On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann delivered his latest "Special Comment," in which he called on President-elect Barack Obama to prosecute President Bush and administration members on a charge of torturing prisoners, and invoked extreme examples such as slavery leading to the Civil War, and the handling of Germany after World War I leading to the rise of Nazism and World War II, to illustrate that "this country has never succeeded in moving forward without first cleansing itself of its mistaken past," and that Obama must try to prosecute Bush for the sake of the country’s future. After quoting Bush’s recent words about the interrogation techniques he authorized against 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and statements by Obama expressing reluctance to pursue prosecutions against the Bush administration, Olbermann began invoking extreme examples from history.
This country has never succeeded in moving forward without first cleansing itself of its mistaken past. ... We compromised with slavery in the Declaration of Independence, and, fourscore and nine years later, we had buried 600,000 of our sons and brothers in a civil war. After that war’s ending, we compromised with the social restructuring and protection of the rights of minorities in the South. And a century later, we had not only had not resolved anything, but black leaders were still being assassinated in the cities of the South. We compromised with Germany in the reconstruction of Europe after the First World War. Nobody even arrested the German kaiser, let alone conducted war crimes trials then. And 19 years later, there was an indescribably more evil Germany and a more heartrending Second World War.
The Countdown host soon brought up more of his favorite historical subjects – McCarthyism and Watergate – and charged they had influenced Bush administration members like Dick Cheney. Olbermann: "We compromised with the Palmer Raids and got McCarthyism, and we compromised with McCarthyism and got Watergate. And we compromised with Watergate, and the junior members of the Ford administration realized how little was ultimately at risk. And they grew up to be Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney."
Below is a transcript of the last three minutes of Olbermann’s nine-and-a-half minute "Special Comment" from the Monday, January 19, Countdown show on MSNBC:
Sadly, as commendable as the intention here might seem, this country has never succeeded in moving forward without first cleansing itself of its mistaken past. In point of fact, every effort to merely draw a line in the sand and declare the past dead, has served to only keep the past alive, and often to strengthen it. We compromised with slavery in the Declaration of Independence, and, fourscore and nine years later, we had buried 600,000 of our sons and brothers in a civil war. After that war’s ending, we compromised with the social restructuring and protection of the rights of minorities in the South. And a century later, we had not only had not resolved anything, but black leaders were still being assassinated in the cities of the South. We compromised with Germany in the reconstruction of Europe after the First World War. Nobody even arrested the German kaiser, let alone conducted war crimes trials then. And 19 years later, there was an indescribably more evil Germany and a more heartrending Second World War.
We compromised with the trusts of the early 1900s, and today, we have corporations too big to fail. We compromised with the Palmer Raids and got McCarthyism, and we compromised with McCarthyism and got Watergate. And we compromised with Watergate, and the junior members of the Ford administration realized how little was ultimately at risk. And they grew up to be Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.
But, Mr. President-elect, you are entirely correct. As you say, what we have to focus on is getting things right in the future, as opposed to looking at what we got wrong in the past. And that means prosecuting all those involved in the Bush administration’s torture of prisoners, and starting at the top. You’re also right that you should not want your first term consumed by what was perceived on the part of Republicans as a partisan witch hunt. But your only other option might be to let this sit and fester indefinitely because, Mr. President-elect, some day, there will be another Republican President or even a Democrat just as blind as Mr. Bush to ethics and he will look back to what you did about Mr. Bush or what you did not do, and he will seek precedent or, as Cheney saw, he will see a not to get caught next time. Prosecute, Mr. President-elect, and even if you get not one conviction, you will still have accomplished good for generations unborn because merely by acting, you will deny Mr. Bush what he most wants, right now, without prosecutions, without this nation standing up and saying this was wrong, we will atone, Mr. Bush’s version of what happened goes into the historical record of this nation: Torture was legal. It worked. George Bush saved the country. The end.
