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Massachusetts: Olbermann Cries Racism [Driving a pickup truck = you're a racist]
Newsbusters ^ | January 19, 2010 | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 01/20/2010 6:56:13 PM PST by Lorianne

Amidst the innumerable excuses we're bound to hear for Martha Coakley's defeat, credit Keith Olbermann with likely the most loathsome. The Countdown host would explain away the Scott Brown victory by accusing his supporters of . . . racism.

HOWARD FINEMAN: ... I think for most of the American people race is no respect a part of the equation. Maybe not in Massachusetts but maybe in some places there are codes, there are images, there are pick-up trucks. You can say there's a racial aspect --

OLBERMANN: O-o-o-f. What were the Scott Brown ads, though? Every one of the Scott Brown ads had him in a pick-up truck.

FINEMAN: That's why I mentioned pick-up trucks. My mind goes back to Fred Thompson down in Tennessee.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: crazypeople; democrats; ma2010; obama; teaparty
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1 posted on 01/20/2010 6:56:15 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

That’s rich. ‘Overbite’ doesn’t even DRIVE. LMAO!


2 posted on 01/20/2010 6:57:46 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
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To: Lorianne

Personally, I think Olbermann is a closet racist.

Among the other things he’s in the closet about . . .


3 posted on 01/20/2010 6:58:27 PM PST by filbert (More filbert at http://www.medary.com--I've gone rogue!)
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To: Lorianne

KO will be a special specimen for brain doctors when he leaves this earth....


4 posted on 01/20/2010 6:59:20 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (I Upped My Monthly Donation To FR....Now, Up Yours.....)
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To: Lorianne

Hey Olbie. Blame Teddy. If he hadn’t up and died you wouldn’t be having this conversation.


5 posted on 01/20/2010 6:59:33 PM PST by csmusaret (Oops. My karma just ran over my dogma.)
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To: Lorianne

I have a hybrid suv & a pick up..I’m obviously having some kind of redneck yuppie racist climate change issues. Olbie-won, help me.


6 posted on 01/20/2010 7:00:21 PM PST by sockmonkey
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To: filbert

That’s funny.

I see black guys, and Hispanics, and even Asians driving pickups everyday. Sometimes wearing cowboy hats. Sometimes with Union bumber stickers on them. Oh, and women. I seem women driving pickup trucks too.

I guess they’re all self-loathing, self-hating racists and sexists?


7 posted on 01/20/2010 7:01:07 PM PST by JoenTX (Don't Tread on Me)
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To: Lorianne

Olbermann is a strange combination of Lewis Carroll characters, speaking randomly or using odd logic to reach conclusions.


8 posted on 01/20/2010 7:02:09 PM PST by jimfree (In 2012 Sarah Palin will continue to have more relevant quality executive experience than B. Obama.)
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To: Lorianne
My letter to Countdown:

Dear Mr. Olbermann:

I have to admit it. I was worried that the left might refrain from their old habit of assigning the usual evil motives to political opponents such as racism, misogyny, and homophobia, among many others. If those on the progressive bandwagon were to only put aside their hysteria and debate issues like rational human beings, rather than feeding their own bitter rage, they might actually be persuasive to those sitting on the fence. The Democrats may not be in the political peril in which they find themselves today. Your tirades against Senator-elect Scott Brown reassured me, however. I am pleased that as the rage from malcontents like yourself continues to spew forth, the politicians with whom you share political philosophy find themselves losing more power each day, and your ratings continue to dwindle.

For this relief, much thanks.

Best regards,

GenXFreedomFighter

9 posted on 01/20/2010 7:38:00 PM PST by GenXFreedomFighter
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To: Lorianne
I know of two black men who own pickup trucks (OMG, and F150s at that) and one Hispanic who owns a 4x4. Are they racists?

Honestly KO needs serious professional help. Someone needs to make sure he stays away from sharp objects.
10 posted on 01/20/2010 7:38:53 PM PST by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough!)
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To: JoenTX
Surely you are mistaken?
11 posted on 01/20/2010 7:40:06 PM PST by GSP.FAN (These are the times that try men's souls.)
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What were the Scott Brown ads, though? Every one of the Scott Brown ads had him in ... a pick-up truck.

(Read Olbermann quote out loud, then click on picture.)

12 posted on 01/20/2010 7:40:55 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Lorianne
Here's another pickup truck for you miserable rat libs:

Choke on it...

13 posted on 01/20/2010 7:42:08 PM PST by Noumenon ("Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he has grown so great?" - Julius Caesar)
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To: Lorianne
That's Racist!


14 posted on 01/20/2010 7:42:17 PM PST by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: Lorianne

I suppose then driving a Prius means you’re a liberal elite snob know-it-all.


15 posted on 01/20/2010 7:43:38 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Lorianne

Who said the “days of the big SUVs and pick up trucks is over”? (Hint: It starts with B)


16 posted on 01/20/2010 7:45:26 PM PST by CIDKauf (No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
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To: Lorianne
I drive a black pick-up truck... am I a double racist?

But it's Japanese... do I get a racial offset?

17 posted on 01/20/2010 7:48:13 PM PST by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: Lorianne

“Doesn’t drive because of a loss of depth perception caused by a head injury. In 1980, he hit his head on the top of a subway door while running into the waiting car.”

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0646021/bio


18 posted on 01/20/2010 7:48:35 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
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To: JoenTX

OMG, I saw an African-American man parking his truck in the parking garage today, and he was wearing a suit!!! He works and drives a truck!! So he must be a racist against himself!

These progressive morons are getting more and more ridiculous everyday, they are becoming nothing more than a joke, a bad joke at that.


19 posted on 01/20/2010 7:48:55 PM PST by Newton ('No arsenal is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.' -Ronald Reagan)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

wow.... now THAT explains everything. Massive Headwound Harry


20 posted on 01/20/2010 7:54:25 PM PST by Newton ('No arsenal is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.' -Ronald Reagan)
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