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Olbermann's Special Comment Scorches Palin for Slandering Obama

Posted by Brave New Films, MSNBC at 6:32 AM on October 7, 2008.


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Watch Keith Olbermann deliver a Special Comment smack down of Sarah Palin for her remarks that Obama was "pallin' around with terrorists."

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Tagged as: religion, terrorism, keith olbermann, barack obama, john mccain, 2008 election, countdown, sarah palin, special comment


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i can't believe he used that old woman's suffering
Posted by: andrewstromotich on Oct 7, 2008 7:41 AM   
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as a seque (SP?) to discuss sarah palin's shortcomings...
that was disgusting, and olberman owes that woman an apology. he feigns concern for her only to say "she's in better shape than the economy" and to use her suffering and 'ineptness' as a way to lampoon palin.
that is straight up disgusting. i am really coming to loath the blowhard olberman, who seems to be getting caught up in his own ego.
he started well, but has ended up as just another of the verbose, pontificating, self absorbed blowhards. he's starting to remind me of foghorn leghorn (nice boy, but kinda dim)

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» all that could have been done... Posted by: andrewstromotich
» RE: all that could have been done... Posted by: Fishbone Soldier
Gotta love Olbermann
Posted by: usmarks on Oct 7, 2008 8:16 AM   
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Yes, you do. He just bangs those nails square on the head. When we can all start calling liars and thieves liars and thieves again, instead of giving them places of prominence in our national government, we will have a country that works and makes us proud once again.

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» RE: Gotta love Olbermann Posted by: andrewstromotich
I think this is the most mock-laden special comment yet
Posted by: Fishbone Soldier on Oct 7, 2008 8:56 AM   
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...and it took a ridiculous caricature of a human being like Sarah Palin to make him go all goosey. Well, what the hell else can you do?

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» Ridicule Posted by: zipper696
Olbermann's scripted outrage has become tedious
Posted by: lindat on Oct 7, 2008 10:07 AM   
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Just a lord fauntleroy metrosexual throwing another hissy fit.

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» Olbermann Posted by: zipper696
Thank you, Keith, for saying...
Posted by: Quannah on Oct 7, 2008 10:18 AM   
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what the rest of the COWARDS in the MSM don't have the balls to say.

All the Wing-Nuts can spout all the garbage and lies about Obama and it's supposed to be accepted as "truth," but let someone tell the truth about Sarah Palin or John McCain, and all hell breaks loose! Give me a break!

Keith told the truth! And he told the truth in the same mocking manner that McStain and Palin are using on the campaign trail, yet HE is the one who is out of line here? McStain and Palin are MOCKING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE every time they give a campaign speech full of lies and innuendo and some of us are sick of it. Sick to death of it. And some of us are grateful to Keith Olbermann for speaking the TRUTH. If it weren't for him, who would?

It is an absolute disgrace that these two are on the ticket for the highest offices in this nation. Neither one is qualified. Neither one puts this country FIRST. Neither one represents the majority of America. Neither one knows how to tell the truth. Neither one has any plans for how to govern this country, so they have to resort to mud-slinging and character assassination. It is because they have no strategy that they have to fall back on these lame attacks. Shame on them!!!

THANKS, KEITH, for saying what is on the minds of many of us out here!

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Palin's performance...
Posted by: babs on Oct 7, 2008 2:14 PM   
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... in the last few days shows that her hypocrisy has reached the level of her neo-con handlers - way to go winky!

I can't wait for these cowards to see what happens when their opponents trot out all the skeletons that are in the McCain/Plain closet, and there are many. Remember Songbird? Troopergate? Book banning? Rapekits? Keating 5? et al? I do.

thanks Keith Olberman yet again. Walter Cronkite and Edward Murrow would be proud.

somebody has to try and keep them honest - Stewart and Colbert can't do it all!

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all that could have been said without pimping the woman...
Posted by: andrewstromotich on Oct 7, 2008 2:58 PM   
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without holding up a woman who just shot herself in despair, as the tool to give impact to his musings.
this is so stupid. olberman argues he's against the politicizing of suffering and then he does the same. if he truly cared for that woman in recovery, he would not compare her "ineptness" to sarah palins for the mere purpose of creating outrage: he would have done it with his ability to express himself.
its almost funny how the left is looking so much like the right it says it is countering. bush is an ass for prostituting sufferng, but olberman is not?
alternet is posting with more regularity, video snippets that distort and sound bites that create false talking points (repubs don't get laid, Mccain called his wife a bitch, and many other pressing issues have become an obsession here)...
this site continually slams the pathetic fox, but with every bat of the eye, they resemble it more.

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Olbermann Spot on
Posted by: Franb on Oct 7, 2008 8:45 PM   
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Yup ... that one's an exocet into the Palin smear.

Top marks Olbermann

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When Will here Be a Thread About me?
Posted by: Larry Sinclair on Oct 10, 2008 1:43 AM   
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How come none of you seem to care that Obama was smoking crack in 1999 and getting oral sex from a homo?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lrf8DbrJH0

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