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KO Special Comment FISA Veto - Feb 14, 2008

A part of what I will say, was said here on Jan. 31. Unfortunately it is both sadder and truer now than it was then.

“Who’s to blame?” Mr. Bush also said this afternoon, “Look, these folks in Congress passed a good bill late last summer.... The problem is, they let the bill expire. My attitude is: If the bill was good enough then, why not pass the bill again?”

Like the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Or Executive Order 90-66. Or The Alien and Sedition Acts. Or slavery.

Mr. Bush, you say that our ability to track terrorist threats will be weakened and our citizens will be in greater danger. Yet you have weakened that ability!

You have subjected us, your citizens, to that greater danger! This, Mr. Bush, is simple enough for even you to understand.

- Keith Olbermann

Source: Countdown with Keith Olbermann (Complete Transcript)

KO Special Comment on FISA - Jan 31 08

Once again, Olbermann hits the idiot right on the head

Barack Obama interview w/ Keith Olbermann & Chris Mathews

935 Whitehouse Lies That Led To War

I'm surprised that no one had done this before. The Centre For Public Integrity has a searchable database of all the lies.

Keith Olbermann on Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers is an excellent interviewer, and with an interviewee like Olbermann, you know this is a must watch. Take twenty minutes out of your day to see the interview from PBS' Bill Moyers' Journal. AIR DATE: December 15, 2007

PART I


PART II


PART III

KO Special Comment on NIE and Iran

Olbermann & Maddow on DHS Failures

Too dumb for words

I'm stunned! First Sherri says she doesn't believe in evolution, then she says she doesn't know if the world is round or flat now she's saying NOTHING pre-dates Christianity! Oy vey! I don't know where to begin.

There's is just no defending this kind incompetence. I mean I can't even say she's a mindless Christian drone, because she's not even that. She's Dumb! Even a mindless Christian drone who has read the Bible would know that the ENTIRE OLD TESTAMENT pre-dates Christianity. In the words of Bugs Bunny, "Whatta maroon! Whatta ignoranimus!"

Life Imitating Life

Nothing needs to be said here...

Olbermann's Special Comment - Sept 4, 07

You know, after all detritus this administration has put the world through, I keep asking myself how much more can we take? Surely, we have reached the end of our tether? Evidently we have not.

I am flabbergasted beyond believe. This is the sort of stuff that incites civil unrest and sometimes even revolutions. Since the dawn of democracy (what ever the hell that means these days), when has a populace ever been this marginalised without consequence?

Dashed hopes by the Dems.

I don't usually say anything when I'm posting a Keith Olbermann "Special Comment", but... after the November 2006 mid-terms elections in the US, I had high hopes for the Democratic controlled Senate and Congress. But now, six months later and five months after they took power all the hopes I had of them neutralising the ego-maniacal "leader of the free world" were quashed by their limp-dicked handling of the directive, to get the hell out of Iraq, the voters had entrusted in them. Olbermann, as always, is very succint on the subject.

Ann Coulter said what?

In light of of what Coultergeist (thanks Keith) had said about Edwards (the first quote below), I thought I ought to share some of her other pearls of wisdom.

I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word "faggot", so I — so kind of an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards.
o Speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, Washington, DC, March 2, 2007

I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo.
o Her column; December 21, 2005
o Governmental responsibility

Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.
o Her syndicated column, September 28, 2001


These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis... These self-obsessed women seemed genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them... I’ve never seen people enjoying their husbands’ deaths so much.
o Excerpt which caused media controversy Godless: The Church of Liberalism

I don't know if [former U.S. President] Bill Clinton is gay. But [former U.S. Vice President] Al Gore - total fag.
o Media Matters; July 26, 2006

Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.
o AnnCoulter.com; November 22, 2006

Bill Clinton "was a very good rapist"; "I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties"; "I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning.
o New York Observer, January 10, 2005


[Canadians] better hope the United States does not roll over one night and crush them. They are lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent.
o Fox News; Hannity & Colmes, November 30, 2004

There are a lot of bad Republicans; there are no good Democrats.
o Interview with Brian Lamb; August 11, 2002

The ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man's dominion over the Earth. The lower species are here for our use. God said so: Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet — it's yours. That's our job: drilling, mining and stripping. Sweaters are the anti-Biblical view. Big gas-guzzling cars with phones and CD players and wet bars — that's the Biblical view.
o Oil Good; Democrats bad; October 12, 2000

They're [Democrats] always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the First Amendment.
o University of Florida speech; October 20, 2005

I'd build a wall. In fact, I'd hire illegal immigrants to build the wall. And throw out the illegals who are here. [...] It's cheap labor.
o Fox News; The O'Reilly Factor; Transcript via Media Matters; April 14, 2006
o On illegal immigration

