Keith Olbermann Special Comment On Sarah Palin - 10/06/08
In tonight’s Special Comment, Keith Olbermann responds to Sarah Palin’s attacks on Barack Obama.
Keith Olbermann wasted no time in responding to Sarah Palin’s latest stump schtick. According to Palin, she’s decided that it’s “time to put on the heels and take off the gloves” in her efforts to sully Barack Obama. In tonight’s Special Comment, Olbermann takes the governor up on one of her suggestion and pulls no punches…and the results may not be what Palin had in mind.
As Olbermann notes, it’s rather puzzling that Palin would choose to focus upon linking Barack Obama to individuals of questionable character…or as she likes to infer…”terrorists”, given her own brow raising associations with a witch doctor and a secessionist organization run by an anti-American radical.
It seems to me that people who wear rose colored lipstick and run around in glass stilettos should think before they kick every hockey puck in the arena. After all, she wouldn’t want someone to suggest that her rhetoric is little more than a pig in a poke.
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You know, I love Keith but I think he went a little overboard last night. Denouncing the Obama smears is one thing. Calling attention to the skeletons in both McCain and Palin’s closets is one thing.
But he outright called Todd Palin a terrorist because he was part of an Alaskan Secessionist organization. I don’t agree with that.
The standard definition of a terrorist is someone who uses fear, intimidation and violence as a way of forcing undesirable political change on a populace - hell 90% of the current Republican party fits that description. But the current -popular- definition, the one that most Americans are going to use to define what a terrorist is isn’t the same. It’s going to be more like: “Somebody who blows shit up.” so unless Todd or that dude who said he had No use for the United States have actively killed people or blown things up they’re not going to qualify. I’m worried here that Keith is taking a legitimate concern and adding questionable hyperbole to it. Those center-left already have problems convincing people our concerns are legitimate without having to play that loose with the facts. I agree that the fact that the First Dude belonged to this organization and Sarah Palin was shooting videos for them should be brought up. But the terrorist accusation is a bit much.
Besides, If just being a secessionist is the same as being a terrorist then we have to take a large portion of the state of Vermont - who has been debating seceding over Bush’s power grasping and lump them into the same category as these wackos from Alaska and I’m just not comfortable with that.
Remains of Alaska Separatist Are Identified
This is really something Keith should have mentioned. That the guy died when a deal for plastic explosives went bad. But I don’t recall him citing that as a reason for why this guy could be considered a terrorist. So it just liked a hyperbole.