Countdown Special Comment to President Bush: "Shut the hell up."
In an astoundingly ignorant interview with The Politico's Mike Allen Tuesday, President Bush insinuated that electing a Democrat in November would lead to another attack on America, and revealed that he made the ultimate sacrifice by giving up golf shortly after the start of the Iraq War -- the timing of which he lied about. Naturally, Keith ripped into him tonight -- with all the anger and passion you've come to expect from a Special Comment -- for continuing this despicable fear-mongering, and for failing to understand what true sacrifice is.
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"Mr. President," he was asked, "you haven't been golfing in recent years. Is that related to Iraq?
"Yes," began perhaps the most startling reply of this nightmarish blight on our lives as Americans -- on our history.
"It really is. I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the Commander-in-Chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be as -- to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal."
Golf, Sir?
Golf sends the wrong signal to the grieving families of our men and women butchered in Iraq?
Do you think these families, Mr. Bush - their lives blighted forever -- care about you playing golf?
Do you think, Sir, they care about you?
You, Mr. Bush, let their sons and daughters be killed.
Sir, to show your solidarity with them - you gave up golf?
Sir, to show your solidarity with them - you didn't give up your pursuit of this insurance-scam, profiteering, morally and financially bankrupting war.
Sir, to show your solidarity with them - you didn't even give up talking about Iraq - a subject about which you have incessantly proved without pause or backwards glance, that you may literally be the least informed person in the world?
Sir, to show your solidarity with them, you didn't give up... your
4,000 dead Americans and your response... was to stop playing golf!
Golf.
Not "gulf" - golf.
Full transcripts below the fold:
Finally tonight, as promised, a Special Comment on two topics a lot of us had foolishly thought, had naively hoped, we would not again have to address... and a third topic nobody thought a president would ever seriously mention in public unless perhaps he'd just been hit in the head with something and was not in full possession of his faculties -- how he expressed his "empathy" to the families of the dead in Iraq -- by giving up golf.
The President has resorted anew to the sleaziest fear-mongering and mass manipulation of an administration -- of a public life -- dedicated to realizing the lowest of our expectations.
And he has now applied these poisons to the 2008 presidential election, on behalf of the party at whose center he and Mr. McCain lurk.
Mr. Bush has predicted that the election of a Democratic president could, "eventually lead to another attack on the United States."
This ludicrous, infuriating, holier-than-thou and most importantly bone-headedly wrong statement came yesterday during an interview with Politico-dot-com and on-line users of Yahoo.
The question was phrased as follows: "If we were to pull out of Iraq next year, what's the worst that could happen, what's the doomsday scenario?"
The President replied: "Doomsday scenario, of course, is that extremists throughout the Middle East would be emboldened, which would eventually lead to another attack on the United States.
The biggest issue we face is -- it's bigger than Iraq -- it's this ideological struggle against cold-blooded killers who will kill people to achieve their political objectives."
Mr. Bush, at long last, has it not dawned on you that the America you have now created, includes 'cold-blooded killers who will kill people to achieve their political objectives'?'
They are those in, or formerly in, your employ, who may yet be charged some day with war crimes.
Through your haze of self-congratulation and self-pity, do you still have no earthly clue that this nation has laid waste to Iraq to achieve your political objectives?
'This ideological struggle,' Mr. Bush, is taking place within this country.
It is a struggle between Americans who cherish freedom -- ours and everybody else's -- and Americans like you, sir, to whom freedom is just a brand name, just like "Patriot Act" is a brand name or "Protect America" is a brand name.
But wait, there's more.
You also said "Iraq is the place where al Qaeda and other extremists have made their stand -- and they will be defeated."
They made no "stand" in Iraq, sir. You allowed them to assemble there!
As certainly as if that were the plan, the borders were left wide open by your government's farcical post-invasion strategy of 'they'll greet us as liberators.'
And as certainly as if that were the plan, the inspiration for another generation of terrorists in another country was provided by your government's farcical post-invasion strategy of letting the societal infra-structure of Iraq dissolve, to be replaced by an American Vice-Royalty enforced by merciless mercenaries who shoot unarmed Iraqis and then evade prosecution in any country, by hiding behind your skirts, sir.
Terrorism inside Iraq is your creation, Mr. Bush!
It was a Yahoo user who brought up the second topic upon whose introduction Mr. Bush should have passed, or punted, or gotten up and left the room claiming he heard Dick Cheney calling him.
"Do you feel," asked an ordinary American, "that you were mis-led on Iraq?"