We have tortured people. You and I, Mr. President-elect. This is a people’s democracy. We are the people. These were our elected officials. That they did not come to us and ask to act thusly in our names is unfortunate and indeed criminal, but it is almost irrelevant. They worked for us, they tortured people, and so we have tortured people. Thus, beginning tomorrow, it is up to you, not just to discontinue this, but to prevent it. At the end of his first year in office, Mr. Lincoln tried to contextualize the Civil War. For those who still wanted to compromise with the evils of secession and slavery. "The struggle of today," Lincoln wrote, "is not altogether for today. It is for a vast future also." Mr. President-elect, you have been handed the beginning of that future. Use it to protect our children and our distant descendants from anything like this ever happening again. Good night and good luck.
—Brad Wilmouth is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.



















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kook
January 19, 2009 - 22:49 ET by sawing battawhen will nbc wake up to the brand destruction they broadcast every night?
sw.... The 12th of
January 19, 2009 - 23:31 ET by bigtimersw....
The 12th of Never!
When hell freezes over!
When pigs fly!
That's a start.... ;-)
MY HAIR HURTS!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 19, 2009 - 22:51 ET by CapeCodScottMR OLBERMANN YOU SIR, ARE A VERY, VERY DISTERBED MAN....
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"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation"... until they get fed-up enough to finally say something about it!
Cleanse the country???
January 19, 2009 - 23:18 ET by ScrapironIf anyone cleansed the country Olberdouche would have been hanged from a street light post long ago.
Old, Retired and glad of it.
TORTURE--- New Definition
January 19, 2009 - 23:02 ET by CapeCodScottHaving your Digital Cable/DVR converter box go on the fritz and having the only show ever viewed and recorded is MESSNBC's COUNTDOWN....That MR. OLBERMANN is TORTURE! Good Night and Good Luck
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"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation"... until they get fed-up enough to finally say something about it!
Yawn.......good night Keith,
January 19, 2009 - 22:57 ET by DaBirdYawn.......good night Keith, and good luck.
Good night
January 19, 2009 - 23:01 ET by UpNorthKeith, and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Now quick, get up off your knees, the Obamunist is gone.
Seriously, this guy needs
January 19, 2009 - 22:58 ET by stratmanSeriously, this guy needs medication.
Shame on NBC for enabling a delusional schizophrenic.
Medication, yeah..cyanide...
January 20, 2009 - 09:35 ET by mattmMedication, yeah..cyanide...
My apologies to Rog, as I might just get his wrong...
January 19, 2009 - 23:11 ET by R D Helm...but Olberdouche and his ilk have far more in common with Nazis than a whole planet-load of conservatives will EVER have.
Its just too bad that Keithie the Ignorant was condemned to the bottomless hell of a government school by his abusive parents during his formative years, else his seriously uneducated ass would know that.
If Olbermann the Spineless and his kind have there way, this country will have no future.
-Dave
“Them that’s going get on the wagon. Them that ain’t get out of the way.” -While there is still time.
Poor ol' Keith, what will he
January 19, 2009 - 23:13 ET by Richard RomanoPoor ol' Keith, what will he do now? You are a pathetic, lower than dirt, coward...he wouldn't dare debate Michael Medved or Dennis Prager. He is a sham, just like his empty suit savior.
I would PAY to see Prager debate him
January 20, 2009 - 05:47 ET by L.N. SmitheeDennis Prager would eat Blowhardmann's lunch without raising his voice.
"Well, I've got nothing against the press...they wouldn't print it if it wasn't true..." -- Joe Jackson, "Sunday Papers"
Tomorrow the hate
January 19, 2009 - 23:14 ET by MidAmericaTomorrow the hate merchants lose their jobs. Their time is past. KO, chrissy and all the others will be sittng out on park benches, disturbed old warriors pestering anyone who comes too close with exaggerated tales of the battles they fought and the heroism they showed. Just sad old warriors caught in a dream world of the past after the times have changed.
