Countdown Special Comment: The NIE Reflects An "Unhinged, Irrational Chicken Little Of A President"
By Logan Murphy Wednesday Dec 05, 2007 8:33pm
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Far more scary than the nuclear threat presented by Iran, the NIE report released this week reveals a more domestic threat to the republic:
We have either a president who is too dishonest to restrain himself from invoking World War Three about Iran at least six weeks after he had to have known that the analogy would be fantastic, irresponsible hyperbole -- or we have a president too transcendently stupid not to have asked -- at what now appears to have been a series of opportunities to do so -- whether the fairy tales he either created or was fed, were still even remotely plausible.
A pathological presidential liar, or an idiot-in-chief. It is the nightmare scenario of political science fiction: A critical juncture in our history and, contained in either answer, a president manifestly unfit to serve, and behind him in the vice presidency: an unapologetic war-monger who has long been seeing a world visible only to himself.
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Finally, as promised, a Special Comment about the President's cataclysmic deception about Iran.
There are few choices more terrifying than the one Mr. Bush has left us with tonight.
We have either a president who is too dishonest to restrain himself from invoking World War Three about Iran at least six weeks after he had to have known that the analogy would be fantastic, irresponsible hyperbole -- or we have a president too transcendently stupid not to have asked -- at what now appears to have been a series of opportunities to do so -- whether the fairy tales he either created or was fed, were still even remotely plausible.
A pathological presidential liar, or an idiot-in-chief. It is the nightmare scenario of political science fiction: A critical juncture in our history and, contained in either answer, a president manifestly unfit to serve, and behind him in the vice presidency: an unapologetic war-monger who has long been seeing a world visible only to himself.
After Ms Perino's announcement from the White House late last night, the timeline is inescapable and clear now.
In August, the President was told by his hand-picked Major Domo of intelligence, Mike McConnell, a flinty, high-strung-looking, worrying-warrior who will always see more clouds than silver linings, that what "everybody thought" about Iran might be, in essence, crap.
Yet on October 17th the President said of Iran and its president, Ahmadinejad:
"I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge to make a nuclear weapon."
And as he said that, Mr. Bush knew that at bare minimum there was a strong chance that his rhetoric was nothing more than words with which to scare the Iranians.
Or was it, sir, to scare the Americans?
Does Iran not really fit into the equation here? Have you just scribbled it into the fill-in-the-blank on the same template you used to scare us about Iraq?
In August, any commander-in-chief still able-minded or uncorrupted or both, sir, would have invoked the quality the job most requires: mental flexibility.
A bright man, or an honest man, would have realized no later than the McConnell briefing that the only true danger about Iran was the damage that could be done by an unhinged, irrational Chicken Little of a president, shooting his mouth off, backed up by only his own hysteria and his own delusions of omniscience.
Not Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mr Bush.
The Chicken Little of presidents is the one, sir, that you see in the mirror.
And the mind reels at the thought of a Vice President fully briefed on the revised intel as long as two weeks ago -- briefed on the fact that Iran abandoned its pursuit of this imminent threat four years ago -- who never bothered to mention it to his boss.
It is nearly forgotten today, but throughout much of Ronald Reagan's presidency, it was widely believed that he was little more than a front-man for some never-viewed, behind-the-scenes string-puller.
Today, as evidenced by this latest remarkable, historic malfeasance, it is inescapable, that Dick Cheney is either this president's evil ventriloquist, or he thinks he is.
What servant of any of the 42 previous presidents could possibly withhold information of this urgency and this gravity, and wind up back at his desk the next morning, instead of winding up before a Congressional investigation -- or a criminal one?
Mr Bush -- if you can still hear us -- if you did not previously agree to this scenario in which Dick Cheney is the actual detective and you're the Remington Steele -- you must disenthrall yourself: Mr Cheney has usurped your constitutional powers, cut you out of the information loop, and led you down the path to an unprecedented presidency in which the facts have become optional, the intel is valued less than the hunch, and the assistant runs the store.
The problem is, sir, your assistant is robbing you -- and your country -- blind.
Not merely in monetary terms, Mr. Bush, but more importantly, robbing you of the traditions and righteousness for which we have stood, at great risk, for centuries: Honesty, Law, Moral Force.
Mr. Cheney has helped, sir, to make your administration into the kind our ancestors saw in the 1860's and 1870's and 1880's -- the ones that abandoned Reconstruction, and sent this country marching backwards into the pit of American Apartheid.
Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland...
Presidents who will be remembered only in a blur of failure, Mr. Bush.
Presidents who will be remembered as functions only of those who opposed them -- the opponents whom history proved right.
Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland... Bush.
Would that we could let this President off the hook by seeing him only as marionette or moron.
