Let's take it further, Obermann. How about ripping apart every image of the soldiers hoisting the flag at Iwo Jima? Don't you think we've had enough of that, too? And Gettysburg. Why do we still maintain a battlefield there? That war's been over for 150 years, for God's sake. Let's also get rid of all those damn memorials in Washington, D.C. My goodness -- someone might see them.

Better yet, you need to go home, crawl under a rock, and never, ever expose your liberal ass to anyone again.

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How the media never seems to lose it's appetite for showing violence on T.V. if they can use it to hammer Bush.How many times have we seen smoldering marketplaces in Iraq or recieved a daily body count from the media?

Olbermann is upset because he knows that stoking up anger about 9-11 always helps a Republican and hurts a Democrat because many are aware of how Democrats were prepared to throw in the towel in Iraq.National security is not their strong suit and Keith would prefer it if no one brought it up.

Victory in Iraq.

Liberals suck.

McCain for Preznint.

Go back to your closet and stay there until we figure out what to do with you.

 I hear they have a vacancy at GITMO!

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Needs to STFU!  Sanctimonious POS...

Wasn't MSNBC one of the ones that wanted to show the coffins of the solders killed in Iraq?

KO is a sick man and needs to be commited. 

Here's the problem.

Even if he had a point (he doesn't), because Olbermann has a lengthy record of over-the-top, inaccurate, hopelessly slanted commentary, he has no credibility when he addresses what he views as a legitimate point. (It isn't.)

it is over 60 years and every December 7th we pay homage to the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

Olbermann though makes you want o feel it is his pain "he " lost friends and no one else on 9-11

all I can is what selfish bastard he truly is. Just a pitiful selfish bastard..

He really hates it when anyone mentions that

What about

D-day, Pearl Harbour, Civil War stills, Korean war footage.  He hates it because it reminds him what a colossal failure Bill Clinton was on National Security.  Why does he so much want to show the coffins with dead Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines in them?  They are not shown because of the family and the privacy of the family.  People he does not know and will never understand.  He is not man enough to go to St. Paul for fear of people shouting at him.

But he will whine about showing that pivotal moment in American history.  Olbermann is a loser.  We were at dinner and did not see it.  Did anyone call him on it?  I doubt it but I figured I would ask.

I saw the video, and Olby is a freakin MORON!  Pissed off because his party won't use those images.  Why?  Because they can't.  It would be too transparent and obvious that it's simply images on a screen.  Did 9/11 happen to America?  Yea Olby it did.  I guess he prefers that we not be reminded of it, because doing so just might continue to reinforce in the American mind that we ARE at war with the idiotic, moronic, cowardice, crap-for-brains radical Islamic fundamentalists.  He and his ilk don't want Americans to be cognizant of that.  He'd prefer those images stay hidden, and the longer they are, the more they fade from the American mind, and the easier it is to get do-nothing, pandering, appeasing liberals he so dearly loves elected to positions of power in the United States.  My United States, YOUR United States.  And yes, his too.  Fortunately for him there are people who are not too STUPID, as he is, to realize that we are at war and it is important that we all understand and recognize the FACT.  If America were made up of just those minds like Olby, it's days would be numbered and the number would not be a large one.

Freakin idiot!  I just heard his crap.  Olby is a whiner.  Those of you who above mentioned all those other war things of our past, you are correct.  "IF at this late date" he says.  Well 9/11 isn't as late as showing any other war images.  I guess Olby would want those also to never be seen again.  What an IDIOT!  Whining because images of the REASON we are at WAR being shown?  No problem here, show them every damn night if you ask me.  Americans have forgotten it, forgotten what exactly can happen when America sleeps.  SHOW IT MORE OFTEN!!!!!!

I can't stand the liberal mind.

BLOWBERMAN NOW JOINS THE TRUTHERS ALONGSIDE RON PAUL!

JUST GREAT!  NBC ONCE AGAIN PROVES IT'S THE NAZI BROADCASTING COMPANY!