Can see it now
January 19, 2009 - 23:48 ET by Dan DiegoA bunch of so-called journalists fighting over Prime Time benches and talking to their pens while spewing non sensical diatribes to senior citizens feeding the pigeons.
As I was Saying....
January 19, 2009 - 23:15 ET by northoneYou, Mr. Olbermann, are certifiably insane and are in need of some serious medication. You, Sir, are an embarrassment to even CNBC, and it's pretty hard to get any lower than that network. You are a man so filled with anger and hatred that you are frightening to watch. Please, Sir, for the love of God, get some professional help. You are not humorous. No one other than a few on the far-left fringe take anything you say seriously. Get the help you so desperately need, Sir. Good night.
Olbiedog - Clinton said, "I don't care what you do with them."
January 19, 2009 - 23:16 ET by Gary HallPresident Clinton, according to Michael Scheuer, the CIA man in charge of Clinton's extraordinary rendition program said, "I don't care what you do with them."
You want to call for an investigation of Bill Clinton?
Gary, Clinton could order the torture of anyone he wished...
January 20, 2009 - 00:27 ET by R D Helm...anytime he wished, simply because of the D behind his name, and could have troubled himself in gathering any other info he wished, as well.
Too bad he was too busy playing "hide the cigar" with a fat-assed, ugly (I am talking repulsive here) brainless intern.
Had he not been so otherwise occupied, two of my business clients of the time might still be alive, and their children might not have spent the last 7+ years without their fathers.
-Dave
“Them that’s going get on the wagon. Them that ain’t get out of the way.” -While there is still time.
Advice for MSNBC
January 19, 2009 - 23:22 ET by Dan DiegoYour channel will never succeed in moving forward without first cleansing itself of its mistaken past. Dump Olbermann, then Chrissy, Rachel MD 20/20, Shuster...
Olberstupid
January 19, 2009 - 23:28 ET by merlin61Karl Rove said it all tonight. Is Nancy Pelosi
going to testify at hearings? All these Dems
voted on everything Bush and Cheney asked
them to do, so are they going to testify against
themselves and drag this country down into the
pits of hell? This is to appease the far-left
idiots like George Soros, Move On.org and other
far left morons. Olberstupid needs to be put
in a padded cell and left there for eternity.
Naw... Olberman needs to
January 20, 2009 - 00:09 ET by NL207Naw... Olberman needs to be locked in a regular cell with his new husband, a 300 pound 3 time loser named Bubba. This will change Olberman's outlook on life.
Actually, that's
January 20, 2009 - 00:19 ET by JerryActually, that's Olberdouche's fantasy.
When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).
Here's a good NB "poll" question: Whose "staff" will Olbie...
January 19, 2009 - 23:31 ET by R D Helm...choke on first?
Will it be Osama's or Obama's?
Or will it be both at the same time?
-Dave
“Them that’s going get on the wagon. Them that ain’t get out of the way.” -While there is still time.
Thank you Mr. Bush
January 19, 2009 - 23:29 ET by MaytagWhen I think about those young troops in Iraq ,that were captured ,had their genitals cut off and stuffed down their thoats then gutted and left to die .I have very little problem with panties on the head or a little waterboarding at least that is not instant termination
What a d-bag
January 19, 2009 - 23:30 ET by bjc123I'd like to waterboard Keith Olbershmuck. Good night and good luck...douche
Murrow's spinning in his
January 19, 2009 - 23:45 ET by Lord ElicaniMurrow's spinning in his grave as Olbie desecrates his trademark phrase.
"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
- Ronald Reagan
Isn't That the Truth???
January 19, 2009 - 23:54 ET by HoosierEmKeith Olbermann is a delusional idiot. I picture both he and Chris Matthews chaining themselves up in some dark basement with dominatrix outfits on waiting for the Messiah to come and rescue them from their sexual frustration.
