Countdown Special Comment to McCain: Senator, grow up!
By Logan Murphy Sunday Aug 17, 2008 9:53pm
Keith Olbermann takes on John McCain and his campaign managers with another powerful Special Comment on Monday's Countdown. McCain has consistently voted against our troops, but he and his campaign continue to spread lies and distortions about Barack Obama, painting him as unpatriotic and anti-military, while glossing over his own betrayal of our military on the floor of the Senate.
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Now as promised a Special Comment on the remarks of the Senior Senator from Arizona about Senator Obama at the VFW Convention, and about NBC News and MSNBC.
Four times in just two days, Senator McCain's campaign managers have, simply, hung him out to dry.
First, trying to scapegoat the media, in the exact way that has spelled doom for other presidential candidates already watching from the sidelines.
Second, doing so with a petulant statement so full of holes that it virtually **confirms** that which was reported, and which set off this pointless temper tantrum in the first place.
Third, sending the candidate out to speak before the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention, even as the millstones of a series of disastrous, anti-veteran votes, still figuratively dangled from around his neck.
And fourth, encouraging Senator McCain, while there, to address his opponent in the language of unseemly contempt, undignified calumny, and holier-than-thou persiflage unsupported by reality... near-nonsensical bluster that -- at best -- makes the speaker look like a dyspeptic grouchy neighbor shouting "Hey you kids, get out of my yard."
Transcript below the fold.
"Though victory in Iraq is finally in sight," you told the V-F-W today, Senator McCain, "a great deal still depends on the decisions and good judgment of the next president. The hard-won gains of our troops hang in the balance. The lasting advantage of a peaceful and democratic ally in the heart of the Middle East could still be squandered by hasty withdrawal and arbitrary timelines. And this is one of many problems in the shifting positions of my opponent, Senator Obama."
The shifting positions of Senator **Obama**?
Senator McCain -- on the 22nd of May, 2003.. you said, of Iraq, **on** the Senate floor, quote:
"We won a massive victory in a few weeks, and we did so with very limited loss of American and allied lives. We were able to end aggression with minimum overall loss of life, and we were even able to greatly reduce the civilian casualties of Afghani and Iraqi citizens.
Senator -- you declared victory in Iraq, **five years and nearly three months ago**.
**Today** you say: "victory in Iraq is finally in sight"?
The victory you already proclaimed five years ago?
Are we going back in **time** Sir?
If that had not been enough, in **June** of 2003, with even **Fox News** noting "many argue the conflict (in Iraq) isn't over," you answered:
"Well, then why was there a banner that said 'Mission Accomplished' on the aircraft carrier? Look, the -- I have said a long time that reconstruction of Iraq would be a long, long, difficult process, but the conflict -- the major conflict is over, the regime change has been accomplished, and it's very appropriate."
In 2003, your war was won, because somebody was putting up a... banner.
In 2008, your war might finally **be** won, because **you** are putting up... a campaign based on the mirage that Iraq **is** winnable.
And yet it is **Obama** shifting positions on Iraq?
Even if this country were to forget, Senator, the victory lap you and President Bush took five years ago -- just on their face, your remarks today at the V-F-W, Senator, are nonsensical.
"Senator Obama commits the greater error of insisting that even in hindsight, he would oppose the surge. Even in retrospect, he would choose the path of retreat and failure for America over the path of success and victory."
This construction, Senator, is extremely simple.
If your surge worked, the troops would be home from Iraq.
Or **most** of them, would be.
Or all of them who **were** surged, would be.
Or at least we'd have the same number of troops in Iraq now, as we did then.
Or... maybe one or two guys would be out of harm's way.
Please, Senator McCain, stop!
This is **embarrassing**.
Whether on his own impetus or an advisor's...
The Senator also foolishly invoked his **opponent** in that speech today.
Previous political **careers** have foundered on the rocks of the V-F-W Convention:
The Republican majority in Congress and the Senate -- the very viability of Secretary of Defense **Rumsfeld** -- began to unravel at this convention two years ago -- that was the venue for the first of Rumsfeld's two references to Bush critics as Nazi Appeasers.
