Olbermann Calls Dick Cheney 'As Insane As Any Terrorist'

Olbermann Calls Dick Cheney 'As Insane As Any Terrorist'

By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive)
May 22, 2009 - 09:32 ET

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has said a lot of disgraceful things in his tenure as "Countdown" host, but on Thursday evening, he attacked former Vice President Dick Cheney in a fashion that should make all of America's enemies both here and abroad proud.

To give you an idea of the level of hatred and invective on display, this was the opening sentence of Olbermann's "Special Comment" concerning Cheney's speech to the American Enterprise Institute Thursday:

Neurotic, paranoid, false to fact and false to reason, forever self-rationalizing his inner rage at his own impotence, and failure dripping from every word, and as irrational, as separated from the real world, as dishonest, as insane as any terrorist; the former vice president has today humiliated himself beyond redemption.

But that was just the beginning, for moments later, Olbermann said Cheney was "culpable, morally, ethically" for 9/11: "At best, you are guilty of malfeasance and eternally lasting stupidity. At worst, sir, in the deaths of 9/11, you are negligent."

What follows is a video of this abomination along with a full transcript, some lowlights, and videos of Cheney's actual speech:

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The delusional claims he has made this day could be proved by documentation and firsthand testimony to be the literal and absolute truth, and he still, himself, would be wrong because the America he sought to impose upon the world and upon its own citizens, the dark, hateful place of Dick Cheney`s own soul, the place he to this hour defends, and to this day prefers, is a repudiation of all that our ancestors, all that for which our brave troops of two years ago and two minutes ago, have sacrificed and fought.
I do have to congratulate you, sir. No man, living or dead, could have passed the buck more often that than you did in 35 minutes this morning. It`s not your fault that we water boarded people, you said. It isn`t torture, you said, even though it is, based on 111 years of American military prosecutions.
Gee, thanks for being motivated by the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans to go so far as to take a serious second look. And thank you, sir, for admitting, obviously inadvertently, that you did not take a serious first look in the seven months and 23 days between your inauguration and 9/11. For that attack, sir, you are culpable, morally, ethically. At best, you are guilty of malfeasance and eternally lasting stupidity. At worst, sir, in the deaths of 9/11, you are negligent.
You saved no one, sir. If the classified documents you seek released really did detail plots other than those manufactured by drowning men in order to get it to stop, or if they truly did know plans beyond the laughable ones you and President Bush have already revealed, hijackers without passports, targeting a building whose name Mr. Bush could not remember, clowns who thought they could destroy airports by dropping matches in fuel pipelines 30 miles away, men who planned to attack a military base dressed as pizza delivery boys, forgetting that every man there was armed, and today, the four would-be synagogue bombers, one of whom turns out to keep bottles of urine in his apartment, and is on schizophrenia medicine.
You saved no one, Mr. Cheney. All you did was help kill Americans. You were negligent before 9/11. Your response to your complicity by omission on 9/11 was panic and shame and insanity, and lying this country into a war that did nothing but kill 4,299 more of us. We will take no further instructions from you, sir. And let me again quote Oliver Cromwell to you, Mr. Cheney. "You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of god, go."

Here's what Cheney said on Thursday:

Here's the full transcript of Olbermann's disgusting rant:

Finally tonight, as promised, a special comment about Mr. Cheney`s speech. Neurotic, paranoid, false to fact and false to reason, forever self-rationalizing his inner rage at his own impotence, and failure dripping from every word, and as irrational, as separated from the real world, as dishonest, as insane as any terrorist; the former vice president has today humiliated himself beyond redemption.
The delusional claims he has made this day could be proved by documentation and firsthand testimony to be the literal and absolute truth, and he still, himself, would be wrong because the America he sought to impose upon the world and upon its own citizens, the dark, hateful place of Dick Cheney`s own soul, the place he to this hour defends, and to this day prefers, is a repudiation of all that our ancestors, all that for which our brave troops of two years ago and two minutes ago, have sacrificed and fought.

