Keith Olbermann just hit one out of the park on Countdown. Here is the transcript. Go read it.
Update: Video at Crooks & Liars.
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Keith Olbermann just hit one out of the park on Countdown. Here is the transcript. Go read it.
Update: Video at Crooks & Liars.
Just finished watching Keith’s show….
He kicked ass! This is the begining of a “deeper wave”.
Yeah, we watched it live as well. Robin doesn’t have as high a tolerance for US political discussion as I do, but even he was impressed. Olbermann’s the closest we have to a modern Ed Murrow…
Tony Snow said it wasn’t a political speech. What journalist will dare call him the liar he is. All Bush did was push his islamofacism screed and declare that Osama was afarid of voters. Well if he is afraid it will be of shiite voters, certainly not sunni because they will vote their radicals in whereas shiites will vote their radicals in. If Osama should be afraid it should not the ballot but our bullets. Now there are none even looking for him
I couldn’t watch Bush’s speech.
Anyone got the video?
Olbermann just took a big chunk out of Bush’s ass…It does my heart good to hear it and to see it. I hope others can find inspiration from Olbermann’s courage and help carry the truth forward to an accountability for the hoax Bush has perpetrated on the American people.
I want to see Bush sitting in a glass booth with headphones on..just like Adolf Eichmann.
We have waited so very long for someone like Olbermann to say what is in so many of our hearts. The pushback is gathering steam…
“The only positive on 9/11 and the days and weeks that so slowly and painfully followed it was the unanimous humanity, here, and throughout the country. The government, the President in particular, was given every possible measure of support.”
I have but one small critique of Mr. Olbermann’s insightful commentary. He left out one point – we also had the unprecedented suppport of nations throughout the world. Most every nation on earth including those not considered to be our allies gave us their sympathies. But Keith will surely cover this on a future program note.
With the exception of the ignorant and those who would go to their graves rather than criticize this idiot, we all know that Bush has squandered this good will. His ‘rememberance’ speech tonight is surely a good example of this. I missed the first five minutes which must have been when he mentioned bin Laden because the part I heard only mentioned Iraq and such nonsense as ‘forces of moderation’. What an insult to those who died and to those left behind.
Keith Olbermann is a treasure. He speaks sincerely, honestly, and without all the arm-waving, fist-pounding hyperbole that so many of the other talking heads use. With every new commentary on the Bush administration, Olbermann illuminates the treachery and dishonesty they have embraced. He’s a flicker of light in our absolute darkness.
A friend said it well this morning, “The Republicans want all the power and none or the responsibility.”
Anyone else notice the gas prices dropping 60-70 cents this past week? Hmmm……somebody whispered to the oil companies? [probably promising that the prices can go back up again after the election]……
Olbermann is a hero!
Oops, that should read, “The Republicans want all the power and none of the responsibility.”
Whoa, that rocked.
I can really only second what the commenters above are saying. Good night and good luck, and thank God for Olbermann. I too have said, for a long time, that on Sept. 12, 2001 the U.S. had the good will of all decent people on earth, and we squandered it completely within 18 months. Olbermann may have left that part out of his comment, but he reminded us that– far worse– we’ve squandered the good will we had for each other.
I second Olbermann’s call for impeachment. After all, do we want a President or Vice-President who are afraid of that which Franklin Roosevelt warned us against: fear itself. Listen to the idiot- and vice-idiot when they speak. It is always the same: Iraq, terror, terror, Iraq, Iraq, terror, stay the course, Iraq, terror. Is this all there is to them? America certainly deserves better.
I was proud of Keith beyond words.The entire country should have heard it…He is a national treasure.I can’t believe the righties have not called for him to be thrown into prison with the rest of the media who dare question the decider…watch for his home address coming soon to a rightie blog near you.
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