My latest in PJ Media:
Keith Olbermann, who can always be counted on to offer a cool, carefully considered opinion, is not happy with Old Joe Biden. On Thursday, at the height of the Democrats’ “insurrection” hysteria, he tweeted: “Real leadership from @POTUS in his 1/6 anniversary speech at this hour would be to call on Congress to pass the bill invoking the Insurrection provisions of the 14th Amendment to ban Trump, Gosar, Brooks, Boebert, Cruz and the other traitors from ever again holding public office.”
Olbermann is famously unhinged, but in this case, he has revealed what appears to be the Democrats’ playbook. Far-Left attorney Marc Elias tweeted last August: “’No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress…who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress…shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.’-US Constitution.” And then on Dec. 20: “My prediction for 2022: Before the midterm election, we will have a serious discussion about whether individual Republican House Members are disqualified by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment from serving in Congress. We may even see litigation.”
Olbermann is fed up with the fact that this process has not yet been set into motion. He attached a video to his Thursday tweet that contained a classic Olbermann tirade. Sounding like a demented Allen Ginsberg giving us some woke beat poetry, Olbermann started his rant with a Dantescan catalog of evildoers: “January 6. One year. And what have we done with that year? In essence, nothing. Subpoenas issued, ignored, mocked. Traitors, crooks, sadists, racists, gun-fetish psychos, seditionist Congressmen, plotters of coup d’etat, still strung out on stupidity and impunity, and ready to do it all over again.”
Then Olbermann gave us the rarest of things in his rants: an actual true statement: “And they’re not even the real problem. We are.” Yes, that’s right. The real problem is not the ringleaders of an insurrection that never was, but the authoritarian Leftists who are determined to criminalize the political opinions of half the American population.
But that, of course, is not what Olbermann meant. He was angry that his enemies weren’t behind bars, or hanged, drawn and quartered, by now. “One year gone. And if the midterms only go as badly as midterms usually go, only one year left.” The fault lay with inexcusably lax officials: “And where is the special prosecutor making life a living hell for Bannon and Miller, Gosar and Boebert, Jordan and McCarthy and Trump? Where’s the attorney general giving us not a boilerplate speech, but indictments. Where is the Homeland Security chief telling us, ‘Yes, January 6 was terrorism, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers are terrorist organizations, and no, you’re not crazy.’”
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ME Infidel says
Olbermann is and always was a loser as a sportscaster, political commentator, and as a person. Period!
mortimer says
Globalist neo-fascists like Keith Olbermann simply want their to be no Loyal Opposition in their Shangra-La Brave New World run by fascists in opposition to the will of the people.
Keith Olbermann wants to overthrow the American constitution which is based on separation of powers between a party in power and a strong opposition. Without a strong opposition, the American system of government becomes a tyranny of the party in power.
Wellington says
There was no insurrection. January 6th was a three hour sit-in and walk-around in which an extremely small amount of violence occurred except for a Trump supporter, Ashli Babbitt, being killed by an incompetent and overzealous Capitol Police Officer, one Michael Byrd by name.
When a Portland, Oregon federal building was torched repeatedly, a police precinct in Minneapolis destroyed and over 500 riots occurred in 2020 which caused billions of dollars of damage, over 30 people killed and at least 1,000 police officers injured, Democrats were cheering the rioters on. Nancy Pelosi said amidst this barbarism, “I don’t know why there aren’t more uprisings, maybe there will be.” Kamala Harris provided bail money to get violent BLM and Antifa thugs out of jail. One Democrat after another, whether a Congressman, Governor, Mayor, etc. justified again and again and again the massive amount of violence that occurred in 2020 across America—a “Summer of love” per the idiotic Democratic Mayor of Seattle.
Now you have one minor incursion into the Capitol, which was so non-destructive that Congress was able to meet in the Capitol later that day and its Armageddon time and a mortal threat to the Constitution and America. What hogwash. What hypocrisy. What a huge double standard.
And now the unhinged Keith Olbermann is blaming Biden, Garland and other divisive Democratic authoritarians for not being authoritarian enough, for not exercising even more of a double standard. All of which points to a very large truth and that is that Leftism is indeed a mental disorder, only the variance of which differs from one Leftist to another.