But a study of the mutation of his language about Iran proves that though he may not be very good at it, he is, himself, still a manipulative, Machiavellian, snake-oil salesman.
The Bushian etymology was tracked by Dan Froomkin at the Washington Post's website.
It is staggering.
March 31st: "Iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon..."
June 5th: Iran's "pursuit of nuclear weapons..."
June 19th: "consequences to the Iranian government if they continue to pursue a nuclear weapon..."
July 12th: "the same regime in Iran that is pursuing nuclear weapons..."
August 6th: "this is a government that has proclaimed its desire to build a nuclear weapon..."
Notice a pattern?
Trying to develop, build or pursue a nuclear weapon.
Then, sometime between August 6th and August 9th, those terms are suddenly swapped out, so subtly that only in retrospect can we see that somebody has warned the President, not only that he has gone out too far on the limb of terror -- but there may not even be a tree there...
McConnell, or someone, must have briefed him then.
August 9th: "They have expressed their desire to be able to enrich uranium, which we believe is a step toward having a nuclear weapons program..."
August 28th: "Iran's active pursuit of technology that could lead to nuclear weapons..."
October 4th: "you should not have the know-how on how to make a (nuclear) weapon..."
October 17th: "until they suspend and/or make it clear that they, that their statements aren't real, yeah, I believe they want to have the capacity, the knowledge, in order to make a nuclear weapon."
Before August 9th, it's: "Trying to develop, build or pursue a nuclear weapon."
After August 9th, it's: "Desire, pursuit, want... knowledge, technology, know-how to enrich uranium."
And we are to believe, Mr. Bush, that the National Intelligence Estimate this week talks of the Iranians suspending their nuclear weapons program in 2003...And you talked of the Iranians suspending their nuclear weapons program on October 17th...
And that term suspending is just a coincidence?
And we are to believe, Mr. Bush, that nobody told you any of this until last week?
Your insistence that you were not briefed on the NIE until last week might be legally true -- something like "what the definition of 'is' is" -- but with the subject matter being not interns but the threat of nuclear war.
Legally, it might save you from some war crimes trial... but ethically, it is a lie.
It is indefensible.
You have been yelling threats into a phone for nearly four months, after the guy on the other end had already hung up.
You, Mr. Bush, are a bald-faced liar.
And more over, you must have realized that John Bolton, and Norman Podhoretz, and the Wall Street Journal Editorial board, are also bald-faced liars.
We are to believe that the Intel Community, or maybe the State Department, cooked the raw intelligence about Iran, falsely diminished the Iranian nuclear threat, to make you look bad?
And you proceeded to let them make you look bad?
You not only knew all of this about Iran, in early August, but you also knew it was all accurate.
And instead of sharing this good news with the people you have obviously forgotten you represent, you merely fine-tuned your terrorizing of those people, to legally cover your own backside, while you filled the factual gap with sadistic visions of -- as you phrased it on August 28th: a quote "nuclear holocaust" -- and, as you phrased it on October 17th, quote: "World War III."
My comments, Mr. Bush, are often dismissed as simple repetitions of the phrase "George Bush has no business being president."
Well, guess what?
Tonight: hanged by your own words and convicted by your own deliberate lies...
You, sir, have no business being president.
Good night, and good luck.
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idiot in chief,moron and outright liar?????whoaaaaa........nailed the nitwit down.
Another KO knock out comment by my hero. No sugar coating.."Mr.Bush you are a LIAR"
nice work Keith.
Hey K.O., how do you really feel about those two sacks of shit?
hehehehe...fristilicous
Olbermann is fantastic! Spot on!
Yeah, what KO said!
lets see.....any moment now the trolls will be showing up......4,..3...2.....1
This is the best grilling of the fox noise presidency and I heard all his SC's.
KO delivers another KO!!
I love all of Keith's "Special Comments" but tonight's was the best of them all. Olbermann is the best..period...
This evil regime is headed by a man that once had a dream involving a nuculer missile.
This whole issue on Iran....is the straw that broke the camels back.....NOW.....it's going to start.
KEITH OLBERMANN 2008!!!!!!!!! I love this man!
Look out NBC, et. al., they won't take this one laying down. 'They'll' be coming after the network and KO with everything they've got. The guy's got a set on him, that's for sure - and I don't mean geedubyabush.
Bush/Cheney/Rice/Rove/Rumsfield and a whole bunch of others need to be, in my view, put on trial for war crimes during the year 2009 at the Hague, which can adjudicate the matter at Nuremburg.
These people are criminals.
Would I were able, I would handcuff the entire cabinet and inner circle of Bushies, including Cheney and George himself, and force them to watch this commentary on prime time national television. And then, instead of a debate, someone mutually respected by both parties would cross examine this administration of liars and do some old fashioned truth seeking. All while the country watched. To quote my grandmother while she watched the Watergate hearings: "Shame on him. Shame on them all."
