What I am genuinely outraged about is how this protracted primary season has caused normally rational individuals who agree to become hateful fools spewing petty invective at one another. I find it tiring to see Democrats eating their own when there is work to be done. If this is the point on which you believe I should get over myself, well “nobama,” that speaks more about you than it does me.

I suggest that if you don’t care for Mr. Olbermann or his program - or me, for that matter - then perhaps you might do well to seek other virtual pastures.

If any of them had uttered that lame non-apology “I’m sorry you misunderstood me”. They’d have been right back up there again for another round.

Get over yourself, Becky. Why do you take this so personally anyway?

And the reason “no one” was talking about it until Rachel Sklar’s article on Huffpo showed up is because those people (like me, a one time Countdown fan) Don’t Watch Countdown (anymore). And it’s hypocritical comments and non-apologies like this even that caused me to stop watching Countdown.

Talk about needing to get over yourself; Keith, we’re looking at YOU!

http://blog.92y.org/index.php/weblog/item/richard_lewis_and_keith_olbermann_word_in_edgewise/

This isn’t feminism–not second wave, third wave or any other kind of wave. It’s a pathetic tossed bucket of water, accompanied by cries of “Sexist!,” from women who wouldn’t know sexism if it denied them a job, deprived them of decent day care for their kids, or paid them less than a man. But when they hear “two people go into a room and only one comes out” from Keith, and one of those people just happens to be Hillary, WHAM! Sexism from the lips of Misogynist King Keith!

If you don’t mind my saying so, these tend to be the same kind of women who initially got their knickers in a knot with him for devoting so many of his #1 stories to ridiculing the latest Blond Celebutard of the Week. Keith said something that implied Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, etc., is stupid and slutty? OH NOES!!!! Time to grab the pots and pans and have a protest to defend this paragon of womanhood from the mudslinging of men!

Totally ignored is the fact that Keith is pretty much willing to ridicule ANY celebrity who strikes him as intellectually vacuous and relationally promiscuous…male or female. He slings it at Paris for being a slut who made a sex video. He slings it at Rush for being married a brazillion times and going to the Dominican Republic with a case of Viagra and no companion. He puts the laugh on brainless actors, musicians and ex-boy-band members with regularity. Yet…let him aim his snark at a blonde starlet or professional heiress and all of a sudden he’s a sexist pig creep.

Is Keith perfect? Nah. Has he probably still got a lot to learn about the world and life (despite the fact that he appears to regard himself now as the King of Having It All Together, fully qualified to counsel other poor sadsacks on how they can find true eternal happiness in work, love and life, “just like I finally have”)? Yeah, I think so. But his basic integrity I don’t doubt. And I am at the point in this presidential race that I am heartily sick of anyone and EVERYONE even peripherally involved having every word that comes out of their mouth analyzed as a possible “gotcha” career ender. That goes not only for Keith but for Obama, both the Clintons and everyone having anything to do with them (including Jeremiah Wright). Enough already! (Well, OK, I admit that as far as McCain’s concerned, I’d like to see someone do even a FRACTION of criticizing what he says that causes him the slightest hiccup of real attention and concern.)

If Hillary Clinton’s band of extremist so-called feminist supporters put half the effort into fighting for true feminist causes that they do into seeking offense at every turn of a phrase, we would all be getting equal pay for equal work, every man would be getting paternity leave and the “glass ceiling” would be shattered into more little pieces than James Frey’s reputation.

It blows my mind that some people have taken KO’s comment literally, when it should be obvious to anyone older than 5 with a functioning brain that it’s just a phrase. Everytime I think this country couldn’t get more stupid…

I don’t think it’ll end after the primaries, because then we’ll have the Rs to deal with, although maybe it’ll hurt less when it isn’t coming from *our own damned people*.

*sigh*