"I feel like -- I felt like, there were weapons of mass destruction. You know, "mislead" is a strong word, it almost connotes some kind of intentional -- I don't think so, I think there was a -- not only our intelligence community, but intelligence communities all across the world shared the same assessment. And so I was disappointed to see how flawed our intelligence was."
Flawed.
You, Mr. Bush, and your tragically know-it-all minions, threw out every piece of intelligence that suggested there were no such weapons.
You, Mr. Bush, threw out every person who suggested that the sober, contradictory, reality-based intelligence needed to be listened to, fast.
You, Mr. Bush, are responsible for how "intelligence communities all across the world shared the same assessment."
You and the sycophants you dredged up and put behind the most important steering wheel in the world propagated palpable nonsense and shoved it down the throat of every intelligence community across the world and punished anybody who didn't agree it was really chicken salad.
And you, Mr. Bush, threw under the bus all of the subsequent critics who bravely stepped forward later to point out just how much of a self-fulfilling prophecy you had embraced, and adopted as this country's policy -- in lieu of, say, common sense.
The fiasco of pre-war intelligence, sir, is your fiasco.
You should build a great statue of yourself turning a deaf ear to the warnings of realists, while you are shown embracing the three-card monte dealers like Richard Perle and Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.
That would be a far more fitting tribute to your legacy, Mr. Bush, than this presidential library you are constructing as a giant fable about your presidency, an edifice you might as claim was built from Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction because there will be just as many of those inside your presidential library as there were inside Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
Of course if there is one over-riding theme to this president's administration it is the utter, always-failing, inability to know when to quit when it is behind.
And so Mr. Bush answered yet another question about this layered, nuanced, wheels-within-wheels garbage heap that constituted his excuse for war.
"And so you feel that you didn't have all the information you should have or the right spin on that information?"
"No, no," replied the President. "I was told by people, that they had weapons of mass destruction..."
People?
What people?
The insane informant "Curveball?"
The Iraqi snake-oil salesman Ahmed Chalabi?
The American snake-oil salesman Dick Cheney?
"I was told by people that they had weapons of mass destruction, as were members of Congress, who voted for the resolution to get rid of Saddam Hussein. And of course, the political heat gets on and they start to run and try to hide from their votes."
Mr. Bush -- you destroyed the evidence that contradicted the resolution you jammed down the Congress's throat, the way you jammed it down the nation's throat.
When required by law to verify that your evidence was accurate, you simply re-submitted it, with phrases amounting to "See, I done proved it," virtually written in the margins in crayon.
You defied patriotic Americans to say "The Emperor has no clothes" -- only with the stakes (as you and the mental dwarves in your employ put it) being a "mushroom cloud over an American city."
And as a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party seemingly perpetual congressional seats in places like North Carolina and -- last night -- Mississippi, you can actually say with a straight face, sir, that for members of Congress "the political heat gets on and they start to run and try to hide from their votes" - while you greet the political heat and try to run and hide from your presidency -- and your legacy -- 4,000 of the Americans you were supposed to protect, dead in Iraq, with your only feeble, pathetic answer being, "I was told by people that they had weapons of mass destruction."
Then came Mr. Bush's final blow to our nation's solar plexus, his last re-opening of our common wounds, his last remark that makes the rest of us question not merely his leadership or his judgment but his very suitably to remain in office.
"Mr. President," he was asked, "you haven't been golfing in recent years. Is that related to Iraq?
"Yes," began perhaps the most startling reply of this nightmarish blight on our lives as Americans -- on our history.
"It really is. I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died, to see the Commander-in-Chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be as -- to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal."
Golf, sir?
Golf sends the wrong signal to the grieving families of our men and women butchered in Iraq?
Do you think these families, Mr. Bush -- their lives blighted forever -- care about you playing golf?
Do you think, sir, they care about you?
You, Mr. Bush, let their sons and daughters be killed.
Sir, to show your solidarity with them - you gave up golf?
Sir, to show your solidarity with them -- you didn't give up your pursuit of this insurance-scam, profiteering, morally and financially bankrupting war.
Sir, to show your solidarity with them -- you didn't even give up talking about Iraq -- a subject about which you have incessantly proved without pause or backwards glance, that you may literally be the least informed person in the world?
Sir, to show your solidarity with them, you didn't give up your presidency?
In your own words -- "solidarity as best as I can" -- is to stop a game? That is the "best" you can?
4,000 Americans give up their lives and your sacrifice was to give up golf!
Golf.
Not "gulf" -- golf.
And still it gets worse.
Because it proves that the President's unendurable sacrifice, his unbearable pain, the suspension of getting to hit a stick with a ball, was not even his own damned idea.