Keith Olbermann's special comments always bring a tear to my eye. He is so spot on. This is right up there with his July 3rd Special Comment -- and that one was terrific.
For K O to say those things takes some REAL BALLS! I can't see anyone with an iota of common sense still thinking that the Preznit is on the up and up
... and he kicked him in the ding-ding.
OT. Hannity has North in Iraq saying that some rockets came from Iran. They showed pictures of the rockets and they had markings of: Date. December, 2006. When did the Iranians start using English as their official language?
What??? No trolls! I guess their still recovering from the mental trauma.
I keep thinking KO's last special comment was a grand slam, and then he does it again.
Meanwhile, the current maladministration continues to provide plenty of good material.
Suggestion - stop calling him "sir". Even this level of respect is unwarranted. May I suggest "defendant" instead?
The silence from Congress and the candidatesis ear splitting.
Trying to get us into another war based on threats of "Mushroom clouds". Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, get your lying ass in the Hague.
Our entire office (well over 60 people) were cheering and screaming in support of Keith.
He speaks for hundreds of million embarrassed Americans and billions of people around the world shocked & awed that the role model democracy is nothing but a front for fascists with bloated bank accounts fed by their bloodlust.
Never forget, the WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING our Peter cries Wolf President ramp up apoleptic armageddon whenever there is oil for his campaign donors who need yet another mansion or yacht.
It is no joke that as big as the danger was in starting yet another war bombing 2000 communities of people just one generation up from hunter/gatherers -- the biggest danger to our nation is the men in our White House and cabinets that had Russia and China dusting off those nukes in silos.
Ron @ 20:
There was also something on the news today about more missing equipment in Iraq. Little things like rocket launchers and stuff. No worries.
Dood @ 23:
BAWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!...THAT DIDN'T TAKE LONG....sheeeeeesh.................LOL what a maroon...Care to provide some evidence contradicting KO's statement.
To the Site Monitor... I really appreciate this site and thanks for taking out the negative trash which is hurtful and does not contribute to our efforts.
Keith is amazing, just like a national treasure.
The truth will set us free!
That dumbass almost led the country into another frickin war,just because he felt like it.STUPID!
Stay safe, Keith. Don't get 'disappeared'.
CIA at it again.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071207/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_videotapes
Well, I guess those brilliant, far-sighted, almost-omniscient founders of ours were lacking in the ability to imagine the horrific future in which we are now emerged:
An idiot, demented, mentally-irresponsible president, backed up by an idiot, demented, mentally-irresponsible vice-president, who are both war-mongering, whether stupidly irresponsibly, in the case of the president, or purposefully mendaciously, in the case of the vice-president, raising the question, what to do?
It seems to me we have two choices, impeach them immediately, both for past and current crimes and misdemeanors, or appeal to another nation or group of nations to take over the US. Perhaps Cuba and Venezuela could be convinced to form a coalition and manage our affairs on a temporary basis, until the '08 election. Goodness knows, Chavez has much more honest elections than we have had for ages, if ever. And Castro certainly has much more compassion for his people than either of our two current idiots has ever demonstrated.
Perhaps France and Germany would like to take a shot at it. But we must do something shortly, before, in our names, the world is thrown into world-wide conflict by these madmen.
It's been over a year since we elected a 'new slate' of pols to remedy the apparent problem. But it's grown worse, since the impotent, incompetent, replacement asses we elected have not corrected the problem, but instead, become part of it, enablers for the idiots they were supposed to eliminate, curb, or correct.
A pox on all these putzes!
IMPEACH, NOW!
mudshark @ 27:
>>>>>>>
First of all, a person calling HIMSELF dude let alone spelling it DOOD has no business online w/o your mommy and daddy to supervise.
SECONDLY: this is not the KOS website you posted on.
THIRDLY: Why are YOU so upset someone isn't planning on nuking YOU? Are you incapable of hearing good news or are you that addicted to your bloodlust that you are happier to think your nation citizens would be dead in the hundreds of thousands?
Where. The. Hell. Is. Congress????
Hello, MRS PELOSI??? REID????
I know you're both a pair of gutless losers, but would you both kindly GET OFF YOUR BUTTS AND IMPEACH THIS FOOL???
And his evil ventriloquist?
Just do it. We can get it over with in a matter of weeks, a few months at most. Let Chimpy "fire" Cheney, then select a new VP that everyone can comfortably pillory, and then go after Bushboy.
Finish the job.
