hillary clintonIt has been pretty amazing to watch Keith Olbermann's transformation from an Edward R. Murrow wannabe to the liberal version of Bill O'Reilly. It is doubly amazing when you consider that despite the amount of time and effort Olbermann has extended criticizing O'Reilly, Keith was unable to keep from becoming everything that he supposedly found so repulsive about Bill.
Olbermann reached his nadir of journalistic hackdom with his ridiculously over the top lambasting of Hillary Clinton for daring to mention RFK's assassination in the context of an example of a campaign for the Democratic nomination that ran into June. In the new world that Keith inhabits Clinton was wishing and hoping for Barack Obama's death so she can win the nomination. Now the Keith I used to admire would have probably included the new, less improved Keith on his "Worst Person in the World" list for taking what Sen. Clinton said and completely twisting it to fit the disgusting meme that he did but this Keith Olbermann has become nothing more than a bloviating wind bag. It is obvious to anyone without an agenda and a brain in their head that Clinton wasn't inferring that "anything can happen" and that is why she is staying in the race or that Clinton was trying to put the spectre of impending doom on Obama's head as a way to change the mind's of super-delegates. It's too bad that the evidence clearly shows that Olbermann is brainless and consumed with a personal agenda.
It seems that as far as Keith Olbermann is concerned Hillary Clinton is evil incarnate and Barack Obama is humanity's last hope for survival. So Keith has been working tirelessly to harangue Clinton whether she deserves it or not while being the head cheerleader of the Obama Spirit Squad. He has transferred his anti-Bush bias to Hillary Clinton without skipping a beat.
The video of his not so special comment does provide a bit of entertainment though. Watching Olbermann lose control with spittle flying and veins bulging is kind of comical. Also his sense of outrage is downright hysterical. And his head seems to be growing as he gets more and more worked up.
But that tiny bit of funny doesn't make up for what Keith Olbermann has become. He fits right in with the O'Reilly's Limbaugh's and Savages of the world. Hell, I'd put that creepy little douchebag Glenn Beck ahead of Keith on the credibility meter nowadays. Here are Clinton's comments for those who need some context to Olbermann's hissy fit:
Transcript from the Argus-Leader's editorial board meeting:
HRC: People have been trying to push me out of this ever since Iowa.
Q: Why?
HRC: I don't know. I don't know. I find it curious. Because it is unprecedented in history. I don't understand it. Between my opponent and his camp and some in the media there has been this urgency to end this. And historically, that makes no sense. So I find it a bit of a mystery.
Q: So you don't buy the party unity argument?
HRC: I don't because again I've been around long enough.
My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right?
We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don't understand it. There's lots of speculation about why it is.
Q: What is your speculation?
I don't know. I find it curious. And I don't want to attribute motives or strategies to people because I don't really know, but it's a historical curiosity to me.
Yeah, that's worth getting your panties in a bunch over.
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