Keith Olbermann deserves a whole heap of credit. His commentary on MSNBC calling out the Clinton campaign's pattern of negativity, double-standards, reality distortion, and pandering to the politics (and constituents) of the minute was nothing short of awe-inspiring. He managed to encapsulate so much of the disgust, revulsion, and angst that I (and I suspect many fellow progressive Democrats) have experienced in watching the Clinton camp's response to this latest uproar. Watch the video through the end, and you'll see Mr. Olbermann put together a fairly damming argument drawing from a range of observations on the Clinton campaign's strategy showing that the Clinton camp is engaging in a shameless campaign of racial division and double-talk.
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What's absolutely stunning (and telling) is that Keith Olbermann takes great pains to identify himself as siding with neither Clinton or Obama in the primary process. If this is how undecided voters see these actions, it'd be supremely interesting to be a fly on the wall of her campaign war room to understand how they think this will help the candidate and the party win this November.
Nonetheless, I'd like to give Keith Olbermann the highly coveted (ha ha) Chris Cardé Prize for Non-Awfulness In Cable News. Congrats, Keith. This would be the first time I've seen a news show (excepting The Daily Show, of course) call out a politician or campaign on their bullshit. There might be hope for cable news yet.