"Mr. President, was there a particular moment or incident that brought you to that decision, or how did you come to that?"
"I remember when de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad as a result of these murderers taking this good man's life. And I was playing golf -- I think I was in central Texas -- and they pulled me off the golf course and I said, it's just not worth it any more to do."
Your one, tone-deaf, arrogant, pathetic, embarrassing gesture, and you didn't even think of it yourself?
The great Bushian sacrifice -- an Army private loses a leg, a Marine loses half his skull, four thousand of their brothers and sisters lose their lives, you lose golf... and they have to pull you off the golf course to get you to just do that?
If it's even true...
Apart from your medical files, which dutifully record your torn calf muscle and the knee pain which forced you to give up running at the same time -- coincidence, no doubt -- the bombing in Baghdad which killed Sergio Vieira de Mello of the U-N... and interrupted your round of golf, was on August 19th, 2003.
Yet there is an Associated Press account of you playing golf as late as Columbus Day of that year -- October 13th -- nearly two months later.
Mr. Bush, I hate to break it to you, six-and-a-half years after you yoked this nation and your place in history to the wrong war, in the wrong place, against the wrong people but the war in Iraq is Not. About. You.
It is not, Mr. Bush, about your grief when American after American comes home in a box.
It is not, Mr. Bush, about what your addled brain has produced in the way of paranoid delusions of risks that do not exist, ready to be activated if some Democrat, and not your twin Mr. McCain succeeds you.
The war in Iraq -- your war, Mr. Bush -- is about how you accomplished the derangement of two nations, and how you helped funnel billions of taxpayer dollars to lascivious and perennially thirsty corporations like Halliburton and Blackwater, and how you sent 4,000 Americans to their deaths -- for nothing.
It is not, Mr. Bush, about your golf game!
And, sir, if you have any hopes that next January 20th will not be celebrated as a day of soul-wrenching, heart-felt Thanksgiving, because your faithless stewardship of this presidency will have finally come to a merciful end, this last piece of advice:
When somebody asks you, sir, about Democrats who must now pull this country back from the abyss you have placed us at...
When somebody asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation...
When somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead...
This advice, Mr. Bush...
Shut the hell up!
first.... Keith... are you going gray?
Maybe Bush Gave Up Golf, But He Still Makes His ‘Putz’
Object not found!!!
That has got to be one of the best SCs from Keith I've ever heard! He just completely and utterly rocks!
Keep speaking the truth to power, K.O.!!
Do you think we could get him in as VP?
Both d/l links do not work!
there was some very obvious self censoring with that last line. i don't think anyone could have blamed him if the filter was off tonight.
That president... such a sacrificationalizer.
Probably still too early yet. They're probably editing it out to post it. This one is a keeper!!
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Oh and Silent Patriot..your pov that Bush's interview was "astoundingly ignorant" is spot-friggin-on :)
George, the below average child of wealth and privilege is of no real importance.
It's the Branch that was created to keep wealth and privilege in check that has abandoned us. It should be the most scrutinized.
Keith is stuck on minutia.
ctk hussein ky3 @ 6:
I wish he would have said it. Come on, tell the President to shut the fuck up, KO. This is exactly why we have swear words, when they're the only thing that will accurately communicate the punctuation and emotion necessary to the moment.
…a word about the location, it’s significance, and it’s unusually huge turnout;
Grand Rapids, Michigan is a bastion for the Republicans and has been for decades. The home of Gerald Ford, AMWAY, Steelcase, and the AMWAY family of conservative rich folks, Richard DeVos and Jay VanAndel for whom the arena Barack spoke at was named. It’s ALWAYS a 65% victory for the Republicans in the House of Representatives in this district…so to see a turnout of the magnitude that appeared in Grand Rapids today was a full and fantastic surprise.
The arena seats 12,000, and it was standing room only, with several hundred outside listening. The Fire Marshall had to close the doors and not allow anyone in as it was dangerously approaching the boundaries of safety in terms of volume of people inside. The local NBC affiliate showed the entire speech and talked with local residents afterward and it was amazing to see the spark in their eyes, the bounce in their steps, but the sheer volume of people coming out to support a Democrat in this town, in the county, unheard of…ever in my 57 years!
Way to go Grand Rapids!
I just have to laugh, at how well arranged, and timed this all was. It wasn’t even on the radar until Sunday, I don’t think Barack’s plans for a trip to G.R. became common knowledge until Sunday as far as I know, so this was thrown together rather rapidly. CHECKMATE!
ctk hussein ky3 @ 6:
I had the same thought. Hell, he's on cable. He could have done it! ;-)
The best 12 minutes of television, ever. Thanks, Keith!
