And then there are the people who think he isn’t. Ahem.
Keith Olbermann Goes After FOX’s Glenn Beck – 08/31/09
Tag: Keith Olbermann
Sep 02 2009
The Essential Truth
And then there are the people who think he isn’t. Ahem.
Aug 28 2009
Maxine Waters, class act, on GOP racism: “Let them define themselves, let them reveal who they are.
Crossposted at Daily Kos
Last night on Countdown, Keith Olbermann and Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA35) discussed overt Republican racism {specifically her colleauge Rep Lynn Jenkins (Racist-KS2) call for a Republican Great White Hope to thwart the obviosly not white President Obama.}
As Keith Olbermann so eloquently put it regarding Rep. Jenkins half assed, half apology.
KO: “The old conditional apology. It’s your fault if you’re offended that an active politician in 2009 should use the most demeaning of racist phrases, vintage 1909.”
Following that nail on the head statement, Keith defers to Congresswoman Maxine Waters, whom I deeply respect, and can only imagine what it must feel like to be in her shoes, or any other member of the African American caucus in the Democratic party. I would say the same of African American republicans in congress if there actually were any African American republicans in congress, but I digress.
More, and a transcript of Representative Waters’s response below the fold.
Aug 14 2009
Dr. Dean on KO: End-of-life is going back in, GOP screwing themselves, with polling data
Crossposted at Daily Kos
Dr. Dean on Keith Olbermann video at bottom of diary
The GOP is hoping that all the old people in America will freak out over whatever they can say to scare Grampa, but it isn’t working on anybody else.
It’s easier to scare older people than it is younger ones.
What is interesting here, other than the majority support after all the GOP scare tactics and the media hysteria, is that even though people like what they have, they understand that what they have is quickly vanishing, 14,000 people a day, and that what they have now will cost more each coming year if the GOP and the status quo has their way.
And though it may work on the wingnuts and the low information McCain voters, it simply isn’t working on anyone else.
Well, when I look at some polls based on age, something really glaring comes out.
Has anybody in our idiot media noticed that there are ZERO young or minority Americans at these astroturf heavy town halls? (not counting children dragged along by their wingnut parents)
This seems to be the response the GOP wishes to receive from our nation’s elderly.
The good thing is, it isn’t working to move the entire 60-65+ demographic towards the GOP. Rather, it is turning off anyone who isn’t a rabid wingnut to begin with.
The GOP is NOT WINNING THIS FIGHT!
More below the fold
Aug 10 2009
Obama is a monkey/nazi says Lobbyists behind teabagger movement
Crossposted at Daily Kos
Seriously, these are the grassrootsy guys.
The plaster the founding fathers and claim 1st amerndment rights. The problem isn’t their first Amendment rights, but how they use these images to influence the easily deceived to act against their own interests and in favor of special interests.
Free speech is not a problem until special interests try to buy up yours.
Meet the kings of phony astroturfed protest groups opposing change, reform, President Obama and whatever else you got except free market ideology and cutting taxes (for the rich).
How do Joe The Plumber, racism, Republicans, Nazis, Ron Paul supporters, NWO CT theorists, ACORN CT theories, teabaggers, Oil industry insiders, free market advocates and health care opponents all tie in together?
Natuarally?
No. Only professionals are capable of this sort of co-ordination.
The stupidity is just icing on the home made Entenmann’s cake.
Much more on this below the fold.
Aug 06 2009
UPDATE: Beck to nutjobs: “It is not time to blow anything up” (with comment by Keith Olbermann!)
Crossposted at Daily Kos
“When will someone stand up and say traitor!?”
~snip~
“The American way of life is being systematically dismantled and destroyed. The Republic is in danger. We are tired of everyone in the U.S. Congress, Democrats, Republicans, everyone, and they don’t care, but believe me, they better start. Otherwise, as I said on O’Reilly last night, we are entering the most dangerous time in American history.”
– Glenn Beck
“It is not time to pick up guns . . . It is not time to blow anything up”
I call bullshit on Beck’s pre-emptive Cover Your Ass job.
Glenn Beck and his insane on air ravings are brought to you by billionaire Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation.
Aug 05 2009
WTF Is Going On???