Bush/Cheney are not normal people!!! They ARE sick, mentally unstable. I bet Bush spoke to his mother when he was a kid just the same way he is speaking to us. I bet he got away with that crap. He is a madman, like Nero. A madman with a trigger finger on our Nukes. We must remove him before he does even more damage. Have them declared mentally incompetent and replace both of them. I think that Keith was far too kind. Bush makes our worst presidents look good.
Once again, in nine minutes, Keith succinctly states what any thinking person knows in his or her heart to be true - that Bush is either an inveterate liar or a moron. And both scenarios are terrifying and unacceptable. I know that in terms of time left, that impeachment may not be a real possibility, but for God's sake (and especially for OUR sake!), Congress needs to grow a pair at least half as big as KO's and start saying "NO" to anything this administration proposes.
The best "journalists" in America today are a former sports-caster and an economics professor. What a sorry state for our Fourth Estate, eh?
KO = Brilliant and bold. Most important = TRUTH, as we've never heard it, in the last 7 years, from the rest of the 'no balls' media.
Janet @ 26:
About time ... I have been waiting for this very thing to be said for years.
Thank you again Keith... Kucinich-Olberman -'08.
Lets hope he maintains the fire and lays his gaze upon whom ever it is that "wins" the election in 2008..
The price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance!
#37 -- Add to the journalists the Court Jesters of Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. More accurate info comes from their programs than ever does from Fox and the likes of O'Reilly.
If only Olbermann would inform his colleague Dan Abrams that he, too, should tone down the rhetoric. On his program yesterday, while discussing this topic with a Republican strategist, Rachael Maddow, and Pat Buchanan, Abrams kept insisting that Iran is "dangerous" and a "threat". A threat to the United States, which has approximately 10,000 nuclear weapons at its disposal? Or perhaps Iran poses a danger to Israel, which has about 200 nuclear weapons while Iran, at the present time, has none. Iran has consistently stated that it wishes to develop a nuclear weapons facility in order to promote its energy program. As Jonathan Schell, one of the foremost experts on nuclear weapons has pointed out in his numerous books on the subject, as well as his latest book The Seventh Decade, nations that decide to obtain nuclear weapons do so not to use them but as a deterrent against other countries which have them, such as the U.S. and Israel. But of course the so-called liberal media have never raised the question of why other countries should not be entitled to acquire or build a nuclear bomb since the United States has so many of these devices that it can destroy this planet many times over. Apparently the United States believes that it has the hypocritical right to lecture other countries regarding the application of nuclear weapons, despite the fact that America is the only country to have used not one but two nuclear devices to incinerate two cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I'll tell ya why there is no trolls on this one.....cause they don't have a leg to stand on."IF" they show up at all....is just because thier full of hate...nothing more,nothing less
Dan Abrams followed Olbermann and kept up the the pressure on Bush's lies.
Even more amazing... Tony Blakeley and Pat Robertson were there and they agreed that Bush was lying to the American people.
There aren't enough adjectives to describe this piece but brilliant comes to mind! This man child acting as the president has no business either being president or a leader of a cub scout troop, and yet the dem's say impeachment is off the table?!?!? Just wait till you fools come up for re-election. Pelosi....it's time to pull a Trent Lott.
rend @ 31:
WASHINGTON
CIA Director Michael Hayden said House and Senate intelligence committee leaders were informed of the existence of the tapes and the CIA's intention to destroy them.
He said the CIA began taping the interrogations as an internal check on the program after President Bush authorized the use of harsh questioning methods. The methods included waterboarding, which simulates drowning, government officials said.
so TECHNICALLY they don't "do torture" becaues the Semantics masters of the Goebbels School of Fascism re-named it to 'harsh questioning methods' the mini-me's 'torture'.
mudshark @ 21:
Here, I'll do my troll impression
"But, but, it's all Hillary/Bill Clinton's fault. Damn you LIBURALSSS.
We're still at war with East Asia. We've always been at war with East Asia.
Iran and Jimmy Carter took American's Hostage,damn you"
KO NAILED IT. The liar in chief has spent his presidency terrorizing the American people.
Every time I hear one of KO's special comments, I cannot help but gasp. Gasp because someone is telling the truth and telling it forcefully. What a sad commentary on our society that someone telling the truth can make us gasp.
When Bush was (not) elected in 2000, I was in tears because I felt I couldn't stand to live through the Reagan years again. This criminal moron is the only one who could have made me wish we HAD had another Reagan.
I am literally no longer surprised by anything this administration does anymore. They believe they can get away with it because the American people are too lazy and stupid to do anything about it.
And they're right.
Bummer.
K.O.'s "Special Comment" should be mandated/required viewing by every member of
Congress; both House and Senate.
Best wingnut impersonation:
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Chris @ 47:
thanks for the effort...and yet it is still incomprehensible...good job.........but nothing replaces the real thing.we know you playin...those w/o common sense...well....they MEAN IT!..LOL
We didn't vote for this idiot (or criminal)
The Best of Bush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKEDLy8rAwU
Now it is time for Pelosi and Reid to reset the table and put impeachment back on it.