Maybe we'll add Mr. Olbermann's face to Mt. Rushmore someday.
I hear shrub is giving up lobster too.
Well, not "giving up" giving up, but he's definitely not eating as much of it.
Well, maybe just about as much really.
Ok OK. He's eating MORE lobster....but only because he feels so sad about all the needless death and destruction he's caused that he can't help thinking about giving up lobster and he ended up kinda' obsessing on it. Could happen to anybody.
I wonder how Neocons and their rank-and-file would have taken to the WWII US that rationed food, gas, and metals. I wonder how they would have reacted indeed. My guess is "YOU WANTS TO TAIK AWAY ARE VEHIKLES!! FASCISTSIAS!!!!"
May the god of your choice bless Keith Olbermann.
As Gore Vidal observed today on Democracy Now!, George W. Bush may be one of the most, if not THE most, stupidest persons to ever set foot in the Oval Office. Intelligence,sensitivity, wisdom, have never been his strongest suits. Bush is a less than shining example of the Peter Principle in action. He could have continued to sharpen his skills at cheerleading [which he did at Yale] or he could have been more diligent in pursuing the position of commissioner of Major League Baseball. If he could have obtained that position, there would have a much less likelihood that American soldiers and Iraqi children [the median age of those who live in Iraq is 15] would have died because of Bush's need to satisfy his corporate masters' desire to control the world's oil supply.
Yet Nancy Pelosi continues to insist, to her everlasting shame, that impeachment is off the table. Gore Vidal also observed on Democracy Now! that if there was any amount of justice in the world, Cheney would be lined up in front of a firing squad and shot. One wonders if there would also be room for other members of this administration who could share the same fate as the vice president.
A more dispassionate delivery would have made it even better.
Bravo Keith, Bravo.
Thank God for Keith Olbermann. We may never see these criminals
brought to justice, but at least it won't go quietly into history!
Jim D @ 12:
The thought lasered through my mind. A split second of silence as his mouth formed the word FUCK....we all thought it with him.
I am so glad he is there and we can send this all over the viral universe.
'nighmarish blight on our lives'
god.....
so painfully true.
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i thought the only thing bush gave up while troops were in iraq was reality.
He's the best we have.
Thank you Silent Patriot, Amato, Nicole and all the elves (and Elvi) here that keep us informed. ;)
Saw this live......absolutely phenomenal. It's stunning Keith is still allowed on-air....let's hope that doesn't change.
Its truly hard to believe that Bush would answer in such a juvenile and idiotic fashion and K.O. nails it when he replies as honestly as anyone possibly can to such disingenuous stupidity by Bush.
Yes, Keith, it does get worse. Its hard to think this man can continue to sink but clearly the utter ignorance of Bush is never done plummeting even farther into levels never before seen.
Limitless ignorance. Limitless lack of understanding. Limitless cognitive dissonance
OT Dan Abrams is making a real push for Clinton to be on the ticket with Obama.
STFU Abrams. We don't want Hillary as VP. Get that through your repug head. To be honest it isn't so much Hillary as it is Bill. We don't want Bill as VP.
Just wish all of these self imposed experts on TV would just let Obama pick his own running mate. Shut up about it already. Getting very tiresome all the "pick Hillary, pick Hillary, pick Hillary." We DO NOT want Hillary. The end.
Abrams is a real repug tool.
An awesome SC from Keith tonight. I was hoping and wishing he would say "Mr. Bush just Shut the F*ck Up!" You could tell he wanted to say it!
BRAVO KEITH for another GREAT Special Comment.
Rick Mack @ 28:
LOL, I bumped into the very end and all I seen was a face staring in my screen, shaking, and saying "SHUT THE HELL UP!"
No way would he be allowed on television even 10 years ago I believe for telling the President of the U.S. to shut up. But this is at least the worst President in modern US history so unfortunately Keith is drowned out by everyone else shouting and protesting.
Oh.My.God.
Thank You, Keith. All that perspective in one Special Comment. Left me in tears, actually. Please, please, please...why can we not impeach this excuse for a man?
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is
able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing
superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the
conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane,
intolerable.
H. L. Mencken
Now Keith go after Pelosie next--Why is she protecting Bush/Chenny? Could it be that Pelosie is an agent for Israel as is Bush?
liberAL @ 30:
I'm one of of those people that think She would be a good choice for Veep.She will bring with her her voter base.
The only problem would be(and it would be a problem) Mrs Obama. I don't see those two getting along at all.
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Best. Special. Comment. Ever.
