Olbermann was excoriating former Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, who told attendees at a Tea Party convention that President Barack Obama was elected because of "people who could not even spell the word ’vote’ or say it in English.’"

Or

say

it

in

English.

Your link takes us to a page where the blogger comments, "So he automatically assumes that Tancredo is talking about minorities when he said that there needs to be a civics voting test?"

Tancredo, best known for his stance against illegal immigration and frequently criticized for his comments on the topic, could NEVER have been referring to minorities when he said, "or say it in English", right?

Repeat after me:"No voy a votar por esa escoria racista Tancredo"

Tancredo had said in his speech that the president had won his office because “we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country.”

Literacy tests?

"Back in the days of the Jim Crow south, literacy tests were used to take away the right to vote from the majority of African Americans. It was a practice successfully employed to deny these rights from the late nineteenth century right on through to the 1960’s when it was mercifully ended by The Voting Rights Act of 1965, and one that continues to be one of the darkest stains on our national history." [1]

That's right. It was the Negro vote that made Obama president. Solution. Take away their votes. Simple!

Tancredo goes on to say that America’s problems are the result of the nation’s “cult of multiculturalism". OY VEY!

I tell you. Olbermann would have been an idiot not to have called Tancredo a racist.

[1] http://trueslant.com/rickungar/2010/02/05/tea-party-convention-kicks-off-with-racist-rant/

Sometimes I forget that he's just an entertainer and I have to cut him some slack ;)

Olbermann may be a bit bombastic at times, and he certainly is partisan, but I've never known him to outright lie like Sean Ann O'Limbaugh. But then, I've been drinking.