Keith Olbermann Special Comment: John Mccain plays Race Card

Scranton, Pennsylvania. During the warm-up act by a Red Meat Congressional Candidate aptly named Chris Hackett, Hackett mentions Obama and a Palin audience member shouts "Kill Him."

And Gov. Palin, as usual, does nothing about it says nothing to these thugs and psychos. She may not have heard this one. It is impossible to believe that by now she has not heard about the other ones. Her silence is deafening. Just as, Sen. McCain, you have done nothing when violence has been asserted. Correction. You have done one thing.

Asked why in real time you do not repudiate this hatefulness you act as if you are the victim. Speaking today to our NBC Station in Washington.

McCain: "Sure and I repudiated it as I have on several occasions. Unfortunately, Congressman John Lewis is an American hero who I admire who made the worst, most unacceptable statement a couple days ago that I have ever heard. He accused me and Sarah Palin of being involved in segregation, George Wallace and even made reference to a church bombing where children were killed. Senator Obama has not repudiated that statement. Senator Obama should do so immediately. Its the most outrageous thing that I have heard since in politics...it is disgraceful."

Disgraceful?

Obviously, Senator, you haven't heard your own speeches, and Gov. Palin's, and what people shout during them. And you haven't heard your state GOP Chair in Virginia, Jeffrey Frederick, giving talking points to 30 of your field-operatives heading out to canvass voters in Gainesville, Virginia. With a reporter present, telling them to try to forge a connection between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden to emphasize bombings and terrorism. And you haven't heard those volunteers, your volunteers Sen. McCain, shout back "and he won't salute the flag" and "we don't even know where Sen. Obama was really born."

Sen. McCain, these people are speaking for you! And how dare you try to claim Congressman Lewis was linking you to Gov. George Wallace's segregation. He was linking you, aptly, to Gov. George Wallace's lynch-mob mentality.

"As public figures with the power to influence and persuade," said Congressman Lewis, "Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are playing with fire, and if they are not careful, that fire will consume us all."

Sen. McCain, your supporters, at your events, are calling Obama a terrorist and traitor and are calling for him to be killed. And yet you keep bringing back these same rabid Right Wing nuts to deliberately stir these crowds into frenzies. And then you take offense when somebody who remembers the violence in our political past, calls you on it. You, sir, are responsible for a phalanx of individuals who are shouting fire in a crowded theatre. There are some things to respect and honor about you, Sen. McCain.

But on this, you're not only a fraud, Senator but you are tacitly inciting lunatics to violence. If you want to again grand-stand and suspend your campaign here's your big chance. Suspend your campaign now, until you, or somebody else, gets some control over it and it ceases to be a clear and present danger to the peace of this nation.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/olbermann-special-comment_n_134714.html

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[aamglg]

Keith is awesome. Smart, articulate and makes people who are wrong look like fools. People love to hate. I think thats sometimes a good measure of how good you really are in this world

[mavrek47]

When you look at 90% of the RED states, they are the MOST uneducated dumb-shits with the HIGHEST drop out rates. That alone should tell you something. Just look at who they voted in over the last 8 years....."W" is dumber than a rock. Instead of voting on election day, R's should make an appointment to have an MRI or CAT SCAN done on your brain to see what neurological disorder you have, or see if you have a brain that processes logical thinking, or better yet, see if you even have one at all.

[hughes7520]

@phantomlord54 I'll agree with you on that WHEN you show me the signs that were so vitriotic and hateful. Okay?

[MyTotalRemedy]

Olbermann is a white Uncle Tom.

[salem293]

hes also a fucken homo faggot

[phantomlord54]

I'm no fan of Bush, but has ole Olby ever ONCE condemned the INCREDIBLY vitriolic and hateful signs and language brought forth in rallies decrying his presidency???

[Robo1415]

This guy is a total dunce.He was bashing Bush over the wars,but now that his incompetent oaf is President,he says nothing.Meanwhile Americans continue to die and the "Anti-War" movement is no where to be found.....

[crd721]

If Barry O'Malley's middle name was Hussein, then they would still have gone after his middle name.

[charlytsh]

One big problem with Americans is that most of can't think for yourselves, it's very sad.

[StashBurners]

i love this guy

[OldestOzzyFan]

So now that McCain has been out of the picture for months, who's prompting the people to talk against Obama now? Aleins?