He gave up golf? Why doesn't he do us all a favor and give up the Presidency.
Bush redefines stupidity every time he opens his mouth. The US will paying for this for a long time...obvious to everyone with firing neurons. Why does he still hold office? This amazes me. Rant over...
Just another Obama hack and lost all credibility.
Hmm. I never understand that Republican bugaboo that another terrorist attack will come if the Democrats are in power. Didn't the first one come under the Republicans? A lot of us tinfoil hatters even think the Republicans at least allowed it to happen, but I won't go there. I know C & L doesn't like it.
I think he may have given up sobriety as well.
Is Laura on Xanex?
odanny @ 29:
Think about it. Really. The only thing that would be "truly hard to believe" would be if Bush did not answer in a juvenile and idiotic fashion.
In fact I don't think I've ever experienced a human being who was more predictable or more consistent.
But, the idiocy is not what has caused him to screw up everything he has touched -- the cause of his perfect record of failure is that he is a completely dishonest person who has surrounded himself with others who are equally dishonest.
Billy Shears @ 42:
The worst part about that is is that they lie to themselves and believe it and are shocked they have no credibility.
Site monitor.... man I hate it too when people use ALL CAPS. People think I am crazy when I make such a big deal.
Anyway, isn't it amazing how someone can speak such brutal truth, but it gets completely ignored? There is not a chance in hell that Georgy Porgy will see this... or if he would, it wouldn't phase him.
I want to forward this to people at work, family, my DAD specifically, but then I look like the crazy one...What the hell? Maybe it is just Iowa-Nebraska and working in electrical distribution. I am doomed no matter how bad these ignorants screw up.
Barack Obama; I believe you can turn this mess around... Can't wait til you do it! Good night and good luck!
naschkatze Hussein @ 40:
As Gore Vidal noted on Democracy Now! today, it remains to be seen if the Bush administration will give up the reins of power come November. One should not be too surprised if Bush and Cheney order Iran to be bombed and declare martial law for the [alleged] good of the country. The best way to control the people is to keep them in a state of constant fear. After all, this administration knows the Democrats are too cowardly to do their job, which would mean obeying the Constitution by impeaching this most criminal administration.
Olberman ripped the chimpster like 5 or 6 new assholes w/that one (special) comment!
... (almost) went medieval on his ass!
...best special comment ever by Olberman!
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 41:
I've suspected for some time that they probably have him doped up on some kind of anti-anxiety meds, at the very least.
Here's what one professor of clinical psychology has to say about the current occupant...
http://fora.tv/2008/01/19/Justin_Frank_Inside_the_Mind_of_President_Bush
Thank god for Keith Olbermann!
As for Hils as veep, no way. She may bring her base but Obama would lose that many more of HIS base because his base does not want the same-old-same-old politics in Washington and that is what she offers.
It would be a wash at best and the right wingers would have a field day against her.
She would not be a good veep choice at all.
Really Good. In case you want to give the channel feedback:
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Also, did anyone catch Pat Buchannan spouting the racism on Hardball? What a jerk.
Ogie @ 9:
Little known fact:
He also gave up NASCAR to save energy.
Having finally just seen the special comment it occurs to me that if McCain loses (and i think he will) the Democrats should throw an Inauguration Party on January 20, 2009 in every city they can across the country. Republicans should also be invited. This country will have come out of one particularly dark period of infamy and it should be celebrated heartily.
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And Conyers says impeachment will happen if...
another fucking World War results.
Shame on you, Democrats, for letting these war criminals get away with it.
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STOP George @ 53:
All the Democrats fault, as usual.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 52:
It will have to be a (shred the patriot act party) ...or else I aint comin'!
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 52:
I know I sure will.
I remember the feeling all too well when Kerry lost. That was like someone died.
I have a friend who is legally blind.
He asked me to email him in caps.
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milquetoast @ 55:
Obama will burn it in the Rose Garden.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 57:
I'll believe it when I see it. (I think he voted for it)
Runner2000 @ 4:
nah he.d have to fight edwards to get a lip lock on that job!
David M. @ 49:
Not only did he p*** off his host, I suspect he may have also angered the network execs as well. He was actually making things up on the fly...even inenting quotes. I suspect we'll be seeing less of him in the future. Buchannan definitely jumped the shark tonight.
It always amazes me to read posts of obvious trolls who are part of the 28% die hards who still support the moron in chief...to watch them say that Obama or Hillary or anyone would not be as good as what they caused this nation to go through by their supporting the Chimpster...they should shut the f&ck up and hide their stupid heads in shame. Anyone who can support what Dubya has done is either stupid are very un-American.
