Kill Bill Vol.3: Meltdown with Keith Olbermann Part 23 | NewsReal Blog

Kill Bill Vol.3: Meltdown with Keith Olbermann Part 23 | NewsReal Blog

In his “Special Comment” urging “progressive” lawmakers to vote against the Obama/Reid health care plan and “kill the bill” because it does not immediately “destroy” private insurance in America, Keith Olbermann went over the top—even by Meltdown standards.

He not only challenged Barack Obama’s manhood in school playground terms, he also threatened the President with a primary challenge from the Left if he continued to push the current plan.

OLBERMANN TO OBAMA: Nothing short of your re-election and the re-election of dozens of Democrats in the House and the Senate hinges in large part on this bill. Make it palatable or make it go away or make yourself ready, not merely for a horrifying campaign in 2012, but for the distinct possibility also of a primary challenge.

To paraphrase Robert Duvall’s famous line in True Grit, “I call that bold talk from a one-share gnat, man.”

Of course. If the President wants advice about his political future from someone with his finger on the pulse, where else would he go but to a guy who attracts just under one half of one per cent of the country on a nightly basis?

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So, it’s worth briefly considering this threat. Where would this challenge from the Left come from? What giant of the Democratic Party would emerge to take on the first black President in his own party primary?

Keith listed his heroes in the “fight against death,” as he once called the health care debate:

“I bless the Sherrod Browns and Ron Wydens and Jay Rockefellers and Sheldon Whitehouses and Anthony Weiners and all the others who have fought for real reform. And I bleed for the pain inflicted upon them and their hopes. They have done their jobs and served their nation.”