Olbermann: Was the GOP ‘pro-dog meat eating’ before reading Obama’s book?

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Olbermann: Was the GOP ‘pro-dog meat eating’ before reading Obama’s book?

Former Current TV host Keith Olbermann appeared on ABC’s This Week for the first time Sunday morning, discussing the Republican Party’s strategy in recent years to accuse the Democrats of the same problem they face in a specific news cycle.

Olbermann was among This Week‘s roundtable guests, which discussed Republicans bringing up President Obama’s admission in his book of eating dog meat as a kid as a way to respond to the continued talk of Mitt Romney placing his dog Seamus on the top of his car roof.

“Almost every point that is made on one side must be countered by something similar to one or the other,” he said. “This admission by the president that he ate dog meat as a child is in a book that he published in 1995. There has been no umbrage about this for 16 or 17 years. And the question then becomes, if you want to go back to the next round of this: Were Republicans pro-dog meat eating until they discovered this clip in the book?”

“It raises the level of absurdity to something exponential. With some many valuable questions going on, were wasting most of the time dealing with the dogs.”

video at link
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/22/olbermann-was-gop-pro-dog-meat-eating-before-reading-obamas-book/

[connecticut yankee]

1. There's a world of difference

between the actions of a 35-year-old man and a 7-year-old child who does as directed by a parent.

And anyone who equates the two is either totally blind or extremely stupid!

[modestybl]

2. Keith did make an intelligent comment or two, BUT...

... am I the only one here who thinks his debut on the ABC Sunday show was tepid and lame? I think Rachel does a more effective job in these high profile news situations...

[SemperEadem]

3. If Keith still does baseball for ESPN

and ESPN is owned by Walt Disney Co and ABC Network is owned by Walt Disney Co, then his demeanor was probably reflecting his awareness of that.

[Daniel537]

4. I'm guessing he was trying to be humble in lieu of everything that's been going on lately.

I think he did ok, but if he's going to be a regular on the show he should get a bit more combative.

[bigtree]

5. good one