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Olbermann Overbites
By davidjeffers | May 22, 2008
My good friend and talk show host, the Great One Mark Levin has pet names for certain people in politics and the media and one of my favorites is Keith Overbite, aka Keith Olbermann of MSNBC. Tuesday driving home I tuned into Mark’s show and heard the tail end of his interview with our Northwest Florida local and great American hero, Congressional Medal of Honor Colonel Bud Day. I just had to call in and say a few words in Colonel Day’s honor. I called Mark’s private line and Mike his producer graciously patched me right through
Now I was merely calling in to trumpet Colonel Day’s appearance but Mark played an audio clip from Mr. Olbermann’s show that floored me; I had not heard it before then. Mr. Olbermann was commenting on a Politico.com interview President Bush had given. The President had called radical Islamist terrorists, al Qaeda and their ilk, “cold-blooded killers who will kill people to achieve their political objectives.”
Here was Mr. Olbermann’s commentary on this:“Mister Bush, at long last has it not dawned on you that the America you have now created includes cold-blooded killers who will kill people to achieve their political objectives?”
He then went on a few days later to explain his misstep:
“No writer or broadcaster is ever as precise and clear as he thinks he is. Television goes by quickly, and the viewer is not provided a copy of the script. So it is possible that reasonable viewers might have been confused by exactly to whom I referred. Especially considering that I edited the original line, which was:
Mister” Bush, at long last has it not dawned on you that the America you have now created includes cold-blooded killers who will kill people to achieve their political objectives? They are called your Cabinet and your Pentagon.
During the editing process it seemed that was a little broad. That there appear to be men in both of those places–Gen Ricardo Sanchez, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, perhaps even the new Secretary of Defense Richard Gates–who did not merit inclusion in that list. My use of “Mister” Bush’s phrase “cold-blooded killers” did not refer to US troops.
”I was stunned! I told Mark that I didn’t even know what to say to that. I said that I actually believed that man, Mr. Olbermann, was to be pitied because he was such a small and pathetic little creature. I went on to say I could not imagine how he would act in the presence of my late son Sergeant Eddie Jeffers if Eddie was still alive.
You see Eddie believed greatly in freedom of speech but he also believed it came with great responsibility; that was the whole purpose of his article “Hope Rides Alone.” I imagined that Keith Olbermann would crumble in the presence of my son’s strength and bravery because Mr. Olbermann does not know what it means to be in the presence of such great men as my son and all the other great warriors that serve in the military.
I’m a forgiving man so I am going to take Mr. Olbermann at his word; he was not referring to US troops. He was referring to President Bush’s cabinet and the Pentagon. Okay, fine. I want names. You claim there will be members of President Bush’s employees on the cabinet and in the Pentagon that may one day be tried for war crimes. Who?
Are you speaking on former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld? Perhaps you are speaking of the new Secretary of Defense Richard Gates? Are you speaking of former National Security Adviser and current Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice? Who Mr. Olbermann…who are the cold-blooded killers in Mr. Bush’s employ of which you speak?
Mr. Olbermann is seems as though your overbite has got the best of you. You’ve got a mouth-full and this is one elephant you cannot eat one bite at a time. You might want to spit that out in the form of a contrite and clear apology to President Bush, his cabinet, and the Pentagon.
If you do not, this will not go away. Your absent-from-the-charts ratings will only become more invisible. Americans, from both political parties, will never stand for you calling patriotic public servants cold-blooded killers.
C’mon Keith, you can do it…be a man just once in your lifetime. Courageously look into the camera, and in all seriousness and sincerity tell America, President Bush, his cabinet, and the Pentagon that you are deeply sorry for your unkind words. You can do it, but it will take courage.
The type of courage the great warriors you clearly disparaged (pathetic explanation aside) display while breathing every day of their lives.
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