Olbermann Calls on Bush and Cheney to Resign, Congress to Impeach

Olbermann Calls on Bush and Cheney to Resign, Congress to Impeach

By Brad Wilmouth (Bio | Archive)
July 3, 2007 - 22:32 ET

On Tuesday's Countdown, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann used his latest "Special Comment" to call on President Bush and Vice President Cheney to resign because of the commutation of Scooter Libby's prison sentence, contending that President Bush is only president of a "rabid and irresponsible corner of the Republican Party." Olbermann further accused Cheney of being "without conscience" and compared the two to a "ventriloquist" and "dummy." After calling on Congress to "pressure, negotiate, impeach," Olbermann concluded: "Display just that iota of patriotism which Richard Nixon showed, on August 9, 1974. Resign. And give us someone, anyone, about whom all of us might yet be able to quote John Wayne, and say, 'I didn't vote for him, but he's my President, and I hope he does a good job.' Good night and good luck." (Transcript follows)

Olbermann opened by reciting John Wayne's words about wishing well of President Kennedy even though he had voted for Nixon. The Countdown host soon moved to argue that Bush is unworthy of that sentiment as he accused the President of "stabbing this nation in the back." Olbermann: "George W. Bush took our assent, and re-configured it, and honed it, and sharpened it to razor-sharp points and stabbed this nation in the back with it."

Regarding Bush's decision to commute Libby's prison sentence, Olbermann accused the President of merely representing the "rabid" corner of his party. Olbermann: "In that moment, Mr. Bush, you ceased to be the President of the United States. In that moment, Mr. Bush, you became merely the President of a rabid and irresponsible corner of the Republican Party."

Olbermann listed out several accusations against the President, including "lying this country into war," "fabricating" a "false implied link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11," "causing in Iraq the needless deaths of 3,586 of our brothers and sons and sisters and daughters and friends and neighbors," "subverting the Constitution," "creating the very terror you claim to have fought," and "handing part of this Republic over to a Vice President who is without conscience."

The MSNBC host compared Bush and Cheney to a "ventriloquist" and "dummy" as he referred to the Libby commutation as "crossing the Rubicon." Olbermann: "You both crossed the Rubicon yesterday. Which one of you chose the route no longer matters. Which is the ventriloquist, and which the dummy, is now irrelevant. But that you have twisted the machinery of government into nothing more than a tawdry machine of politics, is the only fact that remains relevant."

Olbermann tied in the July 4th holiday for its celebration of America standing up to its king, as he called for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney, whom he tagged as "perilous to our democracy." Olbermann: "We of this time -- and our leaders in Congress, of both parties -- must now live up to those standards which echo through our history -- pressure, negotiate, impeach -- get you, Mr. Bush, and Mr. Cheney, two men who are now perilous to our democracy, away from its helm."

Olbermann concluded: "Display just that iota of patriotism which Richard Nixon showed, on August 9, 1974. Resign. And give us someone, anyone, about whom all of us might yet be able to quote John Wayne, and say, 'I didn't vote for him, but he's my President, and I hope he does a good job.' Good night and good luck."

Below is a complete transcript of Olbermann's "Special Comment" from the Tuesday July 3 Countdown on MSNBC:

KEITH OLBERMANN: Finally tonight, as promised, a "Special Comment" on what is, in everything but name, George Bush's pardon of Scooter Libby.

"I didn't vote for him," an American once said, "but he's my President, and I hope he does a good job." That, on this eve of the 4th of July, is the essence of this democracy, in 17 words. And that is what President Bush threw away yesterday in commuting the sentence of Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

The man who said those 17 words, improbably enough, was the actor John Wayne. And John Wayne, an ultra-conservative, said them when he learned of the hair's breadth election of John F. Kennedy instead of his personal favorite, Richard Nixon, in 1960. "I didn't vote for him, but he's my President, and I hope he does a good job."

The sentiment was doubtlessly expressed earlier, but there's something especially appropriate about hearing it now in Wayne's voice: The crisp matter-of-fact acknowledgment that our form of government has survived, even though for nearly two centuries now, our Commander-in-Chief has also served, simultaneously, as the head of one political party and often the scourge of all others. We as citizens must, at some point, ignore a President's partisanship. Not that we may prosper as a nation, not that we may achieve, not that we may lead the world, but that merely we may function. But just as essential to the 17 words of John Wayne is an implicit trust, a sacred trust: That the President for whom so many did not vote, can in turn suspend his political self long enough, and for matters imperative enough, to conduct himself solely for the benefit of the entire Republic.

Our generation's willingness to state "we didn't vote for him, but he's our President, and we hope he does a good job," was tested in the crucible of history, and far earlier than most. And in circumstances far more tragic and threatening. And we did that with which history tasked us. We enveloped our President in 2001. And those who did not believe he should have been elected, indeed those who did not believe he had been elected, willingly lowered their voices and assented to the sacred oath of non-partisanship.

And George W. Bush took our assent, and re-configured it, and honed it, and sharpened it to razor-sharp points and stabbed this nation in the back with it. Were there any remaining lingering doubt otherwise, or any remaining lingering hope, it ended yesterday when Mr. Bush commuted the prison sentence of one of his own staffers. Did so even before the appeals process was complete; did so without as much as a courtesy consultation with the Department of Justice; did so despite what James Madison, at the Constitutional Convention, said about impeaching any President who pardoned or sheltered those who had committed crimes "advised by" that President; did so without the slightest concern that even the most detached of citizens must look at this chain of events and wonder to what degree was Mr. Libby told: "Break the law however you wish, the President will keep you out of prison"?

In that moment, Mr. Bush, you broke that fundamental compact between yourself and the majority of this nation's citizens, the ones who did not cast votes for you. In that moment, Mr. Bush, you ceased to be the President of the United States. In that moment, Mr. Bush, you became merely the President of a rabid and irresponsible corner of the Republican Party. And this is too important a time, sir, to have a Commander-in-Chief who puts party ahead of nation.

This has been, of course, the gathering legacy of this administration. Few of its decisions have escaped the stain of politics. The extraordinary Karl Rove has spoken of "a permanent Republican majority," as if such a thing, or a permanent Democratic majority, is not antithetical to that upon which rests our country, our history, our revolution, our freedoms. Yet our Democracy has survived shrewder men than Karl Rove. And it has survived the frequent stain of politics upon the fabric of government. But this administration, with ever-increasing insistence and almost theocratic zealotry, has turned that stain into a massive oil spill.

The protection of the environment is turned over to those of one political party, who will financially benefit from the rape of the environment. The protections of the Constitution are turned over to those of one political party, who believe those protections unnecessary and extravagant and quaint. The enforcement of the laws is turned over to those of one political party, who will swear beforehand that they will not enforce those laws. The choice between war and peace is turned over to those of one political party, who stand to gain vast wealth by ensuring that there is never peace, but only war.

And now, when just one cooked book gets corrected by an honest auditor, when just one trampling of the inherent and inviolable fairness of government is rejected by an impartial judge, when just one wild-eyed partisan is stopped by the figure of blind justice, this President decides that he, and not the law, must prevail.

I accuse you, Mr. Bush, of lying this country into war. I accuse you of fabricating in the minds of your own people, a false implied link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11. I accuse you of firing the generals who told you that the plans for Iraq were disastrously insufficient. I accuse you of causing in Iraq the needless deaths of 3,586 of our brothers and sons and sisters and daughters and friends and neighbors.

I accuse you of subverting the Constitution, not in some misguided but sincerely-motivated struggle to combat terrorists, but instead to stifle dissent. I accuse you of fomenting fear among your own people, of creating the very terror you claim to have fought. I accuse you of exploiting that unreasoning fear, the natural fear of your own people who just want to live their lives in peace, as a political tool to slander your critics and libel your opponents. I accuse you of handing part of this Republic over to a Vice President who is without conscience, and letting him run roughshod over it.

