Via AmericaBlog:
Tonight on his show, Keith Olbermann eviscerated Hillary Clinton for a good ten minutes for promoting John McCain's presidency over her fellow Democrats. He compared her to Joe Lieberman. He asked "is she equating her time in the East Wing with McCain's time in the Hanoi Hilton?" You have got to watch these videos. They're devastating in only the way that Keith can be.
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Why is Hillary playing to the Republican base?
But that has been Hillary's plan all along. She moved to the right and started acting tough to improve her defense posture. She has disowned the label "Liberal" and calls herself something else like "Independent Progressive". All of this is to appeal to Republicans. She has deserted the antiwar left because she thinks they will have no alternative but to "hold your nose, and vote for her".
I won't do it. Why do it if there is no difference between McCain and Clinton? War, war, and more war, friends ...
Why is Obama saying one thing but playing the victim when someone else does the same?
Keith is one of the few journalists who is willing to speak truth to power. God bless Keith Olbermann. He is an intelligent and ethical man who has clarity and vision. Thank you Keith!
Hi Katy Tur!
An excellent point. The NYT had a short bit on the Nafta source but it has yet to get any traction. Imagine if the situation were reversed! The reason the Obama campaign was slow to denounce the "wink" to the Canadians is that they were looking in a different direction. No doubt the Nafta flap cost Obama Ohio votes, an area where he should have had an advatage. The Clintons are extremely efficient at attacking their opponent's strengths to cover up their areas of weakness.
Its called Bush/Rove sociopathic behavior.
What the HELL has happened to MSNBC, they have become FOX NOISE in reverse. Keith Olbermann was fun to watch for a while, but now it is so repetitious, it quite boring. Worst person in the world, throwing his papers at the camera and his long, monotonous COMMENT segment just shows how full of himself he really thinks he is.
What is really funny is that he has been trying for how long now to degrade Bill O'Reilly to the point that he has become Bill O'Reilly. Who in the hell died and left him boss. I stopped watching MSNBC after the Chris Matthews comment about Senator Clinton. David Shuster, David Gregory, Andrea Mitchell, Rachel Madow, Howard Fineman, Richard Wolfe, all on their respective knees for Barack.
One more thing Keith, get the hell off of Sunday Night Football, your boring there too!
Bill???? Orielly???? Shouldnt you be preparing for your Lie Fess, I mean show? Run along now...got to get some lynching parties going...
KO had a guest on last year that used a lynching analogy...
I only watch Olbermann now for laughs and to see how long I can stand it. I did watch his tirade. I used to love him when he was just a Bush basher, but now that he's in luv with Obama, I don't agree with his biased rants, but they are funny. I'll bet Hillary tivos him, just for laughs.
I loved him when he first tried out his Edward R. Murrow "good night and good luck routine."
That was when it meant something, because of the current lawless Bush administration.
Now, he's like the drunk uncle who won't shut up and keeps eyeing your girlfriend.
It hardly matters now. Ohio is where it mattered for four or five days, and Ohio is done.
But there's still some movement on the story about assurances to the Canadian government over rhetoric on NAFTA that killed Obama. One story ">out of Toronto today seems to confirm that the conservative Prime Minister's very conservative chief of staff started the ball rolling by telling reporters that Clinton aides -- not Obama -- had provided assurances that the rhetoric was hotter than the reality.
A lot of murk on how it shifted to Obama. But there's also a theory percolating that the story -- really, a pretty unusual invasion of domestic politics by a foreign government -- was "a bum rap cooked up by Canadian rightwingers" to hurt Obama and produce a long slog that will help the GOP.
ohio got punked!
Ohio got Clintonianed, which is more monstrous that Rovianed.
I have just one questin for Mr Olberman..
If Hillary is the evntual nominee, wouldn't McCain be able to use these quotes from Obama against Hillary every day this fall?
Hey NoGoodNamesLeft - just like all the other Clinton supporters, you do not have your facts straight. Do some research and discover the truth of what Obama said.
Olbermann did what he usually does...he mis-represented Obama's words, but DID RIP HIM on what he said about Reagan
he said the republicans were the party of ideas for the last 10 -15 years. Are you saying he didn't say that?
Reagan is dead. He is not running in this contest. McCain is alive. He is running. Supposedly against Hillary.