Rico @ 61:
Buchannan... saying something stupid and racist? Say it ain't so! Not Buchannan...
(sarcasm btw)
milquetoast @ 59:
Nope, he wasn't in the senate yet.
Tyler Durden @ 64:
Did he vote to re authorize it?
odanny @ 29:
I think that after paying attention the past 8 years, I am no longer surprised... in fact I am expecting Bush to outdo his sorry ass whenever he opens his mouth. The fact that this nation tolerates this ever sinking of expectations and standards gives me the uneasy feeling, that as a nation we have turned a corner into "the sunset of the empire zone."
Is it Pax Americana yet?
sorry, I'd like to know the answer to that one. I don't think viewing Sen Obama as the next saviour is such a good idea.
That would just lead to disappointment.
mudshark @ 65:
Obama has stated he will bring back Habeas Corpus. He won't keep the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act either.
the wmv still doesn't work for me
mudshark @ 65:
That is a good question, I believe he voted on the modified version of that. I remember him giving a speech or something about the need to modify the original draft or something.
I am a Kucinich guy, which is one of the few sure nays on that monstruosity.
he wanted to say fuck, it was as evident in that last pause between the and hell.
Please all you American's! Don't be s oolish to be afraid of locked up terrorists! Be afraid of the people in your neighorhood that were released to the streets that have rape our children and women! They are the real terrorists! How about the terrorists that keep us with guns at our bedsides in case they break into our homes and harm our families! Get for real people! These people that harm us are a part of our own families!!!!!!!!!!
mudshark @ 65:
Yes he did!
I've seen him pissed in Special comments before... but man. Let it all out man, let it all out.
Damn good.
mudshark @ 67:
One thing for sure, it will take some time and effort to rebuild what the Neocons tore down. Nobody has a magic wand powerful enough to wipe away years of ineptitude and incompetence in a fortnight.
mudshark @ 67:
I just looked it up.
Yes he voted for it. We need to make sure he rips it out of the law.
mudshark @ 67:
Every candidate should be taken in context for what they are: a politician.
One of the things I find most disconcerting about the last couple of election cycles is the blind allegiance to party. Esp, the Dems requesting to vote for them or else the baby gets it. And then throwing a hissy fit when people yawn and decide to blame it on Nader.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 68:
Great! I'm all for this man because it's evident that this is where the country is going. I like what i here from him. But that didn't answer my question x.
Did he vote to re- authorize that act.
I'm sorry to be a pain in the ass here, but the truth still means something to me.
And just when I thought I couldn't hate George Bush any more than I already do....
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 74:
ooooook kayyy
mudshark @ 76:
Mudshark, you are not a pain in the ass.
You have a very good point, we need to elect him and then make him do the will of the people. No chance of that with Bush or McCain.
What is most interesting is that this moron got 8 years!!
Eight loooooong years of corporate profit-taking and war-making that
will keep corporate fat cats happy for a few years to come.
But they'll be back. Americans have short memories.
And this time they'll take the charm of another Reaganesque cowboy but
combine him "some smarts."
Bush was almost the ideal puppet for the corporate fascists. Just a bit too dim.
Hillary voted for it too, Tyree.
Twice!
can't download wmv
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 68:
Obama voted for the patriot act the second time around....and (therefore) does not "defend constitution"
FBush @ 80:
In that case it is my responsibility and your responsibility to not forget.
Isn't it?
The only thing that makes me weep for this country, is the fact that what makes Obermann so angry is the 4000 Americans dead.
The figure pales in comparison with the estimated of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi casualties. We are talking about 2 orders magnitude difference in a population that is 1 order of magnitude smaller than the US. If you work out the per capita casualty rate between the American vs Iraqi figures, you need a few decimal points to star registering the American rate.
I oder words, what angers Mr. Oberman is the droplet of American blood in the bucket of death which is filled mostly with Iraqi blood.
4000 military casualties are rather insignificant in the great scheme of warfare. Hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians killed in an aggressive unprovoked invasion by a supposed democracy is however rather significant in the great scheme of historical events.
God have mercy on our souls.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 79:
Correct me if I'm wrong here, But the version he voted for(along w/HRC) they made sure there was a sunset clause. To assure that this piece of dirt wouldn't last forever..
STOP George @ 53:
Yep, you have a point. Not only do we need a change at 1600 Peensylvania Avenue, we need new senate and house leaders pronto.
milquetoast @ 83:
He is not Dennis Kucinich. Then again Kucinich is not going to be the nominee.
