Olbermann: Sherrod was 'Assassinated by Fox News and That Scum Breitbart'

NewsBusters ^ | 7-22-2010 | Noel Sheppard

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Olbermann: Sherrod was 'Assassinated by Fox News and That Scum Breitbart'

By Noel Sheppard

Thu, 07/22/2010 - 01:19 ET

Keith Olbermann interrupted his much-needed vacation Wednesday to surprise his few viewers with a "Special Comment" about the forced resignation of USDA official Shirley Sherrod.

Quite predictably, his greater than twelve minute tirade largely focused on Fox News and Andrew Breitbart -- the latter repeatedly referred to as "scum" as well as a "pornographer of propaganda" -- who he claimed "assassinated" Sherrod.

After starting his rant by pompously comparing the former USDA official to Alfred Dreyfus, the French artillery officer falsely accused of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island, the "Countdown" host tore into almost everyone on the planet (video follows with partial transcript and commentary): 

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Snippets from the article that continued:

But that wasn't the only absurdity on display Wednesday evening as it really was the height of gall for Olbermann to point fingers at Breitbart for publishing an edited video at his website when two weeks ago the "Countdown" host cherry picked from a Rush Limbaugh radio transcript to make the conservative talk show host look racist.

Talk about words being "edited, filleted, stripped of all context, rearranged, fabricated and falsified!" Now that REALLY is the pot calling the kettle black.

On that same night, Olbermann also falsified history to mock Nevada senatorial candidate Sharron Angle AND got so many things wrong concerning oil subsidies and BP that PolitiFact almost gave him a "Pants on Fire" rating days later. 

As such, Olbermann chastising anyone about journalistic ethics and integrity is like a porn star lecturing teenagers about the virtues of abstinence.  

I watched this last nite (yea I watched it) and it was so exceptionally absurd (yea all of this girl Olberman's rants are I know) that I thought it would be good to share here at FR the rabid hate that spews from this mans demented brain.

[Lazamataz]

Every time Keef speaks, he Ass-inates himself.

[Patrick1]

Thanks for watching this show so I don’t have to.

[Le Chien Rouge]

Useful Idiots are ALWAYS eliminated first by the left.

That means you,Keith Obermann.

[wku man]

Who's Keith Odorman? Is he the bum down in Julia Davis Park in Boise who collects cans and rails about chem trails, jackalopes and the moon landing? Oh, that's right...the bum has higher ratings than Odorman.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[Wilderness Conservative]

My eyes are still red and sides are still hurting from laughing so hard at Glenn Beck and his team ripping Oby this morning.

[JPG]

Meltdown is good for comic relief and nothing more.

[bigbob]

Olbie knows a lot about ass because of where his head is located

[CrappieLuck]

“Olbermann to point fingers at Breitbart for publishing an edited video at his website”

LIES. This video was not edited. It contained the entire length of video that is now being shown and labeled as “The rest of the story”.

[Clara Lou]

Yeah, Keith self-assinates almost daily.

[A_Former_Democrat]

I channel surfed last nite and saw part of Keithie’s rant. He comes across as bitter, angry, low self-esteemed, ill informed, biased . . . and very childish.

I guess that what happens when he’s make a mockery of by a woman who told the NY paper he was a bum lay.

[NormsRevenge]

I am so glad I don’t get msnbc.. I couldn’t afford to replace TVs every time I saw him ..

[Syncro]

As serious as it is, it gave me quite a laugh to see him melt down like this.

To see a rabid leftist describe him and his leftist hate group by projecting it on conservatives who dare to expose events and speak out against the blatant slant of the MSM and democrats.

I like the way he pilloried Obama and other of his buddies in his rant also.

[rightwingcrazy]

I notice that Breitbart has managed to disrupt the “racist Tea Party” meme, at least for a bit. The Echo Chamber has been forced to regroup around the “evil Fox” meme, which doesn’t bring the same frisson. Just makes them sound petty.

[Syncro]

Who is he? He's a girl in a suit (kinda like Maddow, a boy in a suit) that is the news director for MSNBC.

Ann Coulter says he hates being called a girl lol.

[Personal Responsibility]

I have more viewers than Keith Olbermann and I’m not on TV.

[mancini]

At the end of the day, none of these people want to talk about BO’s knee-jerk reaction to all of this, because that is probably the biggest story here. Their guy was BAMBOOZLED. Of course, he was acting totally in character...acting without thinking.

[Gaffer]

Keef? Don’t you mean Queef?

[nhwingut]

My eyes are still red and sides are still hurting from laughing so hard at Glenn Beck and his team ripping Oby this morning.

I normally don't watch Beck on TV, but tuned in last night. Oh, my. Was he on fire -- with his Joe Klein pipe.

[Callahan]

Every comment from this bloated buffoon is “special” and you get the sense it’s not schtick. He really is this pompous and perpetually outraged on a daily basis.

I like how the Libosphere is now ignoring the NAACP audience reaction to Saint Sherrod before she got to the end of her heartwarming tale of redemptive class warfare.