OUR WHITE T***H PRESIDENT MEANT FOR HIS OBAMA VIDEO TO COME OUT THAT WAY - 2.9.26

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Feb 9, 2026

A blistering take on a racist video controversy and why it may have been staged for plausible deniability. Analysis of how racist messaging is wired into political tactics and media confusion. Critiques of corporate moves at The Washington Post and who’s enabling them. Personal newsroom stories and a withering rundown of media figures who missed the point.

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INSIGHT

Calculated Denials, Not Accidents

Keith Olbermann argues the White House's denials about the Obama ape video were lies and a coordinated setup.
He concludes the video was designed to produce outrage then provide deniable cover so Trump could endorse the racism later.

INSIGHT

Party Strategy Shift Enables New Racism

Olbermann explains Republicans shifted from overtly criminalizing Black people to targeting Hispanics, enabling harsher policies like ICE enforcement.
That shift made it easier politically to dehumanize some groups while still needing plausible deniability for attacks on Black Americans.

ADVICE

Pressure Racism Through Exposure

Olbermann criticizes liberals for easing up on exposing racists and urges renewed pressure through exposure and legal action.
He recommends forcing racists to fear being exposed, bankrupted, and destroyed to curb racist behavior.

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SEASON 4 EPISODE 57: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: When they insist Trump's Thursday night racist video depicting the Obamas as apes wasn’t posted by Trump but by somebody else in the White House – and then he undermines the lie they spread on his behalf by saying he selected the video and had them post it but he just didn’t see the whole thing but so what it wasn’t a mistake they just deleted it – I think each part of that is a lie.

It was a set-up. I conclude that this is not just blatant, human garbage racism, inherited Trump Family Branded racism, but I conclude the entire thing was designed – to whatever degree anything Trump and these scumbags do is DESIGNED – it was DESIGNED to turn out this way. Event happens, justifiable backlash, unrighteous indignation from press secretary Eva Braun, oops it wasn’t supposed to be posted, oops bad staffer, oops Trump comes out at the end of the day and… endorses the original racism anyway, quote, “I didn’t make a mistake.”

And he did it this circuitous way, the way he expresses ALL his racism against BLACK people, because he can’t send ICE after them.

But the point of the video was he was reminding his putrid, hate-driven base that he can't send ICE after them...FOR THE MOMENT.

B-Block (33:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: There are actually people in politics and media who for some reason don't see that Jeff Bezos hired Will Allen to slowly destroy The Washington Post (to please Trump) and think this was all some sort of mismanagement, rather than a well-executed plan. Unfortunately at least two of them wrote it on their sites: Jim Vandehei and Dylan Byers. Sage Steele is back with not only anti-athlete, anti-freedom of speech conservative swill, but stuff that is almost a word-for-word duplication of what Laura Ingraham wrote 20 years ago. And incredibly, in Year 11 of the Trump Scam, there's still a guy on CNN thinks Trump just changed his tone.

C-Block (45:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Not to say I've had a lot of jobs but I just remembered one that I had FORGOTTEN: my two weeks as the entire sports department on a New York City newspaper that went daily, while the big papers were out on strike in 1978!

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