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AtomicKitten

(46,585 posts)
Wed May 27, 2015, 11:58 PM May 2015

Keith Olbermann's Special Comments on Hillary Clinton and race. [View all]

Last edited Thu May 28, 2015, 09:04 PM - Edit history (2)

I am consolidating posts and including a partial transcript.




"WE HAVE FORGIVEN YOU ...." Keith Olbermann on Hillary's "assassination" remarks.
PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT OF VIDEO POSTED BELOW

God knows, Senator, in this campaign, this nation has had to forgive you, early and often...

And despite your now traditional position of the offended victim, the nation has forgiven you.

We have forgiven you your insistence that there have been widespread calls for you to end your campaign, when such calls had been few.

We have forgiven you your misspeaking about Martin Luther King's relative importance to the Civil Rights movement.

We have forgiven you your misspeaking about your under-fire landing in Bosnia.

We have forgiven you insisting Michigan's vote wouldn't count and then claiming those who would not count it were Un-Democratic.

We have forgiven you pledging to not campaign in Florida and thus disenfranchise voters there, and then claim those who stuck to those rules were as wrong as those who defended slavery or denied women the vote.

We have forgiven you the photos of Osama Bin Laden in an anti-Obama ad...

We have forgiven you fawning over the fairness of Fox News while they were still calling you a murderer.

We have forgiven you accepting Richard Mellon Scaife's endorsement and then laughing as you described his "deathbed conversion."

We have forgiven you quoting the electoral predictions of Boss Karl Rove.

We have forgiven you the 3 A-M Phone Call commercial.

We have forgiven you President Clinton's disparaging comparison of the Obama candidacy to Jesse Jackson's.

We have forgiven you Geraldine Ferraro's national radio interview suggesting Obama would not still be in the race had he been a white man.

We have forgiven you the dozen changing metrics and the endless self-contradictions of your insistence that your nomination is mathematically probable rather than a statistical impossibility.

We have forgiven you your declaration of some primary states as counting and some as not.

We have forgiven you exploiting Jeremiah Wright in front of the editorial board of the lunatic-fringe Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

We have forgiven you exploiting William Ayers in front of the debate on ABC.

We have forgiven you for boasting of your "support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans"...

We have even forgiven you repeatedly praising Senator McCain at Senator Obama's expense, and your own expense, and the Democratic ticket's expense.

But Senator, we cannot forgive you this: "You know, my husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California."