If he is crying it is because BO can not use the footage and the footage might help send BO back to the community.  When I see that video I get pissed off.  I get pissed off for Bill Clinton not doing more.  I get pissed off at the people who exploited the event, KO to hammer Bush.  But unlike KO I am most pissed off at the filthy soulless bas###ds that did this to this great nation.  I want them all to burn in whatever hell they believe in.  May their hearts and souls be wrapped in bacon and fed back to that pigs brother.  But KO does not think like that.  He thinks like a defeatist.  Just like Clinton.  And that is part of the reason and chain of events that lead to those towers hitting the deck.

KO is soon to have another breakdown.  Our country will be better off when he leaves the airways.

 May God have mercy on KO's empty soul.

Keith Olbamamann is such a hack.

These are the same people that lampooned Pat Tillman's death,  trumpeted each major milestone in military deaths, and bemoan the fact that they can't make a spectacle of our soldier's coffins coming home to their final resting places.

You replay attrocities so you never forget them.   9/11.   The holacaust.   Countdown with Keef Olberdouche reruns.

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).

Only the 25%'ers react the way you do.

Palin has accomplished great things, while Obama has continued to make empty promises that the world owes you a living.

Good to know that Mr. "We Must Ignore Partisanship" is still practicing his 'unbiased' 'journalism' (both words applied very loosely, of course).

"...and I speak as somebody who lost a few friends there..."

Olby has/had actual "friends"? First I've heard of it. I'm sure none of them were "Re-thug-licans."

The liberal media has been wanting to "get past" 9/11 since the first anniversary. They didn't want to show footage of the events then, because they said it was too disturbing. Back then, at least they had half a leg to stand on. But, a couple of years ago, one of them announced in print that -- it was officially time to put 9/11 behind us.

That is what they have wanted to accomplish from day one.

Because, 9/11 obscrues the rest of America from any potential of sharing their world view of America.

And that really bothers them.

They can't handle that the bulk of America does not see -- the United States as the #1 problem in the world.

That is why they refuse to allow a public airing of Obama's associations with Ayers, Rev. Wright, Davis and so on.

Given those associations, if Obama were to be open and honest about how he personally views American society, like he did in his autobiography, and like his wife has hinted at a couple of times, the liberals that staff the media in America would agree with everything he had to say. They'd walk up and shake Obama and Rev. Wright's hands and thank them after a nationally televised discussion about what all is still so terribly, terribly wrong with America. ----- And Obama would lose the election in the most lopsided defeat in US history....

Which is exactly why Obama refuses to talk about his old friends --- or simply repeat what all he said in his biography --- and why the media helps him keep all that stuff buried.

Which is also exactly why Olbermann and others can't stand the memory of 9/11 being brought up.

9/11 was the historically breaking point away from the Vietnam War 1950s-70s Era. Unlike a few on the fringe, a fringe the media is all too comfortable with, most Americans knew that America did not "deserve" the attacks. Beyond those attacks, Americans knew (and know) we have come a long way from the days of Segregation - the days before the Civil Rights and other movements of the 50s-70s changed America for the better.

Liberals, like those who people the media, are stuck in the 60s. They still want to fight that good fight against bad old America. And they can't stand that that view of the United States just doesn't sell anymore....

And the patriotic feelings images of 9/11 are so far from the feeling they believe people should have about American society ---- it sends them into kanipshin like Olbermann just had.

(and as an after-thought -- I bet this is one of the key reasons - if not the key reason - the media turned on Hillary and worked so hard to pump Obama up and move him past her. Bill and Hillary were part of that generation (more than Obama) of the Vietnam Era --- but they are not part that still views the US as a bigger problem than solution in the world.

In short, Hillary wouldn't agree with a Rev. Wright.

Obama obviously did.

And the media picked --- and fought heavily for --- Obama.

Well --- that makes it clear as day........Don't know why I didn't see it that way before.......)