Prudence and judgement, demanded that Senator McCain tred lightly.
Instead he told the convention, quote:
"I suppose from my opponent's vantage point, veterans concerns are just one more issue to be spun or worked to advantage. This would explain why he has also taken liberties with my position on the GI Bill.... As a political proposition, it would have much easier for me to have just signed on to what I considered flawed legislation. But the people of Arizona, and of all America, expect more from their representatives than that, and instead I sought a better bill. I'm proud to say that the result is a law that better serves our military, better serves military families, and better serves the interests of our country."
Senator McCain spoke out **against** that very bill last May -- on the asinine premise that the rewards to our heroes were so good that it didn't encourage them to stay in the service.
Or perhaps **force** them.
More over, Senator McCain missed 10 of the 14 Senate votes on Iraq up to the middle of last year.
This year, he has missed them **all** -- including one to honor the sacrifice of the fallen.
He has voted to table or oppose:
20 million dollars for veteran's health care facilities.
322 million dollars for safety equipment for our troops in Iraq.
430 million dollars for veterans outpatient care.
One billion dollars in new equipment for the National Guard.
And, in separate votes: One billion, 500 million dollars in additional Veterans' medical care, to be created by closing tax loopholes.
And one billion, **800** million dollars in additional Veterans' medical care, to be created by closing tax loopholes.
And yet, Sir, you have the audacity to stand in front of the very Veterans you repeatedly and consistently **sell out**, and claim it is your **opponent** who has put politics first, and country second.
"Behind all of these claims and positions by Senator Obama lies the ambition to be president," you said -- with a straight face -- today. "What's less apparent is the judgment to be commander in chief. And in matters of national security, good judgment will be at a premium in the term of the next president -- as we were all reminded ten days ago by events in the nation of Georgia."
Senator, three points:
One -- is your increasingly extremist and reactionary language towards Senator Obama **really** the method by which you want to try to achieve the Presidency -- or perhaps split the country if you succeed?
Two -- criticizing a man for having quote "the ambition to be president"? Seriously? You **do** realize you are **currently** running for president, as well, right? That either you also have "ambition to be president" or, what?, somebody's **blackmailing** you into it?
And three -- you might want to ask somebody -- somebody other than say, your Foreign Policy Advisor, Randy Scheunemann -- whether or not you are making a jackass out of yourself every time you bring up the conflict between Georgia and Russia.
The Georgians have paid Mr. Scheunemann and his companies 800-thousand dollars over the last several years to **lobby** for them.
It's pretty clear the Georgians have **bought** Mr. Scheunemann.
And, Senator McCain, it sure as hell looks like the Georgians thought they had bought **you**.
When you had the tastelessness to paraphrase the rallying cry of 9/11 and say that we are now all Georgians, that nation's President **called you out**...
He said that your words were very nice, but he needed action -- not a verbal receipt from a lobbyist and his pet Senator!
Going back to the beginning of this sad 48 hours of paranoia from the McCain Campaign...
We have manager Rick Davis's unfortunate letter to NBC News, about Andrea Mitchell's reporting on the possibility that Senator McCain violated the so-called "Cone of Silence" for the Rick Warren Presidential Forum over the weekend.
The coverage of this detail, and that forum in general, is, to start with, overwrought.
But Mr. Davis has elevated them to the ridiculous.
As Nate Silver at the website 'Five-Thirty-Eight-dot-com' noted, Andrea's reporting -- reporting of what the Obama camp claimed -- included two essential observations:
"McCain may not have been in the cone of silence"... and that he
"May have had some ability to overhear what the questions were to Obama".
Rick Davis writes to NBC: "The fact is that during Senator Obama's segment at Saddleback last night, Senator McCain was in a motorcade to the event and then held in a green room with no broadcast feed."