Keith strikes gold again. I wish we could impeach/arrest/tar-and-feather every member of this blatantly corrupt administration.
Outta da paaaaaarrrrrkkkk!!!!
I don't understand the "moron" angle. He's clearly intentionally lying, just like he did with Iraq.
BushCo is very deliberate in their propaganda. There's no doubt they've been aware for quite some time that Iran didn't have any active WMD programs.
Just like with Iraq.
So they parse terminology to lie without lying. It's reprehensible. Impeachable.
My only problem with K.O. is at one point he says "what everyone was thinking about Iran wasn't true" or something. "Everyone" did not think Iran was building nuclear weapons, just as "everyone" didn't think Iraq had WMDs in 2002.
I hate this revisionist history. I was there.
Great job Keith. Your courage and honesty is having an affect on the likes of Mathews, Abrahams. Even P. Buchanan is calling Bush out. We need kind of brutal honesty across the entire spectrum of MSM before it takes hold and the leadership of the Dems decide its safe enough to stick their little necks out and do somthing serious about these freaks. Dana Perino was absolutely painful to watch. Tough job...
KO really called him out on his lies,and tied everthing in the past to it...I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that about a sitting Prez....and this one(still not a legal President in my eyes)surely deserves it.
KO lays it out without a single f-bomb or other "crudity" and still they'll be complaining. I guess there's just no pleasing some people.
I hope to hear the word "Liar" spoken clearly, often, and by many individuals the next few weeks...we'll see....
I liked the way he tied all the dates together on all the talking points.How this admin started off with "Lets go gettum" to..well.....maybe.It's painfully clear that this admin knew...and did it anyway...for over 3 months..Now their trying to tell me....we didn't know??????
Hey, Nancy and Harry, it's real simple:
Impeach
Remove
Idict
Convict
I've often wondered what would happen if somebody printed out the transcripts of Keith's excellent chats, along with a printout of the C&L comments, and faxed them to the White House. Would that person end up going to jail? You just know he/she would get a visit from the SS. What do you think?
Try it out Floaks and let us know how it works out :)
KEITH, THANK YOU!!!
Hasn't it been obvious from the beginning that BushCo was lying about Iran?
Surely we all knew that, all along.
Duh.
Dun Dugg it.
It is amazing that everyone is now accepting that this President and his cahoots have other intent in going to war than what the LIES that has been discovered.
What do those who we elected do when they have important report such as the NIE report? Do they rely on the president and vice president to read and interpret the report themselves? It was alleged that the current Presidential Candidates have read these report and therefore voted to go along with the President and Vice President (except Congressman Kucinich and Congressman Paul) It is clear that only Paul and Kucinich has the capacity to analyze these report. They (Kucinich and Paul)have been RIGHT all along.
Obama did not vote but opposed the war; but he continued to FUND the WAR. So what does that says about his own judgement?
Dennis Kucinich again has echoed what the NIE report from 2003; long ago and said that he saw NO evidences that IRAN was an eminent threat to our Nation. Dennis Kucinich is the only one that has been consistently CORRECT about his analysis and the only one candidate that obviously read the NIE report; yet the MEDIA never mention this.
Dennis Kucinich deserves MORE credit for being RIGHT rather than being the top-tier corporate groomed and corporate backed presidential candidate.
AMERICA.......you're a fool if YOU don't see Dennis Kucinich as our best choice president and HE truly DESERVE our votes.........any other candidate would be a wasted vote.
wow.
As a lifelong Democrat, where's my party? Why are the Dem's not out in front of this? Hello...Congress have you ever heard of hearings...where's Joe Biden, Richardson, Obama or Pelosi? I wouldn't put Hill in that same group because she's as much of a chicken little as bush. What a depressing fucking day, bush lies again and MY party is MIA.
Olberman is spot on - again. Unfortunately Bush's job is safe (and this country is not) as long as he has the protection of the "Democratic" Congress and its leadership. My mind has been spun around trying to guess what it might take to put impeachment back "on the table," but I suppose the better question might be: "What was done to take it "off the table" in the first place?"
Impeach now! Start by getting rid of Pelosi.
HOLY SHIT, that was AWESOME, Keith completely fucking laid out that smirking c*nt and called him for what he is....A LIAR!!!
[Edited-Sitemonitor]
Doggiebobo @ 50:
Oh, they see it, but will they understand it or act on it?
No.
I can hear them now "Oh that poor KO, he just doesn't get it."
