Olbermann on Divisive Politics
October 21st, 2008 | Published in Politics, Videos | 5 Comments
Politics blogging will stop soon, I promise. In the meantime, here’s Keith Olbermann talking about divisive politics:
October 21st, 2008 | Published in Politics, Videos | 5 Comments
Politics blogging will stop soon, I promise. In the meantime, here’s Keith Olbermann talking about divisive politics:
October 21st, 2008 at 12:31 pm (#)
Mr. Olbermann, I have the kettle on line 2 for you…
October 21st, 2008 at 2:17 pm (#)
I find it highly ironic that Olbermann is complaining about divisive politics…
October 21st, 2008 at 2:26 pm (#)
I don’t watch Olbermann, so it might be true that he’s divisive, but that doesn’t mean he’s not right about this.
It’s shameful that people are calling others “terrorists” and “anti-American” etc. just because they disagree with them.
October 21st, 2008 at 3:10 pm (#)
Olbermann does make a good commentary–good enough that I almost forgot how incredibly divisive his own show is, every night.
Watch Countdown.
It’s an entire hour devoted to anything negative he can find on anyone conservative or Republican, with almost nary a mention of anything negative about any liberals or Democrats.
It’s basically a highly biased, one-hour screed against the Right–every night. His nightly Worst Person in the World segment is just about always someone from the Right. I can’t recall anybody liberal he’s ever selected.
Seriously, Olbermann is as divisive and biased as any other commentator on TV.
He made a legitimate point–he should adhere to his own advice, though.
Finally, I find Obama’s class warfare–spread the wealth by increasing taxes on those who already pay most of the taxes so he can give “tax cuts” (read: welfare checks) to many who don’t even pay income taxes–highly divisive. He’s demonizing the successful and the producers almost daily, stoking the jealousy that the lower classes feel toward the “rich.”
I say that as someone who most definitely is not rich.
I can’t wait for the election to be over.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:34 am (#)
Thank you for alerting me to yet another voice whose vehement vitriol, as Olbermann says, “drips” from every word.
It is no surprise that both Mr. Olbermann and Mr. Matthews were lifted from their news desk coverage at MSNBC. I can see now why Mr. Olbermann’s own divisiveness made that move necessary.
I will wait, but not with bated breath, to see if Mr. Olbermann is willing to countermand those from his own political persuasion who have made ill-advised, and worse, racist, intolerant, and hateful comments to those with whom they disagree.
Perhaps Mr. Olbermann would like to begin with Jon Stewart, whose “F*** you” to Governor Palin this past weekend has yet to be addressed from anyone on the left.