As Silver astutely notes, for roughly the first half of Obama's participation, his own campaign manager places McCain in a **car** -- where he could have been made aware of the questions to Senator Obama. "In a motor vehicle," Silver writes, "one may use the radio, a cellphone, a Blackberry, Bluetooth Wireless, a Slingbox, and perhaps a satellite TV feed. Whether McCain actually used any of those devices, we have no idea. But he absolutely had the ability to use them, which is all that Mitchell had reported."
Silver also tripped over Mr. Davis's strange observation that for roughly the second half of Obama's participation, his own campaign places McCain, quote, "in a green room with no broadcast feed."
Not a green room without cell service or internet, nor without a closed-circuit feed, nor, for that matter, without a guy running back from the audience with notes, written in crayon.
Rick Davis's argument is, in short, illegitimate.
It is an attempt to pick a fight with the media, over the journalistic equivalent of chewing gum in class.
"This is irresponsible journalism and sadly, indicative of the level of objectivity we have witnessed at NBC News this election cycle," he writes.
"We are concerned that your News Division is following MSNBC's lead in abandoning non-partisan coverage of the Presidential race. We would like to request a meeting with you as soon as possible to discuss our deep concerns about the news standards and level of objectivity at NBC."
What Davis is **really** saying here, of course, is that he wants **no** level of objectivity, that the only campaign he wants questioned is Obama, and that "partisan coverage" consists of questioning whether McCain or his campaign support the stage whispers branding Obama as somehow 'foreign,' or whether McCain is to be inoculated from all criticism by dint of his military service.
Senator McCain -- did you pay **any** attention to the **Democratic** primaries?
Did you notice the hair-pulling frenzy of some of Senator Clinton's supporters who could not face the possibility that her loss might have been **her** fault -- or **theirs** -- and thus it must be **ours**?
Do you remember the apoplexy of a washed up Republican operative named Ed Gillespie, writing a furious letter to NBC on behalf of President Bush?
Mr. Bush's support has since dropped.
And **Senator Clinton's** supporters have now relocated to such a degree that her "eighteen million voices" first re-counted themselves as "two million" and were then unable to get even 250 people to show up at a meeting.
The public sees through this nonsense, Senator -- they see through it quickly.
NBC and MSNBC do not have the power to seriously impact an election.
If we **did** -- Senator Pat Buchanan would already be serving **with** you.
Besides which, Senator, who in your camp thought it was a good idea to take a shot at NBC and MSNBC... **during the Olympics **on** NBC and MSNBC?!?
**During** the Olympics, Senator McCain, on which you have already run millions of dollars' worth of McCain Campaign **commercials**... on NBC and MSNBC!?!
Senator, let me wrap this up.
You -- and your campaign -- need a serious and immediate attitude adjustment.
Despite what you may think, Senator McCain, this is not a coronation.
Despite how you have acted, Senator McCain, you have no automatic excuse to politicize anything you want.
Despite how you have whined, Senator McCain, you have no entitlement to only sycophantic, deceptive, **air-brushed** coverage in the media.
And despite how you have strutted, Senator McCain, you have no God-given right to the Presidency.
Let's have an adult campaign here, in other words -- and I am embarrassed to have to say this to a man who turns 72 at the end of this month -- Senator, grow up!
Good night, and good luck.
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Man, Barry Bonds dont have shit on K.O!!
He knocks em out the park every time at bat!!
Excellent job Keith!!
If the GOP could convince Americans the Bush, a recovering alcoholic, was the kind of guy you would "want to have a beer with," they should have no trouble convincing voters a dullard like McCain is their man.
I think Keith slipped up and forgot Writing Rule #8: "Never use the words 'calumny', 'persiflage', and 'dyspeptic' in the same sentence."
except Moral Compass...
he is not a dullard...he is another Warmongerer....
and the Georgia Mess stinks of Wag the Dog...and it
all points right back to his OWN Aide...
Olbermann is clearly having a ball flinging the ammunition McCain camp's handing him right back in their self-righteous, tear-streaked faces. His lap-dog cohorts in the Lame Stream Media must be pouting fiercely at how unfair it is that Keith gets to mouth-off famously at today's most hallowed sacred-cow in the Republican pig-pen, while they are literally spoon-fed the grovel they are required to spout at McCain's feet.
enigma4ever @ 4:
I agree, yet many people are too uncomfortable contemplating the possibility of this level of evil.