Big Orange has been all over the Birfers and Teabaggers of late, which I’ve found fairly boring and pointless, but then, I just follow for the news and occasional good analysis. They can bitch endlessly about anything they see as threatening to their cause. Whatever that is at this point.
I have been fairly intrigued with what’s happened with Keith O’s getting quashed on his Bill-O-Baiting by GE (which owns NBC) so that Bill-O would quit exposing their corporate hijinks in retaliation for getting his itty feewings hurt by Keith. I also found it fascinating yesterday when Keith, just back from vacation, informed Kossacks that Richard Wolffe wouldn’t be his live-in ‘independent’ analyst and occasional show-sitter anymore, given that Wolffe has been exposed as a corporate PR hack. Today, however, MSNBC’s management has contradicted Keith by stating they don’t mind at all if Wolffe wants to be their live-in ‘independent’ political analyst even if he’s on the payroll of the corporations that are often making the news being analyzed. Hmmm…
Aug 04 2009
Olbermann: Legislators For Sale
From Michael Moore via email:
Keith Olbermann to Expose Congressional Opponents of Universal Health Care Tonight!
Monday, August 3rd, 2009
We’ve just received an advance transcript of tonight’s Special Comment by Keith Olbermann on his MSNBC show. It is nothing short of brilliant — and if all of America were to hear what he is going to reveal tonight, we are certain the vast majority of Americans would be on the phone to their elected representative immediately, calling for an end to the private, for-profit, rip-off health insurance companies who have wrecked our country.
Here’s a brief section of Keith’s editorial tonight:
Jul 07 2009
Um, Mr. Olbermann? Can We Talk A Minute?
Mr. Olbermann, can we talk a minute? Let the Dog start off by saying he is a huge fan of your show Countdown, he and Mrs. Dog have watched for years, all the way back to when you were counting the days since the declaration of mission accomplished in Iraq in the low 1000’s. This all prefaces to talk about an issue the Dog has with you in one very particular area.
“Originally posted at Squarestate.net“
Jul 02 2009
Stewart smacks down Sheuer and a call to KO for a “Special Comment”
Crossposted at Daily Kos
” The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States. “
If this was said by a Democrat, Progressive or Liberal, or even an independant or moderate, that person would have been publicly tarred and feathered and then ran out on a rail by Fox News and the rest of the Right Wing leaning corporate media.
But instead, it was said on Fox News airtime, during the Glenn Beck show, and not a the only major media outlet to say peep about it was John Stewart’s Daily Show.
Jon Stewart flat out destroyed Beck and Sheuer for this, and I would hope you do the same, Keith Olbermann.
Link here http://www.thedailyshow.com/vi…
Quote John Stewart
” Is there any way you can YELL LOUD ENOUGH at your TV for the people inside to hear you, because I tried real hard last night. “
You heard it here folks, Jon Stewart just gave his full endorsement for YELLING LOUDER!
Still, this is not enough.
We need to contact authorities, force pundits and politicians to take a stand on this, and boycott Fox News and their Sponsors.
Dear Keith Olbermann, we need a special comment on this, please.
May 24 2009
Olbermann DESTROYS Rush “You Suck”
Memo to Rush: if you want us to stop laughing at you, stop saying stupid shit.
Keith Olbermann lays down the vicious and savage beating all over Rush Limbaugh’s fat keister. WTF!
To sum this total owning up.
“The crushing majority of America thinks you suck”
The mental gymnastics engaged in by Rush on a daily basis do not make up for his lack of physical gymnastics over the last 2,000 mid night snacks. If Rush evened the score between the two, he could run marathons and power the national grid with the hot air emitting out of all of his orifices.
The irony is that Rush wants the attention either way, but he wants to be able to entirely control the message, from the moment it passes by his hungry lying lips to the second those words pass your ear drum. The problem for Rush is in how to control the message even after facts prove that he is entirely full of shit.
Now, if only Rush could eat his own words with the same zeal that he attacks the native salmon making their return to the river during spawning season.
Apr 23 2009
“A Few Bad Apples . . . .” General Karpinski Speaks Out Boldly!
General Karpinski was on Keith Olbermann’s show last night. Her pain and passion is abundant in her voice, as she speaks of the realities about the torture and those who implemented it, and the few that have paid for it. She speaks with strength and conviction.