Olbermann: Dean on Limbaugh's Hate Radio Racism - 'Despicable. Not Admirable People'

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Olbermann: Dean on Limbaugh's Hate Radio Racism - 'Despicable. Not Admirable People'

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MSNBC Countdown w/ KEITH OLBERMANN - 17 Sept. 2009: Dean on Hate Radio on the Right says it's "way over the line."

After showing Rush Limbaugh stating that we need segregated school buses, and showing Nancy Pelosi's emotional call for civility, Keith Interviews Howard Dean.

OLBERMANN: Speaker Pelosi also said we have to take responsibility for our words and any incitement that may cause. You share her concern?

DEAN: I do. I think that there's a lot of money to be made in passing out hate, the kind that Rush Limbaugh is just doing. And Rush Limbaugh is, look, he's always an entertainer, but he's way over the line. And there's a long unfortunate American tradition to this going back to Father Coghlin and people before that. They appeal to the very worst in people. They appeal to the side of all of us that is about anger and fear and hatred. And they empower it. And it is an evil thing to do. And it's very very bad for the country. But for a long time these people have put themselves and their wallets way ahead of America. They pretend to be patriots, but they're not patriotic at all. They don't serve our country.

OLBERMANN: The speaker didn't mention any names here, but essentially she was saying certain statements are not falling on the ears of necessarily-balanced people. That seems to me to be sort of the overlooked essential part of this equation here, isn't it? I mean, if they're beginning to talk like they want insurrection, somebody's going to take it seriously.

DEAN: I don't think we're going to get to that point, but, look, I've been through this before. We were the first state in the country to do civil unions, which is basically partnerships for gay Americans - it's a way to give them rights. And Vermont is thought of as a pretty progressive place. We had this very kind of stuff. People very very angry, very upset, and it wasn't so much just about gay rights, which is a foreign view for them. It was about change. And there's always a certain population that's very fearful of change, very confused by change, worried about what it's going to mean for them. And I saw this, in people that I knew well, and liked. You know, there's an underside to human nature - and that's what Limbaugh and Glenn Beck and all these people are taking advantage of. They're appealing to the bad part in all of us. And we all have it, no matter how many degrees we may have, or how fancy our neighborhood is, everybody has this.

The problem is do you want to incite it, and what does that mean for the country if you want to build a great country.

OLBERMANN: Is this conversation sort of an extension, I mean, the one about intense animosity, it's relationship to the prospect of violence. Is this the natural follow-up to what President Carter said about the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Obama?

DEAN: Race certainly has something to do with it, but this is is much more, it has gone on long before President Obama was President. This is about appealing to the very worst instincts in human beings and I think it's fairly despicable. I've thought that hate radio on the right was pretty despicable, because they make no bones about it. They pad their wallets and take advantage of other people. It's not an admirable.. these are not admirable people, these people. They're mean people. They make jokes about people that don't deserve it.

One of the reasons I never go on Bill O'Reilly's show, the only reason I don't go on Bill O'Reilly's show, is because I saw him take apart a 23-year-old who lost his father in the World Trade Center and tell him he was unpatriotic because he didn't support the war. Those kind of people I don't hang around because they're not good for the country and they're not good human beings.