Keith Olbermann: Supsend your campaign McCain..

QuestionAuthority

Ok.. whatever some of you think of Keith Olbermann is what it is.. but he says some very true words here on what is happening in this presidential race.. it is getting crazy and these things being said are not cool in the slightest.. who ever you plan to vote for.. this is not where this country needs to be heading.. it needs to stop.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27188346/

And this is where the satire ends and the Special Comment begins. Because this is not even remotely funny.

1:25 p.m. Eastern Time, today, in 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, Senator 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 theater.

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.

polaris

yeah ... like i was saying about the electorate ...

edit: really, why are people always focusing their attention on the candidates for shit like this ... blame the fact there are people who eat this shit up on both sides ... if people were ignorant sheep - this shit wouldn't work ...

chromiam

what about Obama supports who wear shirts to rallys stating "Palin is a Cunt"??? Obama and his staff have said nothing about this...

nothinghead

chromiam wrote:

what about Obama supports who wear shirts to rallys stating "Palin is a Cunt"??? Obama and his staff have said nothing about this...

If you don't see the difference between a stupid t-shirt and people at a rally yelling, "terrorist" and "kill him," than I don't know what to tell you.

Yeah, they both suck, but they're not equal at all.

chromiam

nothinghead wrote:

If you don't see the difference between a stupid t-shirt and people at a rally yelling, "terrorist" and "kill him," than I don't know what to tell you.

Yeah, they both suck, but they're not equal at all.

Hate speech has NO place in this country whether it be verbal or non-verbal. The intent is the same.

nothinghead

chromiam wrote:

Hate speech has NO place in this country whether it be verbal or non-verbal. The intent is the same.

Really? Purposely framing one man as an Islamic terrorist and screaming "kill him" at a rally is the same as wearing a t-shirt?

I'm with you, they're both inappropriate. And, wrong is wrong regardless of who is doing it. But they're still not the same. The intent is not the same either. No one is wearing a t-shirt that says "Sarah Palin is a Cunt" and inciting other members of a rally to kill her.

Wobbie

chromiam wrote:

what about Obama supports who wear shirts to rallys stating "Palin is a Cunt"???

Where did you see/hear this? I'm not buying it.

chromiam

imalive wrote:

Where did you see/hear this? I'm not buying it.

http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2008/10/liberal-d-bags-wear-sarah-palin-is-a-cunt-t-shirts-at-obama-event-abc-calls-it-vile.html

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/vile-anti-palin.html

Solat13

chromiam wrote:

http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2008/10/liberal-d-bags-wear-sarah-palin-is-a-cunt-t-shirts-at-obama-event-abc-calls-it-vile.html

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/vile-anti-palin.html

Gotta love the city of Brotherly Love.

Wobbie

chromiam wrote:

http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2008/10/liberal-d-bags-wear-sarah-palin-is-a-cunt-t-shirts-at-obama-event-abc-calls-it-vile.html

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/vile-anti-palin.html

I stand corrected, Chromiam. I'm at a loss for words....

QuestionAuthority

I am sorry but wearing a tshirt (which is also wrong) is NOT the same as yelling "kill him", "off with his head", "terrorist".. how can you NOT see the difference?

NMyTree

polaris wrote:

yeah ... like i was saying about the electorate ...

edit: really, why are people always focusing their attention on the candidates for shit like this ... blame the fact there are people who eat this shit up on both sides ... if people were ignorant sheep - this shit wouldn't work ...

Listen, you're in part correct. The blame goes in part to the moronic, ignoramuses who absorb this dispicable crap, let it settle in their tiny brains and then go around spitting this crap out of their mouths...as if it is truth.

But, the blame is absolutely shared by all who promote and spread the crap to the idiots. They know exactly what they are doing. They know the lemmings will suck this crap up, because they are playing to their mindless hate and ignorance. They know the effect it will have.

So McCain/Palin and their team are not absolved from responsibility or blame.

Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. Doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Doesn't mean it's the good, positive and productive thing to do.

McCain, his campaign team and The Repugs know this is the only approach that will give them a fighting chance. Play on the hate, ignorance and fear of mindless twits who are lucky they can find their own dicks (or tits), with their own hands.

It doesn't take a genius to realize that the Repugs are using these dispicable tactics to dirty the water and prey on the lowest common denominator, of the most uneducated, ignorant and narrow-minded demographic in this country.

You can say what you want about Keith Olberman, but 99% of the time he is right on the money and hits the nail right on the head. He often says the things and addresses the issues that many Americans should have seen, acknowledged and spoke against, already.

I know Olberman pisses a lot of Repugs off and they hate him. But he is just about always correct and accurate.....99% of the time. He hits the mark, hits the target and hits it hard.

polaris

NMyTree wrote:

Listen, you're in part correct. The blame goes in part to the moronic, ignoramuses who absorb this dispicable crap, let it settle in their tiny brains and then go around spitting this crap out of their mouths...as if it is truth.

But, the blame is absolutely shared by all who promote and spread the crap to the idiots. They know exactly what they are doing. They know the lemmings will suck this crap up, because they are playing to their mindless hate and ignorance. They know the effect it will have.

So McCain/Palin and their team are not absolved from responsibility or blame.

Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. Doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Doesn't mean it's the good, positive and productive thing to do.

McCain, his campaign team and The Repugs know this is the only approach that will give them a fighting chance. Play on the hate, ignorance and fear of mindless twits who are lucky they can find their own dicks (or tits), with their own hands.

It doesn't take a genius to realize that the Repugs are using these dispicable tactics to dirty the water and prey on the lowest common denominator, of the most uneducated, ignorant and narrow-minded demographic in this country.

You can say what you want about Keith Olberman, but 99% of the time he is right on the money and hits the nail right ojn the head. He often says the things and addresses the issues that many Americans should have seen, acknowledged and spoke against, already.

I know Olberman pisses a lot of Repugs off and they hate him. But he is just about always correct and accurate.....99% of the time. He hits the mark, hits the target and hits it hard.

ok ... so, you have a lying sack of shit candidate using low-brow techniques and you want to berate him ... go ahead ... he doesn't give a shit nor does he care ... that's my point ... i'm not saying it's right - but this shit happens cuz it works ... and that ultimately is the fault of the electorate ...

g under p

chromiam wrote:

http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2008/10/liberal-d-bags-wear-sarah-palin-is-a-cunt-t-shirts-at-obama-event-abc-calls-it-vile.html

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/vile-anti-palin.html

Utter stupidity right there, and if we were at a rally I'd tell them to take it off or they should leave. Those are some asses right there for sure.

pEACE

NMyTree

Responsibility lies on both sides. No matter how you slice it.

Certainly a con man who swindles money out of elderly people, does it because he finds ignorant, or fragile or naive people....to swindle. So part of the problem and responsibility has to fall to his victims for not educating themselves, researching the swindler and using good judgement.

But the con man is still a con man. A predator preying on a certain demographic's fears and ignorance. He's still a crook and punishable by law.

Our goal should be to live in as best of a civilized society, as we can.

Not make excuses for the dispicable amongst us and re-direct the blame only to one side.

polaris

NMyTree wrote:

Responsibility lies on both sides. No matter how you slice it.

Certainly a con man who swindles money out of elderly people, does it because he finds ignorant, or fragile or naive people....to swindle. So part of the problem and responsibility has to fall to his victims for not educating themselves, researching the swindler and using good judgement.

But the con man is still a con man. A predator preying on a certain demographic's fears and ignorance. He's still a crook and punishable by law.

Our goal should be to live in as best of a civilized society, as we can.

Not make excuses for the dispicable amongst us and re-direct the blame only to one side.

i'm not saying the politicians are blameless ... but if you keep buying solar-powered flashlights ... i'm gonna blame you more than the guy selling them ...

the thing with this - is none of this is "illegal" ... they make their rallies to pander to their base ... just like i can sell you some worthless piece of shit item ... if you choose to buy it because i make you think that it'll give you 10 years of good luck - that's your own fault for buying it ... yeah, i'm a scumbag but i also have your money in my pocket and in this day and age - isn't that all anyone cares about?

i would love to live in a world where shit like this doesn't happen - but you have to look at the crux of the problem and that is ultimately ignorance ...

Speakers

chromiam wrote:

what about Obama supports who wear shirts to rallys stating "Palin is a Cunt"??? Obama and his staff have said nothing about this...

Um...I think they are just repeating what McCain called his wife in public a little while back.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/07/report-mccains-profane-ti_n_95429.html

NMyTree

polaris wrote:

i'm not saying the politicians are blameless ... but if you keep buying solar-powered flashlights ... i'm gonna blame you more than the guy selling them ...

the thing with this - is none of this is "illegal" ... they make their rallies to pander to their base ... just like i can sell you some worthless piece of shit item ... if you choose to buy it because i make you think that it'll give you 10 years of good luck - that's your own fault for buying it ... yeah, i'm a scumbag but i also have your money in my pocket and in this day and age - isn't that all anyone cares about?

i would love to live in a world where shit like this doesn't happen - but you have to look at the crux of the problem and that is ultimately ignorance ...

I acknowledged the crux of the problem......several times. I just feel (regardless that it's not illegal) that McCain/Palin and their Repbug campaign team, should be held accountable for this dispicable crap. And if Obama and his team do the same thing, so should he.

I'm not saying arrest they should be charged with a crime, but that the election process should have stipulations and laws to avoid this kind of crap. It's sickening.

NMyTree

What I find rather interesting, is this.

A guy like Imus makes his "nappy-headed Ho" comment and a few million overly-sensitive americans went berzerk over it. He gets hammered in the media and fired.

But during campaigns for the presidential position of the Unted States Of America; it's anything goes. What load of pretentious crap.

Strangest Tribe

I've made note of this hate months ago on this very forum. I witness it almost daily coming from people that I thought better of.

I started several threads about this and I'm not wanting a cookie or gold star, I just wanted to bring this up now that it's coming to an ugly head and peeps here thought I was exagerating or fearmongering.

josevolution

McCAIN has had plenty of time to put and end to the negative vibe that his campaign has taken ,and he never has said very simple " i don't condone any of the negative name calling crap " he could of said it at all hi's rally once it started but he has chosen not to so hi's pit bull vp has kept it going ....desperate they are .