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Outrageous Outrage of the Day: Obama's 'Isolated Extremist' Remark

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Cineaste12/29/2009 9:07:04 am PST

re: #52 Mich-again

Would you have said the same thing about Father Coughlin in the ‘30’s. Word is he really enjoyed football too.

That’s a silly argument. I’m not defending Olbermann’s politics but he legitimately had a long history of being a non-partisan sports broadcaster for the dominant sports network. He has not shown, to my knowledge, that he lets his political views come onto his football broadcasts. Father Coughlin’s only credentials as a broadcaster were his religious/social ideals. Why would he be a good candidate to comment on Football? Olbermann isn’t a football commentator because he “enjoyed” football, it’s because he was objectively viewed as an expert for a long time before he was ever known as a political commentator.