The Daily Voice - New York, NY, USA - In an unusually harsh political commentary, MSNBC television host
Keith Olbermann blasted the Clinton campaign for its failure to "reject and denounce" controversial remarks made by former Rep.
Geraldine Ferraro. In a special on-air statement Wednesday night, Olbermann described the Ferraro incident as part of a larger and disturbing pattern of racial insensitivity practiced by the Clinton camp.
Olbermann accused the Clinton campaign of a "tone-deaf, arrogant and insensitive reaction" to the remarks of Geraldine Ferraro, and said Clinton's advisers were "slowly killing" her chances to become president or for any Democrat to be elected in the fall.
"Senator, you are now campaigning as if
Barack Obama were the Democrat and you were the Republican," said the MSNBC host.
Olbermann also took aim at Ferraro's comment that Obama would not be a serious candidate if he were not black, calling it a "despicable statement, ugly in its overtones [and] laughable in its weak grip of facts and moronic in the historical context."
He also challenged the Clinton campaign's experience argument, noting that
Franklin Roosevelt had served only 6 years as a governor and state senator before he became president and Teddy Roosevelt had only 4 1/2 years elected office experience before the White House. Woodrow Wilson, he said, had two years and six weeks experience.