Senator McCain, Grow Up.
nrdesieyes @ 3:
lol, I was thinking the same thing.
And as dead-on as Keith is (no surprise), his delivery exposed the fact that this topic lacks the same level of gravitas that his initial Special Comments did.
Cindy McCain is not an only child as she claims to be.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93708729
enigma4ever @ 4:
Yup!
Georgia War a Neocon Election Ploy?
Redolent of the same stench as Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign against Carter, where ReTHUGlican operatives apparently negotiated a secret deal with Iran to prevent the release of American hostages until after the election.
Ours & Georgia's money wasn't very well spent:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/16/georgia.russia1
Heck of a job Johnnie.
Well thank Christ for Keith Olbermann!! Someone finally said it like it really is. Senator (not president!!!) McSame... listen to what Keith has said and take the appropriate adult actions. Do NOT act like a schoolyard bully one more time!
Keith thanks for speaking truth to idiocy! I'd say power to have the cliche correct, but in my estimation, McSame and his clowns don't deserve that word. They do, however, deserve the word idiocy.
Orangutan. @ 6:
yes, too True.
they can contemplate that the administration purposefully lied to go to war, they can contemplate that the anthrax were government sourced, they can even be exposed to Cheney's ideas of painting a U2 spyplane UN colors to tempt Saddam to shoot it down - or the recent idea of Cheney to use Navy Seals to pose as Iranians - complete with patrol boat mockups and shoot it out with our own vessels -
but....
don't go to where it really started.
The QT download link is broken. It is missing the ".mov" suffix.
[I sent a note to the admins-Sitemonitor]
I could give a rats derriere what KO and the entire MSNBC Clinton assassins have to say.
Maybe since Olbermann has now opened the door- the McManCrush season will begin to shut down and we can have some real honesty about the sophmoric drivel that McMaverick spews daily....that would be a relief...I did notice that Dan Abrams that followed him tonight also was not everlovin' to him .....so maybe a shift will happen....
I especially like the meme being floated around by some hireling general that McCain has the instincts of a fighter pilot. I think it was General John Johns...
really. A fighter pilot?
what would McCain know about the fighter pilot mentality?
he crashed 5 planes.
he was mysteriously involved in the USS Forrestal fire
he finished 2nd to last at the Academy
oh yeah… he was a ground attack pilot….
its a warplane alright.
but many times different than a fighter pilot.
you know when a ground attack pilot goes into combat?
after the fighter jocks and the electronic countermeasures pilots go in first and mop up the opposition and take out the anti-aircraft sites.
pffft.
Newport News Dem @ 15:
Well, why don't you just effoff then?! And if you really don't care, what the hell are you doing on this blog, asshat?!
right on! @ 18:
Oops... I forogt... you're a paid McSame operative, right?!
Still bashing the Clintons.
Disgusting.
getalife "whiners" @ 20:
Leave Hilary alone!! *sniff* I'm SERIOUS!! *sniff* Leave her alone!
Oops, I'm used to spelling 'Hilary' the french way, with one 'L'. No intended disrespect.
Olberman did a great job. He didn't 'force' anything he said. He was sincere all the way through. This is a great improvement over the two Special Comments he did during the Primary season about the Democratic Primary.
I like him in part because he is not perfect but seemingly willing to accept feedback and get back to what made Special Comments so great in the first place: sincere outrage and frustration. Nice one, Keith.
Newport News Dem @ 15:
So why are you even bothering with a post, do you have rats ass traps set up in your house?
Newport News Dem @ 15:
Get over it. Your ex candidate wants you to support Obama and elect a Democratic majority. Get with the program, please.
I really like this as a meme: McCain a 72 year-old baby.
McCain wants experience to be his trump card, so we should all keep repeating that he is childish. That his policy positions are juvenile. His foreign policy is sophomoric. His advertising is immature...
One more thing. When Keith Olberman vents like this, he seems to work as a release valve for a lot of pent up frustration to many observers of this campaign season.