the above transcript starts @ 7:14



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Well, there it is. bravenak May 2015 #1
ugh. it's actually worse than I remembered and looks cali May 2015 #27
Yeah, it does sound worse now. bravenak May 2015 #33
Yeah, no kidding Scootaloo May 2015 #80
You weren't. Skidmore May 2015 #48
I waited fer her to apologized and I guess I gave up on it. bravenak May 2015 #55
Hey Pandora! BrotherIvan May 2015 #2
Yeah, Clinton supporters really don't want to go there. TDale313 May 2015 #4
Open Pandora's Box and reap the whirlwind. DisgustipatedinCA May 2015 #7
Apparently there's a lot of shit in there BrotherIvan May 2015 #8
... Spitfire of ATJ May 2015 #13
damn. I missed both of these comments at the time. m-lekktor May 2015 #3
OMG.. When this took place, many of us were upset about the tang of racism around her campaign hedda_foil May 2015 #5
Wasn't it Hillary's camp where the racist LiberalElite May 2015 #22
Like Nixon's Southern strategy, which became a permanent part of Republican DNA. nt tblue37 May 2015 #43
Yep, hedda_foil is describing it precisely. arcane1 May 2015 #78
Exactly. Her advisors would have analyzed their numbers and decided hedda_foil May 2015 #81
very disturbing olddots May 2015 #6
For me the Jesse Jackson comments were the worst rpannier May 2015 #17
I remember and I remember people throwing Keith under the bus nadinbrzezinski May 2015 #9
Remember the "Race Memo"? McCamy Taylor May 2015 #16
there would have been no memo had the Clinton campaign not been blowing dog whistles cali May 2015 #28
"Nixonian" is EXACTLY the right word hifiguy May 2015 #44
I'm certain all of us 'hardworking white people' who voted for Obama geek tragedy May 2015 #36
God, I miss Keith Olbermann donf May 2015 #10
Pretty Please..... LovingA2andMI May 2015 #11
I'm going to miss Jon Stewart too. AtomicKitten May 2015 #100
Why does AtomicKitten hate all women? Spitfire of ATJ May 2015 #12
well, I am kinda pissed off AtomicKitten May 2015 #14
I'd rather see her as Attorney General with job #1 being to go after Wall Street. Spitfire of ATJ May 2015 #19
omg yes AtomicKitten May 2015 #20
Now THAT I like. hifiguy May 2015 #50
I hadn't thought of that, and I think I love it! arcane1 May 2015 #86
Just her nature, I guess. Enthusiast May 2015 #24
why I oughta AtomicKitten May 2015 #34
Two words "Race Memo." McCamy Taylor May 2015 #15
Here, allow me. AtomicKitten May 2015 #18
Powerful: "Obama Camp's Memo on Clintons' Politicizing Race" Divernan May 2015 #95
sucks being old cause you remember this stuff dembotoz May 2015 #21
I'd forgotten the list of all the things for which we've forgiven Hillary. It's a long, long list. Scuba May 2015 #23
I watched all this stuff in real time back in the day. But I had forgotten much of it too. Enthusiast May 2015 #25
K & R LWolf May 2015 #26
"..If I'm NOT READY,.... Segami May 2015 #29
I remember these Capt. Obvious May 2015 #30
I was in a state of disbelief. I was just blown away that they'd go there. cali May 2015 #31
So was I. nt Mojorabbit May 2015 #56
Thank you for that reminder. Baitball Blogger May 2015 #32
anything Clinton can do to avoid reminding folks of 2008, she should do geek tragedy May 2015 #35
She's STILL managing southern twang while putting foot in mouth. Divernan May 2015 #97
Now I remember why she gives me the heebie jeebies Fumesucker May 2015 #37
When Hillary said that her campaign was turning to "the kitchen sink" stategy me b zola May 2015 #38
If we are taking trips down memory lane here's an old post from 2008 Autumn May 2015 #39
Oh how times have changed marym625 May 2015 #40
No, it's not look at the Bernie supporters. Skidmore May 2015 #51
What would you have him do? hifiguy May 2015 #67
I think he will get specific. Has Hillary been specific? Autumn May 2015 #73
nope marym625 May 2015 #89
So I guess only Bernie needs to get specific. Autumn May 2015 #99
ain't it though? marym625 May 2015 #107
I miss Keith hifiguy May 2015 #41
Me too! marym625 May 2015 #42
I think Keith really just got tired of the political stuff after awhile enigmatic May 2015 #47
I think you are probably right. hifiguy May 2015 #49
like most of us that survived bush/Cheney marym625 May 2015 #52
Some folks are conspicuous by their absence hifiguy May 2015 #45
They're playing elsewhere marym625 May 2015 #53
They'll avoid this thread like a neo-con avoids voting for a Democratic sponsored bill. Exilednight May 2015 #64
LOL! marym625 May 2015 #68
I've been here since late 2001. hedda_foil May 2015 #82
Me2 - wth? 840high May 2015 #83
You caused me to research marym625 May 2015 #90
What went on here in 2008 was one of the ugliest things I've ever seen on a political website enigmatic May 2015 #98
I guess I haven't looked deep enough marym625 May 2015 #106
There's a Hillary salon tonight Fumesucker May 2015 #60
I wonder what the poor people are doing tonight? hifiguy May 2015 #61
The same thing we do every night Pinky Fumesucker May 2015 #77
I have not forgotten Oilwellian May 2015 #46
You are right and hooboy did it creep me out realizing it AtomicKitten May 2015 #54
It was interesting looking at the 2008 post marym625 May 2015 #57
Could be a number of things. AtomicKitten May 2015 #62
honestly, that stuff the last two days made me physically ill. marym625 May 2015 #63
the Bernie group will be a lovely respite AtomicKitten May 2015 #76
We're trying marym625 May 2015 #91
I am disappointed TM99 May 2015 #71
That is a really sad thought marym625 May 2015 #92
He started out pro-Hillary in 2008, but there were other Exilednight May 2015 #72
so, that hasn't changed it seems marym625 May 2015 #94
I miss that guy . orpupilofnature57 May 2015 #58
The old memory hole isn't what it used to be is it, Clintonites? TheKentuckian May 2015 #59
lol, dumbest smear of the campaign. Vattel May 2015 #65
Thank you for posting this.... ariesgem May 2015 #66
The Clintons never apologize. TM99 May 2015 #74
Welll.....she's still "evolving" on all the above and will get back to you. Tierra_y_Libertad May 2015 #69
By and large, the American public's attention spand is, short unfortunately. YOHABLO May 2015 #70
OK, now I see what all these desperate "Bernie and his supporters are racist" insinuations Zorra May 2015 #75
God, I forgot how truly nasty her campaign got. morningfog May 2015 #79
Back then I loved her. Yes it was nasty stuff. 840high May 2015 #84
K&R MelungeonWoman May 2015 #85
I remember all of this shit Quayblue May 2015 #87
Thanks for the memories beltanefauve May 2015 #88
K&R & bookmarked. Divernan May 2015 #93
I remember some of that Quackers May 2015 #96
Wow MissDeeds May 2015 #101
Keith is being incredibly stupid...it was the Obama campaign that joeybee12 May 2015 #102
Thanks for having common sense. The idea that she was implying something about Vattel May 2015 #103
sorry, it was hardly just the ferraro crap. cali May 2015 #104
sorry, this smear by Olbermann was pure silliness. Vattel May 2015 #105
I think she was only saying that the campaigns can still go on into June treestar May 2015 #108
K&R woo me with science May 2015 #109
K&R cprise May 2015 #110
Kick. AtomicKitten Jun 2015 #111
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