Kill Bill, Vol. 2: Meltdown with Keith Olbermann, Part 22 | NewsReal Blog

Kill Bill, Vol. 2: Meltdown with Keith Olbermann, Part 22 | NewsReal Blog

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In his “Kill the bill” special comment Wednesday night, Keith Olbermann followed Howard Dean, socialist Senator Bernie Sanders, and the increasing chorus on the Left to kill the current health care “reform” package as insufficiently socialistic.

Olbermann’s primary reason was that it did not immediately and forever “destroy” the private health insurance industry.

But in his rant, he directly challenged the President’s manhood on this issue by relating an exceedingly strange and egocentric anecdote—even by Keith’s standards. This one should give the armchair shrinks in the audience, plenty of fodder:

OLBERMANN: On April 6^th 2003, I was approached by two drunken young men at a baseball game. One of them started to ask for an autograph. The other stopped him by shouting “screw him, he‘s a liberal.” This program had been on the air for three weeks….I could not fathom on what factual basis I was being called a “liberal,” let alone being sworn at for being such.

Now, how many of you can put an exact date to a 6 ½ year-old incident THIS innocuous? And to find it significant enough to include it in a personal challenge to the President of the United States to “man up?” There’s just a screw loose in there somewhere.

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Here’s the full quote in context. Olbermann taunts President Obama, as though the reason that the President has not been more forceful in pushing immediate full socialization of American medicine is that he’s afraid of being called names by protesters—not that the polls are against him and his Party will suffer a bloodbath if he goes that far (of course, they are on the “precipice,” to coin a phrase, of that now.)