I do have to congratulate you, sir. No man, living or dead, could have passed the buck more often that than you did in 35 minutes this morning. It`s not your fault that we water boarded people, you said. It isn`t torture, you said, even though it is, based on 111 years of American military prosecutions.
It was in the Constitution that you could do it, even if our laws told you you could not. It was in the language of the 2001 Military Authorization you force-fed the Congress that you could do it. Even if our international treaties told you you could not.
It produced valuable information, you said. Even though the first hand witnesses, the interrogators of these beasts, they said the information preceded the torture and ended when it began.
It was authorized, you said, by careful legal opinion, even though the legal opinions were dictated by and you your cronies. And, oh, by the way, the torture began before the legal opinions were even written.
It was authorized, you said. And you imply that even if it really wasn`t, it was done only to detainees of the highest intelligence value. It was more necessary, you said, because of the revelation of another program by the real villains of our time: the "New York Times." Even though that revelation was possible because the program was detailed on the front page of the website of a Defense Department subcontractor.
It was all the fault of your predecessor, you said, who tried to treat terror as a law enforcement problem before you came to the office and rode to the rescue, after you totally ignored terrorism for the first 20 percent of your first term and the worst attack on this nation in its history unfolded on your watch.
"9/11 caused everyone to take a serious second look at threats that had been gathering for a while," you said today, "and enemies whose plans were getting bolder and more sophisticated."
Gee, thanks for being motivated by the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans to go so far as to take a serious second look. And thank you, sir, for admitting, obviously inadvertently, that you did not take a serious first look in the seven months and 23 days between your inauguration and 9/11.
For that attack, sir, you are culpable, morally, ethically. At best, you are guilty of malfeasance and eternally lasting stupidity. At worst, sir, in the deaths of 9/11, you are negligent.
The circular logic and the self-righteous sophistry falls from a copy of Mr. Cheney`s speech like bugs from a book on a moldy shelf. He still believes in "dictators like Saddam Hussein with ties to Middle East terrorists." He still assumes everyone we capture is guilty without charge or trial, but that to prosecute law breaking by government officials is, quote, "to have an incoming administration criminalize the policy decisions of its predecessors."
And most sleazy of all, while calling the CIA`s torturers honorable, he insists the grunts at Abu Ghraib were "a sadistic prison guards who abused inmates in violation of law, military regulations and simple decency." Even though, and maybe he does not know we know though this -- even though there is documentary proof now that those guards were acting on the orders originating in the office of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld.
It is, in short, madness. Madness, sir, Mr. Cheney, your speech was almost entirely about you. There are only five or six other people even mentioned. And only two quoted at any length. And why would you have quoted, as you did, the man who said this, "I know that this program saved lives. I know we`ve disrupted plots. I know this program alone is worth more than the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency put together have been able to tell us."
As you know, sir, you were quoting former CIA Director George Tenet. That would be the George Tenet who told Congress on February 11th, 2003, quote, "Iraq is harboring senior members of a terrorist network led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a close associate of al Qaeda."
Mr. Tenet, sir, then went into elaborate detail about the Iraq/al Qaeda connection. None of it was true. This is your source, as he was your boss`s source. "George, how confident are you," President Bush asked Tenet about Saddam Hussein`s weapons of mass destruction, just before the Iraq war, according to Bob Woodward`s book "Plan of Attack."
"Don`t worry," Tenet answers. "It`s a slam dunk."
That is your independent authority on how well torture worked. Next time you see him, Mr. Cheney, you might as well ask Mr. Tenet if he thinks he is Napoleon. I don`t want to know who you think you are.
"Those are the basic facts on enhanced interrogations," you concluded. "And to call this a program of torture is to libel the dedicated professionals who saved American lives, and to cast terrorists and murderers as innocent victims."
You saved no one, sir. If the classified documents you seek released really did detail plots other than those manufactured by drowning men in order to get it to stop, or if they truly did know plans beyond the laughable ones you and President Bush have already revealed, hijackers without passports, targeting a building whose name Mr. Bush could not remember, clowns who thought they could destroy airports by dropping matches in fuel pipelines 30 miles away, men who planned to attack a military base dressed as pizza delivery boys, forgetting that every man there was armed, and today, the four would-be synagogue bombers, one of whom turns out to keep bottles of urine in his apartment, and is on schizophrenia medicine.
If those documents contain anything of value, you would have leaked those already, as you leaked those revenge fantasies of the Library Tower and the JFK Bomber and the Ft. Dix Six.
"When they," terrorists, "see the American government caught up in arguments about interrogations, or whether foreign terrorists have Constitutional rights, they don`t stand back in awe of our legal system and wonder whether they had misjudged us all along," you said. "Instead, the terrorists see just what they were hoping for, our unity gone, our resolve shaken, our leaders distracted. In short, they see weakness and opportunity."
The weakness the terrorists see, sir, is the weakness of blind rage replacing essential cold logic. The weakness the terrorists see, sir, is the weakness of judgment suspended in favor of self-fulfilling prophecy. The weakness the terrorists see, sir, is the weakness of moral force supplanted by violence and revenge fantasies.
The weakness the terrorists see, sir, is the weakness of Dick Cheney. And yet still, ceaselessly, indefatigably, you moralize and lie to us.
"I might add," someone said today, "that people who consistently distort the truth in this way are in no position to lecture anyone about values." Very apt. The quote, of course, is from your speech. Your speech which was at essence about your fantasy that you and Mr. Bush were not negligent. Not your pig-headed certainty, but first these attacks were impossible; then they were a good excuse for a war you already planned in Iraq; and finally that they were to be imminently repeated and only you knew when the next threat would come.
You saved no one, Mr. Cheney. All you did was help kill Americans. You were negligent before 9/11. Your response to your complicity by omission on 9/11 was panic and shame and insanity, and lying this country into a war that did nothing but kill 4,299 more of us.
We will take no further instructions from you, sir. And let me again quote Oliver Cromwell to you, Mr. Cheney. "You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of god, go."
That`s COUNTDOWN for this, the 2,212th day since the previous president declared mission accomplished in Iraq. I`m Keith Olbermann, good night and good luck.

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is it going to take a

May 22, 2009 - 09:35 ET by kangaroo

is it going to take a mushroom cloud over washington DC for the libs to even start getting a clue

You think they would

May 22, 2009 - 09:38 ET by Lord Elicani

You think they would then?

"And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears
fought are still at issue around the globe – the belief that the rights
of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of
God."

