Olbermann Slams O'Reilly's Michelle Obama/"Lynching Party" Remark [VIDEO]
February 21, 2008
UPDATE: On Thursday night Bill O'Reilly offered a smug, half assed apology (would he offer any other kind?) for his remarks about Michelle Obama. Of course, instead of calling them what they were---racially offensive and insensitive, O'Reilly gives himself a pass by saying he was merely using a term Clarence Thomas once used (when he said he was the victim of a high-tech lynching" on 60 Minutes). Ughhh...once again we have another version of the Don Imus excuse: "a Black guy said it first!"
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Last night on Countdown, Keith Olbermann slammed Bill O'Reilly for saying on his radio show, "I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence." In an ironic twist, Olbermann used the words of President Bush  who just last week said, "Some Americans do not understand the effect that references to nooses and lynching can still have"  to excoriate O'Reilly's insensitive remark. Check out the video to your right for more.
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Last night on Countdown, Keith Olbermann slammed Bill O'Reilly for saying on his radio show, "I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence." In an ironic twist, Olbermann used the words of President Bush  who just last week said, "Some Americans do not understand the effect that references to nooses and lynching can still have"  to excoriate O'Reilly's insensitive remark. Check out the video to your right for more.
