Thankfully, Patton Oswalt is on the scene to calm Olbermann down.  See, Stewart is a liberal, so it’s ok to crack jokes like that.

Of course, Rush Limbaugh better not get any ideas lest he invoke the wrath of Keith Olbermann and one of his “special comments.”

Allah notes:

This is like watching wrestling as a kid, when the bad-guy tag team would have some sort of contrived falling out in the middle of the match and end up swinging at each other. Every kid watching felt the same panic as the natural order of things was momentarily upended: Who do I root for? Stewart, who dared to make the Obama/Osama joke that must never be made? Or Olbermann, who dared to call him on it? Luckily Patton Oswalt is there to jump in the ring and explain to KO that no, Stewart isn’t really suggesting a moral equivalence between Obama and terrorist masterminds, whereupon a relieved Olby downshifts into a lament about SNL using a white actor to play Obama.

I think it’s going to be hard to do political humor about Obama this campaign season given his status as a member of one of the left’s victim classes.  Though how an affluent, well-educated US Senator can be a victim simply because of the color of his skin is beyond me.