- John F. Kennedy

Wouldn't help

May 22, 2009 - 12:26 ET by ArcherB

is it going to take a mushroom cloud over washington DC for the libs to even start getting a clue

That wouldn't help. All they would do is blame Bush/Cheney and say it's because America:

Supports Israel
Uses too much oil
"Tortures" people
Has too much freedom
Has not enough freedom
...
Any other reason to Blame America First!

"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary."

--Ernesto "Che" Guevara

You know...

May 22, 2009 - 13:12 ET by MightyMouth

...a mushroom cloud over DC could be just the thing we need. Timing is important here, say the TOTUS's first State of the Union? </sarc>

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

LOL MM... Timing

May 22, 2009 - 13:24 ET by bigtimer

LOL MM...

Timing indeed. ;-)

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

And Mr. Olbermann has

May 22, 2009 - 09:38 ET by motherbelt

And Mr. Olbermann has embarrassed himself beyond redemption.

Is there anywhere in the media, any commentator who is more enamoured of his own thoughts and the sound of his own voice?

And last night was the 2,212th day the Mr. Olbermann lied about who said "Mission Accomplished."

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson

Another rant - yawn

May 22, 2009 - 10:04 ET by KC Mulville

His show is hammered, daily, in the ratings. Apparently the Fox morning show is watched by more people than his prime time slot. When he says that "we" will no longer take instructions from Cheney, the count of "we" is slim indeed.

He's shouting louder and getting less attention, so he tries to shout even louder. He only has two modes, righteous indignation and sophomore snark. You can tell what mode he's in by listening for him to throw around the fake "sir;" if he says sir, he's in righteous indignation. The rest of the time, he's in sophomore snark, and that wears thin these days. He's not even the most interesting whacko on MSNBC anymore. He's background noise.

Not surprising he admires Oliver Cromwell. (For an Irish Catholic, that's a name that doesn't get much worse. I didn't even like typing it.)

When Olbermann says "we" he

May 22, 2009 - 13:05 ET by kg

When Olbermann says "we" he is refering to himself and that turd in his back pocket.

"DumbAssity of Dope"

Oh. The turd's the one in

May 22, 2009 - 14:30 ET by Ruths husband Ben

Oh. The turd's the one in the back? Gotta make a note of that.

"Who are you going to believe, me or all that lying data?!"
-Al Gore

Olbercrud!

May 22, 2009 - 16:23 ET by blazermaniac

When Keith mentioned "we", I think he meant Obama and that turd in his back pocket!

Back pocker?

May 22, 2009 - 16:47 ET by Rukus

I don't think he has a back pocket. Ewww!

Gary

Gettin' along is so much easier than buttin' heads. - My Dad

And funner too! - Me

Keith Needs to be Waterboarded!

May 22, 2009 - 09:39 ET by Radar_One

I think Herr Olbermann needs to be waterboarded until he has figured out that it is in fact not torture. IF waterboarding is torture why does the U.S. Military waterboard all of its soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines who attend SERE school?

Barack Obama= Half Honkey...ALL Donkey

''Keith Needs to be Waterboarded!''

May 23, 2009 - 04:07 ET by DoktorFranken

Hell, I'd pay real money and hock my one-of-a-kind Gibson SG to see that. Let's see how the Shah of Gasbagistan would fare under that type of interrogation. It would certainly vacate his bowels of the tons of crap that's been backed up for a couple of decades.

You, sir, are no sir.

Olmermanic calling someone

May 22, 2009 - 09:42 ET by mattm

Olmermanic calling someone insane??? Ha ha ha ha ha <gasp> ha ha ha ha ...

Olbie's theme song.

it takes one to think he

May 22, 2009 - 11:55 ET by TruthMonger

it takes one to think he knows one

oh please show us more and more of your wisely tolerant leftoid ways, oh drool-bucketed one!

maybe Rush and Hannity could take hate lessons from this guy

what a disgrace this dick is to liberals - if that's possible

Menace to society

May 22, 2009 - 09:45 ET by DontFeedTheTrolls

We put down mad dogs, don't we?

Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

Loons

May 22, 2009 - 09:52 ET by Long Island Pete

What loons like Olberman dont seem to understand is that the Bush Administration followed the rule of law and the Constitution in their fight against terrorism. It's just plain sad that they hate both.

Keith Olbermann - Uncomfortable in A Man's Body

May 22, 2009 - 09:53 ET by Sgthulka

With all the fury of an interior decorator who has discovered chintz mixed with plaid, KO unleashed on Cheney.

I can cite no better example as to why Cheney is getting to them. I pray that he doesn't stop.

Man whips Boy pres

May 22, 2009 - 09:55 ET by 10ksnooker

Some advice, don't bring a teleprompter to a gun fight.

Priceless. Love watching these Obama surrogates coming unglued

May 22, 2009 - 10:01 ET by krendler

Dick Cheney is, without question, one of the sharpest, most articulate public servants of the past 40 years. You could easily see him as head of Fortune 500 company. A pragmatic, no-nonsense, "say what you mean, mean what you say" type of guy (pretty much the complete opposite of the empty suit, "do whatever's politically expedient", Obama. Mr. Soaring Rhetoric and Class Warfare).

Cheney has always come out way ahead in any one on one discussion with these liberal operatives in the media, whether it was Tim Russert or Bob Scheifer. And he absolutely destroyed John Edwards in their debate.