And I accuse you now, Mr. Bush, of giving, through that Vice President, carte blanche to Mr. Libby, to help defame Ambassador Joseph Wilson by any means necessary, to lie to grand juries and special counsel and before a court, in order to protect the mechanisms and the particulars of that defamation, with your guarantee that Libby would never see prison, and, in so doing, as Ambassador Wilson himself phrased it here last night, of you becoming an accessory to the obstruction of justice.

When President Nixon ordered the firing of Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox during the infamous Saturday Night Massacre on October 20, 1973, Mr. Cox initially responded tersely, and ominously. "Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men," he said, "is now for Congress, and ultimately, the American people."

President Nixon did not understand how he had crystallized the issue of Watergate for the American people. It had been, to that point, about the obscure meaning behind an attempt to break into a rival party's headquarters; and the labyrinthine effort to cover up that break-in and the related crimes. But in one night, Nixon transformed it. Watergate instantaneously became a simpler issue: a President overruling the inexorable march of the law of insisting, in a way that resonated viscerally with millions who had not previously understood, that he was the law. Not the Constitution. Not the Congress. Not the Courts. Just him.

Just, Mr. Bush, as you did yesterday. The twists and turns of Plamegate, your precise and intricate lies that sent us into this bottomless pit of Iraq; your lies upon the lies to discredit Joe Wilson; your lies upon the lies upon the lies to throw the sand at the referee of Prosecutor Fitzgerald's analogy. These are complex and often painful to follow, and too much, perhaps, for the average citizen. But when other citizens render a verdict against your man, Mr. Bush, and then you spit in the faces of those jurors and that judge and the judges who were yet to hear the appeal, the average citizen understands that, sir. It is the fixed ball game and the rigged casino and the pre-arranged lottery all rolled into one, and it stinks. And they know it.

Nixon's mistake, the last and most fatal of them, the firing of Archibald Cox, was enough to cost him the presidency. And in the end, even Richard Nixon could say he could not put this nation through an impeachment. It was far too late for it to matter then, but as the decades unfold, that single final gesture of nonpartisanship, of acknowledged responsibility not to self, not to party, not to "base," but to country, echoes loudly into history. Even Richard Nixon knew it was time to resign.

Would that you could say that, Mr. Bush. And that you could say it for Mr. Cheney. You both crossed the Rubicon yesterday. Which one of you chose the route no longer matters. Which is the ventriloquist, and which the dummy, is now irrelevant. But that you have twisted the machinery of government into nothing more than a tawdry machine of politics, is the only fact that remains relevant.

It is nearly July 4th, Mr. Bush, the commemoration of the moment we Americans decided that rather than live under a king who made up the laws, or erased them, or ignored them, or commuted the sentences of those rightly convicted under them, we would force our independence, and regain our sacred freedoms. We of this time -- and our leaders in Congress, of both parties -- must now live up to those standards which echo through our history -- pressure, negotiate, impeach —- get you, Mr. Bush, and Mr. Cheney, two men who are now perilous to our democracy, away from its helm.

And for you, Mr. Bush, and for Mr. Cheney, there is a lesser task. You need merely to achieve a very low threshold indeed. Display just that iota of patriotism which Richard Nixon showed, on August 9, 1974. Resign. And give us someone, anyone, about whom all of us might yet be able to quote John Wayne, and say, "I didn't vote for him, but he's my President, and I hope he does a good job." Good night and good luck.

—Brad Wilmouth is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.

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Good Lord! In the picture

July 3, 2007 - 22:52 ET by BondPlainBond

Good Lord! In the picture with the story, Mr Olbermann appears absolutely apoplectic! Run! He's gonna blow!

Mr Olbermann reminds me of so many of the early-morning callers to CSPAN's Washington Journal. Some of the things those callers say, as Mr Olbermann's "Special Comment" above, are so outrageous they are beyond the realm of absurdity.

Do you believe this is his personal thought or is MoveOn spoon-feeding him?

Run! He's gonna blow!Isn't

July 3, 2007 - 22:58 ET by dahliatravers

Run! He's gonna blow!

Isn't it great? Let's think of other things President Bush can do to keep pushing Olbermann's button.

I can't think when I've seen

July 3, 2007 - 23:31 ET by lnthomp

I can't think when I've seen a picture of Olbermann when he didn't appear apoplectic.

Lee T.

U.S. Navy (ret.) / Vancouver, Washington

The history of the race, and each individual's experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.-- Mark Twain

And another thing..

July 4, 2007 - 09:15 ET by goldenthroat

BPB,

You are absolutely correct - this man seems to ooze hate from his pores! The rage on his face should be no surprise as this is the normal MO for this left-coast, bleeding-heart, 'do as I say, not as I do' pathetic excuse for a news commentator.

The Prez must be doing something right if Mr. Congenitality rants and raves about him ad nauseum.

Never dance on an empty stomach unless it's a liberal.

Olberman Calls of Bush to Resign

July 4, 2007 - 19:52 ET by brewski01

What ever you think of Keith Olbermann, it's a given that less than 20% of Americans still support Bush. Most Americans would like to re-wind history and erase the giant mess that the Bush White House has put our country into. Resigning is too easy. I recommend an extended "time out" for Mr. Bush in the morgue at Dover AFB. Perhaps there he will have an epiphany (hope this word isn't too big for you boys) and spend the remaining time in office making ammends. Oh, wait! I forgot, Bush doesn't run the country, Cheney does!

That said, let's hear now from all you ExxonMobil-sponsored pin-heads. Time to put down the remote, get dinner cooking before the wife comes home from work, hide the porn, and make fun of ol' brewski who is most likely a just a "liberal looser who never was potty trained". Oh, did I steal some of your fun.

Kudos to the few brave souls who dare to post the truth on this playground of a disinformation website.

What color is the sky in your world?

July 4, 2007 - 19:58 ET by Free Stinker

That said, let's hear now from all you ExxonMobil-sponsored pin-heads.

What color is the sky in your world?

I wish I was sponsored by ExxonMobile. I could use the extra $$$s You see, we have High Property Taxes in DEMOCRAT controlled New Jersey.

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Fred Thompson and Ann Coulter walk into a bar. The bar is instantly destroyed because that much awesome cannot be contained in one building.

ExxonMobil Sponsor

July 4, 2007 - 20:23 ET by brewski01

You ignorant boob! The owner of this website has received more than $202,500 from ExxonMobil since 1998 to enguage in a campaign of disinformation. It's a matter of public record. Don't you care enough to even find out who you are shilling for, or do you just pretend not to know?

Credible cite, please? Key wo

July 4, 2007 - 20:26 ET by Del Dolemonte

Credible cite, please? Key word: CREDIBLE

While you're at it, give us some credible cites of the "disinformation" NB has pumped out over the years. Key word: CREDIBLE.

The MRC site itself lists Ex

July 4, 2007 - 21:03 ET by bunnytoes

The MRC site itself lists Exxon/Mobile as a donor. That for me is good reason not to trust this site!

Then why are you here?Onl

July 4, 2007 - 21:12 ET by Free Stinker

Then why are you here?

Only a fool would go somewhere they don't trust.

I was only trying to answer t

July 4, 2007 - 21:31 ET by bunnytoes

I was only trying to answer the above question about who funds this site.. do you deny it? As to to reason I read this site..well it's just so much fun!