Oh ick - I think I just made myself nauseous with that picture in my head. I apologize in advance to anyone else I made sick.
Olbermann is such an
January 19, 2009 - 23:47 ET by Clear thinkerOlbermann is such an immature child. Maybe he needs a vacation at Gitmo!
I Must Hate America!
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Nothing like a bunch of
January 19, 2009 - 23:53 ET by fitzfongNothing like a bunch of wildly erroneous moral equivalency arguments to make you look like a complete tool, eh, Keith? Olbermann's fake moral outrage is harmless, inviting only the cruelest of indifferent mockery. If anything, this certifiable mental reject does make an interesting point. You compromise, you get screwed. George H.W. Bush compromised with George Mitchell, and we got a broken tax pledge (and he got defeated). George Allen compromised by apologizing for "macaca", and we got that pervert Jim "Melon Head" Webb. Arnold Schwarzenegger compromised with the Public Employee Goonions and the Marxists in the State Legislature, and California got the mother of all budget disasters. The RNC compromised with Democrats and "Independents" and we got stuck with McLame. RINOs suck.
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Reagan
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Keith Olbermann: Terrorist Sympathizer
January 20, 2009 - 00:04 ET by SupermanIt's true. Keith Olbermann is a terrorist sympathizer. On multiple occassions, Keith has called for terrorists in prison to be released and for all other terrorists to be treated with kid gloves. It makes you wonder which side Keith is on because it seems that he cares more about the well being of terrorists than he does the well being of Americans.
Maybe the green berets
January 20, 2009 - 00:07 ET by SlyrrMaybe the green berets should load KO into a crate and mail him to Al Queda or Al-Jazeera with a big sign on his chest that says 'I hate Allah' so he can see who the REAL torturers are...
Tales from the Creep
January 20, 2009 - 00:26 ET by BarkerThank you NewsBusters for the updates on Olbermann's Rubber Room Rantings; they're always very entertaining. Not all raging lunatics are as amusing to people as Keith Olbermann is.
The only thing missing from Olbermann's "Special" Comment is a laugh track.
NBC Sports Desk
January 20, 2009 - 00:22 ET by AndanteA couple of times I've accidentally surfed onto the NBC sports show this arrogant and hate filled person sits on. It seems to me that the body language of the other guys indicates a strong dislike for him. Probably just wishful thinking on my part but, if they could get away with it, I'd bet 100 bucks they'd like to beotch slap the girly man off the set. One can dream.
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"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
Thomas Jefferson
Maybe he has a point ...
January 20, 2009 - 00:35 ET by legacyrepublicanWe don't prosecute Clinton and eight years later we get Clinton reborn.
We don't prosecute Kennedy for driving drunk and killing someone and years later we might get health care that will kill us all sooner rather than later.
We ignore the check kiting scandal and don't prosecute and years later, the Congress invents sub-prime loans and ruins the ecomony for years to come.
We don't prosecute Democratic voter fraud in 1960 and we get elections stolen on a regular basis by dead people.
We don't stand up and prosecute the bullies claiming racism and we get a Democratic House, Senate, and White House bent on making us all slaves of the State.
Thank You President Bush
January 20, 2009 - 01:28 ET by CapeCodScottPlease Pass this Image around CLICK HERE>>> Thank you
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"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation"... until they get fed-up enough to finally say something about it!
Web Filters
January 20, 2009 - 00:45 ET by DoktorFrankenThere should be filters to block the words of Keith Olbermann because I cannot think of anything more foul than his hateful, lying spew.
I detest that I have to read what he says in order to know how foul he is in order to make knowledgeable comments. Can't we, like we all know the sun comes up in the East, just have an agreement that KO is the biggest piece of crap in the media and then just ignore him?
Forever?
Overbite/Mathews, worthlessness we can believe in.
January 20, 2009 - 01:17 ET by rightwingchefK.Overbite and Mathews are the worst this country has to offer. I don't know what was running up their leg, but I can tell what was going down it, and out of their mouths.
