Keith Olbermann Says Tea Party On “Separate Plane Of Existence”

Last night on Countdown, Keith Olbermann took a look at the current state of the Tea Party – or, as he dubbed it, “living on an entirely separate plane of existence with unicorns and optional gravity and intelligent design and flat Earth societies and Christine ‘you’re so dumb how do you find the front door every day’ O’Donnell.” You can guess how it went.

Of particular interest to Olbermann was O’Donnell thinking she had outsmarted her Delaware U.S. Senate race opponent Chris Coons on the content of the First Amendment…only to be shocked that later, the media was focusing on her shortcomings in the debate. Olbermann, of course, was happy to do this himself, incredulously claiming O’Donnell was “declaring victory by dint of not understanding the First Amendment.”

Olbermann said that with all this in mind, it was no wonder Tea Party pioneer Karl Denninger seemed fed up with the current state of the movement, which came to a head in this column where he told the Tea Party to “go screw [it]self” and derided “douchebag groups like the Tea Party Patriots.” Then, he talked to liberal commentator and author Thomas Frank, and you can probably guess how that went as well. Video below.

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