Well, nevermind the facts, ne

July 4, 2007 - 21:37 ET by

Well, nevermind the facts, nevermind the links, nevermind the articles. The site gets some advertising revenue from Exxon - - - - that's proof enough for me I'm a brainwashed moron!

Hey ijit, many shows on PBS get funding from Exxon and other oil companies lets start a boycott

“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -Chief Justice John Roberts

Why read this site

July 4, 2007 - 21:37 ET by brewski01

I agree. Reading this site is my comic relief for the day.

I don't come here because

July 4, 2007 - 21:39 ET by Free Stinker

I don't come here because of who funds this site.

But, I don't suppose you would understand anything about thinking for yourself. I'll just bet you even believe in Global Warming.

Then you would bet wrong! But

July 4, 2007 - 21:45 ET by bunnytoes

Then you would bet wrong! But I don't believe that oil is some infinite resource that comes from the bowels of the earth as has been stated here.

I don't believe that oil is s

July 4, 2007 - 21:54 ET by

I don't believe that oil is some infinite resource that comes from the bowels of the earth as has been stated here.

Must have missed that article, where is that stated here?

It's a rhetorical question we know you made it up! Anyway i have some festivities to attend so dealing with nonsense won't be in my evening

“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -Chief Justice John Roberts

botg, you really need to keep

July 4, 2007 - 22:04 ET by bunnytoes

botg, you really need to keep up. It was a few months ago. Someone here started saying that all the oil could not possibily come from dinosaurs, that it bubbles up from the earth's core. Sorry, I cannot remember the name of the poster so I guess you win.

bunnytoes,Oil does not come

July 4, 2007 - 22:08 ET by Dave R

bunnytoes,

Oil does not come from the gargantuan reptiles that once roamed this planet. That is an undeniable fact.

As I recall, the person who forwarded the assertion that oil did, in fact, come from said reptiles was one of our more liberal members.

Help Fred defeat the RINOs, along with the Hitllary-Obama Axis, & win the White House in '08.

Umm, why is it an undeniable

July 4, 2007 - 22:16 ET by bunnytoes

Umm, why is it an undeniable fact? Dinos were around for millions of years... that's a lot of dinos!

bunnytoes,I apologize most

July 4, 2007 - 22:24 ET by Dave R

bunnytoes,

I apologize most profusely.

The term "fossil fuel" is a misnomer. I didn't realize that you attended a government school.

My mistake.

Help Fred defeat the RINOs, along with the Hitllary-Obama Axis, & win the White House in '08.

Dave R,You're right! What was

July 4, 2007 - 22:55 ET by bunnytoes

Dave R,

You're right! What was thinking by careing that NB is funded Exxon....who cares! It's just that my feelings have been hurt by Blonde making fun of my screen name... rabbitdigits indeed!

bunnytoes,LOL-Okay, And I t

July 4, 2007 - 23:09 ET by Dave R

bunnytoes,

LOL-Okay, And I take back, for the time being, anyway, what I said about you attending government school. :-O

Besides, I've been called everything in here but a "child of God." Debra (met her yet?) even said I was going straight to hell. Dear me.

-Gotta have a pretty thick skin in here.

Help Fred defeat the RINOs, along with the Hitllary-Obama Axis, & win the White House in '08.

Exactly why does it matter th

July 4, 2007 - 23:12 ET by mikej

Exactly why does it matter that Exxon gives money to MRC?

How does that change the fact that Keith Olbermann pops off incessantly ranting and making stupid uniformed statements like he had just come from a party at the Kennedy compound?

Personally, my Exxon stock I got for $38/share is doing great and I hope it keeps up. I also hope that Exxon keeps paying those oil rig works 6 figure salaries, which I thought is what liberals want corporations to do. Pay their employees a living wage? Which Exxon more than does, plus provide them with outstanding benefits, which Exxon does as well.

So what's the problem?

mikej,So what's the problem

July 4, 2007 - 23:28 ET by Dave R

mikej,

So what's the problem?

But....but....Exxon/Mobile is....is a b...b....big.......eeeeevil, mean oil conglomerate. I....I mean....they murder defenseless penguines in Alaska.....don't they?

Help Fred defeat the RINOs, along with the Hitllary-Obama Axis, & win the White House in '08.

Dumb Bunny

July 4, 2007 - 22:13 ET by Blonde

This lame response to botg coming from a new poster named bunnytoes?

Sheesh! That is too rich for words.

Try to keep up yourself, young rabbitlydigits.

Free, Perhaps we should beg

July 4, 2007 - 21:54 ET by Dave R

Free,

Perhaps we should begin exploring all the far left organizations and individuals who help fund all those supposedly "objective" lib web sites. I mean, like George Soros' invlovement in Media Matters, for starters. Then we could move on to PBS, Daily Kommies, the Dummies, etc., etc.

Think bunnytoes and brewski here are up for it?

BTW-(psst) Did you get your pvt. email from Exxon/Mobile about the topics that are off-limits this week? :-^)

Help Fred defeat the RINOs, along with the Hitllary-Obama Axis, & win the White House in '08.

Did you get your pvt. email

July 4, 2007 - 22:45 ET by Free Stinker

Did you get your pvt. email from Exxon/Mobile

Yes, they said we're doing a great job, but we should focus more on discrediting Kucinich & Dean. ;-)

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Fred Thompson and Ann Coulter walk into a bar. The bar is instantly destroyed because that much awesome cannot be contained in one building.

Free,Cool. Mine said to sta

July 4, 2007 - 23:01 ET by Dave R

Free,

Cool. Mine said to start promoting the idea that the Exxon-Valdez was, in fact, torpedoed by the Rainbow Warrier crew in retalliation for the sinking of their ship.

Psst-They also said, confidentially, of course, that French commandos really didn't sink Greenpeace's ship, but a special team of demolition experts, trained by Halliburton under the direction of Dick Cheney and funded by Exxon, are the real culprits. Supposedly, it was all blamed on the French because, as we all know, they are such wussies they wouldn't do anything about it, anyway.

Help Fred defeat the RINOs, along with the Hitllary-Obama Axis, & win the White House in '08.

While you're still here, cou

July 4, 2007 - 21:16 ET by dahliatravers

While you're still here, could you please point to one or two inaccuracies that would substantiate your distrust of NB?

ExxonMobil

July 4, 2007 - 21:35 ET by brewski01

Let's start with 2006, right from the ExxonMobil corporate report: http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/Files/Corporate/gcr_contributions_public06.pdf

If you want I start posting for all previous years as well.

Cool link, did you see all th

July 4, 2007 - 21:44 ET by

Cool link, did you see all the other places you can't trust (like UT?)

“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -Chief Justice John Roberts

If you want I start posting

July 4, 2007 - 22:52 ET by Free Stinker

If you want I start posting for all previous years as well.

Please do! We want to make sure our Sugar-Daddy gets the credit it deserves! :-p

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Fred Thompson and Ann Coulter walk into a bar. The bar is instantly destroyed because that much awesome cannot be contained in one building.

Congress In Waiting

July 4, 2007 - 20:13 ET by PawpawN

Well, old chum, is all of Congress with its ratings well below that of the Pres already there and waiting??

Congress

July 4, 2007 - 20:30 ET by brewski01

The Democrats in Congress would gladly wait at Dover if Bush would stop with all the signing statements and vetos.

Brewbrain,What vetos? Hell,

July 4, 2007 - 22:16 ET by Dave R

Brewbrain,

What vetos? Hell, up until the terrorist-supporting dems managed, through lies and deception, to get their cowardly asses in control of the congress, there weren't any vetos.

Help Fred defeat the RINOs, along with the Hitllary-Obama Axis, & win the White House in '08.

"this playground of a

July 4, 2007 - 20:14 ET by Jerry

"this playground of a disinformation website..."

