Olbermann cites comments by Beck, O'Reilly, Limbaugh in segment on whether opposition to Obama is "racially motivated"

Sorry, Barry, but you're wrong, and for this simple reason: anyone who employs the constant lying and the vicious smear tactics of Limpballs is, by definition, a right winger.

No, we don't. We don't need ANYBODY from either side of the political spectrum like Rush . . . the less hate and lies that are spread, the better.

Olbermann never called Beck a racist. He described Beck's attacks and accusations against Obama as racist. He didn't call Limbaugh or O'Reilly racists; he characterized their attacks as racially motivated and racist.

This is not a trivial distinction. This is not splitting hairs. You claim that Olbermann engaged in an ad hominem attack against Beck, O'Reilly and Limbaugh when he did no such thing. Olbermann certainly did not assert that anyone conservative must be "automatically a racist" as you seem to think.

It is, however, perfectly reasonable to suggest that this persistent nonsense -- nonsense that Limbaugh exploits on his show -- about how the first African American president must have been born in Africa without a shred of positive evidence and against a world of facts to contrary smacks of racism. I'm not saying that Limbaugh is a racist at all: I don't know the man and I have no proof that he even believes anything that he says on air. The fact that his call screener is black has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not his comments about Obama are at best playing upon racial fears.

And, after all, the fact that Obama's staff includes white people didn't stop Beck from calling Obama a racist. In fact, let's compare what Olbermann said about Beck, Limbaugh and O'Reilly to Glenn Beck's charge that President Obama -- or as Beck put it, "this guy" -- is a racist with a deep seated hatred of white people or white culture. Beck didn't call Obama's policies racist, he didn't call Obama's religious views racist, he didn't call Obama's arguments or rhetoric racist: Beck just flat out called Obama a racist. But if you in fact listened to what Olbermann actually said, you would know that Olbermann called the attacks racist and never once in the segment called any of those commentators racist.

I would suggest that you read up on Glenn Beck's idol, Cleon Skousen. Beck admired this man to the point that he had one of his books reprinted and wrote the foreword for it. The majority of Beck's schtick is based upon Skousen's very frightening and FALSE writings and beliefs. Skousen was an unabashed and PROUD racist. Beck has stated that he doesn't have any "black" friends because he's afraid he might say something that would offend them.

I can't believe that you used the "If Limbaugh was a racist, why would he employ a black call screener" excuse. Being a racist doesn't mean that you don't associate with black people, just means that you think that you are ABOVE them, you are BETTER than them. Obviously, as the employer, Rush is "better" than his employee. False equivalency.

Oh, and Beck is NOT a conservative and neither is Limbaugh . . . they are ENTERTAINERS who are selling a product and if you are buying their phony spiel, neither are you. You are simply a groupie.

That is stupid. Even more stupid would be to pretend that any serious person has ever actually argued that merely criticizing Obama makes you a racist.

Don't know of anybody who has said that, so I'm guessing that you are the one who is just stupid.