Keith Olbermann and MSNBC: The Flying, Fickle Finger of Fate Points at YOU (Hate Speech/Lynch Lieberman/Salem Witch Trial Edition)

The Flying, Fickle Finger of Fate spins madly, and then stops every week pointing at a conspicuous example of stupidity/evil in the previous week. This week Then Finger--represented by a statuette of a pointing INDEX finger, came to rest pointing steadily at Keith Olbermann and MSNBC (NOT a "news" network, but a propaganda outlet for the Obama Administration).

Yes, it is once again time to award The Finger to deserving recipients, being my unauthorized reincarnation of the old "Laugh In" TV show feature--where The Finger was usually presented by Dick Martin, who I suggest you use as a visual aid to properly visualize the ceremony below. As was true of Nancy Pelosi (last week's recipient, and deserving of the award this week again, as usual), Keith Olbermann and MSNBC would be recipients of this award every week, had not the panel of judges decided to disqualify them from further consideration, to give others a chance at the coveted/dreaded Finger. However, I have not watched Keith Olbermann or MSNBC in a long time. I relaxed that policy (regretting it bitterly) for purposes of getting a feeling as to how the recent election was being reported. I honestly don't see how anyone can stand to watch this obvious propaganda. Wait. NO ONE DOES. But since I went through the pain of watching this heavy handed propaganda, Keith Olbermann and MSNBC wre made once again eligible, for one week only, for The Finger. It is no surprise to see The Finger respond with absolute enthusiasm, pointing more strongly at Olmbermann and MSNBC than almost any other previous "winner". I actually heard this stuff in my very limited, open mouthed exposure to MSNBC the previous week.

Yes, MSNBC was the most biased "reporter" of Tuesday's election (in a close contest with CNN, which seemed to regard the vote on homosexual marriage in Maine as the most important vote of the week). But that was not enough to win The Finger for Olbermann and MSNBC. Nope. That special award was earned by the utterly disgraceful reporting of MSNBC on health care.

You will remember that two things happened last week on health car, before the sham (bought and paid for with bribes and extortion) House vote on Saturday. First, Republicans came out with their 230 page bill that a person could actually understand--even if not agree with--and Joe Lieberman announced he would support a filibuster of the "public option" in the Senate.

What did MSNBC and Keith Olbermann do on the Republican bill? Did they simply report on what the bill said, and perhaps get points of view about why it was good or bad? Not on your life. This is the Obama Network. What Olbermann did was RIDICULTE the Republican bill provisions. That is what MSNBC clearly regards as its function. Forget "death panels". The ridicule of Olbermann, and MSNBC, of the Republican bill was totally "over-the-top stuff. Republicans were, in effect, called uncaring criminals putting out a bill to help the insurance companies, while ignoring all of that "health stuff" (Olbermann quote).

Can the Democratic House bill be RIDICULED. Darn right it can. 2000 pages!!!!!!!!!!!! Say what you want about the Republican bill, and I will criticize it in later articles, you can at least read and understand it. That is IMPOSSIBLE with the House Democratic bill. You don't even have to state vicious conclusions about the House bill. All you have to do is START READING the bill. That is real RIDICULE> No one one Earth could understand such a mess of gobbledygook. It is no surprise that MSNBC has not even tried to explain what the bill actually says, and how it intends to accomplish what it says it will accomplish. Then there is that "competition" of government with private insurance--an OXYMORONIC absurdity. How can you talk about "competition between a monopoly (Federal Government) that fully intends to LOSE money, and private businesses who have to MAKE money (or go out of business)!!!! It is INSANE (I totally stand by this word) to suggest that there can be any such thing as "competition", where a government entity is CREATED to set arbitrary, artificial pricing for a product intended to lose money. The only place you can see real competition between government and private industry is when the government is not willing to infinitely subsidize its product (post office, Medicare Advantage, until this bill, etc.). Where the government is infinitely willing to subsidize its product (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, school, etc.), there is no "competition". There can't be, when government plays by entirely different rules. Then there is that provision that Pelosi proudly announced that "children" would now be "covered" by their their parents' health insurance until ag 27. I am 62, but my mother is still alive. I fully expect that eventually there will be a provision that a person like me can be covered by our lparents' MEDICARE policy. To mention "children", and age 27, in the same breath is so absurd I can't even get my mind around it. I could go on.

But even the total propaganda of MSNBC on the respective health care legislaton was not enough to win Olbermann and MSNBC The Finger. No,k that took the figurative LYNCHING of Joe Lieberman (at the same time MSNBC was criticizing the "purge" of Republican "moderates" --liberals--by conservatives), along with the SALEM WITHC TRIALS. What do the Salem witch trials have to do with health care? Don't ask me. Ask Keith Olbaermann.