Hoooboy! A liberal complaining about disinformation! That's rich! That's like Bill Gates complaining about Gandhi's oppulent lifestyle.

What's next? A liberal complaining about paying too much in taxes? A liberal disgusted by the killing of babies? A liberal actually willing to defend freedom?

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).

Disinformation

July 4, 2007 - 21:46 ET by brewski01

Listen to yourself - "killing babies". You call your tirades arguments? You employ the name calling because it is a means of demonizing liberals and cutting off reasoned debate.

Brewbrain,When you (quite l

July 4, 2007 - 21:59 ET by Dave R

Brewbrain,

When you (quite literally) tear an un-born child (what your ilk refers to an "unviable cell mass") from its mother and it is no-longer living, what else do you libs call it? Life deprived? Prematurely extinguished? Convenience restored?

What?

Help Fred defeat the RINOs, along with the Hitllary-Obama Axis, & win the White House in '08.

"Reasoned debate" a

July 5, 2007 - 09:32 ET by Jerry

"Reasoned debate" according to brewski01...

"Oh, wait! I forgot, Bush doesn't run the country, Cheney does!"

"Reading this site is my comic relief for the day"

"You ignorant boob!"

"let's hear now from all you ExxonMobil-sponsored pin-heads"

"Time to put down the remote, get dinner cooking before the wife comes home from work, hide the porn,

That's just on this thread.

We are humbled by your intellectual contributions to reasoned debate.

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).

Both thumbs up Jerry. I'm gla

July 5, 2007 - 12:04 ET by Beowulf

Both thumbs up Jerry. I'm glad I read thru the posts before I replied, as I was going to pretty much say the exact same thing.

Doncha just frikkin' LOVE these liberal morons who troll along, post inane rhetoric without a shred of credibility, call people names, ignore challenges, then accuse anyone who disagrees with them of hyperbole? Brewbrain and Rabbitfeet are probably both members in good standing of our elite MSM - they certainly have the rhetoric down-pat...

The Closed Mind Erects Strong Barriers

I know Beowulf, it's gettin

July 5, 2007 - 17:27 ET by Jerry

I know Beowulf, it's getting ridiculous.

Lying is so imbedded in their politics, they have to re-package it (ie. spinning) to make it more palatable, yet they run around screaming "Bush lied, Bush lied" and they can't even cite an instance of lying (don't give me that no WMD crap).

The Clinton administration was rife with corruption, from illegal campaign contributions from commies to perjuring yourself before a federal judge, a grand jury, Congress, and the American people, and yet it is the Republicans who have a "Culture of Corruption" because Foley sent inappropriate messages to an intern.

They implement policies that totally destroy black families and culture and yet they get away with painting Republicans as the anti-Black party.

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).

Josephf, is that you?Speaking

July 4, 2007 - 20:24 ET by Del Dolemonte

Josephf, is that you?

Speaking of "disinformation websites", tell us again why your side's counterpart to this site, the brilliant satire site "Media Matters", has a regular page solely dedicated to CORRECTIONS.

Must be tough ...

July 5, 2007 - 23:56 ET by Com_n_sense

Must be tough being a "bushit" these days. What with bush tripping all over the law, losing not one but two wars, being more hated than binLaden, longest sustained lowest approval rating than any modern president, as more Republicans abandoning him every day, and watching as his bad check writing economy comes to a halt, while gas prices hit record highs, and he puts the lame in the duck.

This I do know, this much failure cannot go on. The falsehood that is the center-piece of this administration will have to collapse like all things built on deceit and when that happens it will be a joyful day for all true Americans.

You really should read this

July 6, 2007 - 00:40 ET by RESTLESS 1

You really should read this , this,

and this

Just because you say it, doesn't make it so. The economy is looking very strong.

This will show you how the Dow has climbed for the past four years. It seems you are just ranting and don't know what you are talking about.

Com_n_sense, I'm glad you lef

July 6, 2007 - 14:38 ET by Beowulf

Com_n_sense, I'm glad you left out some letters in your handle. Since it is obvious you have no common sense. Or are the two missing letters U and E?

Name one of the two wars Bush "lost". Hated more than Bin Laden by whom (besides you libs suffering from either turret's or dementia)? Where is the economy halting? What record gas highs?

Not one accusation you've made here has a shred of validity. Talk about lame. You really should go back to hanging out with your DUmmy buddies...

The Closed Mind Erects Strong Barriers

Com n...this is really reachi

July 6, 2007 - 14:44 ET by bassndude

Com n...this is really reaching even for you. Have you always been demented, or is it a recent event in your life that drove you insane? Evidently, you do not, or is it cannot(?), read the news and finance sections.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

Hey, nonsense. Last we heard

July 6, 2007 - 14:44 ET by QueenMum

Hey, nonsense. Last we heard from you, you were headed out of the country. That was a quick trip. I'll be you were on the no-fly list and had to cancel your plans.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. - Queen Victoria

His flight was snowed in from

July 6, 2007 - 17:57 ET by dahliatravers

His flight was snowed in from global warming, QueenMum.

I call on Keith Olbermann t

July 3, 2007 - 23:03 ET by marvl

I call on Keith Olbermann to resign, for being a stupid, empty-headed arse. Does he honestly think anyone gives a damn for his playground opinions?

If you can predict what an

July 3, 2007 - 23:04 ET by Fairlight

If you can predict what any given reporter will say, down to the last period, then that person has lost their credibility, if ever they had any.

He is hopelessly insecure, no

July 3, 2007 - 23:09 ET by Atomic Crusader

He is hopelessly insecure, no doubt about it. This guy, Al Gore, Hillary, Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, Shumer, Reid, Kerry, John Edwards, Ted Kennedy, the people who work at NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, NPR, the spoiled protesters who waste their lives marching in the street...hmm..who else? Jimmy Carter and all his dictator friends, and unfortunately for me, my Mom...these people are completely hysterical. Utterly irresponsible and totally untrustworthy. Its just a simple sad fact. The folly of man, the human condition and the cycles of history are unknown to them.

Just who does he think he is talking to exactly? You can see just how dumb this guy is if you catch the interview with him on CSPAN from last year. A total lightweight airhead and shallow as a sheet of paper. Pathetic.

Olbermann does have a knack

July 3, 2007 - 23:12 ET by LighthouseJ

Olbermann does have a knack ignoring facts and sensationalizing it all like Bush choking on a pretzel is the crime of the century. His "special comments" are just the current nexus of liberal thinking, sensationalized into an easy-to-chew capsule in a massively magnanimous delivery, for Bush, Cheney or the Republican punching bag of the week, to resign or at least another. It's made for the liberals that still feel cheated in 2000 and think that the election rules should be changed to accomodate Gore. Again, Olbermann uses those big words to set himself and his elitist audience up above the unwashed masses (those that don't swallow what he feeds them).

Keith Nailed It

July 3, 2007 - 23:16 ET by takingmyconstitutional

Kudos to Mr. Olbermann for "telling it like it is" so eloquently. Of course some members of the "rabid and irresponsible corner of the Republican Party" may not fully share that sentiment.

Wanting, needing...a Big Nanny

July 3, 2007 - 23:20 ET by Unsane

...this comment from one who aches for a big American Nanny State, and hates Bush because he stands in the way of his dream Nanny State.

MAKE WAY FOR THE SAN ANTONIO SPURS!!! THE 1999, 2003, 2005, AND 2007 NBA CHAMPIONS!!!!

Actually, the only "rab

July 4, 2007 - 06:37 ET by dahliatravers

Actually, the only "rabidity" here is being demonstrated by Keith Olbermann and anyone else hyperventilating over this commutation.

