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Liberal Icon Keith Olbermann Mocks Joni Ernst for Growing Up Poor
Gateway Pundt ^ | 1/20/15 | Kristinn Taylor

Posted on 01/21/2015 1:09:15 PM PST by blueyon

Liberal icon and current ESPN host Keith Olbermann took to Twitter Wednesday night to callously mock Sen. Joni Ernst for her growing up in a poor working family in Red Oak, Iowa.

Ernst spoke of her childhood when she gave the Republican response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address:

“As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save for college, I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardees.

“We were raised to live simply, not to waste. It was a lesson my mother taught me every rainy morning.

“You see, growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry.

“But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet.

“Our parents may not have had much, but they worked hard for what they did have.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
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To: blueyon
Olbermann is an icon the same way I am Sophia Loren.

Which is to say .... NOT.

21 posted on 01/21/2015 1:23:14 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: blueyon

War On Conservative Women!


22 posted on 01/21/2015 1:24:57 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: freepersup

For clarification- your comment was directed at Olberman... eh? My apologizes.


23 posted on 01/21/2015 1:27:29 PM PST by freepersup (Patrolling the waters off Free Republic one dhow at a time.)
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To: blueyon

Olberman is nobodys ICON.
I know it you know it and best of all he knows it.Thought and hoped he was gone.
He is hanging on be what my Maw used to call,”The skin of his teeth”.


24 posted on 01/21/2015 1:28:20 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: blueyon

To think Keith Olbermann was too liberal, mouthy, arrogant even for MSNBC.


25 posted on 01/21/2015 1:29:26 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: blueyon

..and when you're done mopping, hit the bathrooms and make them sparkle

26 posted on 01/21/2015 1:29:42 PM PST by JPG (The GOPe will always find a way to surrender)
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To: freepersup

I think the poster is referring to a fact that Olbie went to the agricultural school at Cornell with the lower admissions requirements but prefers to say he went to Ivy League Cornell.


27 posted on 01/21/2015 1:30:47 PM PST by februus
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To: freepersup

I believe he is referring to Krazy Keith’s controversial claim regarding his college bona fides at Cornell


28 posted on 01/21/2015 1:31:04 PM PST by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: mountn man

Yep, I was a kid in the 60’s, in Illinois. Count me in. We each had one pair of shoes.


29 posted on 01/21/2015 1:31:04 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: blueyon

there are few people i deplore more than olberman, but even i am growing tired of hearing about pig castrating and breadbags over her shoes on the school bus.
i am a fan of joni, but its time to move on and not speak to people like a third grade school teacher.


30 posted on 01/21/2015 1:31:49 PM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: blueyon
As somebody who had to live in Foster Homes in the early 1960s I can say,without reservation that Olberman is a clueless punk. In one FH I saw a kid get the snot slapped out of him for taking two pieces of cornbread at the supper table. If TSHTF for real guys like Keithy boy would be performing oral sex acts on other guys for stale bread. Talk about a hater!!
31 posted on 01/21/2015 1:38:32 PM PST by 4yearlurker (Some people say that experts agree!!)
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To: Palio di Siena

Why? I had never heard of putting bags over shoes. I grew up in MS on a farm. I walked from the door out the yard to the bus. Then whn we got to school we only had about 50 or so feet to the door. Back then we wore bobby socks and saddle oxfords. The good ole days.


32 posted on 01/21/2015 1:41:03 PM PST by MamaB
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To: blueyon

Who knew the humorless lib even knew the famous Yorkshiremen sketch.

Anyway, he embarrassed himself. Joni rocks.


33 posted on 01/21/2015 1:41:28 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: gubamyster

Bread didn’t come in plastic bags until 1969. Before that it was either wrapped in waxed paper or cellophane.


34 posted on 01/21/2015 1:44:29 PM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: blueyon
And if she grew up rich she would be despised as a 1%er.

To save for college, I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardees.

Thank goodness for people who do that!

35 posted on 01/21/2015 1:46:07 PM PST by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a preacher of the Gospel like Colonel Sanders is an Army officer.)
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To: blueyon

The greatest Olbermann impersonation ever was done by another far left fool but he nailed Keiff.

http://www.break.com/video/ugc/snl-skewers-keith-olbermann-598554


36 posted on 01/21/2015 1:47:08 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: blueyon

Olbermann has about as much integrity as Adolph Hitler.


37 posted on 01/21/2015 1:47:36 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: gubamyster

I took my shoes off and walked to school barefoot. It wasn’t quite as cold in Virginia.


38 posted on 01/21/2015 1:47:46 PM PST by Tax-chick ("A war is not over until the enemy stops fighting." ~ Thomas Sowell)
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To: blueyon

Keith Olbermann? who is that? name is vaguely familiar... j.k.


39 posted on 01/21/2015 1:49:14 PM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Kirkwood

1969 is still the ‘60s...right? I was born in 1962. Maybe it was the ‘60s & ‘70s, but the point is, that it was very common when I was growing up. One of those “didn’t everybody?” moments. No one in our town would think it strange back then. Even adults would often put bags over their church shoes and take the bags off after entering the church, leaving the bags in the back of the church for later.


40 posted on 01/21/2015 1:53:21 PM PST by gubamyster
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