I head this, and I still dont' believe it. It was HATE SPEECH by an evil man who cares nothing about whether what he says makes sense, . I would go so far as to say it was the product of a diseased mind. Olbermann said that the Republican health care bill was brought to you by the same people--type of people?--who brought you the Salem witch trials, The Scarlet Letter, and who were responsible for Bedlam". How can you defend something like that? You can't. It doesn't even make sense. It is just the ravings of an evil man foaming at the mouth, who cares nothing for reason in any form.

I am nott through. What was Joe LIeberman's CRIME, that caused that (figurative) LYNCHING by MSNBC--again, almost foaming at the mouth stuff? Lieberman said he opposed the public option on health care, and would join a Republican filibuster. Note that Lieberman did not say he opposed what OBAMA said he would accept--the original Baucus health care proposal in the Senate Finance Committee, without a "public option". Lieberman just said that, as a matter of conscience, the "public option" went to far for him. What was Olbermann's mad dog reaction to this HERESY (real analogy to the Inquisition and Salem witch trials)? Olbermannn said that he would sacrifice, even though a Yankee's fan, if Lieberman would only quit the Seante and join the New York Yankees (reference being to a Lieberman joke). Yes, Olbermann was serious. For him, Lieberman had no business being in the Senate, even though a leftist tlype "moderate", because Lieberman prefers to act on his conscience instead of Olbermann's.

Some of you may doubt taht Olbermann is an EVIL man. Don't. He is a hate filled, bitter man who consistently engages in HATE SPEECH of a most virulent kind. "Mr. Bush, you are a fascist" was an Olbermann line. But the conclusive point for me came when Olbermann tried to LYNCH Dick Cheney for an ACCIDENTAL hunting accident, to the point of deliberately distorting Texas law. I was a Texas attorneys for more than 30 years, and I have never seen a person deliberately try to distort Texas law--for agenda purposes--the way Olbermann tried to do so. Olbermann insisted that Texas law required a CRIMINAL investigation of Cheney, and that the matter be presented to the grand jury. Mr. Olbermann: YOU ARE A LIAR>

Let me illustrate. In El Paso, an aunt recently ran over her small child--backed over the child--KILLING the child. In due course, it was announced that NO CHARGES WOULD BE FILED. What kind of a monster do you have to be to suggest that such a case MUST be presented to a grand jury. Well, Keith Olbermann is just such a MONSTER, so long as it fits his political agenda. The same decision was recently announced in Elp Paso on two small children who drowned in standing water, after wandering away from their parents and other relatives. Believe it or not, Mir. Olbermann, and I know you don't really care, Texas does not automatically PERSECUTE people for accidents--even fatal accidents. Yet, Olbarmann tried to sgguest that Exas law REQUIRED that a non-fatal shooting accident go to a grand jury. MR. OLBERMANN, YOU ARE AN EVIL LIAR. (And don't even talk to me about Olbermann bringing in a Democratic/leftist activist as a SHILL Texas attorney to try to bolster Olbermann's agenda; which was merely part of the LIE and DISHONESTY involved here--yes, part of the EVIL. It is on par with using Watergate crminal John Dean as an "expert" on everything from "ethics"--lol==to national security matters.)

Award ceremony (virtual cermoney held entirely in the imagination--no video or graphics, with Dick Martin merely being used as a suggested visual aid to your own imagination, without implying that he would have endorsed this award):

Imagine Dick Martin THRUSTING the statuette of The Finger (pointing index finger) at the camera and saying: Keith Olbermann and MSNBC, his is for YOU. You DESERVE it for HATE SPEECH above and beyond the call of partisan duty. ."

P.S. I got another one of those complaining messages fro Dick Martin, and again I did not investigate FROM WHERE this message was sent. I merely report it, without fuirther comment: "Skip, I have told you to stop associating my name fwith your revival of this award. I know you keep saying it is only a visual aid, but there is only so much I can take. I know The vicious Keith Olbermann can defend himself. I won't. But now you have associated me with the SALEM WITCH TRIALS--my nae, anyway. I am again warning you: Stop using my name in any way, or I will TAKE STEPS." (Editor's note: Those two last words do sound ominous, Skip.)

P.S. 2: Is Nancy Pelosi a witch--not of the benign "Bewitched" or "harry Potter" kind, but of the evil, Biblical kind? Yes, this is total speculation, although it would explain a lot. However, should it be INVESTIGATED and presented to a grand jury/D.A. to evaluage? I can se Keith Olbermann, filled with HATE as he is, calling Dick Cheney a witch/warlock, and asking for an "investigation". Since I like to thihk I am better than Olbermann (very low bar, I admit), I will refrain from callling for an investigation as to whether Pelosi is a witch.

Back To Top