Olbermann: Next GOP obsession could be zombie attacks
Published: August 26, 2009
Updated 6 months ago
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann took a leap into fantasy politics on Tuesday, suggesting that the current Republican obsession with health care reform creating “death panels” could easily lead into an all-out panic over zombies.
A recent spoof (pdf) of academic papers, titled “When Zombies Attack!: Mathematicam Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection,” applies standard epidemiological methods to develop “a basic model for zombie infection” and concludes that “only quick, aggressive attacks can stave off the doomsday scenario: the collapse of society as zombies overtake us all.”
Olbermann pointed out that the conservative National Review has already weighed in on the zombie study, writing, “Zombies are cool. That’s just a fact. … Were these jokers European? Well, almost. They were Canadian.”
At the same time, conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh has begun describing supporters of health care reform as zombies. “They are having to send out multiple e-mails, war rooms, websites to instruct their brain-dead zombies on how to go out and show support for this abomination!” Limbaugh wrote recently. “It’s the Night of the Living Dead, in the daytime! Obama zombies marching around with little instructions and pamphlets and manuals.”
“The evidence is all around us,” Olbermann concluded, “and it’s hungry for our brains.” He then turned to former Saturday Night Live writer Max Brooks, known as “the Studs Terkel of zombie journalism.”
“Could we see the GOP using the zombie defense against Democrats?” Olbermann asked.
“If they did it would be counterproductive,” Brooks replied, “because Republicans would like a zombie outbreak.”
“During a zombie outbreak society would collapse,” Brooks explained. “The government would implode. We would all have to retreat to our homes surrounded by our guns. Sounds pretty right-wing to me.”
“This is in lockstep with the Republican strategy,” continued Brooks. “Right now, zombies are hot, they’re hip, they’re now — especially among young people. So what do Republicans do when something is hot and hip and now among young people? They attack it.”
Olbermann, however, got in the last word, suggesting yet another reason why Republicans might look favorably on a zombie attack. “If the zombies are looking for brains, they’ll only eat the Democrats.”
This video is from MSNBC’s Countdown, broadcast Aug. 25, 2009.
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It’s much more convenient for Olbermann to always call out the stupidity of Repubs when he refuses to have any honest debate about health care even on his wholly G.E. owned health care profiteering show.
Like why must the debate be only corporate-government mandated care vs. the current HMO racket?
If you keep on with the left/right ‘chasing your own tail’ charade, why look for solutions to a surmountable problem?
why is it that olbermann is kissing obama s ass every fucking night i never hear him say a word about obama keeping george bushs policies in place not one damm word
i thought he was a man of integrity but i have to to remember who he works for general electric i should have known better but i put my guard down
so i say fuck keith olbermann damm general electric lap dog
Actually I hear him ragging on Obama all the time. Apparently you don’t watch his show.
KO seems to be talking about “current events” mostly, and not “harping” on specific topics over and over.. no one wants to see that, people want to have a continuing conversation, not a static one.
And since KO _has_ pointed out a number of places that Obama has “failed” in, your “point” is simply wrong.
And, if he was a “GE lap dog”, he’d have stopped calling FOX to the carpet every night.. or did you miss the part where GE called him off but KO is still bashing O’Liely and FOX..?
You seem to be a poster child for what’s wrong with America. Too caught up in your own predetermined ideologies and biases to pay honest attention to what’s going on.
Stupid conservatives. I am so much smarter than they are. They don’t even know what is best for themselves. I’m so tired of them trying to explain the old they are willing to sacrifice comfort for freedom and privacy. Give me a beak! They are so dumb! Show some trust in Obama and our federal government.
Even a tiny zombie would starve to death eating Lush Rimjobs brain….If he even managed to find it.
“Betsey Johnson shoes are like porn to me.” Guess who?
Clearly the zombies ate *her* brain.
More from brilliant statesman Cher Horowitz, I mean Meghan McCain:
http://www.xanaduxero.blogspot.com
Every time the Republicans accuse the Democrats of something they are making a distraction because that is EXACTLY what the Republicans are planning next. The Republicans will be turning into zombies and Limbaugh is already their zombie leader.
The Right Wing GOP racist base and the quaisi racist light Ron Paulish Independent base are joining forces to scare the living feces out of mothers, seniors and phobics. The Zombie scare is coming, in the name of the “Swine Flu” vaccination. At all costs this vaccination must be avoided or it will cause Zombification, leave you brain dead (akin to a progressive mind is what they are predicting). This of course is not to be compared to the next fear mongering tactic; true Zombie like symptoms can result. If one receives the vaccination, one will become sluggish about watching Fox propaganda or listen to right of center radio talk shows. One will begin walking so slowly that they will not go to any tea gatherings or astro turfed events. One will yearn for brain matter and be starving for knowledge.
Beware of the Zombie inducing vaccination that is coming; it may actually save your life; unlike right wing lies and propaganda.
tonelook
Go to hell, the Ron Paulish people are NOT racist but a whole heel of a lot better people than the morons who follow MSM candidates and get screwed over everytime…morons.