Keith Olbermann

Olbermann tweeted that he hopes someone “assassinates” Donald Trump.  He referenced a post from the Biden-Harris HQ X account flagging a clip of Trump saying he had been persecuted worse than any president in history, including Abraham Lincoln.

“Trump says he has been treated worse than Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated,” the campaign account posted on Saturday.  Olbermann responded by saying “There’s always the hope,” as in some nut kills Trump, as John Wilkes Booth did Lincoln.

Were Olbermann still influential one could argue that his “state of distress” over Trump would behoove the former president. It’s people like Olbermann who elevate conservatives in the “culture war” on the backs of their own kookiness.

Keith Olbermann is a caricature of the emotional hemophiliacs suffering from an unhealthy disdain for a political figure whom they don’t know personally. Earlier this month, Olbermann called for the dissolution of the Supreme Court for ruling 9-0 that the Colorado Supreme Court erred in disqualifying Trump from the state’s presidential contest.  He then implied urine drips from his eyes instead of tears.

Should the White House help censor social media content? That’s at the heart of Murthy v. Missouri, and the Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments on it yesterday. A district judge ruled that the Biden administration violated the First Amendment by “coercing” or “significantly encouraging” social media sites to censor posts. It looks like the Supreme Court will overrule that judge.

Far-left Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told one attorney, “Your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways in the most important time periods.” Hamstringing the government seems kind of the point of the First Amendment, but Jackson is well known for going with her opinion rather than the Constitution.

Others on the right of the court are skeptical that contact from the White House amounted to coercion. Here, I’m more sympathetic. The First Amendment clearly prevents the White House arm-twisting social media into censorship. But what if the social media companies don’t need coercing?

Here, though, Justice Samuel Alito made a good point. The White House, he said, “is treating Facebook and these other platforms like they’re subordinates.” Most of these organizations are full of Obama administration staff. They are willingly censoring what they’re told to censor, and the result is that many ordinary people, and even major businesses, can no longer make themselves heard.

Welcome to disinformation warfare, where the left uses all the tools at its disposal to shut down speech they disagree with. Even out of office, Barack Obama has a long reach and not just with U.S. corporations. He visited the UK yesterday for a meeting of his Obama Foundation. While in town, he popped over to the prime minister’s house for a spot of tea. The UK government said they discussed a range of subjects, including artificial intelligence. He also met with Labor leader, and likely future prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer. This is Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s first meeting with Obama—and it certainly makes you wonder what this “ex” president had to say to him.