I believe it's mostly because he is a part of Mainstream Media on a highly rated news program with good production values. It gives us the validation we want, dare I say need, from somebody who can get the message to more people than we can. With anchorman hair. heh
ooooooooooooooo!.....
*swoon*
"grow up" yes!
i want olberman's ba..*smacks self in face*
oh wow...he almost got me with that one...
Newport News Dem @ 15:
Touché to you idiot. Crawl back under the rock you live under.
Newport News Dem @ 15:
Let me see...which of the two major party candidates is most likely to work effectively with the Senator from New York to push through an agenda of mutual interests? Gee, that's a hard one...but I'm gonna take a guess that it might be the Democratic nominee!
No, they don't.
Yes, they do.
cg @ 8:
Wouldn't yours? As the American Empire collapses, can even Keith Olbermann resist going completely Howard Beale? I'm surprised anybody still has any hair on the sides of their heads.
Olbermann should know as well as anyone else that this IS a coronation, and McCain IS entitled to completely one-sided fawning coverage of his campaign. That's because with the possible exception of Mr. Olbermann himself, everybody in the mainstream media has been bought. They're ALL spokespeople for the Republican Party, which is itself the political arm of the corporations that run this country.
So, yes, Keith, McCain DOES believe he has a God-given right to be president... if by "God" one means "the American Corporate Aristocracy."
Think about this scenario, Keith. What if on election night, the mainstream media didn't bother to count the votes? What if they MADE UP THE VOTE TOTALS and then made a show of broadcasting the results to the nation. "And John McCain pulls off a slim upset victory over Barack Hussein Obama!"
What's stopping that? Particularly if none of the objections to this process are aired. Particularly if Rahm Emanuel and Nancy Pelosi are shown saying that it's time to move forward and look to a Democratic victory in the 2010 elections.
The Internets would buzz with conspiracy theories for months, but that's what they do already. Jack Cafferty might disgustedly point at pre-election day polls and exit polls that show no correlation to the vote results. Keith Olbermann would give a Special Comment calling for an investigation. And Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich would proclaim the virtues of democracy from their Cabinet offices on Capitol Hill.
Maybe McCain is arrogant because he knows something you and I don't.
Miatch @ 26:
Ehh, I don't think the meme would work well. I think all the talking heads would race headlong to scream the ad hominem response: Obama [or his supporters] thinks McCain should grow up? He's just a kid himself.
I think instead that Obama should make McCain out to be someone you can't trust. What's his biggest strength? His maverick image. Turn that into "even his own party doesn't trust him." There's sure enough footage of the right going crazy over him during the primaries. How he's not a real conservative. What's another of his strengths? Experience? Ha! His experience is only as a Washington insider. Can't trust him.
All his flip flops? Can't trust him. Converting to Baptist Christianity during the campaign? Can't trust him. Poor understanding of world events he thinks he can control? Can't trust him. Touts his experience as a long-term official, but acts like a cry baby when he doesn't get his way? Can't trust him.
Undecided people are, at this point, looking for someone to trust. The less they trust McCain, the better.
I think Keith touched on something here. What we have is the Curious Case of Senator McButton.
Some months ago when Obama suggested that McCain had lost his bearing they blew a gasket and insisted that Obama was calling him old. Just this week McCain said Obama has lost his bearings and the McMain Stream Media took it as he lost his way. They do have the power to impact an election. With this story alone they are completely ignoring the main points.
How was the "coin toss" accomplished without one of the tossers?
Nobody asks why he was late.
Nobody asks how he answered questions that hadn't been asked yet, but were coincidently going to be?
Why isn't anyone asking McCain straight out, not if he "heard" anything, but did anyone have a cell phone or blackberry on during this 30 minute ride in the car?
Why, if he is so upset by, this doesn't he prove it?
