Countdown: From The Nightmare Of 9/11/2001 To The Nightmare Of 9/11/2007
On tonight's special 9/11 edition of Countdown Keith Olbermann, who was reporting from Ground Zero in New York City, slams it out of the park. His opening segment covered President Bush and Rudy Giuliani's actions today and digs deeper into the hapless and transparent testimony of General David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker before the Senate Armed Services Committee this afternoon. Keith talks with Newsweek's Richard Wolffe about the day's events and breaks it down the way only he can.
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Olbermann: "It is not truly an eclipse, it does not darken all of our lives evenly. It is not truly a cloud bank that does not obscure the sun from all of us all of the day. Perhaps it is a fog from which we can break, past which we can push, but which is at best, always visible in the near distance and pushing back. It's is, of course, in our fifth story on the Countdown - 9/11."
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KO is the only one who speaks like that...............the only one.
Nice spin on the GAO report.
mudshark @ 2:
At least there is One.
mudshark @ 2:
and hits like that.. KO scored another K.O. w/his accurate reporting...WHERE are the
other MSM reporters who have the balls to report facts and truth???
keef was in very good form tonight ... unlike most of his earlier special comments, tonight's remarks were shorter and to the point, and his tone was not nearly as strident.
while we all love his anger and passion over the travesty this country has endured from our so-called leadership over these past six years, i feel he is much more effective delivering his comments in this succint and measured tone.
Having KO to watch almost makes me feel like there's a chance things will change in this country. Unfortunately my pessimism toward the people who shape our policies is too strong to let that glimmer of hope shine for more than a few moments before a dark cloud of reality darkens my hopes for our nation's future.
On a related note, I was hanging out with an old college buddy of mine who's now a big shot videogame designer that actually has turned down job offers in the US because of our nation's policies and leadership. It seems we've gone from a beacon of light in the world to a rogue nation that repels the best and the brightest.
Jesus on a fucking dinosaur!
It is bad enough that M$NBC is running an edited replay of that mournful morning. I just don't like, or trust, the blatant rewriting/cherry picking of history by the M$M; no different than H.S. history class I guess. No those mother fuckers had to sell commercial space over it?..and a fucking lot of it too? Now I'm not going so far as to compare this to the blood-money made by Halliburton, though I don't think I would be too far of base if I did, but come on, this is just fucking tacky!
...I guess it gives me a chance to go to C-Span and the Betrayus puppet show.
sigh.
"Don't waive your rights with your flags."
-Sage Francis
peace.
...sorry I went off a bit there. FTR, Keith is outstanding as usual, truely a becon of hope in this shit storm of cable news.
Agent,
I was just marveling at the replay of 9/11/01...David Gregory phones in to say Bush "heard about the attacks (planes) on his way to" the educational event, which has been cancelled...I thought Andy Card whispered news about the second plane during the reading of "The Pet Goat."
Yep, KO knocked another one out of the park. Thank goodness for him and that glimmer of truth and hope. May it one day soon burn though the fog and illuminate the minds currently mouldering in the darkness of the MSM. 'Cause it's either that or gawd help up all!!
Didn't expect to hear something different so it's difficult to get any more angry or to feel more hopeless than I already did before Petraeus said what Bush told him to say.
God, what a happy day it will if Bush is impeached. I can't even imagine. That is really the only way we can come out of this as a nation. Impeach the bastard so we can move on. We cannot let this Parasite Bush continue to have power over us and the world any longer.
America must protect itself from political "good soldiers" like Colin Powell and David Petraeus.
To the list of things We The People must do, add courts martial to impeachment .
Keith as always did WHAT mattered...he brought us the Truth....and MSM has failed us on so many levels...I miss Peter Jennings...and also Arron Brown ( whose very first day was that day on CNN)it is amazing that it has come down to Keith to give us what we need , so desperately...And I keep thinking that this time last fall Keith started doing his Special Comments...and I think we all know that the 911 Shame was a part of that Thrust ( and the Iraq War too) ..Be sure to write Countdown@MSNBC.com and thank him ....the more letters he gets the better....We need him..
In our country a former sports anchor in Keith and a comic in Jon Stewart have to do the work that "news" anchors won't do
Agent Provacateur @ 8:
Dude, FUCKING-A! That was beautiful. To bad there aren't more of you around here.
Listen up slackers, apologists and the rest of you P.C. ninnys; that's how it's done. You take the red pill, you see things for what they really are, you don't care who the fuck you offend and you speak truth to power. Keep doing what you're doing now, and they will keep rat fucking you forever.
A couple million more like this guy and we might even have a country worth living in again.
Hey!!!!
There's the dog and here's the pony!
Let's watch the show!
What a duplicitous sack of shit. Petraeus' body language is about nothing but lying. He can barely raise his head to look into the eyes of the people he's lying to. "Marine Expeditiary Unit". Did Bush select him because he can't speak English either?
