Olbermann Apologizes to Jon Stewart

To Scott Brown, not so much. Did he walk back the offensive Dred Scott comparison, no. Looks like Olbermann is just a bit embarrassed for having had one of the cool "truth tellers" make a monkey of him on his show. Still, at least he admits he has been over the top lately which is something I guess.


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Jon Stewart Destroys Olbermann and Defends Michelle Malkin

This clip was quite the buzz on twitter late last night.  Olbermann is going to need medication if another thing breaks against the Democrats this week.  Scratch that, we already knew he needed medication.  Still, his ranting this week is a step beyond the usual insanity we see from Olbermann and it is getting progressively worse as the week wears on.  I posted Olbermann's  Dred Scott diatribe with Alan Grayson where the two let loose on the Citizen's United ruling handed down from the Supreme Court.  His rantings on Scott Brown are the subject of Jon Stewart's skewering  in this case, however.

Stewart does an amazing job with his fisking of Olbermann.  Conservatives will love the part where he turns the tables on Olbermann's attack on Brown when he apologizes for failing to include the charge of sexism to his list of insane "name calling."    Stewart uses the bit when Olbermann attacks Michelle Malkin calling her a "big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick," against him with aplomb.  Michelle noted the hypocrisy of Olbermann's sexism charge as well.  Update: found a clip to post so enjoy!

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Meeting of the Minds: Olbermann and Alan Grayson Compare SCOTUS Ruling on Citizen's United to Dred Scott

Seriously, it's almost impossible to comprehend how these two intellectual giants rationalize comparing today's Supreme Court ruling to to Dred Scott.   Olberman begins by noting Grayson was in the courtroom when the Supreme Court announced its' decision and asks for Graysons reaction.  Grayson immediately responds he is shocked and goes on to elaborate the decision is the most irresponsible since Dred Scott.  Olbermann of course agrees.

Project 21, a black leadership group issued a press release condemning Grayson's comparison to Dred Scott:

Bishop Council Nedd II: "In Dred Scott, the Court equated people with property.  The Court's decision today was about giving people a voice.  There is no correlation between the two.  Congressman Grayson needs to apologize.  His flippant and unenlightened statement offends me personally, and it disrespects generations of black people who suffered from slavery." (Council Nedd II is the bishop of the Chesapeake and the Northeast for the Episcopal Missionary Church.)

Horace Cooper: "Where has Representative Alan Grayson been?  He compares today's landmark decision - in which free speech trumps FEC restrictions - to the awful ruling that black people are nothing more than property.  He's off base yet again.  It's more than a little ironic that Democrats praised Dred Scott when it was handed down over a hundred years ago, yet now stand opposed to fundamental freedoms such as free speech today."  (Horace Cooper is a former visiting assistant professor at the George Mason University School of Law.)

Grayson makes the direct comparison in the following clip quite early in the segment.  He equates the finding in Dred Scott that slaves and their free born children did not have constitutional rights to his summary of Citizens United, only corporations have constitutional rights.  He elaborates saying the ruling permits bribery on the largest scale imaginable and of course Olbermann agrees.  The four minute segment is filled with such hyperbole and outright lies it's hard to imagine they seriously believe what they say.  But then, of course, this Olbermann and Grayson we're talking about, anything is possible.

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Any chance Olbermann and Grayson apologize? Nah, I don't think so either.

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