Were you equally concerned about the pardons bestowed by Bill Clinton? How does Libby's crime contrast and compare to those committed by the 150 people pardoned by Clinton?

Heir Olberman Minister der globalen Propaganda

July 3, 2007 - 23:17 ET by Lame Cherry

Ah the moon was full three score and ten years ago when another propagandist for a far off reich was pulling down elected governments for a globalist pet named Hitler to join another charmer named Stalin.

Heir Olberman using John Wayne is like Bill Clinton carrying a Bible, ne'er the twain shall meet. In Olberman's case, it is a good thing as even 100 year old John Wayne would kick this shill's esel über dem mond.

Olberman knew in selling his soul he would attach himself to attacking media giants like O'Reilly and Limbaugh and thereby make this Soviet pip squeak "a superpower too", since the media flushed their favorite son Don Imus. Olberman also knows all he is saying is bogus, but when his mentors of propaganda were twisting tales about Churchill, the French, Jews and the Gypsies........well when you have an audience of regressives the facts do not matter.......only the hatred.

For a moment, let us just give Olberman what he wants along with Dave High and other liberals who hate George Bush and Dick Cheney. Poof they are gone.......Nance Pelosi is now president, a woman who has so screwed up Congress that it now has an 18 point approval rating. A woman who screwed up diplomacy in the Middle East by telling Syria something Israel did not even tell her and a woman who being a product of affirmative action is running Congress like her unused kitchen.

Tomorrow Heir Olberman and other regressives, China moves on Taiwan, Russia cuts off all oil to Europe and demands they join the new Soviet bloc, OPEC cuts off all oil to America and for a nice finale the American economy busts and all your lovely border busters burn down the major cities in support of socialism.

Ok now what are you going to do Heir Olberman? Hand America over to your comrades? Nance is not up to anything she has proven besides picking out her clothes for the day.......so what are you going to do with your fruition of policy of finally getting rid of Bush and Cheney and the nation torn apart?

That is why you are where you are Heir Olberman, a shill for your bosses who once they get what they want.....they will just like in Germany and Russia round you up along with all the other marching in step regressives to die in slave labor camps.

God forgive you people for all the deaths you have caused, all the misery you are causing and all the dead in attacks and wars you have set the world up for.

*HIC IACET ARTORIVS REX QVONDAM REXQVE FVTVRVS

Out of curiosity Lame Cher

July 3, 2007 - 23:30 ET by shawn228

Out of curiosity Lame Cherry, what do you think this Republican President would do if China attacked Taiwan?

I have eaten cherries. I as

July 3, 2007 - 23:39 ET by Dave High

I have eaten cherries. I assume a lame cherry is one with spots of mold or fungus? Please help me understand the concept of a lame cherry. On second thought, don't. Keep it to yourself, lame cherry. Your secret should always stay with you.

Olbermann, the statesman.

July 4, 2007 - 00:03 ET by maggieqpublic

Olbermann, the statesman. He is so remarkably retro.

Lame Cherry…

“and a woman who being a product of affirmative action is running Congress like her unused kitchen.”

You clearly have the historical fix on the “Speaker”. I have followed her local ordinariness since the mid-1970’s. Sounds like you’re a native spectator as well.

lahme ente

July 4, 2007 - 06:32 ET by kafkakaefer

Lame cherry,

If you want to show off your cheap propaganda in a fashionable manner and put Olbermann in a corner with Hitler, Stalin and their likes, then you should try to learn german in the first place. Please! This is horrible.

"Hegel says somewhere all great events and personalities in world history reappear in one fashion or another. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."
The Eighteeenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852) sect. 1, Cf.

It astonishes to me that desp

July 3, 2007 - 23:25 ET by Dave High

It astonishes to me that despite the entire nation being in agreement that Bush has failed his office and the American people entirely; there is still a certain 21% that demand to follow Bush blindly over the cliff. I think noted conservative thinker Howard Dean wrote about this. Is it possible that ya’ll have a gene from the lemmings line of animals? Naww, couldn’t be. That would involve evolution; something you don’t believe in.

Yikes you guys are scary, scary. Dave High

I thought MediaMatters was

July 3, 2007 - 23:27 ET by Fairlight

I thought MediaMatters was closed after 5.

Ah, so it's a horrible thing

July 3, 2007 - 23:33 ET by Mike Bratton

Ah, so it's a horrible thing that President Bush's approval poll rating is 21%?

Since the latest Gallup poll shows the Democrat-controlled Congress' approval poll rating at 24% (plus-or-minus 3 percentage points), do you have similar remarks for the Democrats that want to follow their Congressional leadership in lemming-like fashion?

If one takes polls seriously, one has to take them all seriously, or else run the risk of appearing to be hypocritical.

--Mike

www.thebrattonreport...

I thought i had seen 14 per

July 3, 2007 - 23:46 ET by Tidy Bowl Man

I thought i had seen 14 percent bandied about.

My mistake--a typo jumped in

July 3, 2007 - 23:57 ET by Mike Bratton

My mistake--a typo jumped in there. Your correction makes the lamenting of President Bush's approval poll rating even more interesting. Thanks.

--Mike

www.thebrattonreport.com

Dave, I have said this before

July 4, 2007 - 00:07 ET by TexasOptimist

Dave, I have said this before, and I will say it this time, but no more. Most of us in the conservative movement dislike much about President Bush. We disagree with him on many things. Immigration. Federal spending. Global warming. Education. Even Iraq, believe it or not. We have many reasons to dislike his actions as president. Dislike is too weak a word, perhaps. As I state in my signature, he is not a full-fledged conservative, and he irks us on many occasions. You are the one that proves yourself to be a lemming. You refuse to recognize that we view a lot of the Bush agenda with contempt, not with mindless admiration and support. You are the lemming that foolishly accuses us of being robots that thoughtlessly cheer for every policy, every viewpoint, every piece of legislation that comes out of the White House. You are the lemming, plain and simple. That is all.

George W. Bush is not a full-fledged conservative, but I still support his presidency. (Although I am rethinking this position daily!) Still, I'd rather have him as president than ANY of the Democrats.

Merry Christmas 2007.

Congress' approval rating i

July 4, 2007 - 04:21 ET by motherbelt

Congress' approval rating is even lower.....oh, that must be because they won't impeach the President.

I have no use for polls, myse

July 4, 2007 - 09:48 ET by HypocriteHater

I have no use for polls, myself. You could put a turd on a pedestal and it would get at least a 10% approval rating. I also have no use for knowing "what's hot and what's not" in deciding what I like and dislike. If polls were to suddenly drop off the face of the earth tomorrow, I couldn't be more apathetic.

Sometimes I agree with the president's decisions, sometimes I don't. I suppose that goes for many people. So his 21% approval rating is not always going to consist of the same people "follow(ing) Bush blindly over the cliff". I mean that's such an obvious one there, I shouldn't have to point that out to you.

Mr. Olbermann, it is incumben

July 3, 2007 - 23:26 ET by Mike Bratton

Mr. Olbermann, it is incumbent upon those who presume to sit at the table of ideas to have brought something of substance to the table. Since your only regular contribution is a fact-free puddle of emotions, why should any sober-minded individual be at all concerned about your limp accusations?

And "Good night, and good luck"? Being Murrowesque (for what that's worth) hasn't exactly proven to be your strong suit. Perhaps you should have closed your giddy harangue with "Courage," since your disdain for the facts is more Ratheresque. It's still a shame you left ESPN; when it came to sportscast hosting--which is no mean feat, by any stretch--you weren't in over your head.

--Mike

www.thebrattonreport.com

I didn't even know Edward R

July 4, 2007 - 04:38 ET by motherbelt

"Good night, and good luck"?

