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Where Is Olberman On Wright...
When Geraldine Ferraro was commenting something about race on Obama, Olberman did not waste another day attacking not Geraldine but Hillary Clinton. Days after the video on Wright spreads like "anthrax" (complement from Hannity and Colmes show), Keith was silent about it. Comparing the gravity of both comments, Ferraro's comments were nothing compared to the bone wrenching lines of Jeremiah Wright attcking the USA as a nation, Hillary and Bill Clinton. Yet, Keith said nothing about Obama. Instead, as I watched Olberman the day after the video was played again and again by other networks, his demeanor was that of sad that his idol is about to go down freefalling like a parachute as a result of this unbelievable sermons on videos. Olberman instead invited Obama for a reaction and there you here how Obama made his effort to deny he never heard it while he was in the church. Can you believe he was not in the Church on December 25, 2007 when one one of those sermons were delivered? Then yesterday on his speech, Obama tried to recant his claims he was not there by indirectly saying he might have been there at the church and heard it. This is just clearly political positioning in order to accomplish his ambition to become president of this country that his pastor despised so much. So now I am calling Keith to say something. I am aware and I think most of America, know that MSNBC is left leaning liberal but at least they should be balanced with regards to the two Democratic nominees. They have really "darlinged" Obama and the company bosses should do something about this. I believe MSNBC is now feeling the heat becuase I am sure that as Obama goes down the sink MSMBC comes with him. By Keith.
Comments (8)
i wondered about that myself.
March 20, 2008 2:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
Rev. Wright isn't a political figure. While Geraldine Ferraro is a political figure. I think we need to start recognizing the difference between the two.
Church though open to the public is normally kept as a private matter. That is why most people don't know who Hilary's Pastor or who John McCain's Pastor is.
March 20, 2008 2:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
Olbermann criticized Clinton for encouraging Ferraro with a wink and a nod. Obama has jumped out of his underwear to repudiate Wright. So Olbermann does not need to criticize Obama. It would be nice to see Olbermann speak out though... in support of Obama. How is it that we've had McCain, Huckabee and even Cheney defend Obama, but precious little from white democratic leadership. The only ones defending Obama seem to be Jesse Jackson, Gov Deval Patrick and Rep. Rangel (who is not an Obama supporter) all black democrats.
March 20, 2008 3:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Do you really not see a difference between Ferraro methodically going from talk show to talk show in a calculated effort to stir up racial resentment before Pennsylvania and a reverend giving Sunday mass over to a black congregation over 4 years ago?
It wasn't the remarks, but the intent that set Olberman off, and rightly so.
March 20, 2008 3:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
Exactly like berserker said Olbermann was angered by the Clintons approval of Ferrao.Instead of silencing her they let her go on and speak about racial divide.They let this go on for 15 days without distancing themselves from her. He also was reacted to the string of racial comments that came from the Clinton camp like from Bob Kerrey,Ed Rendell,Bill Clinton and Bill Shennnian. Remember how can you criticize some one for a pastor's sermon from 8 years ago.His pastor has no involvement in the Obama campaign which Ferrao does have in the Clinton campaign. Obama runs on unity ,whereas Clinton runs on division.
March 20, 2008 3:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
Geraldine Ferraro is a Clinton surrogate and that incident tipped the scales for Keith Olbermann. He starts off his commentary be tipping his hat to the Clintons and talking about how tough it was but how it was necessary. He mentioned not only Ferraro, but Bill Clinton's South Carolina "jesse jackson moment," the perceived subtle racist scare tactic in the 3 a.m. ad, and the Clinton dirty tactics in general including her endorsement of John McCain over her fellow Democrat and soon-to-be nominee Barack Obama.
The Wright situation is not at all like the Ferraro incident which opened the Olbermann floodgates as much as you and, as is evident from Josh Marshall's snippet from The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/us/politics/20memo.html?hp), the Clinton camp want it to be. Keith Olbermann had a round table on it with Rachel Maddow and Gene Robinson tonight, but you have a transparent agenda in your desire to have him do a special commentary on Wright.
He does not do them to satisfy anybody, but when the occassion calls for it. Management at NBC were urging him to do more after the first because of how well received it was, but he told them no. I suspect that you're one of the paranoid few that think that Josh Marshall and TPM are biased. BIll & Hillary Clinton were able to manipulate the media into believing their conspiracy theory that the media was biased against them, but on Keith Olbermann's and the reality based world, I'll answer for him. The answer is no.
March 20, 2008 3:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
The above posters are treating the matter as though Rev. Wright had an off day -- all four tires went flat on his way to church so he really let loose or something. This is ridiculous.
Obama has been supporting Rev. Wright for twenty years. Obama planned to have him give the invocation when Obama was sworn in to the Senate.
Obama had Rev. Wright's picture and endorsement statement on his web site until last week.
I think the real reason Olberman won't touch it is the elements of truth in Rev. Wright's diatribe: American blacks have reason to be bitterly angry about how the country has treated them and our country has been cavalier about causing deaths in other countries -- Iraq and Blackwater being a case in point.
March 20, 2008 8:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
With respect to Rev. Wright's thousands of hours of sermons over the last twenty years, how many minutes have you heard of them? We have as many minutes of Ferraro saying questionable things in the last two weeks as we do of Wright saying questionable things in the last 7 years.
Everyone "knows" that this is Wright's standard fare—except for people who actually know Wright. Doesn't that tell you something? (I suppose it tells you that all these people are liars.)
March 20, 2008 10:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
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