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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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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Keith Olberman...heh heh....I crap bigger’n him


41 posted on 04/25/2008 7:46:42 PM PDT by vrwconspiracist
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Olberdope must be lacking ratings.


42 posted on 04/25/2008 7:52:54 PM PDT by MaxMax (It's not the politics I despise, It's the politicians for being so stupid..)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

But if a Republican suggested that Jeremiah Wright be strung up for his inflammatory hate speech...


43 posted on 04/25/2008 7:59:08 PM PDT by Solitar ("My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them." -- Barry Goldwater)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
What a doofus, Olberman couldn't scare a 10 year old on a playground.

When he starts advocating hanging Alec Baldwin, Craig Kilbourne, Sean Penn and their ilk for their advocating violence against elected officials, he can start talking about others.

44 posted on 04/25/2008 8:03:52 PM PDT by Ghengis (Of course freedom is free. If it wasn't, it would be called expensivedom. ~Cindy Sheehan 11/11/06)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Olbermann makes Foresst Gump look like Stephen Hawkings!


45 posted on 04/25/2008 8:06:26 PM PDT by Bommer
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

OlberButtmunch and Rachael Madcow would’ve been hung long before Rush.


46 posted on 04/25/2008 8:08:55 PM PDT by DGHoodini (Tin eared zeroes and Hollypukes comin...)
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To: plymaniac

...more like a bull mouse...


47 posted on 04/25/2008 8:09:23 PM PDT by bt_dooftlook (Democrats - the "No Child/Left/Behind" Party)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Olbermann never saw/sees/will see a conservative he likes... hell, he’d most likely have demanded Abe Lincoln be strung up.

This Olber-turd ruined Old Timer’s Day at Yankee Stadium last July (he was the on-field announcer during the game)... I wished Donnie Baseball (the original #23) would have fouled one off Olbermann’s nose.


48 posted on 04/25/2008 8:13:47 PM PDT by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Who is Keith Olbermann?
49 posted on 04/25/2008 8:16:32 PM PDT by LiberConservative ("Typical" White Guy)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Keith regrets that a lot more people would rather listen to Rush than swallow the Olbermann swill.


50 posted on 04/25/2008 8:18:41 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: wolfpat
Yes. It's amazing how many people mis-use those two words.

Hung:
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Hanged:
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51 posted on 04/25/2008 8:27:22 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Bathtube boy has some major anger issues and needs to seek help


52 posted on 04/25/2008 8:28:17 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Does GE use NBC/MSNBC as a tax write-off? I can’t imagine any reason it stays on the air. Is there one time slot where they even rank near the top? Other than you, Mark, what audience do they have?


53 posted on 04/25/2008 8:29:45 PM PDT by EDINVA (Proud American for 23,062 days.... and counting!)
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To: umgud
Which of course is exactly the point.
Inciting “who” is the question.

Obermann doesn't have a clue, and being a lib means you never have to depend on common sense or facts to explain your position on anything.

54 posted on 04/25/2008 8:52:46 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Guns don't kill people, gun free zones kill people)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I wonder what Overbite thinks about this then:
Rev. Al Sharpton vows to 'close the city down' after cops' acquittal in Bell trial.

Well, not really.
55 posted on 04/26/2008 12:28:06 AM PDT by Lord Basil
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To: Zeppo
He had better be careful - the idiots in the Connecticut legislature just ovewhelmingly passed hate crime legislation that enshrines the noose as a symbol of racial hatred, and New York is not far behind.

Heck, in Lee's Summit, MO (where I live), using the word "noose" in conversation is enough to get high school students suspended. No, I'm NOT kidding!

Mark

56 posted on 04/26/2008 4:14:37 AM PDT by MarkL
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Yes, blacks listen to Rush and do what he says on a regular basis.


57 posted on 04/26/2008 4:28:19 AM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: Islander2
Just what wads your panties for the guy saying, “Rush’s followers” ?

Seeing people blindly follow a radio actor is troubling.

58 posted on 04/26/2008 4:59:24 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Wouldn't those be the same days homosexuals- like Olbermann- may have been hanged?
59 posted on 04/26/2008 5:01:38 AM PDT by Vision ("If God so clothes the grass of the field...will He not much more clothe you...?" -Matthew 6:30)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I’m sure that Olbermann is not inspiring or inciting that Rush be hung. He is only dreaming of Rush being hung.


60 posted on 04/26/2008 5:12:27 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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