If they are saying that or thinking that I have news for them, we DO get it, and we wish you would get off your re-election stump and do the work you need to do to get these cretinous rat-bastards under oath.
rich board @ 72:
They can't ignore the truth any longer....yet....I have no expectations....but at least Someone is speaking out..and tomorrow is FRIDAY....this made my day!
Brad @ 61:
He did say "Crap"... My ears!
Keith @ 68:
Absolutely. As did anyone that bothered to pay attention in the lead up to Iraq.
In each case, there is still a relatively (oil control, yes) unanswered question--why, if knowing there is no threat, do they desire so strongly to bomb them?
By the way does anyone out there believe that Bush and Co. have any intention (and for that matter, including Dem Leadership) in EVER leaving Iraq? (permanent bases, etc) The "advantage" of having such a poor occupation plan is that they had for a long time an excuse that most would accept--its to chaotic, we need to establish order...
Keith,
Brilliant. Bless you for using your gifts wisely. And thank you for your message to the one who should not be president.
fiver @ 73:
Uh oh, now you've done it! The true blue dumbocrats will be by shortly to chastise you for criticizing their party! :)
Seriously, I agree with you one hundred percent! This should have been dealt with a long time ago!
Impeach these assholes!
that fucktard actually wanted to start WW3...........and he still might.
We've all heard Olbermann's attack on this administration over and over and over again. And don't we all just want to hear it over and over and over again. WE SURE DO!
This is the backbone America needs but sadly it (America) falls about 98% short.
We listen to the rhetoric from Ms. Cheney and Ms. Bush explaining how "historians will prove their husbands importance"..... I know we doubt that but I think historians will place Keith Olbermann in that corner where heroes like Will Rogers, Mark Twain, Lenny Bruce stand.
Qualifications? Wisdom and Balls!
A-Fucking-Man
The saddest part of the last seven years has been that America has a president who is too dumb to know he's dumb and no one seems to care about how dangerous that is. Congress is cowed, asleep, and impotent. The media has long since abandoned their duties to the country and has thrown their lot in with the endemic corruption in Washington. This country dishonors our forebearers everyday and thinks nothing of it. Thank goodness for blogs.
"A pathological presidential liar, or an idiot-in-chief" - one that has us winning the war in Iraq and compelling Iran to give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons, as did Libya about the same time - and for the same reason. We need more such idiot liars.
J @ 74:
I'm not being snarky but fuck and shit are OK but Cee You Next Tuesday isn't?
[It's just the way it is. Would you like us to go after 'Shit' and 'Fuck' as well? Sitemonitor]
As much as I like Pelosi....I think she has to go.The only reason I can come up with for not impeaching Boosh,is ............so this doesn't continue in a 4 year cycle....every prez could be impeached from here on out over stupid crap.this doesn't mean I don't want this prez impeached,indeed I do......well I guess it doesn't really matter....the repugs will do it anyway.
mudshark @ 81:
YES! A rat, cornered is a dangerous thing.
WWWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jack Coleman @ 85:
"[W]inning the war in Iraq..." What are you talking about? That war was won years ago; didn't you see the aircraft carrier?
At least some of the "chief's" underlings are chiming in...
hmmmmmmmm? no trolls. either they didn't watch.....or their lexipro is kicking in.
Excellent timing, another tomorrow night and Sunday would make the last month of december 2007 memorable into 2008.
I SO WANT TO HAVE THAT MAN'S BABY.
Keith @ 68:
bush is the kind of guy who will lie even when the truth sounds better.
Go Keith go!
keith, we need your voice in public service
J @ 86:
FYI - Cee You Next Tuesday is a sexist slur. Fuck and shit... eh.. not so much... :-)
PWNED
Great rant by Keith, unfortunately I think he's wrong. He calls Bush an "idiot", etc. which he most certainly is, but not for the reasons Keith thinks. I think Bush wants to start WWIII and hasten "The Rapture". I think Bush is just stupid enough to think he can bring the Bible to life, and his lies with respect to Iraq and Iran are to further that end.
I see you all using the word liar in regards to Bush, the more damnable characterization is fearmonger. That is the one that KO points out time and again. That is the one that leads people to give up liberty. Liar is too jejune.
Maybe best special comment yet by Keith! Thanks for documenting the actually date Bush shifted the rhetoric, which coincides with the NIE release. What is also so impressive is how Keith is the only MSM pundit who actually talks in terms of how the rest of the world views Bush, as a war criminal, as a man is is either devoid of intellect or morals, or (most likely) both. Thank you Keith. We don't need good luck with this type of commentary, we need it's message to resonate.
BTW, here's a link to the Froomkin time-line referenced by K.O.
What do we do? Seriously.... the three women that represent me in Congress are MIA .. The leader of the House and Senate are silent... Protests are insufficient... Is it time to seriously start promoting the 2nd Amendment? And band together?