Mr. Zucker and Mr. Capus are
January 20, 2009 - 01:48 ET by d1carterMr. Zucker and Mr. Capus are responsible for putting this trash on MSNBC. It was their plan for cable news.
Beating a Dead Olbermann...
January 20, 2009 - 03:45 ET by AgentAmericanThis delusionally disturbed man continues to provide endless hours of entertainment.
I nominate Sarah Palin for Rebel Alliance Leader!
2010: A GOP Hill
The really scary part is.........
January 20, 2009 - 04:34 ET by old croin December, ratings had him at 0.8 or 877,000 total viewers. He seems fixated with the Nazi system and way of life. Could he be the illegitimate son of Heinrich Himmler? There is some resemblance to mine eye.
http://www.moreorles...
He had previously compared Ken Starr to Himmler, now it's all Bush=Nazi all the time. This man's thinking is very dangerous and it is so irresponsable of NBC to give him this soapbox so as to vilely spew his garbage out there every night is criminal. Is this the way this country is headed? I honestly hope not, but deep down, I'm afraid it is.
It's fitting the Olby uses
January 20, 2009 - 04:51 ET by ConservativeRexIt's fitting the Olby uses Edward R Murrow's catch phrase, they are both peas in the same communist pod. Murrow is the reason we have idiots such as Olby spewing the so called news today.
Let any government entity attempt to bring criminal charges on President Bush.
Ridiculous Olby-ganda
January 20, 2009 - 05:15 ET by Vivaldi5There's almost an embarrassment of low-hanging fruit in this Olby drivel, but two points:
1. Bathtub Boy: "This country has never succeeded in moving forward without first cleansing itself of its mistaken past...."
One example I missed in Olby's following rant: 1998-99, when the House of Representatives passed two articles of impeachment against William Jefferson Clinton but the Senate claimed the president's crimes did not rise to the level of removing him from office and by a majority vote (including all the Democrat Senators) refused to do so. Clinton also arranged for a last-minute deal with Whitewater special prosecutor Robert Ray so that Clinton accepted a five year suspension of his law license and a $25,000 fine and in return, Ray promised not to prosecute Clinton once the latter left office.
"In point of fact, every effort to merely draw a line in the sand and
declare the past dead, such as by groups like MoveOn.org and Democrat politicians, has served to only keep the past alive, and
often to strengthen it. I think you understand what that means, sir! That means Clinton, sir, and you, sir, have prostituted history in the service of ideology. You, Mr. Olbermann, sir, must resign immediately!!!"
2. BB: "We have tortured people. You and I, Mr. President-elect...."
No, sir, I will not have you saddle our new President with responsibility for your journalistic atrocities! Mr. Obama has enough to deal with without also being saddled with your overheated and increasingly hysterical tirades.In short:
"You, sir, are a disgrace to the tradition of Edward R. Murrow, sir! And you, Mr. Olbermann, sir, must, sir, resign, sir--immediately, sir, if not, sir, sooner, sir!!!"
There, now, I guess I've beaten that Olby trope into the ground. Too bad it won't stay there.
Blowhardmann Didn't Want Slick Prosecuted
January 20, 2009 - 05:43 ET by L.N. SmitheeThis is coming from the guy who quit his first MSNBC job and went back to anchoring a nightly sports show because he couldn't stomach talking about Bill Clinton's pending impeachment for perjury and obstruction of justice. What a friggin' hypocrite.
"Well, I've got nothing against the press...they wouldn't print it if it wasn't true..." -- Joe Jackson, "Sunday Papers"
I call for the IMMEDIATE PROSECUTION OF OLBERMANN ...
January 20, 2009 - 05:54 ET by Jayke... for torturing my EARS and BRAIN!
