Keith Olbermann Takes the Lowest Road

Just when I think that Keith Olbermann can't stoop any lower, he does.

From Brad Wilmouth, NewsBusters:

Below is a complete transcript of Olbermann’s comments from the Monday, August 11, Countdown on MSNBC:

KEITH OLBERMANN: But first, time for Countdown’s number two story, tonight’s "Worst Persons in the World." The bronze, to radio’s Sean Hannity. Says Barack Obama, quote, "can’t point to a single instance in which President Bush or McCain or Karl Rove or Sean Hannity or talk radio or any other major Republican has made an issue of Obama’s race."

Short-term memory is often the first thing to go right after the ethics. March 2nd of this year, Hannity said: "It seems that the change candidate has all the same problems with race as those before him." And then he said, "It’s only fair to ask do the Obama’s have a race problem of their own?"

And this skips comedian Rush Limbaugh’s June description of Obama, quote, "His only chance of winning is that he’s black." His May description began, "If he were Caucasian-" And a year ago in January, started calling him a "Halfrican-American."

What Hannity means when he says nobody has made an issue of Obama’s race is: He and Limbaugh haven’t called him the ‘N’ word – yet.

As Wilmouth points out, Olbermann takes Hannity's comments out of context.

It's an utterly sleazy move, completely over the line.

Hannity and Limbaugh haven't called Obama the N-word... yet.

Really disgusting.

It's disgraceful that MSNBC gives Olbermann a forum.

Olbermann is shameless. He is what he is, and it's not good.

I'd like to know what's going on at MSNBC. Is the network so desperate for ratings that it tolerates, or even encourages, the likes of Olbermann?