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Olbermann Nostalgic for Days Rush Could Be Hung for Riot Remarks
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 04/25/2008 6:47:01 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Who said leftists are opposed to the death penalty? It's just a question of who's being hung. . .

Many Americans might wax nostalgic for the long lost America immortalized in Norman Rockwell's Saturday Evening Post cover drawings. Not Keith Olbermann. He longs for the good old days when people like Rush Limbaugh . . . could be strung up. Here's the Countdown host tonight, speaking with Air America's Rachel Maddow:

KEITH OLBERMANN: Legally, we've come a very long way since the Haymarket bombing in Chicago in 1886 when we wound up hanging some anarchist writers, who were not even in the state, as murderers by proxy. And legally there is this question of "temporal remoteness" [separation in time between the statement and the act]. You say this now on the radio, it happens in August. It's not like yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater; it is protected speech. But do you think that Limbaugh has any idea that were he to repeat what he said on the air, say the day before the convention, or during it, he might actually be morally or legally responsible for incitement to riot?

View video here.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: 2008dncconvention; capitalpunishment; keitholbermann; recreate68; riots; rushlimbaugh; talkradio
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1 posted on 04/25/2008 6:47:02 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

Olbermann regrets Rush can’t be hung ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 04/25/2008 6:47:44 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Rush should sue for libel.....it’s the RECREATE 68 group who’s pushing for riots....and Sharpton....


3 posted on 04/25/2008 6:48:15 PM PDT by goodnesswins (20 is the new 10)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

You do realize that by watching Olbermann, you’re improving his ratings by 50%?


4 posted on 04/25/2008 6:49:14 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Checkmate Cruiser")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I regret that this is not for Keith Olbermann:-)

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5 posted on 04/25/2008 6:49:36 PM PDT by geo40xyz (McCain, Obama or Hillarybeast possibility of 4 Supreme Court Justices, Gore @UN. The WINNER is?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Olbermann. German for “Weasely little Nazi termite.”


6 posted on 04/25/2008 6:49:52 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Overbite regrets he is hung like a tack.
7 posted on 04/25/2008 6:50:47 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Everytime McCain reaches out to conservatives, conservatives get poked in the eye.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Like he would ever own up to any responsibility for any of the ridiculous things he has said.

I doubt very much he can even spell the word responsibility much less have any understanding of what the word means.

8 posted on 04/25/2008 6:51:56 PM PDT by Condor 63
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
View video here.

No way, thanks.

I ain't gonna ruin my evening by watching those two dykes drool all over each other.

9 posted on 04/25/2008 6:52:09 PM PDT by Syncro
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

More unbiased, non partisan reporting from your friends in journalism. :D


10 posted on 04/25/2008 6:52:59 PM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I’m nostalgic for the days when KO was worth watching.


11 posted on 04/25/2008 6:53:30 PM PDT by RichInOC ("Live from ESPN World Headquarters, it's the Big Show.")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

If Dems riot it’ll be Limbaugh’s fault? Rank-and-file rage at their leaders’ impotence and inconsequence won’t be directed at the Dean, Obama, the Clunktons, Reid, adn Pelosi? So confusing...


13 posted on 04/25/2008 6:54:41 PM PDT by flowerplough (I suck at Photoshop)
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Good God I despise this worthless piece of sh*t. No wonder this worthless clown gets zero ratings.

He’s nothing but a hateful, leftist prick.


14 posted on 04/25/2008 6:55:01 PM PDT by faithinchaos (eternal pessimist, recovering optimist)
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To: neodad

Not to mention the reduction in IQ points. ;-)


15 posted on 04/25/2008 6:55:27 PM PDT by doc1019 (Acts 16:31, Romans 10:13 ... nuff said.)
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To: TornadoAlley3
Overbite regrets he is hung like a tack.

You mean tick.

16 posted on 04/25/2008 6:56:04 PM PDT by plymaniac
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
LOL!

Well, I'm nostalgic for the days when those like olbermann could be tarred, feathered, then run out of town on a rail.

17 posted on 04/25/2008 6:56:24 PM PDT by Shortcake
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Yo Keith, are you saying Rush has the horsepower to incite dems to riot against other dems? It ain’t gonna be Rush’s folowers out there rioting.


18 posted on 04/25/2008 6:56:25 PM PDT by umgud
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I never knew Olbermann was so blame **FAT** until I saw a clip of him walking onto the Letterman show stage the other day. BLIMEY he is a walking plump WOODTICK that just fell off a dog!


19 posted on 04/25/2008 6:57:16 PM PDT by HD1200
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Olberman’s a racist.

He wants to HANG Rush?

With a NOOSE?

Haven’t we learned that nooses (Jena) are a symbol of black hatred? Therefore hanging is now racist.


20 posted on 04/25/2008 6:57:40 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Typical White Person)
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