What do we do?
The Democrats (with a few exceptions) are not going to seize the day... how do we?
What are your suggestions?
Why does everyone say Bush is either a liar or an idiot?
I hear the Iraq gov't is taking another whole month off?
I've heard KO carries his balls around in a wheelbarrow.
GO KEITH!
In the future there will be an award named after Olbermann that is given to great Americans.
In quoting Dan Froomkin's Editorial, it was noted Bush saying on March 31st- "We respect Irans rich traditions"....yes Geoege, like wanting to blow Israel to thy kingdom come. I'm sure he really means that and all the Iranians were running around saying "that Georgie is such a nice, trusting hombre"
Then, in June 5th Bush says "Iranians are great people"....like, how many have you ever met Georgie? And does he not know, anyone of them that has the strength to hold a knife would carve out his Adams apple in a wink of an eye....
This ass-hole will say anything and thinks he's back in that FLA school reading my pet goat to kids in kindergarten.
Step into the light George.
abarts @ 105:
why not?..this govt only work 3 days a week.....that's right, tuesday thru thursday.
abarts @ 105:
Yes that's right. Their 21st in a row. It's too hot you know.
tweakerbell @ 34:
hiding in shame thinking of how bad they look to have been afraid of this idiot
So, America / NATO / Germany / France / EU are still pushing for UN sanctions on Iran despite the NIE report.
And Iran claims it just wants electricity.
If I were Ahmadinejad I'd say, "OK scumbags, we need electricity and nuclear power is the cheapest and most practical way to go - we'll stop EVERYTHING nuclear if YOU ASSHOLES pay for ANY AND ALL COSTS for OUR ENTIRE electrical needs - solar panels, hydro-electric dams, wind generators - EEVVEERRYYTTHHIINNGG"
"And instead of sharing this good news with the people you have obviously forgotten you represent, you merely fine-tuned your terrorizing of those people, to legally cover your own backside, while you filled the factual gap with sadistic visions of — as you phrased it on August 28th: a quote “nuclear holocaust” — and, as you phrased it on October 17th, quote: “World War III.”
it's amazing that though NIE says that Bush is wrong, he still think it is... WHAT THE F#$K! this man only gets "hard" when he is sending young men to die
Keith= Edward R. Murrow incarnate
Thank you Mr. Olbermann...
The truth has a glorious sound.
I've heard so many times in my many years, MAN uses about 6% of his intellectual capabilities. Imagine if you will, another planet with beings that only use 9% of their intellectual capabilities.....How much smarter they would be. They probably had thoughts of taking over this planet at one time but put that on hold because...well, as their leader might say, "we'll just wait a bit because they've got these two Ass-holes down there whose going to destroy everone for us"..............
Timmy_D11 @ 112:
weak
[Please don't advocate violence here-Sitemonitor]
Why is McConnell not in a prison cell again?
OH SMACK!
Why does Olberman keep calling the misfit "sir"?
Scumbag would be more appropriate.
abarts @ 105:
While ours(USA) seem to have taken the past 7 years off and let their corporate friends run the 'show'.
That was refreshing to watch, I may have to watch it again and again and again :)
Please email it to pelosi,reid and the rest of the denialists in the senate/congress ;)
PassedPawn @ 121:
Because Olbermann is cultured.
WOW !!!!!!
PassedPawn @ 121:
Because, regardless of how he acts, Mr. Bush is in fact an adult. And we should all expect from him what we would expect from any other self-respecting adult.
There is a man running who would make a great President.
rich board @ 72:
Haven't you heard? Impeachment is off the table.
Why?
Because we won't convict.
But isn't impeachment an important part of the truth process in a case like this? Regardless of outcome? Won't the judgment of history demand a full and formal airing of the facts, even if he should retain the office?
Maybe, in some high-tower, abstract, dorm-room, pie-in-the-sky world, but here on EARTH we don't do things just because they're "right," we do things because there's an angle in it for us.
Well, won't it help Democrats to have Bush and Cheney face formal investigation.
Dunno. That's a dangerous game. All that will do is rally the base, who are all dependable anyway. And it might piss off some moderates and actually end up costing us votes. And, as you know, getting votes is what's important here.
Really? Can you show me where it says that in the oath of office? I see a lot in there about preserving, protecting and defending the constitution. Not a lot about doing whatever it takes to get elected.
There you go again with those high-minded "pure" ideals of yours! Now, if you don't mind, the adults are busy building the caucus so we can get some REAL work done.
Oh, you mean like excluding gays from hate crime legislation?
Oh, you saw that? See, well, the thing is, being too pro-gay might piss of the moderates and that might cost us some support in key battleground states.
Okay. I see it now. Thanks for all the good work.