We have a choice, we can back the best possible alternative to the Republicans that we have or we can throw up or hands and give up.
Intellect and COJONES to boot!
Keith Olbermann is, by orders of magnitude, the most intelligent and bravest man in the US news media.
Who else would have the balls, and eloquence, to tell the lying criminal navel-gazing moron squatter in the White House to "Shut the hell fuck up!" ???
Only KO!!!!
America needs more true patriots like him. PLEASE!!!!
May he live long and prosper!
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvNn1raVikw
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcNAt6mfRFA
mudshark @ 67:
Excellent point, but take it even further.
Viewing Obama as the next saviour is just as wrong as viewing Bush as real problem of the past eight years.
The real problem is us.
Both the people who voted for Bush, and the rest of us who allowed Bush to get by with what he's done for the past eight years.
It's couldn't be more clear where the United States begins, and ends.
It was written down, so we wouldn't forget, and couldn't make excuses to avoid it...
We The People...
This nightmare that we have witnessed for the past eight years is really about We The People, and what We will, or will not, allow to be done to our country and our future.
As this point in the story there are no heroes to be found.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 81:
as they say two wrongs dont make a right! xoites it seems our hero has feet of clay!
best Olbermann show Ever
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 74:
I believe he voted for the re-up. I don't think he was there for the original.
Billy Shears @ 42:
I have thought about it, and thought about it before I commented. I wish I shared your utter disregard for anything he says but still am outraged when I hear his comments. Especially these, about giving up golf.
Finally, Keith said (a tad bit more politely) what I yell at the TV whenever the Asshole in Chief opens his lying, mewly, self-pitying mouth! Ever since reading Christopher Buckley's "Boomsday" (where a candidate levels the phrase at the incumbent Preznit during a televised debate and it galvanizes a national wave of people showing up with blazoned banners at every subsequent event), I've been hoping someone would finally have the cojones to publicly tell the Preznit to STFU. Bravissimo, Mr. Olbermann! (Stephanie Miller will now fall into a complete swoon over her "future husband.")
[Deleted-Sitemonitor] Olberwoman is a gutless, yellow traitor and some day he will get what he so richly deserves as will all traitor Liberals.
Tyler Durden @ 85:
Keith is talking to an American audience on a corporate network about the failures of an American President and telling him to shut the hell up. Even Keith knows he has limits.
I think most of us feel just as badly about destroying an entire civilization as you do. We need Keith to keep his job.
Billy Shears @ 90:
When you say us billy , you should define just who you mean. Cause me and a whole lotta people here have been fight the Preznit the whole time.
hey, i guess moore's f9/11 did accomplish something after all
Hey, watch my drive
bush is the most evil man on the planet...a true sociopath
Billy Shears @ 90:
I couldn't agree more.
Arizona Joe @ 96:
ok, this is what happens when you watch the microwave cook food/ very close.
mudshark @ 98:
Unfortunately, the real world doesn't work that way..
Billy Shears @ 93:
Here it is, the original vote...
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm...
Arizona Joe @ 96:
And
In true gutless troll form
That is the last we will hear from you today
Because you are already running
Out your back door
To get as far away from our response
As you possibly can.
Bush is a friggin lunatic plain and simple , a lunatic with out a soul or conscience and a brain the size of a pea . Arizona joe why don't you take your banjo and move to West Virgina you Neaderthal dumb ass .
kasinca @ 62:
We don't really want them to shut up, do we? That's so Bill O'Reilly. The more we let them open their mouths, the more we understand what they have to say, and the more chance there is we can eventually find common ground and common understanding. That's the only way we'll get anywhere. Certainly, we won't get anywhere by telling each other to shut the fuck up.
Tyler Durden @ 66:
Pax Americana died of warmonger fever on March 19, 2003.
Arizona Joe @ 96:
I knew you would be here Karl. I firmly believe you are the only one (or maybe Doug Feith and Bill Kristol still agree) who thinks what this country has done in the last 7.5 years is right. You seriously need a moral compass. You didn't lose it--you never had one.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 104:
I'm surprised I got there first x. usually your all over this kind of...........?
Arizona Joe @ 96:
Houston, we have a sign of an alien lifeform, identifies itself as Bush supporter
Arizona Joe @ 96:
trust me, you wingnut sociopaths will get yours long before ko or any of us
thats right, we are readying the soon to close gitmo as a reeducation camp for all you nutjobs
get ready for hours of watching an inconvenient truth, and lots and lots of granola
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 88:
Ughhh ...I guess so. (in a mainstream media kinda way)...I liked kucinich too. ...our
twoone (mainstream) choices suck, ...dont they?What I find pathetic is Bush can say with a straight face that America will be attacked if a Dem is elected president, yet knowing full well that 9/11 happened on his watch. Unless that wasn't our boy king reading "My Pet Goat" while the Twin Towers burned.
