I think that we can all agree here that Keith Olbermann is pretty fucking hot, and he’s even hotter when he rants. I mean, I think it’s pretty clear that I do love a guy when he’s all upset and fired up about something (as long as that something isn’t me). Anyway, so, on Friday, Keith got his rant on about Hillary Clinton’s comments about June being candidate-assassination month and that’s why she’s staying in the race until then. But, if you don’t have time to watch the whole thing, or just get distracted by the pretty, after the jump I’ve got the best part: where he catalogs for us the many, many gaffes of her campaign for which “the American people” (aka, um, basically us liberals) have forgiven her, and perhaps inadvertently describes why many of us don’t really want to vote for her. It’s pretty fucking epic, people.

God knows, Senator, in this campaign the nation has had to forgive you early and often. And, despite your now-traditional position of the offended victim, this nation has forgiven you. We have forgiven you your insistence that there have been widespread calls for you to end your campaign when such calls, in fact, have been few. We have forgiven you your misspeaking about Martin Luther King’s relative importance to the civil rights movement. We have forgiven you your misspeaking about your under-fire landing in Bosnia. We have forgiven you insisting Michigan’s vote would not count and then claiming those who would not count it were undemocratic. We have forgiven you pledging not to campaign in Florida and thus disenfranchise voters there and then claiming those who stuck to those rules were as wrong as those who defended slavery or denied women the vote. We have forgiven you the photos of Osama bin Laden in an anti-Obama ad. We have forgiven you the fawning over the fairness of Fox News while they were still calling you a murderer. We have forgiven you for accepting Richard Mellon Scaife’s endorsement and then laughing as you described his “deathbed conversion.” We have forgiven you the quoting of the electoral predictions of Boss Karl Rove. We have forgiven you the 3 am phone call commercial. We have forgiven you President Clinton’s disparaging comparison of the Obama candidacy to Jesse Jackson’s. We have forgiven you Geraldine Ferraro’s national radio interview suggesting Obama would not still be in the race had he been a white man. We have forgiven you the dozen changing metrics and the endless self-contradictions of your insistence that your nomination is mathematically probable than a statistical impossibility. We have forgiven you your insistence that some primary states count and some really don’t. We have forgiven you exploiting Jeremiah Wright in front of the editorial board of the lunatic fringe Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. We have forgiven you exploiting Williams Ayers in front of the debate on ABC. We have forgiven you for your boasting of your “support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans.” We have even forgiven you repeatedly praising Senator McCain at Senator Obama’s expense, and at your own expense and at the Democratic ticket’s expense. But, Senator, we cannot forgive you this: “You know, my husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary, somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.” We cannot forgive you this, Senator, not because it is crass and low and unfeeling and brutal. This is unforgivable because this nation’s deepest shame, it’s most enduring horror, it’s most terrifying legacy is political assassination. Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy. And but for the grace of the universe or the luck of the draw: Reagan, Ford, Truman, Nixon, Andrew Jackson, both Roosevelts and even George Wallace. The politics of this nations are steeped enough in blood, Senator Clinton. You cannot and must not invoke that imagery anywhere, at any time.

Anyone think we could get him to rant on here? I don’t even need to.