Shawnmeat @ 126:
Funny, every time I see him I see a spoiled rotten brat masquerading as a 60 year old president.
KO is a stand up guy. I admire him for his bravery, honesty, and straigh forwardness. He is the only journalist in the MSM that I trust. He is the Edward R. Murrow of my generation. Kudos to Keith!!!!
the truely pathetic outcome of this yet-another-monumental-lie foisted upon the american people, are the scapegoats the administration chooses this time to take the heat for the president's...oh screw this....
bush and cheney are evil filthy lying scumbags, who simply need to be impeached.
Click. Bling. Snap! ,,,,and the veil is lifted. Is that a ray of sunshine I see? Ohmygawd. I got this link from DKOS. I threw out my TV years ago, but I've seen these MSM guys shifting gears and putting out some talking heads to dis the Republithugs (it's so damn easy), but this made me feel better than I have in, well, seven years or so. I agree w/ one of the earlier comments. The truth has a particular ring to it, when it's spoken powerfully and eloquently. Holy shazam! If I could beam this into every American's head TONIGHT, I would. Thank you, KO.
K.O. - no more need be said!
Ah that was beautiful I had to watch it twice and post about it twice
Oh, yeah! Think what a different country this would be right now if the rest of the journalists (outside that miniscule circle that includes, Keith, Bill moyers, Helen thomas, the late Molly Ivans and Sy Hersch) were to approach their jobs as does Olbermann, if we had a congress that did the same, if we had a judicial branch that did likewise. We would still be a free people living in a legitimate democracy and not the Orwellian distopic dictatorship that is now emerging and consolidating itself into a nightmarish reality.
Jack Coleman @ 85:
Did they use similar logic when they convinced you to get a lobotomy?
PassedPawn @ 121:
Having spent 23 years in the military there is a way to call someone "Sir" which basically means, "asshole" (and I apologize for the use of that word though I know we're all adults). Using the tone that he does that's what KO means when he calls Bush "Sir".
When listening to KO's special comments I always think that his words should be coming out of the mouths of Pelosi and Reid. We needs leaders willing to give a firey emotional speech without the PC kid gloves. I know they think they'd upset a ReThugs virgin ears and give him high blood pressure which would lead to lots of nasty comments to the MSM but it's way past the time we need to treat these people like honorable public servants. They are criminals and they prey on their own citizens with hate and fear laced diatribes. It's time to send them to jail so perhaps the next set of neocon wannabe's will think twice before they try to ruin this country.
Bravo! KO!
Pursang @ 137:
Yes, Sir! (I say that with the utmost respect.) :)
Preacher Boob @ 32:
Preacher Boob,
Well said! (But you better watch yourself - talking about impeachment before the trolls who worship Pelosi show up - two trolls in particular I'm thinking of. LOL).
Paul @ 140:
I loves me trolls. :)
xoites defends Constitution @ 139:
Exactly!
My other favorite was when someone prefaced a comment with "No disrespect intended". They pretty much were saying, "How do you breathe with your head so far up your ass". Ah yes, the subtle way to turn a phrase in the English language. Ya gotta love it....
Keith had better be checking under his car before he steps inside after work. I'm thinking he's calling "the king has no clothes" a bit too loudly for his own safety.
Only wish more Americans were hearing his cry.
Finally a "NEWS REPORTER". Way to go Keith, you are my hero. Hey congressional stooges, do your job "Investage" these sorry excuses of real Americans.
What if this whole fiasco were to be part of a greater plan? What if, the plan was to have the agencies tell the truth, that there is no program at present in Iran, and have the neofascists scream and yell that "they" know better, with a further plan down the road to stage an attack against American forces, or American citizens and blame Iran, so they could then yell "We told you so!" and, employ what has been rumored to happen, martial law and suspension of our elections? What if?
Keith Olbermann is the only broadcaster in America with the courage to tell the truth. No doubt Walter Cronkite and Edward R Murrow are standing and applauding.
The Bush Administration is morally corrupt. Where is Congress? If this doesn't deserve an investigation and impeachment, I don't know what does.......
HulksHeroes @ 143:
You want to see the country go berzerk? Killing any of the few people out there who have a microphone and disagree with this Administration would see thing go off in very unpredictable and uncontrollable directions. I am certain Keith is aware of the possibilities and protects himself.
I vote idiot in chief over pathological liar. Bush is far too dumb to be a good liar. The rest of his crew on the other hand are just plain evil.
Susan @ 146:
Walter Cronkite is a senior news analyst for NPR. He has been very quiet of late.
If any crooked administration ever deserved a duel impeachment, this one would be it.
Why are the corporatist cronies in congress refusing to uphold and defend the United States Constitution? Is it just a 'g*d-damn piece of paper' as duhbya defines it?
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