Countdown with Keith Olbermann April 25 2007 CLIP 6

STOP THE HATE! Part 2

This is Part 2 of Stop the hate. When I see people hating people I will say it. Today I come in defense of undocumented people.

I was flipping channels and I came across Lou Dobbs on CNN. You know, the guy who is trying to ressurect a career by bashing those whohave no voice (Illegal aliens). He is using racism to get viewers and no one ever says anything about it. He has stories about how an Illegal immigrant got drunk, got behind the wheel and killed this beautiful white girl. Hey it is a sad story, but had the guy behind the wheel been a citizen, then would it be less tragic? Would Lou Dobbs even know that she ever existed? Of course not. That is not a story about illegal aliens, it is about drunk driving. Don't get confused here. I am not saying the guy was not an asshole and deserves to go to jail, what I am saying is that whomever it was that person should be in jail. Equal treatment, such a beautiful thing. So Dobbs is exploiting a girls death to make his point, and further his career, and make more money.

He also had some woman from the KKK, I mean Mothers Against Illegal Aliens... get it, they try to sound like MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) so they get some coverage. But they are not Mad they are Maia, hey doesn't Maia sound like Maya? the Irony. She said the schools in Phoenix were over crowded, but instead of asking for more teachers she wants all those kids sent back to hunger, and possibly to die, all because they don't like brown people. Compassionate conservatives, my ass. Of course when you do to the MAIA site she is possing with her all republican friends. I know some republicans will get offended by me saying that, but think about it, why do minorities vote democrat and the republican party has mostly white people in it? (Not all white people are racist, but the ones who are vote republican).

Hey Dobbs, IMHO you'd be better off picking on someone your own size, someone who can defend himself, like O'Reilly... maybe you two turds will cancel eachother out.

That's a bad Rudy

Quick comment

Ruddy Giuliani said that we would be attacked again if a democrat won the presidency... hmm "Tell us what you know Rudy!" how can you be so certain? Do the terrorists only hate democrats? Did September 11 happen on the democrats watch? It is time for people to stop thinking of this moron as a hero, after all he put NY's emergency response headquarters at the world trade center. What a visionary! Were the democrats who sat on their asses at a classroom reading "My pet goat"? Rudy Giuliani is no hero, he just was there. The fire fighters were heroes, the NYPD officers were heroes, the Port Authority policemen there were heroes, the civilians who died trying to help others were heroes. Rudy was just there. Hey Rudy, just because we have a moron in the white house it does not mean we would rather have a jack ass.

Guns don't Kill People, People with Guns Kill People

Why do we have to have this debate? Since the tragedy at VA tech I have heard people say he dumbest things, here are some of them

-Why regulate guns, and not knives or baseball bats?

A- Because stupid, what are the chances of you killing someone with a gun or bat from across the street?

-Why would law abiding citizens have to wait for a background check to get a gun?

A- Because stupid, not everyone who tries to get a gun is a law abiding citizen

-Why didn't those young, strong students defend themselves?

A- Because stupid, this is not a Bruce Willis movie

-Illegal aliens are criminals...

A- Hey stupid, he was a legal alien and he had been here since he was 8 years old, as Americanized as can be

-Guns don't kill people, People kill people

-Well stupid, you are right about this one, but guns make it a hell of a lot easier

-We are fighting the terrorists in Iraq so we don't have to fight them here

-That is Bush and yes he is stupid

Sharpton is Wrong on Imus

I want to start by saying that I like Al Sharpton. I agree with a lot of what he has to say, but when it comes to Imus he is wrong and to a certain point a hypocritical. As a commentator/comedian I believe no one should get fired for a joke. I understand that people get offended, but a joke, however bad is just that, a joke.

The reason why I say Sharpton is acting like a hypocrite is because he is only opening his mouth about this because the joke was about black people. But lets not forget, the reverend has been in the Cris Rock show and said nothing about the jokes Cris Rock says about white people. Cris Rock has said as a joke that he hates white people, he has generalized all white people as being racist. why not say anything about that? That does not help race relations does it? No it doesn't help, but you know what? It shouldn't hurt either. IT IS A JOKE! See I have a problem every time someone tries to control language. Religion, Politics they all try to control language because that is how you control thought.

By getting Imus fired, Rev Al and everyone involved effectively eliminated the good things that Imus did. His cancer camp, his fund raising for different causes. All because of a stupid joke. Al Sharpton put himself ahead of kids with cancer, and the tomorrow's children fund. Come on reverend, it is not the words that make the man, it his actions. Why are we so afraid of words? words are meaningless, it is actions that tell us who the person really is.

I love freedom, we all do. IMHO freedom of speech is the single most important freedom we have, but how can we have freedom of speech if when you use it, that means that your livelihood can be destroyed?