Posted on 10/14/2009 11:59:32 AM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
This will be the last report on this particular tree falling in the forest—not that we are going to end this series on Keith Olbermann, or MSNBC in general-- but on Keith Olbermann’s not-so- Special Comment on Health Care grandiosely entitled, The Fight Against Death.
Tonight, Keith reported proudly just how short a reach he has, when he got all excited that his audience had contributed just under 50 cents per viewer to provide free health care to the needy. Mocking the fact that Keith has raised a half million bucks for charity might seem, well, uncharitable, but Keith’s motives are a bit unique.
He ended his health care rant last week with the challenge to his audience to provide key health care clinics in 6 states where Democrat senators are unlikely to vote for a government takeover of health care. This was somehow going to shame them into voting for the “public option.” Sounds like an incentive for a senator to join the undecided ranks and get some free health care for his people to me.
Gee, Keith, even Scrooge gave to the poor houses to uh, help the poor….
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I wonder what the numbers were for Keith’s hourlong rant. I was going to see what he said, but after a few seconds my dogs started screaming and biting their butts. I had to turn it off.
What little I saw of Olberboy’s rant consisted of a story about how his father fell out of bed, and Olbermann bragging about how he could afford the best doctors. It didn’t make much sense, and it wasn’t amusing.
http://www.nationalledger.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=5&num=9386
He must have a short reach...
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