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Olbermann Revels in Limbaugh Getting Yanked Like Imus: 'Best Thing I've Heard'
News Busters ^ | April 12, 2007 | Brent Baker

Posted on 04/12/2007 7:48:34 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182

Posted by Brent Baker on April 12, 2007 - 22:02.

Keith Olbermann opened his Wednesday MSNBC show by displaying video of Rush Limbaugh on screen as he smeared conservative talk radio as “racist,” asking, “Why have none from the racist right been protested, boycotted or fired?” He then delighted Thursday night when guest Sam Seder, of the far-left Air America Radio, predicted “the next time Limbaugh slips up, which I think is inevitable, I think you're going to see this sort of same type of reaction.” A pleased Olbermann exclaimed: “It's the best thing I've heard in a couple of days. From your lips to God's ears!” Olbermann had asked Seder: “How does Rush Limbaugh or Michael Savage get away with worse than what Don Imus said?”

With “SELECTIVE OUTRAGE: Imus Was Not Alone” on screen, Olbermann teased Wednesday's Countdown by wondering: “Where's the other outrage? Rush Limbaugh calls Barack Obama 'Halfrican-American.' Michael Savage says the Voting Rights Act means 'a chad in every crack house.' Neal Boortz says Cynthia McKinney looks like a 'ghetto-slut.' Why have none from the racist right been protested, boycotted or fired?” He soon cued up race-hustler Jesse Jackson: “Why are there not efforts to remove them from the air?”

Olbermann's crusade to remove conservatives from the air matched the spin forwarded Tuesday night on CNN's Paula Zahn Now, as recounted in Matthew Balan's NewsBusters post. Zahn set up an April 10 taped piece: ”Conservative Rush Limbaugh, who has offended just about every minority group, drew special criticism for attacking actor Michael J. Fox.” After regurgitating that controversy, Zahn moved to the very same quote highlighted by Olbermann: “Limbaugh later apologized. But the criticism for that low blow hasn't stopped him from lashing out at presidential hopeful, Barack Obama, calling him 'Halfrican.'” Viewers then heard audio of Limbaugh: “Barack Obama has picked up another endorsement, Halfrican-American actress Halle Berry. As a Halfrican-American, I am honored to have Ms. Berry's support, as well as the support of other Halfrican-Americans.” Zahn proceeded to highlight the same Boortz comment about McKinney as Olbermann would do 24 hours later.

Olbermann and Zahn are humor-challenged since Limbaugh's “Halfrican-American”quip was obviously a play on “African-American,” since Obama had a white mother and an African father, not a charge that he's only half American.

A brief transcript of the relevant portion of the exchange between Olbermann and Seder on the April 12 Countdown:

Keith Olbermann: “I'll ask you the ten million dollar question: How does Rush Limbaugh or Michael Savage get away with worse than what Don Imus said?”

Sam Seder of Air America: “I'll tell you something, well I think one there's a certain expectation that they're going to hear it more from Limbaugh although, you know, he, Dick Cheney was on his program several weeks ago. I listened in to Limbaugh today and he's already warning his audience that they're going to be coming for Limbaugh next. And I think, frankly, he's got to be a little bit worried now because the bar has just been raised. I mean, corporations have said we're not going to tolerate this any more and the next time Limbaugh slips up, which I think is inevitable, I think you're going to see this sort of same type of reaction.”

Olbermann: “It's the best thing I've heard in a couple of days.”

Seder, over Olbermann: “I hope so.”

Olbermann: “From your lips to God's ears!”



TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: censorship; freespeech; imus; limbaugh; olbermann; olberpunnk; rush; talkradio
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To: P-40

No one is safe, not even Rush. All it would take would be one “incident,” and the MSM and race baiters would seize on it in a huge orchestrated campaign to get rid of him. They would scare the advertisers away thru threat and bluster. Rush lost his job on ESPN and was excoriated repeatedly over a period of years to this very date about his harmless remarks concerning Donovan McNabb.


121 posted on 04/13/2007 6:16:24 AM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar
Actually Olbermann is Counterfeiting the noise of thunder and believing he is Zeus. Rush has been watched since the be began. MediaMatters.com exists to do nothing else but monitor the right and there are others.

Olbermann is irritating, not scary himself.

122 posted on 04/13/2007 6:20:07 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182

To ensure an Obama or Clinton victory the leftists think they have to control the media and stifle the voices of reason. Knowing they can grip the the weakminded with global warming and other fallacies, they must feel confident they can pull it off.


123 posted on 04/13/2007 6:23:46 AM PDT by Fitzcarraldo (If the Moon didn't exist, people would have traveled to Mars by now.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
.Olbermann is irritating, not scary himself.

Olbermann is not by himself nor are his views unique. Sharpton, emboldened by his success, says this is only the beginning. You can bet that the Left will not only monitor Rush more closely, but also, review his past shows to find some sort of pretext to get the ball rolling. I believe Hillary would like to shut down or muzzle most of talk radio before 2008. Although Imus was a venue to mostly libs, people like McCain and Lieberman [a liberal but not on the war] were regulars. This venue has now been shut down.