And there's nothing that infuriates liberals more than a well-presented, well-thought-out position made by a conservative.

If MS-NBC were anything other than the absolute freak show it is, this ultra-lightweight, ex-ESPN sportscaster would be cleaning out his desk today.

More Cheney, please. And more Giuliani and Romney while you're at it. I want to see Obly's head explode.

he sure hit the bullseye

May 22, 2009 - 12:00 ET by TruthMonger

he sure hit the bullseye didn't he - and it's Cheney who should really be running the RNC - wouldn't that send olby apoplectic! hee hee hee! think i'll start a thread on that

Time

May 22, 2009 - 10:08 ET by Ozark_Sunshine

It is time for lying slime like Olbermann, Pelosi, Reid, Kerry, Murtha, Jane Fonda and all others who hate America so much to be tried for treason and put in prison for life. If not then expel them from this country. It is time to take the country back and the first agenda is to get them out of office and off the news channels.

He is a moron

May 22, 2009 - 10:12 ET by Pha Pha

Do people even watch him anymore???

i agree.

May 22, 2009 - 15:10 ET by puredmashie

if ko's rant wasn't mentioned on this site, no one would have even known.

swing hard in case you hit it.

Countdown to no ratings!

May 22, 2009 - 16:25 ET by blazermaniac

Yes! All three of them!

Who

May 22, 2009 - 10:13 ET by Rowane

Who is THIS jerk to call ANYONE insane....then again, I guess it takes one to know one.

I think Mr. Cheney put things into a much needed perspective and that the present administration would do well to pay attention to him.

Re: Olbermann

May 22, 2009 - 10:16 ET by Will Antonin

Olbermann thinks that taking 15 minutes to find a verb equals intelligence.

And that big plastic glasses denote a superior intellect.

"15 minutes to find a verb"

May 22, 2009 - 10:27 ET by Delsa

I am laughing out loud. That is funny.

and another 15 minutes to find a cogent thought.

Very funny.

Fighting back!

May 22, 2009 - 10:19 ET by iveseenitall

It has taken years for any Republican to fight back against the dishonest, cowardly left in America. What Cheney did yesterday should have been done years ago by RINOS like McCain and every other Senator and Congressman in the Republican Party. Cheney told the truth. Sure, this is the reaction you will get from the left. The rantings of this madman Olberman are the typical politics of personal destruction with which they practice on any issue. Reason is not on their side, so they attack the messenger. Governor Sarah Palin, Vice President Dick Cheney, President Bush --- they and anyone else who dares to question them are pilloried with the vicious, hate-filled words--- words which they don't even use against America's real enemies. The MSN are replete with these sickening blowhards. Olberman is among the worst.

Fight on, Mr. Cheney. I hope your example brings many more "Republicans" out from the rocks under which they've been hiding for eight years.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

Thank General Electric

May 22, 2009 - 10:18 ET by nim

MSNBC is owned (mostly) by General Electric. Reason enough to never invest in GE.

GE

May 22, 2009 - 10:24 ET by Jimbo

I would love to see GE investigated for their continued misrepresentation of facts in their news broadcasts for the purpose of advancing the agenda of the Obama Administration. I’d like for their ties to profits related to the passage of cap and trade investigated. Perhaps the Democratic Congress will approve such an investigation. Right after the Pelosi /CIA investigation perhaps.

Why the heck do we care what

May 22, 2009 - 10:20 ET by Captain Betty

Why the heck do we care what this looser says any more?! He's saying it to all of 5 people. If we ignore him, he'll go away. Let's stop giving him face-time.

Agree

May 22, 2009 - 10:56 ET by Red Jeep

Only 1/3 of one percent of the country watches Bathtub Boy.

OMG

May 22, 2009 - 10:24 ET by Delsa

I don't wish ill on the prig BUT if the words of Dick Cheney can do this to all of the LEFT, I hope God give Cheney a voice for forever.

In addition, I hope Dick Cheney's words will be repeated by more of our fearless leaders in DC!

I have expressed this to our Republican leaders in the Senate and the House.

By the way, are the veins popping out of oldermans neck?

I hope he doesn't hurt himself.

Would it be wrong?

May 22, 2009 - 10:27 ET by Jimbo

Would it be wrong to use Wanda Sykes' line and say I hope he gets kidney failure? I suppose it would be wrong, since I'm not on the left.

HA HA HA HO HO HO HEE HEE HEE

May 22, 2009 - 10:28 ET by totsotvaitn

Go Vice-President Cheney.....throw true facts at madman Olbie and its meltdown time. What a laugh.

Can't wait for the day when Olbie's ratings are lower than the Mr. Ed Show.

I love NB... BUT...

May 22, 2009 - 10:29 ET by bobtheman

... just a little constructive criticism... I wish NB would minimize the Olbermann posts as much as possible. We all know the guy is a worm of the highest order but I really don't like wallowing in his obvious intellectual dishonesty and boorish behavior.

The sight and sounds of this worm really make my gut squirm and my skin crawl... the less of him in my life, the better.

Take the suggestion in the spirit intended. I will still visit NB regardless, but with my own personal Olbermann filter.

You guys should get a medal for covering this douche.

http://politicsofdes...

where's the swastika on his forehead?

May 22, 2009 - 10:41 ET by SickofLibs

He makes Charlie Manson look sane.

