Ethics

More Misplaced Outrage

By Ed Brayton

I think I've made it fairly plain on this blog that I have almost nothing but disdain for Hillary Clinton, but this latest episode of feigned and misplaced outrage over her reference to Bobby Kennedy is utterly ridiculous. I had several people last night claim, in all seriousness, that she was advocating Obama's assassination with her simple comment that we all remember his assassination being in June to support her point that campaigns often last this long.

Keith Olbermann threw a fit about it on MSNBC last night in one of his special comments. Now I usually like Keith Olbermann. I liked him when he was a sportscaster and I love watching him use Bill O'Reilly as his (well deserved) personal pinata. He fumed and sputtered and raged into the good night and my only reaction was: get a grip. She was merely using a well-known historical date as an example of campaigns going into June.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 24, 2008 (boomark / email).