Vile
January 20, 2009 - 07:35 ET by jdlybrandnewsisblues
I cannot think of a more vile, disgusting human being than this guy. I'm betting he got his ass beat in school a lot when he was growing up. I know I'd like to smack him up side his head.
Seems to me GW kept one too many Americans safe.
Still waiting on my first OBAMAGASM.
the mouth
January 20, 2009 - 08:14 ET by roni use to enjoy stopping very briefly on ko's ranting and telling him to shut up and then moving on to another channel. he has become so vile i have now deleted msnbc from my tv. it's a great feeling to channel surf and and his ugly mug never show up.
The man is a blithering
January 20, 2009 - 08:16 ET by eaglewingz08The man is a blithering idiot. First, he doesn't mention the D word once in his indictment of America or praise the republicans for their stances against slavery and Jim Crow democrat policies. Funny how that amnesia goes one way. He also doesn/'t mention FDR's war crimes, by which Bush's 'war crimes' are not even the faintest shadow. Why didn't Olberman mention those? Oh, probably because Obama is the new FDR and that contradiction would have caused Olberman's head to explode. I also read in the history books that McCarthy was in fact confronted, by republican President Eisenhower and other republicans and they put an end to it. Funny how that got left out of the mix too? Wonder why that could be? And to say that we appeased the German Kaiser after WWI, shows an ignorance of history that is mindboggling. The onerous conditions that were placed on Germany after WWI, is seen by many historians as laying the groundwork for WWII.
As for non confrontation, perhaps it was the non confrontation of Great Britain and France in following copperhead (dare I say mainstream democrap policies) when Nazi Germany militarized the Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, that was a major factor in the outbreak of WWII. As President Shimon Peres recently stated, had the West done to Hitler what Pres. Bush had done to Sadaam Hussein in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan, tens of millions of lives could have been saved from death in WWII. Of course, Olberman can't connect such dots, as that would require analytical thought and insight, two qualities he is bereft of. Oh, and if 'we tortured people', Olberman including himself, perhaps Obama can frog march Olberman and do this nation a true service.
Keith got one thing right!
January 20, 2009 - 09:31 ET by notinstlHe has and still does nightly, torture people. That's what it's like to watch or listen to him. His smug, self-righteous and self-serving rants make me long for a few minutes on a waterboard.....to ease my pain. However, he is wrong...this is a republic. I just wish there was some way we could let KO get into the hands for or taliban friends.....so he would learn what real torture is all about. I suspect we'd here different noises from him. His faux outrage and vitriol is so over the top I wonder if MSNBC is actually afraid to do something with this gasbag.
Clinton could have had the
January 20, 2009 - 10:45 ET by TexasteacherClinton could have had the tortures broadcast on prime-time TV and there wouldn't have been a PEEP out of any of these liberal pansies.
Olbermann Calls for Prosecution of Bush, Invokes Nazis and Slave
January 20, 2009 - 11:13 ET by underhillfrom Wikipedia: Charlatan
"A charlatan (also called swindler) is a person practicing quackery or some similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, fame or other advantages via some form of pretence or deception."
My friends, Keith Olbermann is a charlatan. He is not insane. He knows exactly what he is doing. The name of the game is ratings. Until Keith adopted his current lunatic pose, his ratings were marginal. His ratings only increased significantly once he became the man we know and love to hate today.
Simply put, KO made a conscious decision to move to the far-left and ratchet up the anti-bush,anti-republican, anti-conservative bluster in a bid to increase his ratings. It has worked to a degree and we are responsible, in part, for giving him so much attention. The best way to deflate his relative importance is to avoid any mention or viewing of him - period.
keith
January 20, 2009 - 11:26 ET by east tennessee johnExpecting anyhing near the truth or factual balance from KO is like expecting Comrade Pelosi to play fair in the House. It's all about power to these miscreants and they think they have it for now and forever, just as long as they keep telling the lies, and as long as a majority of us keep acting on them. Tomorrow is 1-21-09, what's A**HOLE GOING TO DO, RERUN OLD SHOWS? Sooner or later Sgt. Schultz won't have anywhere to hide.
