Mainstream Scream: Redskins, like Confederate flag, are evil, says Olbermann
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features ESPN's Keith Olbermann, formerly of MSNBC, equating the Washington Redskins football team with the "same kind of genocide, the same kind of persecution and mockery" as the Confederate flag represents.
Last Wednesday, he barked:
"We see that a symbol like a flag cannot only invoke and encourage racism, and violence, and madness, and murder, and treason, but that it can do something even worse. It can represent evil, and represent genocide, and the persecution, and mockery of a group of people because of the color of their skin.
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"And if a flag can do that, a football team name, beamed into our homes every day, our headphones, our minds everyday, it can represent the same kind of evil, the same kind of genocide, the same kind of persecution and mockery of a group of people because of the color of their skin."
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our pick: "Success at getting the public to turn against the Confederate flag has, as illustrated so perfectly by Olbermann, inspired liberals to go after more of their pet peeves – free speech be damned. And in what universe has an NFL team's name ever represented 'the same kind of evil' and 'genocide' which has inspired some to commit terrible acts?"
Rating: Three out of five screams.
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