MSNBC's top talent - they must be so proud of their Shakespearian poet.

"Four WOULD-BE synagogue

May 22, 2009 - 10:54 ET by SickofLibs

"Four WOULD-BE synagogue bombers?"

Hello, they actually planted the devices. But that fact does not serve Sh*thead's agenda, so he omits it. Overall, the MSM coverage of this made me puke: "alleged terrorists", "terror suspects", "terror plot" etc.

Die

May 22, 2009 - 11:27 ET by Jimbo

This just reiterates the point conservative already know. People actually have to die before liberals realize the magnitude of the situation.

traded down...way down

May 22, 2009 - 11:00 ET by texan1953

Just think...Dick Cheney was Veep...and now we have Joe Biden. The dumbing down of the office of Vice President.

If anyone should go...it is you Mr. Olbermann...therapy, padded cell and medication.

Glasses and stash that scream credibility...

May 22, 2009 - 11:02 ET by Interested and concerned CDN

http://www.youtube.c...

Was it Groucho Marx dress up day?

SPACE...

May 22, 2009 - 11:05 ET by sam12663

the final frontier; and also what is between Olbermanns ears. But lets be real here; its MSNBC and Olbermann, does anyone really care what this clueless mental defective has to say?

President Obama is nothing more than a lying empty suit; a Hollywood style special effects smoke and mirrors show that has shown itself to be a total fraud.

WAKE UP AMERICA! SAVE OUR CONSTITUTION!

At some point, you'd think

May 22, 2009 - 11:09 ET by Chris Norman

At some point, you'd think that the Secret Service would take notice of Olbermann's unjustifiably obsessive, almost violent, hostility towards Dick Cheney.

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

Ah...

May 22, 2009 - 11:20 ET by StarAZ

It's all theater now. A sportscaster, a former vice president, they walk into a bar...I don't know. This is all ridiculous.

Cheney may...

May 22, 2009 - 11:08 ET by sam12663

be as insane as any terrorist, but he is still nowhere near as deranged as this putz. This is comedy at its finest.

President Obama is nothing more than a lying empty suit; a Hollywood style special effects smoke and mirrors show that has shown itself to be a total fraud.

WAKE UP AMERICA! SAVE OUR CONSTITUTION!

Frontal Lobotomy

May 22, 2009 - 11:11 ET by leodavis1

Keith is one of those people who could get a frontal lobotomy and you wouldn't notice the difference. He would notice that he now shares Cris' leg tingle.....

Good grief--MSNBC is going

May 22, 2009 - 11:18 ET by StarAZ

Good grief--MSNBC is going to melt into a pool of butter. Did Keith have his dopey orgasm face on? I didn't watch and won't now.

Olbermann

May 22, 2009 - 11:32 ET by well99

Nothing new here.He is one of the propagandist for the DNC.Maybe Obama will give him a bone for these rant.He may have to fight Chrissy for it.

Huh?

May 22, 2009 - 12:04 ET by bertkillian

Keith YOU are the one who is insane; c'mon, admit it. The definition of torture, in my book, is those guys who had to jump from the top floors of the WTC towers to avoid being incinerated to death like the passengers in the jets already were. Get it right numb nuts, THAT is torture!

To "arm chair quarterback" the Bush administration as being at fault for 9/11 is the lowest form of scum spew I have ever heard. You are a total dick.

Emperor Olberdork 1st....time..................

May 22, 2009 - 12:08 ET by BEGRUNT

time to return to your rubber room and receive your meds!!! Lights out will be in 10 minutes.

This guy can't be for real. No one is this dumb.

May 22, 2009 - 12:24 ET by jawebster1

My theory is, he has a bunch of trained monkeys writing his script every day. All he does is sleep all day until it is time to do his show, then he shows up in the studio and reads off a monitor what the monkeys have typed out for him. Then after the show, he goes back to sleep. Jim Webster

LOL... This is

May 22, 2009 - 12:37 ET by Clear thinker

LOL... This is priceless!

Mr. Crackpot Olberman calls Cheney Insane?! LOLOLOLOL!

If you were to have a mentor once you got out of College who would you choose, Cheney or Olberman? Remember, the mentor has to be an adult.

Take the 'I am not a racist' pledge http://iamnotaracist.wordpress.com/

Olbermann looks like he

May 22, 2009 - 12:48 ET by marvl

Olbermann looks like he needs to be on thorazine. He reminds me of those characters in the movie Killer Klowns From Outer Space.

Chaney must be doing some

May 22, 2009 - 13:00 ET by d1carter

Chaney must be doing some good...

Olbermann and journalism

May 22, 2009 - 13:05 ET by grumpyoldb

Olbermann practices the same kind of journalism that put people like Hitler and Mussolini into power in the 1930's. They ignore fact, and try to destroy anyone or anything that contradicts the teachings of those they have put in power. Of you made this guy think for himself, his head would explode from the effort.....

