Posted on 08/04/2008 8:28:57 AM PDT by Bodhi1
If there is a chief spokesman for the far left, it has to be MSNBC's Keith Olbermann. It is difficult to think of a talking head that is more fawned over by liberals. On his nightly cable television show, the #1 show on MSNBC, he "analyzes" the news and adds his own angry, leftist flavor. One of his segments is to name a "Worst Person in the World." People such as George W. Bush, Karl Rove, Bill O'Reilly and Robert Novak have made the list.
Recently, he named Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia the "Worst Person" for his role in the Heller v. DC verdict, which allows people in Washington, D.C. to have a gun to defend themselves. Terrible, I know. In naming the conservative justice to the top spot, he said a couple of the most idiotic things I have ever heard. First, he said:
Despite years of fog created by the NRA and right-wing organizations, that isn't very complicated: For the purposes of forming a state militia, you're entitled to keep and bear arms. Obviously, those would have to be the kind of arms in use in 1791, when the Bill of Rights was passed -- the musket, the wheel-lock, the flint lock, the 13th century Chinese hand canon. Stuff like that.
According to this Constitutional scholar, "arms" invented after the ratification of the Constitution are not covered by said Constitution. The irony here is that he was exercising his First Amendment rights on a medium first used for news over 100 years after the ratification of the Constitution.
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The best response to Olbermann is to shun him.
So here’s today’s lesson in liberal logic:
As we understand from the quotes of liberals, the Constitution is supposedly a ‘living breathing document’...
But despite that, according to this ‘prominent’ liberal the 2nd amendment only applies to 18th century firearms?
Who knew!
What poppycock....
Is Mr. Olbermann for real, or is he just putting people on and mocking the left as a parody of them?
I have a hard time believing he is genuine in the least.
Actually, I have no choice. It’s too tough on the carpet if I watch him. All the barfing, and screaming so loud there’s spit coming out my mouth and so on.
I agree. Nobody needs to waste time on this guy and his three viewers.
Legal press as the founding father's intended:
Press of mass destruction:
And, of course, the concealable Saturday night special press would be outlawed:
< /Sarcasm? You can't handle the sarcasm!>
Tell me it ain't so!
“I’ve heard some scuttlebutt that Olbermann will be IN THE BOOTH for Sunday Night Football this year (on NBC). Does anyone know if this is true? Last year, he came on at halftime (and that was bad enough) but there is no way on earth I can watch an entire Sunday Night game with this kook in the booth.
Tell me it ain’t so! “
I’ve soured quite a bit on the NFL after the NFL decided to make Cleveland an object lesson in sports being a business. They taught me well, so I can take it or leave it, there is no loyalty.
That being said, last year I avoided Sunday Night football because of KO, if he’s in the booth, I won’t watch at all.
When I explain the true nature of the Second Amendment, to my liberal “friends” it makes them crazy: It was patterned after the Swiss model, where all able-bodied males are considered part of their defense plan, standing ready to fight against an invasion. Here it’s optional, but as Japanese Imperial Navy Admiral Yamamoto said during the planning of the attack on Pearl Harbor, “It is impossible to invade America; there’d be a gun behind every blade of grass.”
Naturally, America-hating liberals see the Second as a major obstacle to their objective of establishing socialism here, which is exactly what it’s all about, and exactly why they’re all in favor of gun control. Don’t let any of them talk you into believing it’s about anything else.
Keith Olbermann is a loose screw.
This is why we have to work so hard to get the Republicans in for this election. We have to protect the Supreme Court decisions and our constitution for one thing. Otherwise we stand to go way, way off track and not in a good direction.
“Is Mr. Olbermann for real, or is he just putting people on and mocking the left as a parody of them?”
For real. Ailes said he fired Doberman because he’s crazy.
If it’s true, they’ve lost ME as a viewer.
Tell me it ain't so!
Relax. Just call the suits at NBC and tell them that under Nancy Pelosi's Fairness Doctrine if they put a raging leftist like Olbermann in the booth they will be forced to put Rush Limbaugh in there with him.
>>If there is a chief spokesman for the far left, it has to be MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann.
Many liberals are moaning over the fact that Olby & ESPN
has been removed from their Comcast Expanded basic (need
to subscribe to higher tier or something, or get a digital box).
Some comments from the Save Progressive Radio Boston
yahoo group:
>>Given that Concast is run by two men who have donated MILLIONS to President Bush and Republican causes, are you surprised that they might try to stifle Keith, Rachel and Dan?
>>This channel is owned by the Corporation that owns USA, Bravo, and soon The Weather Channel. I’ve read in the past that News Corp used its financial muscle to get the Fox Gnus Channel on just about every cable system in the US of A and elsewhere...why hasn’t GE Universal
done the same for MSNBC? I’ve read elsewhere that there are some markets where MSNBC was never made available. I recall that it stumbled out of the starting gate, being a successor to a failed
network featuring talk shows, but still, it DID have the letters NBC
behind it (Microsoft, not so much).
OOPS! I meant Olby and _MSNBC_!
Olberman’s overwrought self-seriousness is one of the most sublime, unintentionally hilarious spectacles i’ve ever witnessed.
That sounds plausible. Keith Olbermann is the Michael Savage of the left.
“Relax. Just call the suits at NBC and tell them that under Nancy Pelosi’s Fairness Doctrine if they put a raging leftist like Olbermann in the booth they will be forced to put Rush Limbaugh in there with him.”
So naieve.
The Fairness Doctrine will be interpreted by liberal bureaucrats. Therefore, Olbermann is a moderate, middle of the road commentator who needs no balance. Rush is a fascist rightie who needs to be muzzled.
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