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White House press secretary disputes Keith Olbermann’s notion that the Bush tax cut compromise is comparable to Nazi appeasement and wants the left wing anchor to stop.
From Mediaite
During his patented Special Comment segment last week, Countdown host Keith Olbermann showed his displeasure with President Obama’s compromise on the Bush Tax Cuts by comparing it to Nazi appeasement. At Monday’s White House briefing, I asked Press Secretary Robert Gibbs if the White House had any reaction to the comparison. Gibbs responded that he doubted the President had heard Olbermann’s remarks, reiterated that the White House thinks the compromise is a good deal, and addressed the appeasement charge.
I was more interested in Gibbs’ thoughts on such heated opposition rhetoric coming from someone who’s so influential with the President’s base, but Gibbs opted to teach Keith Olbermann a quick mini-course on Godwin’s Law: (From C-Span)
The entire point of Godwin’s Law, of course, is that those who violate it make themselves irrelevant. In the case of Keith Olbermann, though, a little light Nazi rhetoric isn’t going to break the spell he has over much of the President’s base. While Bill Clinton’s Friday appearance at the White House may help to sway rank-and-file Democrats, the former President is no hero to the Kos nation over which Olbermann holds sway. Appeasing them may be a tricky thing.
The only appeasing going on is being done by the mainstream media for letting Olbermann get away with using highly inflammatory language that they wouldn’t have stood for had it been uttered by a conservative.
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2 Comments for Gibbs: ‘Tax Cut Compromise Is Not Appeasement’
It’s funny how Young Communists like Dumberman hate what they perceive as “Nazis” so much. I’m certain he’d be glad to emulate ‘dolf in sending all us unelightened folks to some kamps.
In Dumberman’s Dictionary, as with most Neo-Comms, a Nazi is “anyone who dares disagree with my brilliance.”
While I think Gibbs must be the dopiest press sec in the last 40 years or so, I’m glad he spoke to Keiff’s (sic) irrelevance. Now someone get him some Rush ties, and DX all those pink things he seems to love.
Don,
They love the fiery rhetoric. They always say (or don’t say) one thing and mean another. What is the difference between Olberman’s Nazi comments and Obama’s hostage comments? Really nothing at all. They are all at war with the right and will stay at war with the right. Watch, the venom will get more venomous in the coming year. The real appeasers are reving up the engine now with their own versions…a GOP Dream act, conciliatory talk on SMART. They are at it again and the rage will be with the conservatives. Doesn’t sound like a good beginning of a New Year.