Keith Olbermann Mocks Obama Muslim Conspiracy Theorists With Apocalyptic Video

Keith Olbermann mocked conspiracy theorists who believe President Obama is a Muslim with a satirical explanation of all the reasons to believe that Obama is hiding his Muslim faith.

In a video with Olbermann's breathy, apocalyptic voiceover, "Countdown" launched a "Special Investigation" into the president's true faith.

"The Muslim-seeded toddler engineered the divorce of his own parents to prevent people from learning that his father was Muslim," the video opens.

"To keep up appearances, Obama cleverly violated his Muslim faith whenever he could, fooling everyone by: never going to Mecca, breaking the fast of Ramadan, eating pork, drinking alcohol, having a Christian wedding, baptizing his children, worshipping at Christian churches...for decades," it continues.

Olbermann jokes that Obama "even sent his daughters to...a fancy Washignton school that was really a madrassa," that he once "ran an Islamic journal whose Arabic name translates to Harvard Law Review," and that as president he "refuses to bomb not just one, but many Muslim countries."

While never mentioning Fox News or any conservative media outlets by name, Olbermann makes his point effectively — and even adds in some Breitbart-style selective editing to present Obama's quotes about Islam out of context.

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Comments

[MSP79]

04:39 PM on 09/15/2010

God! Keith you are AWESOME!

[William D Simpson]

11:01 PM on 08/30/2010

Olberman is a wana be, never will be, bought and paid for mouth peice, that has absolutely nothing to say worth listening to. His dribble about anything, is nothing other than what he is told to say. He has no real concept of who Obama really is other than a tingling sensation resembling that of Chris Matthews erotic sensation of Obama as his messianic idol of worship.

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[JerryAguy]

03:06 PM on 08/27/2010

Even if he was a Muslim I really could care less, my concern is the unpopular controvers­ial president Obama's policies that are truly affecting us all. For the unpopular controvers­ial president Obama this is a good thing to keep going since it keeps people from looking the real problems that being inflicted on the country.
How about Olbermann "Special Investigat­ion" into the what happened to the auto companies secured bondholder­s getting ripped off and their funds being given to the auto unions who were unsecured creditors.
If that weren't enough the unpopular controvers­ial president Obama then called the secured bondholder­s "speculato­rs" when many of them were retiree's.

[Toa Reap]

10:26 AM on 08/26/2010

Great Job Keith!!

Love it - I always knew there was something about that guy... :)

[Lahonda]

11:36 PM on 08/25/2010

I am a Muslim! Which line do I get into?

[yeswecanjane]

10:23 PM on 08/25/2010

Another wonderful job Keith!

[AyeChart]

10:07 PM on 08/25/2010

Isn't the nasty, arrogant mocking getting really annoying? Mock mock mock mock mock. That's what passes for legitimate commentary or comedy these days?

[Toa Reap]

10:26 AM on 08/26/2010

You set em up... we knock em down.

[bigpix2000]

11:22 AM on 08/26/2010

Better than "2nd Amendment solutions" don't you agree?

[Ohioan4truth]

06:54 PM on 08/25/2010

May I be the 487,384th person to wish you all the happiness in the world, Rachel!

[Harry Lowe]

06:12 PM on 08/25/2010

I could take this a lot more seriously if he spelled "Libya" correctly.

[lawrence of america]

12:11 PM on 08/26/2010

ليبيا

[Talossa]

12:02 AM on 08/27/2010

LjjjI

[DennyCrane]

04:56 PM on 08/25/2010

What's truly is that there are conservati­ves out there who will watch this video and not recognize it as sarcasm, but instead come away more convinced than ever that Obama is a Muslim.

[yourmotherwasahamster]

06:55 PM on 08/25/2010

people that thick tend not to watch Olbermann

[EF3]

02:02 PM on 08/25/2010

Keith Olbermann'­s comic timing and delivery leave a lot to be desired.

[Billyguitar]

04:16 PM on 08/25/2010

I disagree. I think he can deliver a joke better than any other talking head, that isn't already a comedian.

[BKFactor]

05:55 PM on 08/25/2010

AGREED AND FANNED!

[bigpix2000]

11:24 AM on 08/26/2010

If you desire Comedy there is Comedy Central or your local Stand up Comic club ...

[MedinaM]

01:50 PM on 08/25/2010

Haha...Olb­ermann is just awesome!!

[kentmt]

01:56 PM on 08/26/2010

That's why so few people watch him.

[MedinaM]

03:11 PM on 08/26/2010

Umm...okay­?

[majorlid]

12:07 PM on 08/25/2010

I saw a TV interview of Obama either just before or just after the election where he said twice, "I am proud of my Muslim faith." I know other people who also saw the interview. What more do you need? The President wouldn't lie.

[oldguru]

07:31 PM on 08/25/2010

Was that perhaps a Brietbart video? The entire time that Obama was a candidate, you right wingers were tormenting him over his membership in a christian church, the United Church of Christ. Which is it?
The meme that he went to a madrasa in Indonesia is another right wing nonsensica­l charge. He was what....si­x years old? Do you think he filled out the forms?
Not likely. I daresay his stepfather or his mother did. Does that mean that he embraced the Muslim faith? No it does not.

[RajSTL]

10:27 PM on 08/25/2010

Your name says it all. You are trying to put a major lid on a tiny thing called fact. Good luck

[Mabila]

11:36 AM on 08/25/2010

Once again, thanks for setting the record straight Keith!

[ninthraphael]

10:32 AM on 08/25/2010

the result of education degradatio­n or miseducati­on of americans?