I didn't even know Edward R. Murrow, but I will say this: Mr. Olbermann, you are no Edward R. Murrow.

And staring into the camera with that oh-so-somber look on your face, while you drone on, enamoured of the sound of your own voice, won't make you into him.

Talk about delusions of grandeur......

Bush is Mr Popular .............

July 3, 2007 - 23:44 ET by Tidy Bowl Man

President Bush is a veritable Mr. Popular compared to the 14% approval rating of Congress.

Thanks Nancy, thanks Harry.

Olbermann probably thinks t

July 4, 2007 - 04:42 ET by motherbelt

Olbermann probably thinks their rating is so low because they are too chicken to impeach the President...oh, and Cheney, and Karl Rove (I wondered how long it would take for him to drag Rove in.) Of course, Cheney has to go too, or Her Speakerness wouldn't be next in line. Come on, Keith, let's hear how it will take a woman to clean the White House!!

KEITH OLBERMANN: Finally toni

July 4, 2007 - 00:01 ET by Galvanic

KEITH OLBERMANN: Finally tonight, as promised, a "Special Comment" on what is, in everything but name, George Bush's pardon of Scooter Libby.

Well, to begin with, Bush didn't pardon Libby. He commuted his sentence. There's a huge difference.

The crisp matter-of-fact acknowledgment that our form of government has survived, even though for nearly two centuries now, our Commander-in-Chief has also served, simultaneously, as the head of one political party and often the scourge of all others. We as citizens must, at some point, ignore a President's partisanship.

OK, Olbermann. Ignore it and shut up.

Not that we may prosper as a nation, not that we may achieve, not that we may lead the world, but that merely we may function. But just as essential to the 17 words of John Wayne is an implicit trust, a sacred trust: That the President for whom so many did not vote, can in turn suspend his political self long enough, and for matters imperative enough, to conduct himself solely for the benefit of the entire Republic.

He makes Wayne's quot esound like the Gettysburg Address. And since when do Leftists acknowledge that we live in a Republic?

Our generation's willingness to state "we didn't vote for him, but he's our President, and we hope he does a good job," was tested in the crucible of history, and far earlier than most.

Huh?

And in circumstances far more tragic and threatening. And we did that with which history tasked us.

Whatever history tasked us to do, we're still waiting for Olbdermann to get onboard and do it.

We enveloped our President in 2001. And those who did not believe he should have been elected, indeed those who did not believe he had been elected, willingly lowered their voices and assented to the sacred oath of non-partisanship.

Oh, really?

. . . Were there any remaining lingering doubt otherwise, or any remaining lingering hope, it ended yesterday when Mr. Bush commuted the prison sentence of one of his own staffers.

Whew! For a moment, I thought Olbie was going to tell us that the President had permitted our defense secrets to be sold to the Chinese for some illegal campaign donations. Oh . . . wiat ... Clinton alreay did that.

Did so even before the appeals process was complete; did so without as much as a courtesy consultation with the Department of Justice;

Olbie, you mean if he had gotten a green light from Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, you'd be satisfied?

did so despite what James Madison, at the Constitutional Convention, said about impeaching any President who pardoned or sheltered those who had committed crimes "advised by" that President;

I don't recall the Special Prosecutor establishing that the President had directed Libby to perjure himself. Maybe I missed something.

In that moment, Mr. Bush, you broke that fundamental compact between yourself and the majority of this nation's citizens, the ones who did not cast votes for you. In that moment, Mr. Bush, you ceased to be the President of the United States.

Oh, my.

In that moment, Mr. Bush, you became merely the President of a rabid and irresponsible corner of the Republican Party.

Rabies?

And this is too important a time, sir, to have a Commander-in-Chief who puts party ahead of nation.

That's right. Clinton did it during a better time.

. . . Yet our Democracy has survived shrewder men than Karl Rove.

Praise be!

And it has survived the frequent stain of politics upon the fabric of government. But this administration, with ever-increasing insistence and almost theocratic zealotry, has turned that stain into a massive oil spill.

Good Gosh, man! Can the Republic possibly survive?

The protection of the environment is turned over to those of one political party, who will financially benefit from the rape of the environment.

Rape? Oh, we're back to talking about Clinton again.

The protections of the Constitution are turned over to those of one political party, who believe those protections unnecessary and extravagant and quaint.

It seems to me that the President has Constitutional authority to pardon or commute sentences. Did I miss an amendment somewhere?

The enforcement of the laws is turned over to those of one political party, who will swear beforehand that they will not enforce those laws. The choice between war and peace is turned over to those of one political party, who stand to gain vast wealth by ensuring that there is never peace, but only war.

That sounds like a description of al Qaeda.

I accuse you, Mr. Bush, of lying this country into war.

Tonight, Keith Olbermann stars as Emil Zola.

I accuse you of subverting the Constitution, not in some misguided but sincerely-motivated struggle to combat terrorists, but instead to stifle dissent.

Stifle dissent? Name one critic of the President who's been "stifled?" To the contrary, the MSM has been one long, collective dissenting whine since he was elected.

I accuse you of fomenting fear among your own people, of creating the very terror you claim to have fought.

Ai-yeeee! It's alive! ALIVE!

I accuse you of exploiting that unreasoning fear, the natural fear of your own people who just want to live their lives in peace, as a political tool to slander your critics and libel your opponents. I accuse you of handing part of this Republic over to a Vice President who is without conscience, and letting him run roughshod over it.

Yeow!

And I accuse you now, Mr. Bush, of giving, through that Vice President, carte blanche to Mr. Libby, to help defame Ambassador Joseph Wilson by any means necessary,

What did Libby say?

. . . to lie to grand juries and special counsel and before a court, in order to protect the mechanisms and the particulars of that defamation, with your guarantee that Libby would never see prison, and, in so doing, as Ambassador Wilson himself phrased it here last night, of you becoming an accessory to the obstruction of justice.

I guess the Special Prosecutor missed something. He didn't even find evidence of a crime having bene commmited.

Just, Mr. Bush, as you did yesterday. The twists and turns of Plamegate, your precise and intricate lies that sent us into this bottomless pit of Iraq; your lies upon the lies to discredit Joe Wilson; your lies upon the lies upon the lies to throw the sand at the referee of Prosecutor Fitzgerald's analogy.

"Lies upon lies upon lies upon lies . . . " (yawn) Didn't Fitzgerald already knowthat Richard Armitage had confessed to the DoJ that he'd given Plame's name to Novak. This investigation was over before the first person was sworn under oath.

These are complex and often painful to follow, and too much, perhaps, for the average citizen.

Good thing for us we have non-partisan experts like Olbie to explain it to us.

But when other citizens render a verdict against your man, Mr. Bush, and then you spit in the faces of those jurors and that judge and the judges who were yet to hear the appeal, . . .

Hocccccccch, too-ey!

. . .  the average citizen understands that, sir. It is the fixed ball game and the rigged casino and the pre-arranged lottery all rolled into one, and it stinks. And they know it.

By the way, what was that Power Ball number?

. . . And in the end, even Richard Nixon could say he could not put this nation through an impeachment. It was far too late for it to matter then, but as the decades unfold, that single final gesture of nonpartisanship, of acknowledged responsibility not to self, not to party, not to "base," but to country, echoes loudly into history. Even Richard Nixon knew it was time to resign.

Hey, wait a minute. I thought you guys said that Ford had entered a deal with Nixon that if he resigned, President Ford would pardon him.  I didn't know Nixon resigned in an unselfish, non-partisan gesture.

. . . Would that you could say that, Mr. Bush. And that you could say it for Mr. Cheney. You both crossed the Rubicon yesterday.

