Ken Starr Joins With Keith Olbermann: Liz Cheney’s Ad “Very Unwise”

You know hell has frozen over when Keith Olbermann and Ken Starr agree on something, and that sentiment was expressed in so many words on tonight’s Countdown episode. Starr had some harsh words for Liz Cheney‘s Keep America Safe ads from last week, which accused the lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees to be terrorists themselves. Though Olbermann wasn’t there (Lawrence O’Donnell has been subbing in while Olbermann is dealing with his father’s illness), he had commented earlier to say “That’s how serious we both take this, that even we agree on it.”

Starr may be a Republican, but he’s also a lawyer himself, and knows how harmful Cheney’s ad was to both entities.

(Sidenote: We love the 30 Rock reference in the chyron starting at 2:22.)

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