Posted on 01/14/2009 1:41:23 PM PST by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- MSNBC anchor and commentator should have stuck to his original career giving out the latest sports news and information. The left-wing media man is coming under fire for bashing pro-life advocates and their opposition to Barack Obama picking a former lawyer for Michael Schiavo for a high post.
As LifeNews.com has reported, Obama selected Thomas Perrelli, who is best known as the right-to-kill lawyer who represented Terri Schiavo's husband pro-bono in his suit to euthanize his wife.
In the Obama administration, Perrelli will occupy the third highest post in the Justice Department.
Tom McClusky of the Family Research Council, conducted media interviews outlining how Perrelli's appointment as associate attorney general was "detrimental" to the pro-life movement.
In the media world, however, Perrelli seems to have at least one staunch ally -- Olbermann.
Olbermann, host of MSNBC's "Countdown," highlighted McClusky's quote in a recent broadcast and named him "the worst person in the world" for criticizing Perrelli's nomination.
Tony Perkins, the president of FRC, defended his colleague.
"In my opinion, if you're on Olbermann's hit list, then you must be doing something right," he said.
"In a leadership position for the Justice Department, Perrelli's anti-life stance could be devastating. As the third in command, he is certain to play a key role in a number of cases, some of which could include end-of-life issues," Perkins added.
Bobby Schindler, Terri Schiavo's brother, has also weighed in in an email to LifeNews.com.
"News media bias promoting the killing of the severely disabled like Terri is well known, but it's not often that a media commentator so openly displays his vicious hatred of those who simply love life as Keith Olbermann did," he said.
Schindler took exception to Olbermann's claims that FRC and the pro-life movement was on the wrong side legally and morally.
"What is morally wrong about preventing someone from being dehydrated to death? What is legally wrong with protecting the life of someone who is innocent, not terminally ill, and who simply wants to live?" Schindler asked.
Schindler said that an "anti-life trend is taking shape in official Washington" because of the selections Obama is making.
It will happen more and more often with Bambi in the White House.
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Is Keith Olbermann the guy who can’t satisfy women in bed? Or is that somebody else in the media I’m thinking of?
Keith Olbermann, watch out! God will get you for that!
As Sarah Palin said in the Ziegler interview, Keith Olbermann is EVIL
I guess this means Olbermann wants to be “put down” when he gets old or sick..
I know an attorney to argue his case...
In an already crowded field, (B. Walters, Bob Costas, etc.) Ogreman is easily the biggest pseudo-intellectual on TV. He should have stuck to talking about the Yankees.
Send this idiot to Venezuela.
I shall use my time to fight the Perrelli appointment and shall not waste my time addressing the ex-sports reporter.
Olbermann could be a candidate for a retroactive partial birth abortion since his head is still inside.
That’s a short count.
Doctrinaire liberals cannot accept anyone that isn’t exactly in lockstep with themselves.
That may very well prove to be the poison pill for the Obama love affair with much of the media.
Olbermann just keeps getting crazier and crazier. He’s been trying to charge Bush with “war crimes” for weeks. What’s this nut going to rant about after Jan 20?
Man, that would be fitting. As for the Schiavo case attorney, all throughout that ordeal that guy creeped me out. He was downright ghoulish in his daily, death watch countdown. For almost a week, he was the harbinger of death himself.
You just hit the nail on the head. After Obama takes office, Olbermann will fade away due to a lack of interest. Since the Liberals will have little to do but go back to their favorite interactive gaming/fantasy networks.
He will become repeatedly cynical and hateful at just any conservative in the news and will become boring and predictable. Sort of like Al Franken did on Airhead Amerika.
Well, K.O., now that your Anti-Christ got elected, your demonic minions no longer need you so enyoy your early retirement coming up very soon.
Thanks to that d*ckhead, I didn't watch the Sunday Night NFL games this year. He was fired from ESPN cause he couldn't do sports and yet he ends up on the worst network to have ever existed. NBC's and PMSNBC's ratings show it.
We’re studying abortion case law in Constitutional Law. Beyond Roe being a morally bankrupt decision, it has absolutely no basis in the constitution. The appropriate test, if not initially thrown out for failing to state an issue appropriate for the court to address, is the rational basis test. In other words, did Texas have a rational basis for creating the law in question. Instead, the court decided to expand the penumbra of constitutional rights to include abortion. The court sort of alluded to the right of privacy, but really had no logical connection. All in all, a clear example of legislating from the bench in blatant disregard for the decisions of elected officials.
p.s. Marbury v. Madison was a joke. A politically opportune moment to slip in the notion of judicial review. Which is, of course, not in the Constitution.
They used the "right to privacy" which was somehow "discovered" in Griswold v. Connecticut (and one would think it odd that it would take 175 years to discover such a "clear" right if it really existed) to claim that this right of privacy somehow contained the implicit right to murder unborn children. The entire case was agenda-driven from the start.
Marbury v. Madison was a joke. A politically opportune moment to slip in the notion of judicial review. Which is, of course, not in the Constitution.
I agree that Marbury v. Madison was nothing more than a power grab by Marshall; however, we are stuck with it. But I do hope that Roe v. Wade is one day viewed with the same contempt that we now show such "gems" as Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson and Buck v. Bell.
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