The Rubicon? Is that anywhre near the Euphrates?

Which one of you chose the route no longer matters. . . .

Okay, okay, enough!   I can't take anymore. Olbie praising the patriotism of John Wayne and Richard Nixon;, demanding that Bush refer to the consent of Alberto Gonzalez; the very Republic in peril?   Oooh . . . my achin' head . . . . Help me, Mr. Wizard! . . .

BOING!

Well done Galvanic. Your f

July 4, 2007 - 01:34 ET by mulerider24

Well done Galvanic. Your final summation only strengthens my theory that Olbie's rants are merely a result of a latex-wrapped infatuation with his thesaurus and completely void of logic. This guy takes narcissism to another dimension.

After reading the reference t

July 4, 2007 - 01:46 ET by Mike Bratton

After reading the reference to Mr. Olbermann's supposed thesaurus fixation, and being confused by it due to my having never thought that Mr. Olbermann was particularly impressive in matters of verbiage, I ran his screed through Microsoft Word's Readability Statistics.

The results were interesting, particularly its Flesch-Kinkaid Grade Level score of 10.8; if I remember the scale properly, that means mid-level high school. Not terribly sophisticated, from what I see.

--Mike

www.thebrattonreport.com

There in lies my point Mike.

July 5, 2007 - 12:36 ET by mulerider24

There in lies my point Mike. During these rants Olbie tries his best imitation of Dennis Miller's famous, witty soliloquies that makes you wonder if he will pass out from oxygen deprivation before the sentence concludes. Dennis can pull these off because of his rich vocabulary and keen intellect. Olbie's rants appear forced and incongruent due to his reliance on said reference book. One is knowledge, the other an act dependent upon a teleprompter. Thus the low Flesch-Kinkaid Grade Level score.

President Clinton pardoned

July 4, 2007 - 06:21 ET by motherbelt

President Clinton pardoned terrorists; he allowed nuclear technology to be sold to the Chinese; he sold access to the White House and himself; he sullied the Oval Office in ways too embarrassing to be discussed without euphemisms (misdemeanors, anyone?)....and they stood by him.

and now we have ranters who want to impeach the President who used his constitutionally- endowed power (firing attorneys, and now commuting a sentence), simply because they disagree with him. Where in the constitution does it say he can do these things "with the advice and consent" of anybody?

Another attempt to criminalize policy that they don't agree with.

Olbermann should really try t

July 4, 2007 - 08:25 ET by ThisnThat

Olbermann should really try to study the entire Constitution, especially Article II Section 2 where it lays out the full powers of the President. In particular, "....and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States...".

Memo to Olbermann: Notice that it doesn't say anything about getting the MSM approval first, nor does it say anything about doing this only if poll numbers exceed a certain threshold.

What part of being an American don't you understand?

Is MSNBC still on the air?Who

July 4, 2007 - 00:22 ET by jdhawk

Is MSNBC still on the air?

Who knew?

What r-tards like olberdunc

July 4, 2007 - 00:42 ET by ckc1227

What r-tards like olberdunce, high dave and wacky wacky haven't quite grasped yet is dislike and made-up facts from a liberal wet dream don't add up to an impeachable offense.

I know you like to chronicle

July 4, 2007 - 01:03 ET by gkm1959

I know you like to chronicle the musings of this left wing douche bag, but I am really not sure why. This is the guy that who accuses others as right wing or water carriers, Fox noise and so on. The man is nothing but a cheap vaudeville act. Guests on his show fall into to categories, pols and Celebes that Keith shamelessly fawns over and pundits who are willing to blow blue smoke and sunshine up Olby's ass as he tries to impart his political ideology. Keith if nothing else is always courteous and great thanks them as a parting gift. The truly comical part of these special comment diatribes is not their content. It's the delivery. This ass thinks he is a virtuoso in the art of dramatic readings. Complete of course with the choreographed camera transitions. It's really is quite humorous and reminds me of awkward motions of a prepubescent school boy trying his hardest to dance at the family reunion. Oh well, I guess it takes all kinds. He, along with MSNBC, has decided to stake the viability of their network on the loyalty of the left wing viewer. Good luck on that one.

The man is delusional and sometime between now and the 08 election he will give one of these screeds on the national nightly news show. The man simply can't help himself. And finally in the macro scheme of things look on the bright side. He just turned 48 and is not married or engaged. I am not an actuary but I think it would be safe to assume that he will be the first and the last in the great line of jock sniffers turned journalist carrying the name Olbermann.

I can just picture Bush, Ch

July 4, 2007 - 01:26 ET by riff_raff

I can just picture Bush, Cheney and Rove laughing their @sses off at all of these deranged libs, like Olbermann, popping a fuse over Libby getting off without jail time. It must provide them with endless hours of entertainment. And in the future, whenever Bush is feeling a little down in the dumps, he can always pop in a DVD and watch it over again to cheer himself up.

It may seem immature to some people, but for me there is nothing funnier than intentionally doing something that you know will cheese-off some uptight (usually liberal), self-righteous, self-important, hypocritical jerk. Just to see that jack@ss go berserk. Imagine if Olbermann actually went so ballistic that he had a live, on-air stroke. It would be tragic and funny at the same time.

The whole thing reminds me of the 3 Stooges episode where anytime one of the stooges utters the words "Niagara Falls", the weird guy in the episode goes berserk. Except that for Olbermann and co., the phrase is now "Scooter Libby".

"Scooter Libby!!.....sloooowly I turn....step by step.....inch by inch...."

LOL. I can't get the picture

July 4, 2007 - 07:18 ET by ThisnThat

LOL. I can't get the picture out of my mind. Made my day, this great day of our independence, July 4, 2007.

Great analogy!FYI, that &quot

July 4, 2007 - 20:33 ET by Del Dolemonte

Great analogy!

FYI, that "weird guy" in the "Niagara Falls" short ("Gents Without Cents", circa 1944) was in fact head Stooge Moe Howard. What many people don't know is that the same year, Abbott and Costello did the exact same routine in "Lost in a Harem".

RR, while your analogy is gre

July 5, 2007 - 12:26 ET by Beowulf

RR, while your analogy is great (I can't stop picturing Olbie saying "Suddenly I turned..."), I don't see any of this moron's targets laughing about his tirades. It almost makes me wish Bush/Cheney actually did exercise some of the abuses of power that Ubermoron accuses them of. If they did, Olbie would now be buried in a shallow grave somewhere, with most of the rest of the current MSM for their dissent against government. I seem to recall how Bush's namesake, Hitler, took care of dissenters in his government...

The Closed Mind Erects Strong Barriers

Did Keith do a rant when

July 4, 2007 - 04:52 ET by motherbelt

Did Keith do a rant when Sandy Berger was allowed to strike a plea bargain for stealing and destroying classified documents?
Maybe the President should say that Libby will go to jail as soon as Sandy Berger takes the polygraph test that was part of his plea agreement. Then that's one case that they could "revisit", to use Tony Snow's word.

Keith Olbermann: Tune in tomorrow night, when, in another "VERY SPECIAL COMMENT" I will explain why lying about who told you the name of of a non-covert employee of the CIA is a crime several magnitudes above stealing and destroying classified documents.

Olbermann has “a Speical Co

July 4, 2007 - 05:22 ET by USA4freedom

Olbermann has “a Speical Comment”. Hold on, I have to stop the world, I’m sure the rest of the universe really cares. Wow talk about someone who takes themselves way.. too.. serious. “Olbermann” said it so we better resign. The were packing up the good china (sorry I was thinking of the Clintons) and running for the cars even before the show ended. listening to your dribble, I find it shocking that MSMBC seems to base his whole show on bitching about Bush. This would be the same man who would vote for the Clintons in a heart beat. In the words of Val Kilmer in Tombstone: “His hypocrisy knows no bounds.”
The funny part is like the NYT’s for a Republican if you are on their hit list you are doing something right. I would think that if you make the “worlds worst” person list you would have a party. I would and make sure Olbermann hears about it.

