{"id":11154,"date":"2010-11-05T12:35:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T12:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/05\/keith-olbermann-suspended-from-msnbc-for-campaign-contributions\/"},"modified":"2010-11-05T12:35:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T12:35:40","slug":"keith-olbermann-suspended-from-msnbc-for-campaign-contributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/05\/keith-olbermann-suspended-from-msnbc-for-campaign-contributions\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Olbermann Suspended From MSNBC for Campaign Contributions"},"content":{"rendered":"

It couldn't have happened<\/a> to a nicer guy.  I mean that ironically, of course.  The guy is a first-class moral defective.  This stupid attack<\/a> on the sweet and avuncular Dennis Prager as a "right-wing yakker" and "worst person in the world" is a clear example of his leftist scumbaggery.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a very simple distinction between equality of opportunity, equality of treatment, and the like, on the one hand, and equality of outcome or result, on the other.  I am sure Olbermann can understand this distinction (whether he in fact does I don't know).  So the problem with Olbermann is not stupidity but moral scumbaggery.  He attacked Prager without attempting  to understand what his position is.  This is typical of the Left. They make no attempt at understanding conservative positions.  They typically content themselves with SIXHIRB: the tarring of their opponents with such epithets as sexist, intolerant, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic, racist, bigoted.<\/span><\/p>\n

This clip<\/a> does a tolerably good job of explaining the distinction between formal and material equality.  Anyone with even a passing acquaintance with Prager's views knows that he fully supports equality of opportunity, equality before the law, and the like as American values.  His point is that equality of outcome <\/em>is not an American value.  And he is right.  Olbermann, like that other moral cretin who was given the boot, Alan Grayson of Florida, who lost decisively to Daniel Webster, took the words of the person he was attacking out of context and twisted their meaning completely.<\/span><\/p>\n

And Olbermann calls himself a journalist?  <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.  I mean that ironically, of course.  The guy is a first-class moral defective.  This stupid attack on the sweet and avuncular Dennis Prager as a "right-wing yakker" and "worst person in the world" is a clear example of his leftist scumbaggery. There is a very simple distinction between … Continue reading “Keith Olbermann Suspended From MSNBC for Campaign Contributions”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}