Keith Olbermann is a buffoon - no Second Amendment logic on display
August 1, 2008 · Written by Steve M · Print This Post
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Just last week I transcribed a quote from Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco. He’s gotten quite a bit of heat from his quote that flat out blames the NRA for a triple murder in his illegal-alien-felony-loving city.
Wednesday night, Keith Olbermann - an anchor and commentator with his own show called Countdown on MSNBC - got into the act. He opined that the Second Amendment only covered arms that were in existence in the late 1700s when the Bill of Rights was passed.
Can’t you tell where I’m going with this? Come on… you know.
Let’s have a little chat about the First Amendment and see how Olbermann feels about substituting some words in his quote. Here’s the stupid Olbermann comment courtesy NewsBusters.
Despite years of fog created by the NRA and right-wing organizations, that isn’t very complicated: For the purposes of forming a state militia, you’re entitled to keep and bear arms.
Obviously, those would have to be the kind of arms in use in 1791, when the Bill of Rights was passed — the musket, the wheel-lock, the flint lock, the 13th century Chinese hand cannon. Stuff like that.
Scalia, of course, simply decided that the militia part of the Second Amendment is some sort of quaint anachronism that he could happily ignore. And there’s the beautiful thing about our country — they say anybody can grow up to be a Supreme Court justice. And in Antonin Scalia, there’s your proof, and tonight’s ‘Worst Person in the World’!
Maybe we should limit the First Amendment too? Obviously when they were writing the Bill of Rights they intended people to only have the right to speak in public and distribute news through printing presses.
Stuff like that you know Keith?
They obviously had no intent for news and opinion and speech to be distributed via radio, TV and the Internet.
Keith, if you’re mentally challenged I apologize in advance. But my guess is that you’re just an idiot.
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