Wellington says
“…it’s Armageddon time…” and not “its Armageddon time…” So annoyed when I do something like this. There is no excuse.
somehistory says
Please, Wellington, excuse yourself, or I too will have to give myself ten lashes with a wet noodle for the mistakes I make.
In a business course I took many years ago, I had to type a lot of forms…legal type stuff, some of it was, and letters, etc. and I could type entire pages without any typos. Now…I can’t type a paragraph without having to retype.
So, please, por favor, sil vous plait, make a few excuses for yourself. I had to read your correction a couple of times to realize what mistake you made.
libertyORdeath says
I agree. It’s a message board, not a PhD thesis.
Well said Wellington
Wellington says
You’re too kind, somehistory. Besides, I have never spared myself but yet indulge myself to the extent that I believe I tread the fine line between being anal and a perfectionist with the skill of a mountain goat negotiating a steep cliff. But perhaps I wax too much in my defense. In any case, thanks again, my resolute anti-Islam friend.
P.S. And also a thank you to “libertyORdeath.” May the spirit of Patrick Henry look benevolently upon you.
James Lincoln says
Perfectly stated, Wellington.
My compliments.
Wellington says
Thank you, James.
gravenimage says
Good analysis, Wellington. And don’t worry about minor typos–everyone who posts here frequently makes some. Rarely a big deal.
somehistory says
I believe it was an article in the American Thinker, where the author compared what is happening in the U.S. to what came before *revolution* in other countries when dictators took over and oppression of certain groups led to mass murders. One group singled out for elimination…and the rest of the population encouraged to hate and take action against these.
This ko guy is a loudmouth idiot. Did he never learn what happened to Robespierre? ‘”Robespierre was undoubtedly eloquent and his speeches were rigorously prepared – but they did not please everyone. “He is too verbose and does not know when to stop”, one observer noted. “”
The Frenchman began life, seemingly as a “good guy,” but evidently power went to his head….and then, he lost it.
ko has not even been known as a “good guy” or “eloquent in his speeches,”….and he believes he has rights others do not. What a fool. And evil, to boot.
https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/maximilien-robespierre/
SKA says
In effect Doberman is calling for a Bill of Attainder against certain citizens to price them of their rights absent any judicial process involving due process and the like. But Bills of Attainder are prohibited in Artical One, Section Nine. Pesky thing, that Constitution!
libertyORdeath says
He seems to not realize that the FBI and DOJ already did investigations and found ZERO EVIDENCE of “insurrection”, sedition, or “terrorism”. This is why there is a Soviet style show trial and no special council. A special council would have to rely on facts and evidence, all of which suggest a protest gone too far.
gravenimage says
So true. It is a year later, and all they have is rhetoric, and nothing to back up their claims about this having been an “insurrection”.
gravenimage says
Keith Olbermann Wants Trump, Cruz, Boebert, and Others Barred from Holding Public Office
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Yeah–because what is more indicative of a defence of democracy than demanding that anyone you disagree with be *barred from holding pubic office*? Good grief…
Very much in line with the sort of thing Olbermann has spouted before, though.
Spideyweb1 says
Yes Keith… you’re right, they’re ALL traitors to your MARXIST utopian wet dream. GFY
Linde Barrera says
Keith Olbermann should be persuaded to relocate to Communist China, Venezuela, Cuba or Somalia. He would be much more at home in one of those places due to his
anti-conservative stance. I helped campaign for Ted Cruz in NH in late Jan./early Feb. 2016 and I voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020. I think Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Louie Gohmert (all 3 are in the house of Reps.) plus US Senators Josh Hawley, Ron Johnson and Rand Paul are outstanding legislators who really care about the US of America more than Ilhan Omar or Dick Durban care about the USA.
This is my opinion.
I also want to give my opinion that Keith Olbermann is not a true journalist, he is a hack job. Please never forget the state motto of New Hampshire: “Live Free Or Die”. This says it all! But I will guess Keith
Olbermann prefers: “Narcissism Wins”.
Naildriver says
I would argue that the idea of denial of some factions to public office isn’t either wrong or unprecedented. Have we not denied communists or other enemies to hold office or lawfully deny them free exercise of play in this republic? I have no problem in seeing the passage of laws denying Muslims from participation in our government; and, their population be damned!
OLD GUY says
Can’t say that I have ever heard of Keith Olbermann. And I could care less of what he thinks or says. just another far left idiot.