{"id":663675,"date":"2010-02-13T11:56:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T16:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76589"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:33:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:33:54","slug":"olbermann-weigel-discuss-tea-bags-and-captain-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/663675","title":{"rendered":"Olbermann, Weigel Discuss Tea Bags and Captain America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TWI&#8217;s David Weigel appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night and demonstrated that his encyclopedic knowledge of the nation&#8217;s right wing is exceeded only by his knowledge of comic book history. Weigel and Olbermann discussed a recent Captain America comic that featured crowds of protesters holding signs that looked remarkably similar to those <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/31868\/scenes-from-the-new-american-tea-party\">captured by Weigel&#8217;s camera<\/a> at a Tea Party rally last year.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video after the jump:<span id=\"more-76589\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><object id=\"msnbc65b5ab\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=35375042&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"msnbc65b5ab\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"launch=35375042&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #999999; margin-top: 5px; text-align: center; width: 420px;\">Visit msnbc.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: 1px dotted #999999 ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; height: 13px; color: #5799db ! important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"border-bottom: 1px dotted #999999 ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; height: 13px; color: #5799db ! important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"border-bottom: 1px dotted #999999 ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; height: 13px; color: #5799db ! important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TWI&#8217;s David Weigel appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night and demonstrated that his encyclopedic knowledge of the nation&#8217;s right wing is exceeded only by his knowledge of comic book history. Weigel and Olbermann discussed a recent Captain America comic that featured crowds of protesters holding signs that looked remarkably similar to those captured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3552,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2MEr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765159,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663675\/revisions\/765159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}