Hey, at least Olbermann’s admitting that England should have fought first, negotiated later, instead of the other way around.

Keith Olbermann, commenting on the Obama-Republican tax compromise:

(Speaking to President Obama:) I will confess I won’t fight if anybody wants to draw a comparison between what you’ve done with our domestic politics of our day, to what Neville Chamberlain did with the international politics of his.

Assuming he’s referring to Chamberlain’s capitulation to Nazi demands for Lebensraum in the 1930s, that would make Republicans the Nazis, and Obama Chamberlain.

So Olbermann is admitting that, sometimes, evil has to be met with force. This in itself seems an enormous but unlikely statement, coming from someone as liberal as Olbermann.

Of course, how likely is it that Olbermann, had he been a political observer in 1937, would have objected to Chamberlain’s policies at the time? Not likely, I think.

UPDATE - Olbermann spoke kindly of Churchill’s hawkishness, too.