Keith Olbermann Special Comment: Ashley Todd racist hoax

Keith Olbermann: Finally tonight, a Campaign Comment about the fraudulent race attack claim, since acknowledged and recanted, by a John McCain campaign volunteer in Pennsylvania. You know the story quite well by now. It is a sad, demoralizing tale of a woman who can easily be summarized by the term "B-Actress." Ashley Todd was not sexually assaulted by a big black man.

He did not carve the letter "B" onto her face to punish her for supporting John McCain. It apparently never dawned on her, or resembled less a cut, than an abrasion done by a weapon no more sinister than a nail file. She was not even at the ATM where she claimed the attack took place. It apparently never dawned on her that the machine had security video and she wouldn't be on it.

And clearly somewhere in her mind was a calculation that a story like this one, with layer upon layer of racial threat, could be some kind of game changer for the presidential candidate she worked to get elected in at least two states for at least two months...And much more disturbingly, so was her calculation. At least until her story, in retrospect a ludicrous confection, fell apart and she had to confess her crime, she had inspired dozens, perhaps hundreds, of journalists and bloggers and all those in between on both political sides, to stand over this nation's ever-present tinderbox of racial prejudice, and racial fear, and racial hatred.

And she had brought them all matches. We already know what the executive Vice President of Fox News had written while his organization was collectively perched next to that tinderbox, waiting for the slightest excuse to light it, and our nation, ablaze the over-the-top caveat, thrown in for a window-dressing "balance" with not the slightest intent that it should be taken seriously:

"If the incident turns out to be a hoax, Sen. McCain's quest for the presidency is over, forever linked to race-baiting."

That is the well-known part of what John Moody wrote. What preceded it was far less publicized, and far more important.

"Part of the appeal of, and the unspoken tension behind, Sen. Obama's campaign is his transformational status as the first African-American to win a major party's presidential nomination.

"That does not mean that he has erased the mutual distrust between black and white Americans, and this incident could become a watershed event in the 11 days before the election.

"If Ms. Todd's allegations are proven accurate, some voters may revisit their support for Sen. Obama, not because they are racists, with due respect to Rep. John Murtha, but because they suddenly feel they do not know enough about the Democratic nominee."

Moody wrote that.

It wouldn't be racism to suddenly blame Barack Obama for an attack on a white woman by a black man intending to punish her not supporting another black man. It would be a "watershed moment" because it somehow meant "they suddenly feel as if they do not know enough about the Democratic nominee."

Its only connection would be racial, but the response would not be racism. The tinderbox, again. And a very large match, provided by John Moody. I know this man. He is not stupid, not careless. He has, in fact, an educational background identical to my own, right down to the same college radio station. He knew what he was writing: a rationalization for racism.

This is where you come in, Sen. McCain. No histrionics from me to you this time, Senator. No yelling. Just a plea. Say something about this. Now. Say something strongly and succinctly about the unacceptability of what happened and how some of your supporters tried to exploit it...Senator, of all the things I don't like about you or your campaign I have never thought you a racist. As imperfect as was your moment with the Minnesota woman, mumbling about Arabs, I thought it was the finest moment of your campaign...Sen. McCain , once again—grab the microphone.
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[trndkllr]

what a sad women she must be to even think she could even get away with it

[TheDarkmaleX]

Standing up against hate either black or white is equal and the truth like Keith Olberman ALWAYS does in a logical and compassionate manner.

[RightWingHunter666]

Keith keeps it real.

[IndividualParties]

She carved that 'B' backwards in a mirror.

hahahahahahaha,

[highwater03]

@StoogeWatcher

A red herring is an attempt at deflecting attention away from the argument and/or story that is being discussed. And you continuously do it.................

The argument is Ashley Todd you troll........................

[StoogeWatcher]

@highwater03 Red herring my ass, Nazi bitch. Why isn't Crystal Mangum in jail for her rape hoax? In fact, Mangum tried to PROFIT from her lies with a book deal!

[StoogeWatcher]

@highwater03 Apparently, you liberal fascist bitches are idiots. Anyone who commits a rape hoax or phony hate crime deserves to be locked up.

[highwater03]

@TheDarkmaleX

Flyboy and Stooge always do this......

they go to every ashley todd video trying to deflect attention away from it towards the Duke rape case. lol Pathetic.

Notice how neither one will ever condemn Ashley Todd. Ever.

[highwater03]

@StoogeWatcher

4 times...........

4 times you brought up a case that has nothing to do with this. Do you even know how to argue the case at hand, or do you like bringing red herrings into every single argument you try to make?

[StoogeWatcher]

@TheDarkmaleX And where was Olbermann's compassion for those Duke lacrosse players?

[StoogeWatcher]

@trndkllr Her black equivalent did.

[StoogeWatcher]

I wonder if Keith Olbermann ever denounced the Duke lacrosse rape hoax. Of course not. Olbermann supports black racists like Jesse Jackson and lying whore Crystal Mangum.