Olbermann belongs at Gitmo

May 22, 2009 - 13:06 ET by jwm45

Olbermann belongs at Gitmo

KO the JO

May 22, 2009 - 13:10 ET by east tennessee john

Enough of this asshole's rant and raving. If this BS he keeps spewing isn't reason enough to boycott GE until he sent to the institution, then nothing is. So Bush-Cheney were responsible for 9-11? Given the time lag in planning where was the indictment of Bubba, you know, Mr. Intern? Afterall, we've now returned here in Obamatime, to the criminality basis for fighting, the non existent war against terrorists. Remeber during the '90s when all the pre 9-11 attacks occured, KO, you dumb ass? We issued subponeas, they blew our people up. KSM and binLaden were both under indictment when they were plotting against us, shitbrains. If EITs are so bad, why did your guy Comrade O retain the right to use them? Why not an absolute ban, Mr. Logical? No answer for that huh, asshole.

Self-description

May 22, 2009 - 13:13 ET by Beukeboom

Olbermann said:

"Neurotic, paranoid, false to fact and false to reason, forever self-rationalizing his inner rage at his own impotence, and failure dripping from every word, and as irrational, as separated from the real world, as dishonest, as insane as any terrorist;"

He's accurately describing HIMSELF with those words.

911 was an inside job crowd

May 22, 2009 - 13:17 ET by obageegee

I can wait till Keith jumps on this bandwagon and throws in with the conspiracy crowd.

I caught this myself, right

May 22, 2009 - 13:19 ET by bigtimer

I caught this myself, right before going to bed, comedy deluxe...he is now down to talking like somebody preteen...like I said long ago, this creature is certifiably insane.

I'll just be patient and wait for the men in little white coats to carry him away...keep it on the buddy plan and take Matthews with him.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Cheney wins by KO in 10

May 22, 2009 - 13:32 ET by Jack Bauer

To call Olbermann a hysterical turd, does such grave disservice to the natural excrement that offers useful fertilizer to organic crops, that I shall refrain.

So enjoy this Obama butt kicking instead

From The UK's Daily Telegraph

The 10 punches Dick Cheney landed on Barack Obama's jaw
Posted By: Toby Harnden at May 21, 2009 at 23:21:41

So who won the fight?

...the very fact that Obama chose to schedule his speech (Cheney's was announced first) at exactly the same time as the former veep was a sign of some weakness.

Obama showily chose the National Archives, repository for many of the founding documents of the US, and spoke in front of a copy of the Constitution - cloaking himself in the flag, as Republicans were often criticised for doing

The former veep's speech was factual and unemotional and certainly devoid of the kind of hokey, self-obsessed, campaign-style stuff like this, from Obama's address today: "I stand here today as someone whose own life was made possible by these documents. My father came to these shores in search of the promise that they offer. My mother made me rise before dawn to learn their truths when I lived as a child in a foreign land."

In terms of Obama's purported aim for his speech - to present a plan for closing Guantanamo Bay aimed at placating Congress - he failed. The reception on Capitol Hill was lukewarm with even Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Cheney's speech wasn't stylish, there were no rhetorical flourishes and the tone was bitingly sarcastic and disdainful at times. But it was effective in many respects and Cheney showed that Obama is not invulnerable. Here are 10 of the punches he landed on the President's jaw:

1. "I've heard occasional speculation that I'm a different man after 9/11. I wouldn't say that, but I'll freely admit that watching a coordinated, devastating attack on our country from an underground bunker at the White House can affect how you view your responsibilities."

Anyone who was in New York or Washington on 9/11 (I was here in DC) was profoundly affected and most Americans understand this. Obama was, as far as I can tell, in Chicago. His response - he was then a mere state senator for liberal Hyde Park - was startlingly hand-wringing and out of step with how most Americans were feeling. This statement by Cheney reminds people of the tough decisions he and Bush had to make - ones that Obama has not yet faced.

2. "The first attack on the World Trade Center was treated as a law- enforcement problem, with everything handled after the fact: arrests, indictments, convictions, prison sentences, case closed."

This was the pre-9/11 mindset, much criticised after the attacks. Many sense that this is the approach Obama is increasingly taking.

3. "By presidential decision last month, we saw the selective release of documents relating to enhanced interrogations. This is held up as a bold exercise in open government, honoring the public's right to know. We're informed as well that there was much agonizing over this decision. Yet somehow, when the soul searching was done and the veil was lifted on the policies of the Bush administration, the public was given less than half the truth."

The release of the documents was a nakedly political move by Obama and Cheney called him on it. This passage from Obama's speech today came across as completely disingenuous: "I did not do this because I disagreed with the enhanced interrogation techniques that those memos authorized, and I didn't release the documents because I rejected their legal rationales -- although I do on both counts. I released the memos because the existence of that approach to interrogation was already widely known, the Bush Administration had acknowledged its existence, and I had already banned those methods."

4. "It's hard to imagine a worse precedent filled with more possibilities for trouble and abuse than to have an incoming administration criminalize the policy decisions of its predecessor. Apart from doing a serious injustice to intelligence operators and lawyers, who deserve far better for their devoted service, the danger here is a loss of focus on national security and what it requires."

Obama's suggestion that Bush administration officials might be prosecuted for legal and policy judgements about what was an was not permissible in interrogations was chilling. I doubt most Americans have any enthusiasm for such a witch-hunt and it flies in the face of Obama's stated desire not to "re-litigate" the Bush years.

5. "We had a lot of blind spots after the attacks on our country, things we didn't know about al Qaeda. We didn't know about al Qaeda's plans, but Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and a few others did know. And with many thousands of innocent lives potentially in the balance, we did not think it made sense to let the terrorists answer questions in their own good time, if they answered them at all."

