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Keith Olbermann lies about Michael Medved-Slavery
10/02/07
Michael Medved goes to pains in his article to condemn slavery:
Follow up:
Unfortunately, the current mania for exaggerating America’s culpability for the horrors of slavery bears no more connection to reality than the old, discredited tendency to deny that the U.S. bore any blame at all. No, it’s not true that the “peculiar institution” featured kind-hearted, paternalistic masters and happy, dancing field-hands, any more than it’s true that America displayed unparalleled barbarity or enjoyed disproportionate benefit from kidnapping and exploiting innocent Africans.
Notice how Olbermann repeats Medved's lines as if saying the truth were a crime.
But, who cares about truth? The article made Olbermann FEEL icky. Why is it inappropriate to call Howard Zinn "anti-American" when Zinn constantly interprets events to make look America look bad, but Michael Medved provides one ounce of perspective (all true) and Meved's a bigot and racist? Why can't Olbermann look at things from a slightly different perspective without going nuts? Truth first please.
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So, let me get this straight. The whiny, obnoxious Mr. Medved can make up a book filled with wishful thinking (lies), but Mr. Olbermann refutes it, and HE's the liar. Wow, more typical paranoid right wing thinking. 
Michael Medved may think that slavery wasn't so bad. I'd like to see what he thought if he or any of his ancestors were forced to live under the conditions of a slave ship, or have his family torn apart or get the common punishment of 50 lashes and then salt rubbed into his wounds for 
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