Janet @ 35:
Frankly, I think this farce had all the tossers it needed.
after watching olbermann tonight, it occurred to me that obama did score a big one against mccain with this ranger rick and the cone of silence business -- the noise about "did mccain cheat or didn't he" definitely was louder than the "glowing reviews" we were supposedly going to hear.
the mccain campaign is so stupid they don't know when to sit down and shut up.
and is it me or, when mccain is reading a speech, does he not sound like he's reading a bedtime story to a five-year-old?
it's a really annoying little tick. and if the media were really doing it's job, someone on teevee would have mentioned it by now.
"And **Senator Clinton’s** supporters have now relocated to such a degree that her “eighteen million voices” first re-counted themselves as “two million” and were then unable to get even 250 people to show up at a meeting."
Can anybody elaborate on this? Not sure what KO is referring to, although his basic point seems to be correct: Fuck with the media, and your support drops.
At any rate, what meeting was he referring to?
I just got an email that said," If you vote for McCain, he will give you a jar of Vasoline, a petroleum product, to ease your pain."
Hello Senator McCain, my name is Keith Olbermann and I'm here to kick your ass.
So, make the necessary preparations, smile, and take your medicine.
Wow! 72 years old and not yet grown up!
I saw this live on MSNBC this evening.
The question is, will McSame listen to KO's SC or will he continue to make baseless political attacks on Obama?
This will hurt McSame, whether he is our next POTUS or not, because he is so arrogant who does what he can to step on people's feet to get his way.
As for those who will be voting for him, do they just believe whatever FOX News tells them, or are they just not ready for someone else to bring upon change?
The insinuation that the feces of John McCain, a former prisoner of war, might stink, is outrageous!
So, let me get this straight - if McSame gets elected, it will be us whiny ex-Clinton supporters, and not the pathetic performance Barak gave at Saddleback that hands him the defeat? Doesn't he get dry-runs at campaign headquarters? Same old same old. I was waiting for him to say the same tired thing, "Senator McCain and I agree on everything we say on this stage - and that goes double for me!" This has nothing to do with getting with the program. It has to do with the poison that keeps spewing from the Obama campaign. Clearly you are with the program - keep hating on Hillary. Way ta go Gidgets! And when your candidate morphs into the thing you hate the most (a centrist), I guess we will be to blame for that to. Let us know when the disappointment sets in, and he doesn't implement ANY of your adgenda. We'll be here to console you, and tell you you should have listened. You'll have to grow up sometime. They ALL disappoint. He's not different. You don't get elected in Chicago by being different; you get elected by telling everyone what they want to hear, which is the same, same, same thing they all say. God, I didn't know people as naive as all of you still existed. He's already broken a promise to not accept public funds, something that he hammered Hillary for in Iowa. Oh, yeah, thats right, your candidate's **** doesn't stink. Silly me.
"Despite how you have whined, Senator McCain, you have no entitlement to only sycophantic, deceptive, **air-brushed** coverage in the media."
I'd say, with the exception of MSNBC to a limited extent, that's exactly what he's gotten !
Olbermann is great, someone needs to take away his thesaurus though =)
@43
Wow, Andrew you are still really bent out of shape on this thing. I can't speak for anyone but myself, but while I preferred Obama, I definitely would have rallied behind Clinton had she one. Would have held my nose and voted for her, knowing she was 1000 times the candidate that McCain is. In fact, if she hadn't voted to authorize war against Iraq, I would have been with her from the beginning. I still think she's a good senator, and could make a great supreme court justice.
So, erm, I don't hate Hillary. But I wish her team could get with the program.
The spirit of Edward R. Morrow is watching over Keith Olbermann and guiding him toward a place in American history: During the presidential campaign of 2008... Keith Olbermann will be remembered as the ONLY ONE THAT GOT IT RIGHT.
Early in the summer when the sycophants at FOX and the conservative NOISE MACHINE on AM RADIO started to scream bloody murder about NBC... without saying his name, I think it has always been about Keith.
He is the ONLY national TV news personality that has given us an unvarnished, unequivical picture of Republican Party and Bush Administration hypocrisy. He is the only one who has reported consistantly on the way the Justice Department has been RAVAGED by Dick Cheney and KKKarl Rove. He is the only one who has made an effort to expose the breadth and depth of political corruption in Washington DC... and the wide-spread financial corruption going on in Iraq.
