Keith Olbermann: WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD!

Does anyone recall the last time when MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann's #5 segment was about something other than slamming Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton? Longtime viewers might remember when this was the slot reserved for broadsides at the Bush Administration.

But that's not what this post is about. This is about the program's #4 segment. On this Friday's show, the topic was how Sen. Hillary Clinton had appeared on FOX (Bill O'Reilly), had met with Richard Mellon Scaife (actually the full editorial board of one of Pittsburgh's two daily papers during the PA primary) and how Bill Clinton had gone on Rush Limbough's radio show (when Limbough was not hosting it). Olbermann pointed out how cruel the Right Wing media had been to the Clintons, but he went further. He spoke about how going on FOX was wallowing in filth, how it proves that She'll Do Anything to Win^TM, and that (horrors of horrors!) demonstrates that she's trying to reach Reagan Democrats (you know, the folks that any presidential candidate will have to reach to actually win the White House).

He left out one thing:

Barack Obama was on FOX News less than a week ago.
Ohmygod!

That must mean that Obama was wallowing in filth, proves that he'll do anything to win, and that (horrors of horrors!) demonstrates that he's trying to reach Reagan Democrats (you know, the folks that any presidential candidate will have to reach to actually win the White House).

No, no. that can't be right. More importantly, you'd never know that Obama had just gone on FOX or that it wasn't even his first time on that channel by watching Olbermann. It was never even mentioned in passing.

During segment 5, Olbermann had complained that Clinton was "cherry-picking" the poll numbers that she talked about. I defy anyone to find anytime in the past month when Olbermann has presented a single poll number favorable to Clinton. He simply does not do it.

Moreover, one of his guests in segment five bitched that Clinton had wrongly tried to say that Obama had been positive towards Reagan and that it was actually Hillary who was a fan of Republicans. This is what Obama said in an interview with the Reno Gazette-Journal:

I don't want to present myself as some sort of singular figure. I think part of what's different are the times...I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. I think they felt like with all the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s and government had grown and grown but there wasn't much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating. I think people, he just tapped into what people were already feeling, which was we want clarity we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing.

Sorry folks, argue all you like, that was a big, wet, puckering kiss to Reagan and Republicans.

Moreover, this is what Obama said on FOX News Sunday less than a week ago:

WALLACE: As a president, can you name a hot button issue where you would be willing to cross (ph) Democratic party line and say you know what, Republicans have a better idea here.

OBAMA: Well, I think there are a whole host of areas where Republicans in some cases may have a better idea.

WALLACE: Such as.

OBAMA: Well, on issues of regulation, I think that back in the ‘60s and ‘70s, a lot of the way we regulated industry was top down command and control. We’re going to tell businesses exactly how to do things.

And I think that the Republican party and people who thought about the margins (ph) came with the notion that you know what, if you simply set some guidelines, some rules and incentives for businesses, let them figure out how they’re going to for example reduce pollution. And a cap and trade system, for example, is a smarter way of doing it, controlling pollution, than dictating every single rule that a company has to abide by, which creates a lot of bureaucracy and red tape and oftentimes is less efficient.

I think that on issues of education, I have been very clear about the fact, and sometimes I have gotten in trouble with the teachers union on this, that we should be experimenting with charter schools.

[snip]

OBAMA: No, look, I think this is fair. I would point out, though, for example, that when I voted for a tort reform measure that was fiercely opposed by the trial lawyers, I got attacked pretty hard from the left.

[snip]

WALLACE: John Roberts, Supreme Court.
OBAMA: John Roberts nomination, although I voted against him, I strongly defended some of my colleagues who had voted for him on the Daily Kos, and was fiercely attacked as somebody who is, you know, caving in to Republicans on these fights.

[snip]

OBAMA: On partial birth abortion, I strongly believe that the state can properly restrict late-term abortions. I have said so repeatedly. All I’ve said is we should have a provision to protect the health of the mother. And many of the bills that came before me didn’t have that.

{snip]

OBAMA: And I do not consider Democrats to have a monopoly on wisdom. And my goal is to get us out of this polarizing debate where we are always trying to score cheap political points and actually get things done.

[snip]

WALLACE: And we are back for one final segment with Senator Barack Obama. Senator, this week President Bush named David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, to be the head of Central Command, which controls overseas military operations across the Middle East and Central Asia. Will you vote to confirm his nomination?
OBAMA: Yes. I think Petraeus has done a good tactical job in Iraq.

[snip]

WALLACE: Senator Obama, thank you so much for talking with us
OBAMA: I enjoyed it.
WALLACE: Don’t be a stranger.
OBAMA: I won’t.

Pander much? Anything he doesn't like about Republicans? Anyway Olbermann could have missed all this? Anyway Olbermann would not have crucified Hillary Clinton if these statements had come out of her mouth on FOX?

Can anyone justify a segment designed to blast one Democratic candidate for "embracing" the Right Wing media that would never mention even once that her opponent has done the exact same thing?

Well, we know that Olbermann thinks he can.

Keith Olbermann: WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD!
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