Keith Olbermann: Dog-Gate Exponentially Raises ‘Absurdity’ of Campaign

ABC News ^ | Apr 22, 2012 | George Stephanopoulos

[presidio9]

After a week of dog-eat-dog politicking between President Obama and Mitt Romney’s respective campaigns, Keith Olbermann said today that the “dog-gate” controversies have gotten out of hand.

Politicos, pundits and the presidential-campaign watching public spent the past week pondering which is worse, a presidential candidate who put his dog in a kennel strapped to the roof of his car for a 12-hour drive or a president who ate dog meat as a child living in Indonesia.

“It raises the level of absurdity to something exponential,” Olbermann said on “This Week” about the Romney campaign criticizing Obama for consuming dog meat when he was 6 years old.

“With so many valuable questions going on, we’re wasting most of the time dealing with the dogs,” the former MSNBC and CurrentTV host said.

But ABC’s George Will said neither the candidates nor their campaigns are responsible for the recent dominance of dogs in the presidential race. Instead, he said, the media is to blame.

“The horse race is over, and the sugar rush that the media got from that is gone, and therefore they’re looking for something to keep their mind off, I guess, big questions,” Will said during the “This Week” roundtable.

Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan argued that with the breakneck speed of the campaign this year, dogs may be the topic of the week, but they are not here to stay.

“There are literally thousands of people in the United States now who are employed to cover these campaigns minute by minute and they need something to say,” Noonan said. “And so

[presidio9]

As usual Olbermann's anger management issues keep him a full cycle behind the story. The "Future Prez Eats Dog" story was mined exclusively to point out the complete absurdity of an issue that several members of the left refused to let go.

[Paladin2]

AxleShaft’s fault.

[ClearCase_guy]

“There are literally thousands of people in the United States now who are employed to cover these campaigns minute by minute and they need something to say,” Noonan said

Birth certificate
Social Security number
Selective Service record
College records
Rezko
ACORN
Falsified economic data
Fast and Furious
Crypto-Muslim
Closeted homosexual

... or dogs

[Paladin2]

This story has plenty of legs.

[Autonomous User]

Didn’t Olberman lose his credibility about one brain injury and three jobs ago? Who would care what he thinks.

[Lucas McCain]

What’s really absurd is that Steponallofus would have that raving lunatic on his show.

[SnakeDoctor]

Never would’ve been brought up if it weren’t for Obama’s people pushing Romney’s much more tolerable dog-gate.

SnakeDoc

[omega4179]

Obama ate Dog.

[Paladin2]

"Steponallofus"

That d00fus should be covering dog birth control.

[Paladin2]

Olbermann needs to investigate why Mr. (Special) Ed shot his own dog.

[Sirius Lee]

“In Indonesia, pussy eat dog.” ~ Yakov

[Past Your Eyes]

I thought his name was Stepandfetchalot.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

Dang it Keith, we had to find something different between the two guys. Since signalized medicine, gay rights, gun control, and abortion weren't on the list; we turned to dogs. Its the only other issue Americans care about, Keith.

[Darth Reardon]

“It raises the level of absurdity to something exponential,” Olbermann

Math is hard.

[mckenzie7]

Who’s Oberdumm?

[mckenzie7]

Who’s Oberdumm?

[Eye of Unk]

I would dearly love to see one of those Obama Marxism speeches shown during the Westminster Dog Show.

[Shannon]

Of course Olberman is going to say this. He wants it to go away.

Romney's 30 year old incident of transporting the family dog is one thing. But eating dogs is quite another. He's knows this will be a huge turn-off to many people; people who don't educate themselves on all issues but will vote based on one or two issues that evoke an emotional response.

If the Repubs had any sense at all, they'd play this like a fiddle.

[Autonomous User]

Have you noticed there doesn’t seem to be as many dogs in the vicinity of the Whitehut anymore?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“It raises the level of absurdity to something exponential"

Olberman must have a degree in higher mathematics to make such a profound statement.