On the night of the Fort Hood massacre, Keith Olbermann was worked up. Emotional, vein trobbing, voice trembling in fury worked up. The object of his wrath? Major Hasan who walked through an Army base gunning down unarmed Americans?
No, it takes Congresswoman Michelle Bachman to get him that worked up.
Here’s how Keith began his first segment as every other network was covering the events at Fort Hood:
OLBERMANN: An elected Republican official today is leading a protest on the west steps of the Capitol that compared health care reform to Nazi death camps and encouraged mindless harassment of and possibly violence against the government. Not tea baggers anymore, not demagogic commentators, an actual congresswoman inciting a hateful rebellion against the rule of law and order. Her name is Michele Bachmann.
Rebellion? Really Keith? Encouragement to call one’s Representative? That’s right Thomas Jefferson said every now and again the tree of liberty must be watered with the tears of overworked Congressional phone staff.
Well, a sign some yahoo who knew he could get on MSNBC if he carried it made the odious Dachau comparison, anyway. We don’t know if he was another LaRouchie, or even someone there to make everyone else look bad. Of course, no quote from any Republican Congressperson (while some were pretty lame) made any such assertion, but hey, there was sign!
Mindless harassment? Go visit your Member of Congress and register your protest. Why that’s pretty close to anarchy! Call out the well-regulated militia!
OLBERMANN: Our fifth story on the COUNTDOWN: As if that were not bad enough, Ms. Bachmann today joined by the House minority leader as well as countless other GOP representatives. This orgy of veiled threat and not so veiled racism of white power minority rule now fully the province of the Republican Party. Welcome to the coup!
What’s next, a call for a reinstatement of the Alien and Sedition Acts?
If the racism wasn’t so thinly veiled, then you should have some proof of it, right Keith? Keith? We’re waiting…
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