Does this help your understanding of the problem with Hillary-A Democrat-saying that McCain-A Republican is better fir that Obama-A Democrat.
I am doing my best to make it simple for you.
Really Jacee, it sounds like the "hillary group" doesn't seem to grasp just exactly what she has said. I have Never heard Any democratic president trash their own Party's other nominee, in favor of the Republican nominee! This is the most whacked thing Ms. "I am so honored to be on the stage with Barack Obama" has done yet! UNBELIEVABLE!
I'm amazed at some of these posts....
rip into Obama for praising Reagan? where have you been? He didn't "praise" Reagan, he spoke the truth by stating how Reagan was able to bring the people together and he was right. He didn't say they were good ideas, but the hillary sheeple seem to suffer from selective amnesia
It is so frustrating how stupid you sheeple really are
being a former (Bill) Clinton supporter throughout ALL of the 1990's (yes, even and especially during the KEN STARR ERA.......
A. withdraw from the Democratic party rolls, cease contribution, and register as an independent.
B. Write-in Senator Obama's name in November and encourage all of my fellow Obama supporters and friends to do the same.
the Clintonistas are treating the party (and have done this since the beginning- it was quaint at first but now it isn't funny) as if it were their own personal organization that they built and we're just their employees. We are called the DEMOCRATIC party for a REASON. Entitlement is not and should not be a part of our process. If that's what you want, why don't you follow Joe Lieberman over to the new "left" wing of the Republican Party- HRC clearly seems to be paying lip-service to that approach.
To all you hardcore Clintoloonies who will inevitably scream good riddance, be careful what you wish for. 5 months is plenty of time to organize a healthy write-in campaign or a 3rd party candidacy, and who knows. Perhaps most of my neighbors who turned out in the SEVENTIETH PERCENTILE at the caucuses to support Senator Obama could actually make a dent in this thing. If not, well...... you Clintonites get the McCain presidency you apparently deserve.
I am with you 100% and we are not alone.
Super Delegates have a DUTY to their Party to defend it from enemies without and within. The Clintons are and have always be n the enemies within. The are not Democrats and do not support or usher in Democratic values. Never have, never will.
Super Delegates have a duty to set limits on the morality, loyalty and decency of their candidates. If they do not respond to her support of a Republican in this campaign then they all deserve to be fired.
No McClinton 2008
No more cowardly Democratic Party Leadership.
I would rather loose with an honorable Obama than win with a Traitorous McClinton.
Enough is enough. Set some standards of decency. Stand up to the Clinton slime machine, Get a grip and make a stand.
Superdelegates are allowed to have no loyalty to the people of their states...i
Well said and me too.
Bravo Olbermann! One of the few intelligent newspersons in the business calling it like it is!!
the most honest journalist in the buisiness.
what's disturbing is the clintonistas disregard for the truth - - - GOP lite.
"monster" wannabees.
we have failed miserably as a species.
HILLARY: EVERY VOTER SHOULD HAVE A VOICE!
THE NATION: OK HILLARY SETTLE DOWN. WE'LL CHANGE THE RULES FOR YOU SO YOU DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH AND TURN BLUE -- WE'LL PAY 50 MILLION AND GIVE YOU A DO-OVER.
HILLARY: DO-OVER? ER...UM...
"monster?" nah.
makes one proud.
Woah. Keith must have sipped the Obama punch.
How unhinged are the Obama maniacs?
Clinton points out that McCain has a lot of experience (guess what? He does). Therefore, whoever runs against him might need to deal with it.
So Clinton points out that she has experience, too (see, Obama fans, it's called "comparing strengths").
Then she points out that Obama doesn't have as much experience. (see, this is called "contrasting the candidates
Only a lunatic would equate that with Clinton supporting McCain.
I agree. Obama's supporters are coming unhinged and I have had it. I am sick of the attacks on Hillary endlessly from these people. If that is how his crowd is going to play it, then I hope she does imploy a scorched earth policy to counteract their insanity.
You hope she does employ a scorched earth policy? That's the only policy she knows!! Unhinged? Look in the mirror! Hillary has never even found a hinge she's comfortable on for more than five minutes! She's playing the fear card to new extremes, and drawing comparisons from people like Arianna Huffington and Keith Olbermann to the dreaded Joe Lieberman - and rightfully so. The Clintons weaken democrats and embolden republicans, and Hillary's desperate, ridiculous attacks expose her for the fraud she is.
