Olbermann Lies About Free Republic on MSNBC

Friday, June 12, 2009 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

Keith Olbermann, host of Countdown on MSNBC, lied about Free Republic last night in a segment on white supremacist James Von Brunn, the accused murderer of a Stephen Johns, a security guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.

Olbermann falsely said that Von Brunn was a poster at Free Republic and that Free Republic is a Republican website.

A request for a correction has been made to Countdown via phone and e-mail.

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Transcript available here.

Olbermann: Von Brunn himself posted on the Republican Web site, Free Republic, spouting the right-wing claim that Obama‘s birth certificate was forged, defending President Bush against Dan Rather, and claiming the media had tried to destroy Sarah Palin.

[OrangeHoof]

If everyone at FR is, therefore, an anti-Semite Hitler-loving extremist, then it is fair to say that everyone at the Huffington Post is a lesbian murderess who stabs their lover over 200 times with a screwdriver.

[Petronski]

So it's a very typical smear then: an unproven scandalous accusation that is very nearly impossible to disprove.

Olbermann is scum.

Worse: he's the smegma found in the folds of scum.

[Petronski]

Or have I insulted smegma?

[trisham]

That was rather rude.

[OrangeHoof]

Seriously. Sue Olbermann. This is defamation. Sue, baby, sue!

Suing Olberjerk isn't enough. Sue MSNBC. Sue General Electric and sue Microsoft. Only when the parent companies see him as a liability will Olberfart be gone.

[Petronski]

Sorry.

I feel a certain duty to be rude about Olbermann.

I should not have pinged you.

[paulycy]

Wow. That’s a word I didn’t expect to find on Free Republic.

[trisham]

Apology accepted. I detest him, too. :)

[Petronski]

That term does appear in physiology dictionaries.

[paulycy]

That term does appear in physiology dictionaries.

Oh, absolutely. But I never thought of Free Republic as a physiology dictionary, either. :0)

[MitchellC]

Please don’t insult the smegma.

[Petronski]

It is the most base, revolting thing I could think up on short notice.

[paulycy]

It is the most base, revolting thing I could think up on short notice.

Score one for you, then. You might try leaving a little bit to the imagination next time, though....

[The Wizard]

this is a surprise?

[bushfamfan]

He needs to be sued for slander. Protest the b**tard outside his studio. Get a videocamera and get in his face and hound this a**hat on this. They cannot be allowed to get away with this and I’m ready to take to the streets in protesting and taking it back to them. They are all in a panic and grasping at these lies to paint the opposition. It’s about to come back at you, Oldvarmin.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

I openly ask for the posting on free republic that Olbermann is talking about. Mr. Olbermann, please give us all a link to this man’s postings. If he posted there, it is important to the case. You could change a few minds and be a true thinking man’s journalist.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Obama is missing!

This is the post Olbemann is talking about. The shooter was quoted by a poster, "wannabegeek" and there is no evidence the poster and shooter were the same person.

[surfer]

We must be hitting a nerve if they want to attack us like this. Bring it on Olberman.

[GAB-1955]

Sue Olbermann. Let NBC get tired of paying his legal bills.

[Arrowhead1952]

Sue, Sue, and then sue again.

Sue, Sue, and then sue again for everything he and MSNBS is worth and give it to FR so we can do away with FReepathons for a while.