The political climate is very different now from what it was just after 9/11 but it could change again in a heartbeat if and when there is another terrorist attack. Most Americans do not favour torture but do want the CIA and other agencies to question suspected terrorists very vigorously indeed if there is any chance they might know something about an attack on the US homeland.

6. "On his second day in office, President Obama announced he was closing the detention facility at Guantanamo. This step came with little deliberation, and no plan. Now the president says some of these terrorists should be brought to American soil for trial in our court system. Others, he says, will be shipped to third countries; but so far, the United States has had little luck getting other countries to take hardened terrorists."

Obama's grand announcement at the start of his administration that Gitmo would be closed within a year was clearly not properly thought out. If he fails to achieve what he promised, he will pay a big political price and Cheney was marking his card on the issue.

7. "The administration has found that it's easy to receive applause in Europe for closing Guantanamo, but it's tricky to come up with an alternative that will serve the interest of justice and America's national security."

The notion that Obama makes gestures designed to court popularity abroad is one that could find increasing resonance - many Republicans strongly suspect it already.

8. "If fine speechmaking, appeals to reason, or pleas for compassion had the power to move them, the terrorists would long ago have abandoned the field."

As Cheney said this, sarcasm dripped from his lips. Obviously "fine speechmaking" but no real substance is not a new charge against Obama and it hits home. And Cheney successfully mades the point that much of the rhetoric from the Left tends to suggest that if only the US did not waterboard people, if only the US was viewed as Obama rather than Bush, Venus rather than Mars then it would be universally loved and al-Qaeda would wither away. UNfortunately, that's not the real world.

9. "It's worth recalling that ultimate power of declassification belongs to the president himself. President Obama has used his declassification authority to reveal what happens in the interrogation of terrorists. Now let him use that same power to show Americans what did not happen thanks to the good work of our intelligence officials."

Cheney is pushing Obama to declassify documeents relating to the information gained from terrorist suspects who were subjected to Enhanced Interrogation Techniques. This puts Obama in a bind. If he does so, it prolongs an argument he wants to move on from and prolongs the Obama vs Cheney meme that is distracting and doesn't really help him. if he doesn't, he looks like he has something to hide.

10. "To the very end of our administration, we kept al-Qaeda terrorists busy with other problems. We focused on getting their secrets instead of sharing ours with them. And on our watch, they never hit this country again. After the most lethal and devastating terrorist attack ever, 7- 1/2 years without a repeat is not a record to be rebuked and scorned, much less criminalized."

It's indisputably an achievement of the Bush administration that it prevented the US from being attacked after 9/11. By ramming this point home, Cheney tees things up for some very tough questioning of Obama in the event that the US is attacked again.

“I'm with you on a free press. It's the newspapers I can't stand.” Tom Stoppard, Night and Day, 1978

KO in 10?

May 22, 2009 - 13:41 ET by Sergeant ROCK

More like 10 seconds into the first round. Obama Bin Biden was stumbling around and in the ropes after the first punch landed.

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

Sgt. Rock... "Obama

May 22, 2009 - 13:46 ET by bigtimer

Sgt. Rock...

"Obama Bin Biden"....

HILARIOUS!

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

It seemed obvious..

May 22, 2009 - 14:07 ET by Sergeant ROCK

... and it covers all of the bases. Too easy.

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

Thanks Jack

May 22, 2009 - 20:27 ET by general company

Nice to see the seriousness of this was not lost on everyone

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

I Say

May 22, 2009 - 13:38 ET by God Bless the USA

Send emails to MSNBC commenting on this Jack Ass: letters@msnbc.co. Load 'em up!

I just did!!!!!

LOL!

May 22, 2009 - 13:56 ET by D2Boston

Gee... I wonder how the 7 people who watch Olbermann's show enjoyed that insipid babble. LOL! He's a mess.

Keith, Keith, Keith . . .

May 22, 2009 - 14:15 ET by DoktorFranken

. . . you are so dumb, dumb, dumb.

*Sigh* - Where to begin on this latest of the many rants from the Shah of Gasbagistan? Heck, why bother. This sub-human POS is not worth aggravating my hand's arthritis. Jack Bauer - you must have good meds or no hand pain.

Good afternoon, and good luck.

Why do all of the photos you

May 22, 2009 - 14:13 ET by IndyAdam

Why do all of the photos you see of Olbie look like he is desperately trying to pinch a loaf?

Indy?

May 22, 2009 - 14:17 ET by BKeyser

Is he trying to pinch a loaf? Or is it that he just realized he went poopy in his pants again?

I prefer discussing issues, not people...

May 22, 2009 - 15:22 ET by Mike Bratton

...but Keith makes himself an issue with absolute tripe like that.

He hates--that's the beginning and the end of Keith Olbermann. The measured, reserved former Vice President is supposedly "neurotic, paranoid," "irrational," "dishonest," and "insane." And that's just in one sentence from Keith.

Phenomenal.

Keith, there's a reason people are tuning you out in droves. I would not presume to attempt to evaluate your psychological state, but I have come to one unassailable conclusion about you.

Howard Beale had a better grasp of reality than Keith Olbermann. And Howard Beale was a fictional character.