One should not be too surprised if Bush and Cheney order Iran to be bombed and declare martial law for the [alleged] good of the country.
I wish I could dismiss that as idle speculation. But...I can't.
That golf line from W...surreal.
milquetoast @ 112:
Not sure i agree with that. Time will tell.
dam xoites cant you give me an answer when you get nailed?
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 97:
I understand that, and that is why I say that I "weep for this country." We are such a collection of petulant hypocrites that god forbid someone dared to point the truth about how much our shit stinks.
The fact that 4000 American boys and girls got killed while invading a country which did not attack us pales in comparison with a single innocent civilian killed in the same endeavor. The irony of it all is that one has to thread softly when pointing that out to such a supposedly "christian" nation.
mudshark @ 109:
I really can't type all that very quickly. Besides, you deserve the opportunity to respond as well. :)
Bravo Keith!
Keith almost said but I will...
"Shut the fuck up Mr President"
is keith putting on weight?
Arizona Joe @ 96:
Queef Olberwoman is a gutless, yellow traitor and some day he will get what he so richly deserves as will all traitor Liberals.
Now.....watch this drive.
i will repeat...the de mello incident was the one recorded in moore's film...where bush so coldly says "watch my drive"
so bush did see moore's film...but as ko points out...he even lies about stopping then
please god, tell me this man will not go unpunished
Tyree, no offense, but you have done nothing but attack me since i decided to back Obama. What kind of response do you want from me?
"Please, please Tyree, stop attacking me?"
No thanks.
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 82:
fixed it
Frybread @ 113:
I still can't get over the number of people who don't want any blame assigned to Bush with
regard to the attacks on 9/11.
Stunning. Even in light of his pattern of negligence for 8 years.
9/11 - Unavoidable
Katrina Disaster - Act of God
Housing Collapse - Stupid mortgage holders
Iraq War - Those pesky insurgents
God, this country can be so stupid.
Keith Olbermann is a national treasure.
Bush...... Shut the HELL Up!.....Good Night, and Good Luck.
K.O.!!!
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 124:
oh come on xoites attack you?sorry you feel that way !its just you want me to answer your questions when you ask , just thought youd give me the curtisy of the same!! guess not !
FBush @ 126:
When 5 corporations own 90% of the media in this country it is easy to think nobody cares, but they do. You thinking they don't is exactly what the corporations want.
God bless Keith Olberman, and the United States of America!
Yes, that was great. Thank you, Keith.
Bush gives an interview to the Politico? That should give you a clue how "meaningful" the Politico is.
Well, looks like Chimpy just got bitch-slapped with a mouth full of piss, didn't he?
mudshark @ 102:
Or when you forget your rabies shot.
oh oh!
I see a rebuke from pelosi and reid coming up!
bmw H. 528 @ 135:
Or when you're just another chickenshit armchair soldier.
Arizona Joe @ 97:
Nope, he's exercising his democratic right to voice his opinion, something which rednecks like yourself want to prevent because it interferes with your myopic view of the world outside your own city limits.
Otay @ 133:
they are the same people who are claiming that obama is splintering the party. who knew?
Bush The CT-Born Yankee @ 137:
and typing from your mom's basement.
It's been almost two months since Keith had a 'special comment' and it was worth the wait! Are those folks so f**king stupid that they believe people won't factcheck them (the golfing photo was just another example of their manipulation of the facts).
I, too, was thinking that Keith would unleash an 'F' bomb in that last line but then the story tomorrow would be about him and not where it should be--in Bush's lap!
Bush attacks Iran and declares himself president for life. At that point, one can only hope that our generals remember their oath is to the Constitution and not the president.
jesus f*cking christ i love olbermann !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
why is he a lone voice in the entire corrupt corporate media?
where are his peers? they should all be screaming like this.
olbermann is a leader among leaders.
this was his finest moment.
K.O. scores yet another K.O.
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 140:
No, no, no. I'm pretty sure Arizona Joe is a test-tube baby. No parents.
and typing from your mom’s basement.
Arizona Joe @ 97:
A proper response to the often-times asked question : "Why do you Chimpy backing morons believe a military deserting chickenshit retard and a 5 deferrment pansy douchebag who attacked a sovereign nation without provocation or cause , aren't the 'gutless' ones instead ?"
Bush The CT-Born Yankee @ 144:
so how did he get home-schooled?
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