Have fun scorching the earth - you're officially no different from the republicans now.
Congrats on that one!!
Why are you even posting on this page? Do you even get the gist of the story here and the video above? Of course not - you're too busy scorching the earth, and dividing the party...
It's SLAMMING your candidate. This is Arriana's publication, and she has called out Hillary's BS repeatedly, and so has Keith - two of the brightest minds on our side of the fence.
I'm done being nice to the Hillary people. I'm ticked now. Your BS may play well in O-H-I-O, but it doesn't with those of us who still think.
Hillary is done numbers wise on delegates anyway - but there my be a spot available for a running mate - with McCain.
exactamundo.
Hillary claims 35 years of experience. Don't you find it odd that she includes everything for her entire adult life as qualification to be the president, while simultaneously claiming that Obama has none?
All of her claims to have the kind of experience that would prepare her to be commander in chief are tissue thin. By elevating McCain's experience above Obama's, she's giving a boost to McCain over Obama in the likelyhood that she is not the nominee. And if she does become the nominee, McCain can easily contrast his "lifetime of experience" in the military and in Vietnam against her "tea and cookies trips" to various countries. How do you think that contest would turn out?
These are not rantings of crazy people, as you claim, but simple logical reasoning. It is extremely odd that Hillary is taking this tack and it is difficult to see how she could ultimately benefit from it, other than the short-term knock down to Obama. It isn't a strategy for winning the White House, but only for besting Obama. That makes her short-sighted and lacking in judgment.
say hello to bill o'reilly everyone.
All well and good if Clinton actually had experience relevant to the task at hand. But either way, its just bad form to promote a Republican candidate and denigrate your Democratic challenger in the interest of personal ambition. You can only conclude she would rather have Mr. McCain elected president than Barack Obama. And rationalize it all you want, if you think this line of attack was merely "comparing strengths" then I'm happy to be part of a lunatic fringe that believes otherwise.
HRC said McCain was a good man with distinguished service to his country... Didn't Obama say something similar just a week or two ago when McCain all but became the presumptive R nominee?
The difference is that McCain NEVER said that any of the Democratic candidates were superior to the Republican candidates and that's EXACTLY what she said. It means throwing a member of your own party under the bus.
Is she really looking for the McCain VP spot? Certainly sounds like it.
Logic is lacking in your comparison sir/ma'am.
Obama stated facts but NEVER, NEVER, at any point said that McCain would be better then sen. Clinton because of his military service. She is ranking Obama lower than Sen. McCain and that is worthy of contempt.
Obama needs to do what the Clinton camp does call a press conference and blast Sen. Clinton for her comment or at least make hay out of it. That is how to get her on the defensive.
Didn't Obama spend a whole lot of time a few weeks back praising Reagan? Didn't he also say the republicans were the party of ideas for the last 10 - 15 years?
If Hillary is the nominee, wouldn't McCain be able to quote Obama as saying that the last 10 - 15 years when McCain was in the senate, he was in the party of ideas according to Obama?
Difference was that Sen. Obama then proceded to make the case as to why McCain would essentially mean a third Bush term. Me thinks Hillary is positioning herself for McCain's VP. Actually, it appears as though she is deliberately attempting to sabtotage Obama's chances in the fall (she's already driven down his positives from 58% to 51%), help elect McCain, and then run against him or hope that he's a one termer and r eally be the candidate of inevitability in 2012. Sad. I think she would sacrifice the chances of the Democratic party in the fall for her own success four years later.
There is a big difference between showing respect to your opponents and elevating one above the other by disparaging one of them. This is political suicide for the party. It would be different if McCain were another democratic contender for the Democratic nomination. But at some point, one or the other of Obama or Clinton will have to face a showdown with McCain in the general election, and Hillary is giving him ammunition over both Obama and herself.
Yes, but when Hillary Clinton says something, it's generally interpreted to be mean, catastrophically vile, and inspired by Karl Rove.
When Obama says something, he's being inspirational, new, and nice.
It's just that simple, no?