124 posted on 04/13/2007 6:28:10 AM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar
All it would take would be one “incident,”

It would have to be a mighty big incident. His show brings in a lot of money. I doubt he would be so foolish as to issue more than a simple apology either.
125 posted on 04/13/2007 6:29:16 AM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: kabar

Sharpton will certainly try to feather his nest at the expense
of anyone who would be of use to his scam. I do perceive resentment against him. I hope he overplays his hand.


126 posted on 04/13/2007 6:32:50 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182
The race hustlers and grievance mongers have been coming at Limbaugh with hammers and tongs (and cliches) for so long, he’s essentially immunized from their attacks.

I think the difference between Limbaugh and most of his White critics is that Limbaugh is genuinely color blind; I don’t think he cares a whit about a person’s race. Most White liberals secretly hold Black people in contempt, they ooze patronization and condescension out of every pore.

I think a lot of Black people sense this. Astute con artist like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have made a career out of it, they game the White network execs into ordaining them the spokesmen for the Race, since they willingly adopt the attitudes and postures congenial to the execs’ world view of Blacks as outraged victims.

Clarence Thomas, Professors Sowell and Williams, can all go to the back of the bus, as far as they are concerned.

127 posted on 04/13/2007 6:36:46 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ("We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.")
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To: Anti-Bubba182
For Al it is about power and money. He resents being eclipsed by Obama as the token Black candidate for President. I think Biden, by accident, actually spoke the truth about Obama and his indirect comparison with Al and Jesse.

Biden: “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

128 posted on 04/13/2007 6:44:11 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Proud2BeRight

A very slimy POS.


129 posted on 04/13/2007 6:45:59 AM PDT by bfree (liberalism is the enemy of freedom!!!)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Olbermann isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer. Someone will bait him and in his exhuberance, he’ll slip out with something that’ll relegate himself to the “has-bin”. Imus set himself up by actually thinking he was offering a positive comment on the team's toughness.

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From the April 4 edition of MSNBC’s Imus in the Morning:

IMUS: So, I watched the basketball game last night between — a little bit of Rutgers and Tennessee, the women’s final.

ROSENBERG: Yeah, Tennessee won last night — seventh championship for [Tennessee coach] Pat Summitt, I-Man. They beat Rutgers by 13 points.

IMUS: That’s some rough girls from Rutgers. Man, they got tattoos and — —

McGUIRK: Some hard-core hos.

IMUS: That’s some nappy-headed hos there. I’m gonna tell you that now, man, that’s some — woo. And the girls from Tennessee, they all look cute, you know, so, like — kinda like — I don’t know.

McGUIRK: A Spike Lee thing.

IMUS: Yeah.

McGUIRK: The Jigaboos vs. the Wannabes — that movie that he had.

IMUS: Yeah, it was a tough —

McCORD: Do The Right Thing.

McGUIRK: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

IMUS: I don’t know if I’d have wanted to beat Rutgers or not, but they did, right?

ROSENBERG: It was a tough watch. The more I look at Rutgers, they look exactly like the Toronto Raptors.

IMUS: Well, I guess, yeah.

RUFFINO: Only tougher.

McGUIRK: The [Memphis] Grizzlies would be more appropriate.

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It's been my observation those who rush to judgement of someone's error have either been guilty of or are soon to be making the same mistake.

Careful of your six, Olbermann. As with everyone, there's a very vulnerable place on your back you can't easily guard alone.

130 posted on 04/13/2007 6:48:22 AM PDT by azhenfud (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

When Olberman talks, its like a tree falling in the forest when no one is there, he has no audience so his words float to the ground and are absorbed in the muck he has created.


131 posted on 04/13/2007 7:03:48 AM PDT by hgro
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To: Anti-Bubba182

And what about the LA Times that ran the editorial Obama the magic Negro?


132 posted on 04/13/2007 7:07:26 AM PDT by takeemout (Doing my part to be Carbon Positive)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Limbaugh does not offend his listeners, that is the difference.
133 posted on 04/13/2007 7:09:24 AM PDT by Dead Dog
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To: free_for_now

Olberman is the guy we all wanted to “punch out” in grade school or high school.

Only problem is when we confronted him, he would shrivel away.

Attack is the only way to handle these hypocrites...........


134 posted on 04/13/2007 7:40:11 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: Anti-Bubba182

When does Obelbormann get pulled for tearing up the Ann Coulter doll?


135 posted on 04/13/2007 7:41:37 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Can’t the liberals start their own countries somewhere, and then surrender?)
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To: free_for_now

Doberman is an a**hole.


136 posted on 04/13/2007 7:44:21 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Anti-Bubba182

That will be his next move and he’ll be more popular than ever! And now that he knows who are NOT his friends...well...


137 posted on 04/13/2007 7:46:06 AM PDT by Hildy ("man's reach exceeds his grasp"? It's a lie: man's grasp exceeds his nerve.)
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To: ct_libertarian

“time to SHRUG yet?”
I’m no Atlas, but......pretty damn close to time.


138 posted on 04/13/2007 8:01:50 AM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: period end of story

Do you have a point?


139 posted on 04/13/2007 8:47:29 AM PDT by Checkers (Name another U.S. President who has done more to combat illegal immigration than George W. Bush.)
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To: All

140 posted on 04/13/2007 12:15:19 PM PDT by southparkNationalist (I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear and let it pass through me.)
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