TRUTH, JUSTICE, and THE AMERICAN WAY... Superman, Keith Olbermann.
A note for Andrewsac: Yes - you are right. Obama's shit DOES stink. He's a f*ckin politician and by definition a bag of pu*s. So by the way is Hillary. So is McSame.
However - TWO of these bags of pu*s would put people on the supreme court that will allow women to control their own bodies, TWO of these bags of pu*s will see that most of the 40+ million Americans without health care will get it, TWO of these bags of pu*s will see that if America goes to war it is in AMERICA's DEFENSE not a neocon fantasy of world domination, TWO of these bags of pu*s are Democrats. Only ONE is left standing. Either support that bag of pu*s - with every fiber of your being - or you (and the rest of you righteous bast*rds) are PERSONALLY responsible for the hell that will contine to cover this land.
Andrewsac you are a mindless dweeb.
KO is the same as O'Reilly or any other Republican talking head. He only "speaks truth" because he spews comments that echo your beliefs. Limbaugh, Hannity, and O'Reilly do the same for Republicans.
KO is really a tool, just like all of them.
"Why am I here..." I'm certain some will ask this. I like to see opinion. Many of you have thought provoking comments, and I love that. Those that think KO speaks absolute truth are as blind as their Right wing counterparts. He really isn't as bright as his vocabulary might suggest.
Mylegacy @ 48:
Touché!!
Hmm... @ 49:
you smell like troll...
My apologies, but I just wish people would think a little bit more. Republicans are blasted (rightfully so) for following the above stated figure heads, but the same blasters think KO is a hero. I think its rediculous.
If I smell like a troll, then thats ok, I was hoping for a more thought provoking response. This isn't anti Dem or pro Rep, my statements are based on the blind faith BOTH parties put in biased figures. I just want the parties to stop being hypocrytes and be accountable for themselves, rather than complain about what the other party/talking heads is doing.
KO is only wonderful if you already believe what he has to say, he just articulates it better than most of us can.
He didn't even get into Karl Rove at the Yalta event with other neocons
and the Georgian President. When he had appointment with Congress.
Gee, wasn't that a crazy co-inky-dink?
Hmm... @ 52:
While I agree that there are many similarities between the opinionated reporting from either BillO/Hannity/Malkin or Olbermann, quite a unique feature (only in America?) that's labeled 'news', I do on the other hand KNOW that the truthfulness of Olbermanns reportings are much more accurate than those of for example BillO's.
BillO tend to make up 'facts' as he goes and never admitting mistakes (true psychopathic behaviour...or just that of a spoiled child). I doubt that he's just ignorant, more that he just don't care about accuracy if distorting the truth helps to make his point.
So, I do hope we can agree that opinionated reportings should not be a VALID segment of a news channel. KO is only a minor remedy to the decades of distorted news that has been coming out of Fox News, he is surely not the cure.
Really do hope you win back your right to pure unbiased news some day, America.
Hope the Obama campaign sees this and take notice!!
More McCain hypocrisy and flip-flops, this one is about torture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axrgFGZYFzE
Let's have some fun now: The McCain-Nixon-Bush Tango
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyvJVy_7LYU
Smiling John McCain - Tough Talk - Fool or Fraud?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4-PqAXRIRU
Vote Obama and Stephen Baldwin will leave America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCChBHWEDiU
John McCain Whines about George Bush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuAa7IGVTGw
McCain was spoon fed the ans., on REV.,WARRENS big night out. Now I know why the CORPORATE CONTROLED MEDIA had to destroy REV.,WRIGHT of Obamas Church, that is so McCain would not have to face Obamas REV., and people. And if McCain is so holly McCain gets ten(10) houses and Cindy McCain HALF SISTER GETS none why NOT HAS JOHN spoken up and told his wife that this treatment of her Half Sister is wrong, one more thing IF this was Obama it would be WALL TO WALL coverage on how he was treating his HALF SISTER, instead they gave it wall to wall coverage because he just went to VISIT his FAMILY HE should have went to Virginia Beach. The story about Cindy's McCain HALF sister is on buzzflash.com, go read. I would like the CORPORATE CONTROLED MEDIA called out On this WARREN story and CINDY McCains half Sister. Now is the time to STAND UP.