Mr. O,

Should we also stop showing the atrocities of the death camps of Nazi Germany too? Have the families of those who suffered been subject to enough?

I believe that we HAVEN'T seen enough of the events of 9/11. I want to make sure my daughters realize evil, should they be faced with it in the future.

You are unprofessional, and a coward and when the ratings books are in after this election season, you may find yourself on a 300 watt radio station in some market south of Tijuana - if you're lucky.

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And Olbermann and his fellow "journalists" will continue to laugh off accusations of media bias and that they're totally in the tank for Obama, pretending the "fussing" is just the usual campaign tactics of the big, bad republicans.

Nah. No bias here. We saw the same kind of bashing of the Democrats at last week's convention, right?????

UNBELIEVABLE that NBC picked this dope to anchor their coverage of the 2008 Republican National Convention. Maybe FOX should have recruited Michael Savage as the anchor for the Dem convention.

Olberloon is a drama queen... plain and simple (or simple and plain if you're under 21).

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The guy from MSNBC who was also the dad in the American Pie movie!

a lot of comments have been posted here arguing that Olbermann doesn't like the 9/11 footage because the Democrats are weak on Iraq. Just to be clear, you all did watch Bush that one time at a news conference when he stated that there was no connection between the terrorists who conducted 9/11 and Iraq, right? (Or did you watch the piece on O'Reilly tonight with Obama, where Obama pointed out that there are Sunni and Shia branches of Islam, and how al Qaeda is one, Saddam and the Baathist Party was another.)

So just to be clear: Iraq was not involved in 9/11.

"and I speak as somebody who lost a few friends there"  Oh, that makes it OK?  Kind of like saying, "I know a lot about medicine because my dad is a doctor."  That rationale for your outburst doesn't work Kieth.

Folks, I have said it before, vote with you wallet.  Do not watch channels owned by NBC, and contact companies that advertise with them and tell them you will quit buying their products.

Want these folks to hear you?  Take money away from them.

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we want a "real" breakdown.

I mean in the front yard; down on the lawn; in his soiled briefs; sobbing like a child breakdown.

Neighbors standing around cautiously as the emergency lights make their way up the street.

Can I get a text message when this happens?

It's disgusting how this idiot and all his like-minded idiots attack us for "exploiting the memories of the dead".  We vowed we would never forget this monumentally life- and world-changing event, and damn it, that's what we're doing!   

And how does one properly respect the memories of the dead?  According to Keith, the best way is to just pretend 9/11 never happened.  You can't exploit memories of the dead if you have no memories of them.  Wipe the historical slate clean of 3,000 dead in a single morning and all will be well. 

It all comes down to political advantage.  If we faithfully mark history and learn from it, the Political Right gains.  If we do like the Soviets and erase names, dates and events from the public record, then the Political Left gains.  This is what Keith is advocating.   He believes that it is wrong to exploit people's emotions with images of 9/11 for political gain.  Well, I think what he is doing is far worse.  He's trying to deaden people's emotions with a watered-down redacted version of 9/11 that is dishonest.  He wants us to forget the friends that he has chosen to exploit in this little speech of his.  Why does he do it?  For political gain.  According to his own words, he should be "rightly eviscerated at all quarters" for doing something so disgusting.

And one more thing, if the Left showed video of 9/11 like this and played to the emotions of such an attack against our home, our people and our way of life, no Republican would take offense.  We would all clap the Left on the back and say, "Welcome Home!  You've finally seen the light.  Now let's combine forces once and for all send these truly evil monsters of the world back to the Middle Ages where they belong."

What words can describe this guy, Keith Olberman?  He is a sickness.  He shouldn't be, but he's a contagious sickness.

Sorry KO 9-11 could have been prevented by Slick Willie but he was too busy with other things to be bothered with Bin Laden. To his credit however, he did win two wars - the massacre in Waco Texas and the massacre in Ruby Ridge Idaho. I wonder if Algore ever investigated to find out how much the flamethrowers in Waco contributed to global warming. Over 400 federal agents went to Ruby Ridge to attack a peaceful family in their own home. An FBI sniper killed Vickie Weaver while she was holding her baby. So much for democrat family values.

