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:
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.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
