I caught KO's racial slur too and was wondering how long it would take for someone to make it an issue. The post on Dkos is actually very well-written and informative. The comments, however, are typical OlbyLoon blather. Many of the comments attack her for simply saying something not glowing about Olbermann. Here are a few of my faves...

"if you listen to KO on a regular basis you'd have to know that he would never slur someone on purpose"

"[KO's] a very nice person. Putting this on the rec list seems like a pretty shitty thing to do to a news person who really has gone to bat for Democrats and progressives. Instead. I think I will work on the true openly racist Pat Buchanan.

"I was brought up learning gyped and jewed were verbs. My first year in college I said something about being 'jewed' out of a dollar, and I was corrected. It was a totally innocent usage of a horrible term. Now I use 'kiked'."

"I'm not going to target Keith. He's the only one consistently on our side. I will email. In fact, this diary is great. But calling out our pretty much only true voice in the media. No thanks.

"If you take out the direct shot at Olberman I will rec because I do think people will know about it."

"We are good at eating our own. Sad."

"I sincerely doubt Keith Olbermann would see this type of education, debate, discussion and history lesson as a slight. This is the very reason he likes this community. "

"we also need to quit using words like "rat" or "pig" or whatever as an insult, especially when we're referring to Bush types. I've had several pet rats, and even a pet pig... and I can attest to the fact that they're both intelligent, playful, emotional, even loving little creatures. They deserve our respect... so PLEASE don't compare them to scum like Bush!"

"I cringed when Keith said that too. Here's the difference between him and the usual media blowhards, though: He may not have known it is a slur, and I bet if he reads this he'll issue an apology on air"

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We all know, of course, that Keith would NEVER make fun of people who were either perpetrators of or victims of the Nazi holocaust. Right?

He'll offend people one-by-one
He won't stop until he is done
Insensitive boob
Like some backwoods rube
Krazy Keith offends everyone

Today on Kos, we get a post where they are pimping some new (old) quote from Hagee, the gist of which is that Hagee claims Hitler was fulfilling the prophesies of Jeremiah (the one in the OT, not Wright!) about the destruction of Isreal. Its a bit hard to follow because of the repeated circular references to HuffnPuff refering back to the diarist's original post. Basically the idea is Digg the HuffPo post enough so that the MSM HAS to cover it.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/21/15242/2179/873/519841

But the real money quote is in the comments where we get......

Consider It Busted (14+ / 0-)
Which of these Hagee quotes will you be talking about tomorrow?

We're throwing it into the McCain stew tonight and I suspect it'll reappear in the days to come.

"If you're going through hell - keep going!" -- Winston Churchill

by Keith Olbermann on Wed May 21, 2008 at 02:24:14 PM PDT

http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2008/5/21/15242/2179/158#c158

Lest there be any question left as to where KO gets his "news" (by the diarists own estimates this looks to be from the early 90's), wonder no more.

Keith's grandpa Goebbels must have used the term "gyped". That's how he picked it up. Is anyone really suprised that Keith likes to sneaks in his favorite Nazi terms into his broadcast? Good old Adolf invented universal health care after all.