{"id":197656,"date":"2008-01-18T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/18\/keith-olbermann-is-a-mensch\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T23:13:00","slug":"keith-olbermann-is-a-mensch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/18\/keith-olbermann-is-a-mensch\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Olbermann is a Mensch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Olbermann brought on Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell to discuss issues with regard to Nevada, and the Obama&#8217;s whole &#8220;I loveReagan&#8221; crap.<\/p>\n<p>What he was unaware of was the fact that Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell wrote a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">truly stupid<\/span> article on HuffPo a few days earlier titled &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">John Edwards is a Loser<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>His thesis was that John Edwards should get out of the race, because he was in Obama&#8217;s way, and because Obama was black, it was borderline racist for him to run against him and strengthen Hillary.<\/p>\n<p>The article was stupid for the following reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was a patronizing and quite frankly <b>RACIST<\/b> calculus, as if Obama cannot campaign for himself.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>It&#8217;s dead wrong.  Every poll on the issue has shown that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/Keith%20Olbermann%20is%20a%20Mensch\">Edwards takes more from Hillary than from Obama<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, a number of folks (not me) took the time to drop a line (hopefully a polite one) on Olbermann, and he responded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2008\/1\/18\/135219\/103\/392\/438962\">on Daily Kos<\/a> about 18 hours later.<\/p>\n<p>He did the unthinkable, he<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> apologized<\/span>, and he says that he will be addressing it tonight.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell Hotlist<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">by Keith Olbermann [Subscribe]<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 02:00:01 PM EST<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Forgive the fairly minor focus here but I spot at least three diaries on his appearance on Countdown last night to discuss Obama, Reagan, and Edwards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Those of you complaining about it are right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">His HuffPo piece was news to me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Shouldn&#8217;t have been, obviously, but it was.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">I don&#8217;t read every blog, nor everything written by my guests. I often don&#8217;t know until an hour beforehand who will be a guest on a given show (if it matters to you, these scheduling nightmares tend to come in waves for some reason, and last night was a Nor&#8217;easter). Also, to announce, on-air, each guest&#8217;s preferences, prejudices, shillings and shiv jobs, would reduce the rest of the show to &#8220;Good Evening. Call Me Ishmael. My Boat Sank. The End. Good Night.&#8221; And Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s insight is almost always perceptive, relevant, and enlightened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">But even with these caveats, the point about this appearance, especially in the wake of such a freshly-written piece, is well-taken and I&#8217;m very sorry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">It will be addressed tonight on the show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Thanks.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Olbermann brought on Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell to discuss issues with regard to Nevada, and the Obama&#8217;s whole &#8220;I loveReagan&#8221; crap. What he was unaware of was the fact that Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell wrote a truly stupid article on HuffPo a few days earlier titled &#8220;John Edwards is a Loser. His thesis was that John Edwards &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1240,1129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-integrity","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}