Keith Olbermann, MSNBC news anchor and co-host of the news channels recent coverage of the Democrat and Republican presidential debates, said in a speech Thursday "the people who are defending us" against the threat of terrorist attack are misguided or overzealous or suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder".
Olbermann drew nervous laughter for his remarks mocking law enforcement officials. Olbermann was speaking at the annual AAN Awards luncheon hosted by the Association of Alternative Weeklies in Manhattan.
These are the dimwit trustafarian dilettantes and con-artists who publish that local "arts and culture" rag you find in the free racks outside your favorite supermarket. It should be known as the Association of Emergency Toilet Paper Distributors.
Olbermann received an award named for the late Molly Ivins.
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This is the second time in three days that Olbermann has mocked efforts of law enforcement officials who arrested six men for allegedly plotting to carry out a terrorist attack at a military base in New Jersey. On the Wednesday telecast of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, he derided the efforts of law enforcement official in rounding up suspects dubbed the "Fort Dix Six", saying "the FBI arrested six 'morons'".
So, Keith, stupid terrorists should get a pass?
| Only until they blow up something or kill someone. Then we need to 'understand their anger'. |
In his speech to the fishwrap newspaper trade group, Olbermann said,
"I sit there with no doubt that there's a threat. I have no doubt that there are terrorists. I have no doubt that many of the motivations of the people who are defending us against these things are absolutely sincere and many of them are at worst misguided or overzealous or suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder."
NOTE: We could have just as easily commented on Keith comparing himself to a firefighter rushing in to rescue people from a burning building, whining about being "attacked in every almost every imaginable way personally" or that he is "still waiting for somebody to come back with a rebuttal to the facts that I have tried to elucidate" but calling our troops "misguided, overzealous" and mentally ill was so obviously the low point in an otherwise shameful speech we had to lede (sic) with Keith disparaging the troops.
Overbight is arguably the most loathesome of the current crop of media beasts, though the competition is fierce. What is it with these sports geeks turned news-goebbelists, eg the Gold Standard of clueless narcissistic arrogance, Bryant Gumbel? |