When we were fighting communism, OK, they had mass murderers and gulags, but they were white men and they were sane. Now we're up against absolutely insane savages.
o August 16, 2004
o War on Terror v. Cold War

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.
o September 12, 2001

They're never very high in anyone's caste system, are they? Poor little Pakis.
o August 16, 2004
o referring to expatriate Pakistanis

"Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president"
o (Version of her February 23, 2005 article, "REPUBLICANS, BLOGGERS AND GAYS,OH MY!" at her website

My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building.
o New York Observer article; August 26, 2002

Of course I regret it. I should have added 'after everyone had left the building except the editors and the reporters.'
o rightwingnews.com; June 26, 2003
o On her (above) statement concerning Timothy McVeigh

[Learning difficulties are a cover for] rich parents with dumb kids...That's why 'Pinch' Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, is alleged to have dyslexia - because he's retarded.
o The Independent; August 16, 2004

I think [women] should be armed but should not vote...women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it...it's always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care.
o Comedy Central; Politically Incorrect; February 26, 2001

Canada has become trouble recently. It's always the worst Americans who go there. We could have taken them over so easy. But I only want the western part, with the ski areas, the cowboys, and the right wingers. They're the only good parts of Canada.

If Americans support abortion, let's vote. . . Just this past term, in Stenberg vs. Carhart, the court expanded the apocryphal abortion right to an all-new right to stick a fork in the head of a half-born baby.
o Her syndicated column, 12/28/2000

Source: WikiQuote (Complete set of quotes)

This is just a partial list of her inanity. Yes, there's actually more on Wikiquote. Go there... if you dare. I have a few of questions here:

First, why haven't the conservatives distanced and denounced her imbecilic rants of verbal diarrhoea? Are these obtuse vitriolic remarks really representative of the Republican Party?

Second, why do I keep seeing her on TV? Why do the media continue to give her a platform to dole out these kinds of disparaging comments?

Third, what the hell is wrong with this woman? How can she argue against abortion, when she's clearly a poster child for it?

Finally, I'm no doctor, but aren't only guys supposed to have Adam's Apples?

A Request for Keith Olbermann

One Way to Stop the Bad News at Walter Reed

Just days ago, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was lauded for his candor regarding the deplorable conditions at Water Reed Medical Center, saying he was “grateful to reporters for bringing this problem to our attention, but very disappointed we did not identify it ourselves."

Today we have this report from the front page of the Army Times which suggests the brass there have reacted differently...

DoD Cracks Down on Walter Reed Media Coverage

Soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Medical Hold Unit say they have been told they will wake up at 6 a.m. every morning and have their rooms ready for inspection at 7 a.m., and that they must not speak to the media.

“Some soldiers believe this is a form of punishment for the trouble soldiers caused by talking to the media,” one Medical Hold Unit soldier said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

Soldiers say their sergeant major gathered troops at 6 p.m. Monday to tell them they must follow their chain of command when asking for help with their medical evaluation paperwork, or when they spot mold, mice or other problems in their quarters.

One would assume that this 'crackdown' on media coverage would accompany a real effort to improve the conditions at Walter Reed. But then, if not for the media coverage, one wouldn't have assumed the conditions at Walter Reed were in need of improvement in the first place.

Source: The Newshole (Complete Article and Comments)

After this story was covered on The Newshole (one of my links of interest) I posted a comment (the thirteenth one down) requesting that Keith Olbermann deliver one of his trademark poignant "Special Comments" addressing the reprehensible treatment of US servicemen and women. Hope it takes.

This was my comment:

"If anything deserves a "Special Comment" a la Olbermann, it has to be the deplorable treatment of the military. From sending them grossly ill-equipped to war zones abroad (despite billions of dollars going toward private contractors) to the horrid conditions in which they are subjected to recuperate. And now 7:00 AM inspections? I'm sure some of these war veterans are heavily medicated and these inspections impose and undue burden on the servicemen and women whose energies need to be focused on getting themselves better, not public relations.

Since, something else occurred to me - with the additional "surge" of 21,500 troops, not including another 25,000 support troops, (a number which seems to get swept under the proverbial rug), how do the powers that be plan on stretching their already thin resources? Are these the conditions the returning wounded have to look forward to? Worse conditions? Shame!

Keith Olbermann- 21,000 more troops

Keith Olbeman on a special comment about the recent launch of a new Campaign in the middle east. Again, I'll let Keith do all the talking.

Olbermann's Special Comment on Bush and "Sacrifice" (Jan. 2, 2007)

"Atone. Sacrifice, Mr. Bush? No, sir, this is not "sacrifice." This has now become "human sacrifice." And it must stop. And you can stop it. Next week, make us all look wrong. Our meaningless sacrifice in Iraq must stop. And you must stop it." Olbermann speaks so very eloquently, so I won't dilute his words with mine