Let me translate Olbermann's heartfelt reaction from Dem-speak (i.e., Orwellian "newspeak") into actual words:

"I'm sorry, it's necessary to say this"

Please allow me to unapologetically offer my completely uneccesary opinion.

"and I wanted to separate myself from the others on the air about this"

OMG, I'm *sooooooo* different from the rest of the other liberal media pundits, so therefore you should pay attention to what I'm saying. I mean, for god's sake I'm sooo close to tears! Doesn't the fact that I almost cried mean anything to you people? (NOTE: I don't mean the actual "god," of course. I don't want to offend the wiccans and pagans or anyone else. God forbid. Whoops!)

"and I speak as somebody who lost a few friends there"

OMG, you guys, I have so much street-cred about this whole"nine-eleven" thing because I say that "I lost some friends there." My sadness and solmenity and almost-crying trumps all arguments.

"it, we,"

Is "is" is? Depends.

"would be rightly eviscerated at all quarters, perhaps by
the Republican Party itself, for exploiting the memories of the dead
and perhaps even for trying to evoke that pain again."

Seriously, let's just forget the past and moveon (dot org). Who needs the past anyways? It's all just a bunch of those annoying facts and stuff. Let's just forget that stupid old stuff. Who needs facts and rationality when you can have emotions? ... LOOK!!! SOMETHING SHINY!!!

" If you reacted to that videotape the way I did, I apologize."

Let's have a cry-fest together on Oprah. I'm going to lead the crying, and start off by crying harder than anyone has ever cried!!! I'm going to cry so HARD that nobody will ever be able to stop me! And that's why you should belive me!

"It is a subject of great pain for many of us still"

... </sarc> OK, so I have to break "character" to actually acknowledge that Keith made an excellent point here. He's right that it's a subject of great pain. But his response is "never bring it up again or ever talk about it because it's *just* *too* *painful*. Forget... Forget... Listen to me, my sheeples... Forget..."

God Damned right it's painful. And that's why we should never forget, and why we should always remember the pain and devastation to our nation, our families, those who were murdered, and those who chose to sacrifice their lives both in the efforts to rescue people from the rubble of the World Trade Centers, and those who gave their lives on foreign soil to fight the enemy on his homeground, and protect us here, at home.

My response to Kieth is this: Never forget. Always remind us of the pain we, as a nation, felt when they hit us where it hurts. Always remember where you were on that day.

I was in Hawaii visiting my sister on 9/11. My girlfriend called me at 3am (HI time) and told me to turn on the TV. I turned it on right after the first plane flew into the WTC. I watched in disbelief as the second plane hit the other tower. I watched as the towers collapsed. I'll never forget that day, watching the deaths of many proud, hardworking Americans, murdered by Islamic terrorists, like it was some sort of spectator sport, on a teeny little television, on Oahu, in Hawaii, raging that I couldn't have been there to help, raging that I couldn't do anything about it.

Don't forget 9/11. Constantly remind yourself of the pain. It hurts us to think of it, especially those who lost loved ones and friends. I don't pretend to share the pain of those who knew victims of 9/11. I didn't know anyone in NYC at the time. But I cried for them the same, because they were fellow Americans. Because they were fellow humans.

Every time we tear off the emotional scabs of the wounds we received that day, we honor those we lost by remembering. It's easy to criticize those who choose to remind us of this as trying to garner some sort of emotional response by expoiting a tragedy. But those who claim that we shouldn't remind ourselves of 9/11 because it's "*just* *too* *painful*" are dishonoring the memory of those we lost. They claim that we should be free from the "inconvenience" of sadness and the emotional stress caused by talking about and remembering 9/11. My response to Kieth's crocodile-tears, faux-emotional rhetoric is this:

You know what? At least you're alive to be able to cry, like the big blubbering baby you are. You're not even willing to "sacrifice" your fragile emotional state to remember those who died. It must be inconceivable to you that other, brave, Americans are willing to sacrifice, and have given, their very lives to defend your ability to dye your hair and pontificate about the evilness of the very nation that provides you the freedom to do so. </rant>

"and was probably not appropriate to be shown."

