I imagine I'm alone or nearly so, in this. But when I got home tonight and finally got to watch the Special Comment, I could only think:
Why does Keith Olbermann assume that the horrible behavior of the Clinton campaign could have come about without the express approval of Senator Clinton?
This, Senator Clinton, is your campaign, and it is your name. Grab the reins back from whoever has led you to this precipice, before it is too late. Voluntarily or inadvertently, you are still awash in this filth. Your only reaction has been to disagree, reject, and to call it regrettable. Her only reaction has been to brand herself as the victim, resign from your committee, and insist she will continue to speak. Unless you say something definitive, Senator, the former Congresswoman is speaking with your approval.
I hadn't really formed an idea until tonight that Olbermann is himself a Clinton partisan. But this Special Comment really convinced me of that. He's imploring his candidate to behave better, to take the moral high ground, to be worthy of what he seems to perceive as her rightful role. He is another worthy man who has been blinded by the hope that so many of us once invested in the Clintons. Or so it seems to me.
Keith Olbermann is a smart and good guy, but he has failed completely to see that all these failures of the Clinton campaign, from the AUMF vote to the attempted disenfranchisement of Nevada casino workers to the failure to denounce the senile ravings of Geraldine Ferraro, are all of a piece. Whenever the public good comes into conflict with the good of Hillary Clinton, the public good is thrown under the bus with truly breathtaking speed.
How can someone as together as Olbermann not see this?