Keith Olbermann and most of MSNBC have become nothing more than hacks for Obama. He accuses Hillary of providing "sound bites" for the McCain camp should Obama become the nominee; then proceeds to provide "sound bites" to the McCain camp should Hillary become the nominee. Shameful hypocrisy.
You know, I noticed that on March 4th Primary Night. They could barely hide their disgust that she won and he lost. I thought Rachel Maddow was going to actually cry. I am on record here as an Obama supporter but I am starting to reconsider. I am sick of the overly biased slant for Obama.
There's no hiding their bias.
Olbermann started off neutral, but as she kept coming back he gets more and more obvious in his hatred for the Clintons.
When Bill's interview upped his ratings he was so much nicer.
Lately, however, Jack Cafferty's been the worst Clinton hater in the world.
Maybe if Obama wins he can do something about changing the media as well as everything he's supposed to be changing, whatever that is.
Word to Hillary - you don't have a chance of winning against your good friend John without Obama as a running mate, so if by some terrible misfortune, you are the nominee, you better be prepared to make nice really quick.
From what I've heard on the inside, he won't go for the VP position. Why would he want to be in there with BIll?
He is looking at Governor of Illinois. So Hillary will be out there on her own and she will lose big time to McCain, without the Obama voters who will NEVER vote for Hillary.
Thank you Keith! You and Richard Wollfe clarify all the insanity that is going on in the press. You are the star of MSNBC, you show that you have a conscience and you can't be bought by the Clintons. The same cannot be said of Chris Matthews that today on the Today show just shredded the Obama campaign to nothing, saying that it only attracts a bunch of screaming college kids and that in the end Clinton will be the nominee through locked doors meetings. What a disappointment! I won't watch Hardball anymore!
Yes, Hillary is worst than a monster, she is a vampire who wants to suck Obama's blood.
Matthews is for Obama...se his comments about tingling legs and like the 60's again...he is just afraid because he knows that niether side will get the number of delagates needed and the clintons will twist arms behind closed doors of the superdeleg
Oh but don't forget, that means she's been "pimped out" according to the bamabots.
That last sentence sums up Obama supporters. I don't want to be lumped in with them. Obama supporters- get a grip.
one crazy person says one crazy sentence and you say "that sums up all obama supporters". get bent. or better yet, go talk to actual physical human beings outside of blog comments sections and you'll find that there are lots of rational people with rational reasons for supporting both candidates.
Chris Matthews is bipolar. He can often seem loud and ignorant. One day he says one thing and then the next he completely contradicts an earlier position. For example, yesterday he was positing that if Obama finished with the majority of pledged delegates and the Clintons manage to steal the nomination away by convincing superdelegates to side with them, then how would the Democratic party react if 2000 delegates walked out of the convention in protest? In other words, he was taking Obama's position on superdelegates. And now, if what you say is true concerning his appearance on the Today show, then he is apparently assuming that Clinton will prevail.
I don't trust Chris Matthews. He can be such an arrogant bonehead at times and I often disagree with him. He can be such a spineless sycophant at times, too.
She's a vampire who wants to suck Obama's blood?
Really? You're not exaggerating at all, right?
And you are a regular, normal, typical Obama fan, I assume?
Don't forget your meds.
This is just one hand washing the other, Hillary's thanks to repubs for coming out to vote for her in texas. Mrs. Clinton will destroy the party.
And I'm sure she's hoping for a repeat performance from Limbaugh's dittoheads in Florida in an unlikely event of a re-vote.
(And DNC, a re-vote should only occur with the acceptance and approval of the Obama campaign. And I would hope that the Democratic party and the Obama campaign would be smart enough to stipulate that the "new" rules mandate that no Republicans will be allowed to vote in a new Democratic primary.)
who is gonna pay for the re-vote...
I was quite mad about the fact that Republicans chose to do what they did in TX but I have to say like the lose in New Hampshire the Obama camp learns from a mistake.
The mistake is when you are accused of something, make sure you get it right as opposed to trying to correct the record after the fact. I am not sure but would find out is always an option.
what proof do you offer that any repugs who voted for Hillary did so for any other reason than those who have come out in the past and voted for Obama?
Doesn't Obama always claim it is a good thing when repugs cross over and vote for HIM?
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First Posted: 03- 7-08 10:13 AM | Updated: 03-28-08 02:46 AM