I pray that Keith does not suffer Howard's fate.

--Mike

www.thebrattonreport...

I didn't read the Olber rant

May 22, 2009 - 15:37 ET by Karin

but I did read what Jack Bauer posted above. Thanks for that, Jack. Excellent speech, Mr. Cheney.

Isn't the contrast something? A grown up vs. the boy prez.

What is frustrating is that the truth is there for all ...

May 22, 2009 - 19:38 ET by jawebster1

to see, but the media is so left and so powerful that the truth often does not get filtered past Fox News, talk radio, the Drudge Report, Conservative publications and sites like this. Probably adds up to just 38% of us who know and are receptive to the truth. Frustrating, but if we keep fighting, the truth shall set us free! Jim Webster

A man died and went to

May 22, 2009 - 16:08 ET by kangaroo

A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked, 'What are all those clocks?'? St. Peter answered, 'Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie-Clock. Every time you lie the hands on your clock will move.' 'Oh,' said the man, 'whose clock is that?'? 'That's Mother Teresa's. The hands have never moved, indicating that she never told a lie.' 'Incredible,' said the man. 'And whose clock is that one?'? St. Peter responded, 'That's Abraham Lincoln's clock. The hands have moved twice, telling us that Abe told only two lies in his entire life.' 'Where's Barrack Obama's clock?' asked the man. 'Obama's clock is in Jesus' office. He's using it as a ceiling fan

Ha,

May 22, 2009 - 19:59 ET by general company

Very good. : ]

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Keith should know

May 22, 2009 - 16:52 ET by katiejane

He humiliates himself beyond redemption night after night. What a dumb ass.

The biggest problem with Keith's rant is...

May 22, 2009 - 20:19 ET by Superman

Keith says that the Bush Administration was negligent for not preventing the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But in the SAME SPEECH, Keith says that those terrorists caught trying to launch new terrorist attacks on America are not at all dangerous and that we shouldn't worry about them.

If anyone is culpable, it sure isn't Cheney...

May 22, 2009 - 21:58 ET by Sasquatch

For that attack, sir, you [Mr. Cheney] are culpable, morally, ethically. At best, you are guilty of malfeasance and eternally lasting stupidity. At worst, sir, in the deaths of 9/11, you are negligent.

Keith ‘Jackass’ Olbermann 5/21/09

[A CIA videotape] proves the Clinton administration was aggressively tracking al-Qaida a year before 9/11. But that also raises one enormous question: If the U.S. government had bin Laden and the camps in its sights in real time, why was no action taken against them?

Lisa Myers, NBC News 3/17/04

And the Culpability Award goes to...

My antipathy toward Olberman

May 22, 2009 - 22:12 ET by Radical1979

My antipathy toward Olberman cannot be measured. If he and Joy Behar fell of the face of the planet gaseous emissions would be greatly reduced.

Olberpoop calling Cheney insane...

May 22, 2009 - 22:13 ET by Snocrash

is like Hitler calling Mother Theresa a racist.

"I'd rather be waterboarding"

IGNORANCE IS BLISS

May 22, 2009 - 23:14 ET by kwbrownie2003

Kieth sneers at the attempt at Fort Dix as 4 guys in a pizza truck trying to overrun an Army fort full of armed soldiers. Does he not know that nobody on an Army post carries a weapon except for the MPs or soldiers going to the range, they don't get ammo untl they get to the range. I can see someone sneeking a couple wepons on post as being able to cause a lot casualties to soldiers and their families until the MPs have a chance to react. (I'm an 18 year Army service member).

Dear Bathtub Boy

May 23, 2009 - 00:39 ET by gordon

Another vacuous rant, Your Nothingness?
I really wish someone would hold this clown's head under the water til he stops wiggling. Thats my formula for peace, Mr. Olbermann. Its time you took a dirt nap.

This is a perfect example...

May 23, 2009 - 09:29 ET by Mike Bratton

...of the kind of infantile junk response that doesn't belong here.

Really, Gordon? You think Keith should be killed?

If you don't, then lose the mismanaged hyperbole.

But if you do, try losing your account here. People who hate have a choice of online residences: The DU, Kos, and/or the Huffers will make you feel right at home.

Grow up or get out. This isn't the kiddie table.

--Mike

www.thebrattonreport...

Keith is an idiot.

May 23, 2009 - 10:44 ET by seven

We are told keith Olbermann can not drive an automobile. He can't. It is a learning problem at 2 levels. At the first level, he can't control his anger getting in a car without breaking the gearshift, a peddle or breaking of an ignition key. He is unable to learn the physical movements required to drive. It takes too much self control.

Professionally, that means he was unable as a reporter to hop in a car and go look for a story as a reporter. It means in school, he grew up with limits on healthy socialization.

He is single and reports no children. A companionship leading to marriage is much more difficult than learning to drive.

Does this kinda put his rants in perspective? He calls Mr Cheney insane and when we examine his accomplishments, he is thwarted with simple activities hundreds of millions take for granted.

Olberman is insane

May 23, 2009 - 18:50 ET by pjh41

You know, I really believe this man, Olberman, is insane. There are a lot of people in the media who hate anything Republican or Conservative, but no one takes it to such extremes as Keith Olberman. He almost froths at the mouth when he gets worked up. I can't understand why a major media outlet enables this insanity.