furious with Bush for his profligate spending. He had no choice on the bank bail out, nor did Obama (although Obama obscured his mere continuation of Bush’s policy, taking undue credit for his own role). But the continued spending is ridiculous. New programs are ridiculous and his fake freeze fools only those who were buying his BS in the first place.

    Another reader makes the same point with somewhat less malice:

    Judge Alito’s reaction was an honest response to a lie told about him, to him. It was no more a departure from protocol than Speaker Pelosi’s jack-in-the-box glee every time Obama proposed a vast new expenditure. Had Obama spoken honestly about a technical interpretation of a legal point, Alito should have been a statue. But that was not the case: Obama made up a fantasy–one which could easily cause a reasonable and learned judicial mind to have a reaction of revulsion. Had Alito sat stone-faced, the after-action report would have been that he “got told” and had to take it like a wayward toddler.

    You betray your hero-worship of Obama when, in times when he is behaving in a ridiculous and ineffective manner, you run pictures of him from the campaign when he was standing around looking thoughtful, or speaking to his favorite kind of audience: tearful worshippers. Now you betray yourself further when you seek to make him immune to opposition.

    No moments of clarity for Olbermann though, he is set at ramming speed on the Bad Ship Nutburgger,

  23. A commentator and two readers take Andrew Sullivan to the woodshed (could it be a moment of clarity on Sully’s part?):

    Sonny Bunch raises an eyebrow:

    Let me see if I understand Andrew correctly: President Obama engages in an unprecedented attack on the judiciary, botches the facts of the case at hand (or willfully distorts them for partisan political purposes), and has yet to correct himself…and Justice Alito is at fault for politicizing the judiciary? Seriously? Did that just happen?

    A reader is less restrained:

    I can’t help but think if Sarah Palin had mischaracterized a ruling you agreed with and if a Supreme Court justice you liked had done what Alito did, you’d be raking Palin across the coals for lying about the Supreme Court’s decision, for ignoring the separation of powers and you’d be lauding the counter-Alito.

    Really Andrew, you’ve gone so far over to the other side, it’s now comical. Your sense of balance and fair play, your objectivity have been eroding for years. Now they’ve fallen completely apart. I still visit your site just to stay current on the cocoon you live in.

    I guess I am part of the great unwashed, those ignorant ya-hoo’s who just don’t appreciate all the fine work our president and congressional majorities are doing for us. Damn me all to hell, I read everything you say and I still don’t get it. I must be crazy. Of course I should trust fully a process where senators are openly bribed and where we are assured endlessly that a program that exempts unions and congress, that doesn’t go into effect until Obama has run for office a second time, that “will save us money” (our government’s track record in that regard is surely comforting) and that will cap our costs but provide everything we had before (sure, doctors and hospitals work more for less money: who wouldn’t, given the opportunity?). And when the president pumps his numbers of ‘jobs saved’, clearly misstates a Supreme Court opinion and other mistakes already documented by the NYT, among others, I should just sit still and realize that I am a nihilist, vicious dumbass. Please.

    Many conservatives were furious with Bush for his profligate spending. He had no choice on the bank bail out, nor did Obama (although Obama obscured his mere continuation of Bush’s policy, taking undue credit for his own role). But the continued spending is ridiculous. New programs are ridiculous and his fake freeze fools only those who were buying his BS in the first place.

    Another reader makes the same point with somewhat less malice:

    Judge Alito’s reaction was an honest response to a lie told about him, to him. It was no more a departure from protocol than Speaker Pelosi’s jack-in-the-box glee every time Obama proposed a vast new expenditure. Had Obama spoken honestly about a technical interpretation of a legal point, Alito should have been a statue. But that was not the case: Obama made up a fantasy–one which could easily cause a reasonable and learned judicial mind to have a reaction of revulsion. Had Alito sat stone-faced, the after-action report would have been that he “got told” and had to take it like a wayward toddler.

    You betray your hero-worship of Obama when, in times when he is behaving in a ridiculous and ineffective manner, you run pictures of him from the campaign when he was standing around looking thoughtful, or speaking to his favorite kind of audience: tearful worshippers. Now you betray yourself further when you seek to make him immune to opposition.

    No moments of clarity for Olbermann though, he is set at ramming speed on the Bad Ship Nutburgger,

  26. Olbermann is an asshole. Can I say that? Oh wait, I’m supposed to couch that in some secret coded fashion. Let me look it up…. Ok, got it. Olbermann is “A thoroughly contemptible, detestable person.” I think that just about sums it up. And he sucks at football commentary, too. LOL.

  27. Olbermann is an asshole. Can I say that? Oh wait, I’m supposed to couch that in some secret coded fashion. Let me look it up…. Ok, got it. Olbermann is “A thoroughly contemptible, detestable person.” I think that just about sums it up. And he sucks at football commentary, too. LOL.

  28. Olbermann is an asshole. Can I say that? Oh wait, I’m supposed to couch that in some secret coded fashion. Let me look it up…. Ok, got it. Olbermann is “A thoroughly contemptible, detestable person.” I think that just about sums it up. And he sucks at football commentary, too. LOL.

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