Olbermann on McCain: MSNBC 09/02/08

Keith Olbermann and David Gregory
"Decision 2008: RNC" 10:09am
Analysis

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KEITH OLBERMANN: In the [Fred] Thompson speech, after giving what was, in many respects, a very moving and detailed explanation of the misery that John McCain suffered as a prisoner of war on behalf of this nation, Fred Thompson actually said, 'Now being a POW doesn't qualify anyone to be president,' and, of course, when General Wesley Clark said something like that, the bus rolled over him kind of quickly. Are those nit-picking points or are they deviations from the standard republican text, David?

DAVID GREGORY: Well, I think these are—this is fodder for some of the debate that will come out of here; just that kind of examination of these remarks and some of the claims that will be made. You know, just—you mentioned the comments of General Clark and Thompson almost going out of his way to say that the biography of McCain—the fact that he was a POW cannot be asserted as itself a qualification. I thought that they went farther to make the point that it's a point of character and that it fills out the biography and I think that was more of the point there and as you say the other point about allies trusting McCain and enemies fearing him, I think, was all to the point of John McCain on the world stage.

KO2 JM 09-02-08 22.09 (JR#455) UAa

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• POW
• McCain
• veteran

[lkfluty]

McCain also forgave his captors and visited Vietnam. He was much more magnanimous than I would but I did not endure those circumstances. Hardly a sociopath.

[TheShamanSZ]

Yeah, it was about an interview on CNN. Frankly, I think that it mad McCain's spokesman look like a moron. When you brag about someone's important decision and can't even name one think they actually did, you don't have a right to complain about the media being unfair.

It reminds me of Colbert' quip about reality having a "liberal" bias.

[AROUGHDRAFT]

I don't get this... The clip is from MSNBC. Oh, yes, I DO get it.

[Scyllax]

MCCain knows what foreigners are like. He was their guest for five years, so he wants to torture them and kill them for what they did to him, just the sort of sociopath we want to follow psychoboy Bush.

[TheShamanSZ]

CNN?

[wReCktangle]

CNN = Fox News for Democrats

[Chip53]

So when do we get to see Olbies head explode? We've been patient but how much longer? i guess we'll have to camp out in front of the TV with the popcorn a little longer.

You know, Olberwienie better hope McCain wins, MSNBC would be can him if he loses.

[phineastbuster]

Would Olbermann ever "nit pick"? OMG, who would ever say that. Olbermann has never "nit picked" a statement his colleagues made. I think it is reasonable when he tells Joe S. to "get a shovel" or Chris Matthews to "wrap this up".

No! Please, Olbermann is so very professional he would never down grade his on co-hosts.