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc.
Ronald Reagan- 40th Anniversary of D-Day

I think that Olbermann has hi

July 4, 2007 - 06:08 ET by USA4freedom

I think that Olbermann has his presidents mixed up.
"lying this country into war," uh, that would be Johnson.

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc.
Ronald Reagan- 40th Anniversary of D-Day

I think the only reason Democ

July 4, 2007 - 06:42 ET by Gat New York

I think the only reason Democrats won'y push for the Fariness Doctrine is that it would extend to cable tv and the last thing they want to see is an intelligent brain sitting next to Kieth Oberhimself.

Overbite...

July 4, 2007 - 06:58 ET by danybhoy

Am I the only person who tries NOT to buy GE products whenever possible because of idiots like Olbermann, Mathews, Abrahams, & the rest of the news division at 30 Rock? Also, since Krazy Keith is slated to be doing studio work for NBC's Sunday night NFL coverage, what are the chances he does something during the season on air that brings calls for his sacking? Limbaugh got ousted quickly, for telling the truth. But since he pisses off so many leftists in this country, ESPN was quick to pull the trigger, & I have a feeling Olbermann will end up doing the same with conservatives.

"A goverment big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away" Barry Goldwater

Olbermann

July 4, 2007 - 07:06 ET by George2107

I suspect that more people learned of Herr Olbermann's comments on this web page rather than on MSNBC. In reading his comments, I have recollection of history and the activities of Paul Joseph Goebbels. Herr Goebbels knew that if you told lies big enough and long enough, the people would believe them. Herr Olbermann continues in this tradition. Everyone of his "Bush lies" is in itself a frabrication. Never does he cite a specific fact or statement to support his allegation. Herr Olbermann and the entire leadership of the democrat party have used Herr Goebbels' strategy in attacking President Bush throughout his presidency.

Why are you insutling Goebbel

July 4, 2007 - 07:12 ET by ThisnThat

Why are you insutling Goebbels (that nasty, conniving, deserves-everything-he-got-SOB) by comparing him with Olbermann?

I seems to me that the compar

July 5, 2007 - 12:57 ET by Beowulf

I seems to me that the comparison was Olberhimself to Goebbels, not the other way around. And it is an apt comparison, since Olbie aparently read Goebbel's book on misinformation cover-to-cover...

The Closed Mind Erects Strong Barriers

During the segment with Turle

July 4, 2007 - 07:57 ET by nicksmith112

During the segment with Turley, the Professor referenced the Clinton pardons. I believe he mentioned Bubba's bro Roger and the Marc Rich pardon...........Not a peep from Krazy Kieth! I wonder if Turley will be banned from Meltdown with Loooooney Kieth?????

What a douchebag!

July 4, 2007 - 08:06 ET by Gatorgrad

What a douchebag!

pardon me

July 4, 2007 - 08:36 ET by Catherwood

Maybe it would help Olberman's perspective if he went back and reviewed Slick Willy's pardoning of the Puerto Riccan's who assassinated their enemies. The pardon was given to help Billary win in NY. Bush's pardon of Libby pales in comparison.

Ok, the Olbernutt leaves ever

July 4, 2007 - 10:32 ET by Blazer

Ok, the Olbernutt leaves everyone breathless on the Left with anticipation about his "Special Comment". Lo, and behold, nothing special here, nothing different than any other of his arrogant, sycophantic, gas bag rants he goes off on every night.

I picture a Kool-Aid drinking leftist nutbag putting a hand up to touch the screen every night to channel his hate filled energy. Sort of like a heroin addict needing a fix.

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

- Ben Kenobi on bx10475, Liberals, and the MSM.

There's something fundemental

July 4, 2007 - 10:37 ET by fendertele

There's something fundementally wrong with our justice system when Paris Hilton goes to jail and Scooter Libby doesn't.

Well, Paris wantonly broke

July 4, 2007 - 11:01 ET by LighthouseJ

Well, Paris wantonly broke her probation from a DUI arrest. Libby was just the biggest trophy the democrats could ring up the flagpole after efforts to impeach Bush, Cheney, Gonzalez and others didn't pan out. I thought Libby should do at least the thirty month sentence because it's not harsh at all.

But take a look at it in the end: Paris isn't doing that bad in the public eye for spending a few weeks in jail. On the other hand, Libby will forever have the stigma of favortism from Bush, be it real or imagined, by the public. Libby should've refused the commutation and did the time.

Let's see. One was endanger

July 4, 2007 - 11:25 ET by dahliatravers

Let's see. One was endangering public safety. One was the tertiary target of a frustrated prosecutor.

Gotta disagree, fendertele.

A frustrated republican prose

July 4, 2007 - 16:22 ET by fendertele

A frustrated republican prosecutor appointed by W.

Huh. Guess he didn't appoin

July 4, 2007 - 19:18 ET by dahliatravers

Huh. Guess he didn't appoint all cronies after all.

If Scooter got as harsh of a

July 5, 2007 - 13:26 ET by Beowulf

If Scooter got as harsh of a sentence that was "enforced" as well as Paris' was, I wouldn't complain. But then again, Scooter did obstruct the investigation into a non-crime, and all Paris did was put the lives of everyone on the road with her in jeopardy - TWICE. Yeah, Scooter should probably be jailed for life, or better yet, let's just execute him.

About the only thing you got right was that our justice system is broken, or at least bent. Or are you saying that since Scooter works for such an evil regime and Paris is a "star", she should be given a pass for driving around drunk but Scooter should be locked up for a trumped-up, head-hunting, BS "obstruction of justice" charge that never should have even been tried?

The Closed Mind Erects Strong Barriers

The whining foaming at the mouth liberals

July 4, 2007 - 13:48 ET by c5then

They repeatedly call for impeachment, yet cite no laws that have been broken from which the charges would stem. Isn't it funny that they call for a legal removal from office without any legal basis for it?

It's almost like school children in the playground.

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic

Impeachment

July 4, 2007 - 18:11 ET by pbthinker

It's not really odd, coming from Liberals. They can't win a debate, in the war of ideas, they can't get one of their own elected so, all they have left, is to drive the winner from office with crap like this.

Never argue with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

I think we should start a p

July 4, 2007 - 14:09 ET by mlong

I think we should start a poll on how long people think it will be before KO just comes out and blames Bush for 9/11 he comes close with each "Special Comment" and with Nancy Disgrace kicking his butt every night I wouldn't be surprised if by this September he just doesn't "go there".

These people need a fairness doctrine?

July 4, 2007 - 18:08 ET by pbthinker

The people that listen to this moron think we need a fairness doctrine, in this country. Personally, I won't listen to Michael Savage because of his heated rhetoric on most subjects but, to me at least, this is much more severe than anything Savage has ever uttered.

Olberman seems to want to outdo anything Air America, the Daily Kos, or the Democratic Underground can put out. I'm sure there's a market for this hatred, as you can tell by the viewership he has. I just wonder how many of the people at NBC watch this show and nod in agreement with this guy. That, to me, is pretty scary.

Never argue with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

pb - "I'm sure there's a

July 4, 2007 - 20:13 ET by Gat New York

pb - "I'm sure there's a market for this hatred . . "

Not much though. O'Reilly has an audience 3 times the size of Keith Olberhimself. In fact the number of people commenting to this is probably as large an audience as he typically has.