The Libs *REALLY* need to let the Bush prosecution thing go...
January 20, 2009 - 11:29 ET by vastateofmind...because if they dare press this issue, I strongly believe they'll find that the 48% of this country that did *NOT* vote for their ideology and their empty-suit savior will rise up and fight in an unprecedented way they never imagined. They won the presidency and the majority in Congress and will do their best to implement an ultra-liberal socialist agenda - they will need to be content with doing that damage alone, and let Bush and his cronies alone. The LeftyLibs are being total hypocrites on the "war crimes by Bush" issue and again - in their own best interests, REALLY need to let it go.
Hunting Trip
January 20, 2009 - 11:33 ET by JEB StewartI would like to take Overbit hunting and pull a Chaney :)
The Heart Of Darkness
January 20, 2009 - 11:57 ET by rammingspeedHerr Olbermann is a prime representative of the dark heart and true ambitions of the hardcore Left. To compare Bush's actions in the war on terror to the examples he brought up is insane, although Herr Olbermann is not clinically insane. He is angry and severely twisted by his bitter hatred and savage need for bloody revenge. Revenge, even when there is no true wrong, for George W. Bush beat back a murderous gang by using moral and ethical means.
If one can't understand the need to act strongly in the ticking bomb scenario, then one doesn't deserve to live in a land of liberty and peace. Olbermann is just such a fool.
Whew
January 21, 2009 - 01:19 ET by MeowMeowCouldn't agree more myself. Liberals are some of the meanest, most vindictive, hypocritical, close-minded people I've ever met.
See, BO will need Gitmo...
January 20, 2009 - 12:02 ET by Red Jeep... to jail President Bush and VP Cheney and others of the eeevil Bush administration.
Stupid is, as stupid says or does...
January 20, 2009 - 12:25 ET by MPayneor rather, being "Olbermann".
What will he have to do or say with no Bush around? His lack of talent will show even more, when he cant throw red meat to his liberal supporters.
" Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. " - William T. Sherman
In the words of my eldery mother . ..
January 20, 2009 - 13:40 ET by CKA in Red State USA. . . a woman who helped build liberty ships during World War II, "Olbermann is crazy. He's a fool."
Nothing I can add to that, other than he is mean-spirited and, with apologies to rocks, dumber than rocks.
O needs a tour in Iraq. He
January 20, 2009 - 15:58 ET by JIMMY1660O needs a tour in Iraq. He really needs to see what and why things are done. Has he asked WJC to stand trial for throwing cruise missiles at Iraq??
I WANT GWB TO STAND TRIAL, I WANT HIM TO TELL THE STORY. WITHOUT SECURITY CLEARENCES HOLDING BACK INFORMATION. LETS LET THE CHIPS FALL. LET HIM TELL WHO IN THE SENATE & CONGRESS KNEW WHAT AND WHEN.
I ALSO WANT SANDY BERGER TO STAND TRIAL FOR THE LOSS OF LIFE FOR THE SPEICAL FORCES TROOPS WHEN HE WAS THE NSA. BLACK HAWK DOWN SHOULD HAVE NEVER EVER HAPPENED.
allow me to Love America
Won't watch him, complain to NBC about him or anything...
January 20, 2009 - 18:07 ET by Lord ErondIt's hard...Bathtub Boy is such an inflammatory piece of garbage. He clearly speaks to inflame and incite. However his diatribes are short of facts.
But hard as it is, this trash has to be ignored. Don't complain to NBC either. Ignoring them is the best thing that can be done. The day NBC realizes how irrelevant they are and that no one cares about them any more is the day they depart.
"What you can not enforce, do not command" -Sophocles-
The video...
January 21, 2009 - 08:11 ET by Amanda JusticeHere's the whole video of Keith's "Speshul Komment" here. What a putz!