Soundbite: “Child Abuse In Politics” Is “A Right-Wing Requirement”

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by Robert Quigley | 8:48 am, November 20th, 2009

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“Child abuse in politics? It is a right wing requirement. Lonesome Rhodes: ‘When we do it it’s cool, when you do it, you’re Hitler.’”

—Keith Olbermann shockingly declares Glenn Beck (a.k.a. ‘Lonesome Rhodes‘) his “Worst Person in the World.” He ridicules Beck’s claim that someone should call a “department of health and children’s services” over the media treatment of a 13-year-old Palin supporter’s shirt. (the girl was actually 17.)

Beck was referring to Norah O’Donnell’s interview with a 13 17-year-old Sarah Palin supporter, which some on the right have criticized as unfair, but which Olbermann said was a simple, honest fact-check. Never one to let hyperbole go unmatched, Olbermann pushed back by calling recent conservative moves, like the criticism of children for appearing in health reform ads and Representative John Shadegg‘s weird use of a baby in a health care debate, “child abuse.”

This all begins at the 1:10 mark in the video below.

StewartIII

Red, White & Conservative: The Day I Met Sarah Palin…and the Liberal Media
http://redwhiteandconservative.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/the-day-i-met-sarah-palin-and-the-liberal-media/
Zakk

So Olbermann loses his fight with Bill O’ so now he is going to nip at the ankles of Beck? Here’s a thought, come up with a new game plan, something people want to watch. Olbermann is a joke, a total and complete joke.
ImNotBlue

If KO didn’t talk about other people in the media (FOX, O’Reilly, Beck, etc.) what would he talk about?
MartiniShark

Could somebody please explain to Keith that the criticism was not directed towards the children, but at the use of those children? There is a distinction, which I am sure would induce a migraine.