And I wish we could just all forget that terrorists murdered people that did things they couldn't hope to do, and destroyed things they couldn't have built, using technology they don't understand. Remembering things is just soooo non Progressive.

Despite all my misgivings about providing contact information on public forums, I belive in what I just wrote strongly enough that I'm going to provide my personal info. I refuse to hide behind anonymity. Bring it on.

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Of course, if it had been Obamarama or his crew reminding viewers of the horror that was it would have been regarded as a brilliantly grim necessity in demonstrating the dimwit's grasp of the current shape of the world. What Mr. Odorman is most worked up about is knowing damn well that his boy couldn't dare show such footage and tie it to national security issues without cheezing off their moonbat core base of ultra-liberal dingbats who are STILL convinced it was some sort of a ridiculous, absurd, insulting, improbable, easily disproven and completely cockamamie conspiracy with George Bush, the Mossad, the Knights Templar, "rogue elements" (my favorite, since it means you don't even have to identify a culprit) the Duke Lacrosse Team or whoever somehow having pulled the strings.

The liberal media has done everything they can to subtly fan the fires of discontent within the body politic about 9/11, specifically deciding who has the moral prerogative to show images that powerfully remind people of the horror that was. And the only people who do have that right, according to 455holes like Keith Odorman are the media themselves, who feel they are the only sect of our culture with enough hallowed discretion to pick and choose which images are appropriate & how they should be shown. The only group that gets a pass other than the press is the 9/11 conspiracy movement, who can utilize whatever they want, so long as a conspiracy of some sort lurks at the finish line of their reasoning.

The whole idea also that people like Mr. Odorman have any kind of moral prerogative because they knew people who perished is also insulting: We ALL knew people who perished by now, thanks in part to their coverage of the event in the first place and their own modus operandi of putting a human face or 3,000 on the event and telling us the stories of those who were killed. It is the seat of elitist idiocy to imply that any group within American culture has a prerogative to remind other Americans of that day, and that others do not, or to try and set the terms by which that reminder is appropriate or not.

If the democraps chose to ignore it or bypass it, that's their own fault, and subconsciously Oderman knew that he and his agenda driven colleagues hell bent on deciding this election for us had been totally owned. 

It's history!

"If at this late date, any television network had of its own accord showed that much videotape, and that much graphic videotape of 9/11, and I speak as somebody who lost a few friends there, it, we, would be rightly eviscerated at all quarters,"

You should be happy to know that the mainstream wouldn't ever think of going near anything like remebering those who perished.  And don't worry, you're still bell of the clown ball... 

"PDS...the new and improved BDS"

If I had my way the full length version of 9/11/01 would be shown once a week every week as a reminder of the failure of a democrat administration's foreign policy that killed over 3000 of our citizens, took down two skyscrapers along with other buildings and almost destroyed our economy.

Who gives a rats ass how you reacted to it, you're just a small, pathetic attention grabbing maggot posing as a journalist!

Do us all a favor DROP DEAD AND GO TO HELL!!! 

"I speak as somebody who lost a few friends there..."

I'm am getting sick and tired of this "I knew people who died on 9-11 and so I am uniquely qualified to comment".

Memo to Keith: A lot of people who had family members die on 9-11 want to see memorial films to the events of that dark day. You don't want them shown because it plays to the Republican strength of keeping something like this from ever happening again - so stow your phony self righteous crap because we can see right through it.

McNotObama '08

Does NBC have to declare its operating expenses for MSNBC as Campaign Contributions to the Democrats?