I'm glad Keith saidsomething about the timing of this bullshit report to coincide with a 9/11 anniversary. They plan this so that anybody who questions this horseshit could have their patriotism impugned?
This whole Patreus report thing is such charade it's like watching a bad movie.
Then "the Decider" will give a prime time speech announcing something that was already planned. Blhhhhhhh....I just vomited on the keyboard!
Two points:
While this is not the mainstream view, we already won the war in Iraq and Bush was correct when he announced "Mission Accomplished." We had victory in Iraq and accomplished our goals: depose Saddam and make sure there were no WMD. However, Bush lost the peace. Now, our exalted military is forced to show its ineffectiveness everyday that this war is waged with a military trained to fight big battles, WW II style, and not equipped, trained, or large enough to be a police force. If Bush were honest about bringing freedom and self-determination to Iraqis, we would honor their wishes and get the hell out and let them run their own affairs.
Second point. Why aren't we fighting the Saudis and bin Laden. After all, 80 percent of the people who kiilled us on 9/11 were Saudi. Bin Laden is Saudi. The Saudis hold fund raisers for terrorists. Their religious schools teach children to hate and to kill all over the world. The $audis are our enemies, yet the Bu$h family holds their hands while the $audis plot and plan to overthrow our religion, beliefs, ideas, and our government.
Conclusion: We are fighting the wrong war in the wrong place.
Karike: A couple of points.
1. Yes, we should get the hell out and let the Iraqi's run their own affairs
2. Part of the reason we invaded Iraq was to FIND WMDs, not confirm that they weren't there. The inspections could have accomplished that.
3. The Saudi's can't and won't overthrow the U.S. Every time I hear that conservative meme, I always ask, "How"? You sound a bit like Mellonie Morgan on that one.
Hey, Karike, the Saudis are planning to "overthrow our religion"? What religion would that be? When was America determined to be a theocracy?
Heh. While Olbermann was doing this fine piece of reporting, BillO was making the argument that Brian dePalma should be put in PRISON for making what O'Really thinks is an anti-America propaganda film. I couldn't believe my ears. Will there be a link to that video on C&L anytime?
Flackman @ 22:
#2. I agree. Perhaps a poor choice of words. Your argument holds weight and we didn't need to go to war to do it, but in the final analysis we did confirm there were no WMD.
#3. I do not know Mellonie Morgan or her arguments; however, our terrorism problem is a Saudi perpetuated problem, like it or not.
Sigh @ 23:
That would be any religion that is not Wahbi!
It's called a "Surge" implying a short term escalation in troop levels, so why make a big deal of those troops being sent home? Wasn't that the idea in the first place? One year in the field seems like a very long Surge.
Karike, gotcha. It just seemed like you were suggesting the US had an official state religion (lately it sort of seems that way). Sorry if I misinterpreted your post.
Reporters are part of the propoganda sysmtem. Unless they have morals.
But who has morals enveloped in this culture of greed and avarice?
I listened to the whole clip... One phrase spoken sticks in my mind... 'The overriding lesson'... Kieth and that correspondant spoke about that to some degree.
Personally, I think the 'overriding lesson' to be drawn from this Iraq debacle is really a lesson for us, the American people....
That lesson would be to demand more from the politics and political leadership of this land. In so doing, we also need to acknowledge our 'own responsibility' in this process and to start really paying attention to those people who would aspire to having this nations citizens put them into those positions of power..... THAT is the Lesson of Iraq. It was actually one of the big lessons of Viet Nam too. It was a lesson unspoken but encapsulated in Eisenhowers plantive warning about the MI complex, when leaving office way back when. WE obviously didn't learn it then and we have now seen the results of being asleep at the wheel as an electorate.... The Bush regime....... An administration that has thouroughly compromised and/or corrrupted very nearly the entire infrastructure of our governing system.
IF we don't start paying better attention to the words of the people who want to lead us, if we don't accept and take seriously our responsibility to pay this attention to those people, to challenge them and their words, to keenly question their intentions, motives and ambitions where leading us is concerned, we will continue to see amoral and immoral types with feel good platitudes about 'mornings in America' or 'Compassionate conservatism', or we'll be snowed by someone promising to be a 'uniter', but who has no idea how to do that. And it will all be the same feel good lies that led us to this place we find ourselve in today. A place of false security propped up by paper thin propaganda which cannot hold.
We are the worse off for our inattention to our politics. 'We, the people', must do better at holding up our end of this deal or nothing will change for the better ever.........................JD
i don't know about anyone else, but regarding the analogical burglar that Keith references whom takes $100 and declares it later as a gift... in my experience that burglar takes $100 and later gives back $10 in exchange for a favor worth $100 while promoting his "generosity" as an act for which i should be grateful... (too much cynicism?)...
If Petraeus doesn't believe he is bald if he has a comb-over, how can anyone believe him? :-)
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