Two post I am sorry but I forgot to add that it will never happen on CNN for they are FOX'S sister station.
Thank you, Keith !
Interesting dialog....but it ain't agonna make a damn bit of difference which one of these dudes becomes president. The homeless shall remain as such, medical care will stay right where it is, the disenfranchised will remain so, promises will be broken, and we will get a couple of bones thrown at us and they will call it "change". The only thing that is "changing" is/are the faces. These people do not have a humanitarian bone in their body and it is totally delusional to think that they do. The corporatocracy shall remain to reign supreme, and Congress will stay inundated with sexual improprieties, payoffs, crooks, liars, and thieves,...and the voice of the people will continue to fall on deaf ears. The Republic is headed straight for a totalitarian state....and these McBama's are leading the way.
CowBoy Bob in Austin @ 47:
KO must drive McCain's campaign nuts. And by campaign, I mean the entire Fox News network, Rush, a good part of CNN, CBN, and a few of the Republican homies that populate MSNBC, CBS, and ABC. I figure 1 Special Comment negates a week's worth of propogandizing and outright lying by the McCain Media Conglomerate. The funny thing is, either KO's telling the truth or he isn't. So, I expect that his comments will be clearly refuted by McCain's team tomorrow. Oh yeah, they won't do that. They can't afford to escalate the problem and force the media to actually have to corroborate what KO said. So they'll attack NBC, or MS-NBC, or someone like Andrea Mitchell who's not exactly a raving liberal. But I do think McCain's attack dogs might be misunderestimating how the traditional media would view a heavy handed attack on Ms. Mitchell....that could start some serious blowback that might create a whole lot more problems for the Straight Schlock Express.
O'Really @ 27:
My thought....easy to ignore we the majority of the American public because for the most part our voices have been reduced to 3 or 4 e-mails read at the end of a news show. (Cafferty etc.) Somehow we have to get out front again and out from behind our computer screens. Not everyone spends time reading such comments as this or has the time to look at You Tube. Keith may speak the truth but look at all the special comments he has made...what good has it done....what changes have taken place?
I sure hope all of you young folks vote in very large numbers to put Barack Obama over the top in a big way. My fear is that Republican lawyers will do their thing again if it is close. This election is about power, raw power and the McCain generation does not want to give it up so they back this lackluster candidate.
The neocons have turned their attention away from Bush and on to McCain in a big way. It is truly just like 2000, get him in the Whitehouse no matter what we have to do so "we" the neocon group can do our thing with Iraq, Iran, Russia etc. etc.
Last request...Take an hour, go online and watch Bill Moyers Journal from last Friday, August 15. Guest....Retired Col Andrew J. Bacevich. Very powerful, very powerful.
blackjack @ 55:
That story on Cindy's 1/2 sister had about 600 comments, last I looked. If people want to see Republican Family values inaction, look no further than that story. If that's how they treat blood relatives, imagine how well they'll treat the rest of us suckers.
Here's a question for yeah. Do you think that McCain would show up for a MoveOn Q&A chaired by, say, Norman Lear? Think he'd show up at any function where 75% of the audience voted for Kerry in 2004? Nope...he'd never have the guts to do what Barack did. It sure would be nice to make him have to cut and run from such a meeting though. If I were Barack, I'd get a liberal religious organization, like the UU to put their own version together and ask questions that we want McCain to sweat over.
Truth B Told @ 17:
And he still got shot down...
wait...
let...
me...
shed...
a patriotic tear...
whimper.... whimper...
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Newport News Dem @ 15:
Then why are you commenting?
The words that I want to use to describe this man, will not even come to surface. Keith is like a moment in time, that comes at the most important times, and when it is so much needed and necessary for the American viewers who have no voice.
I only wish that the rest of them would follow your style of leadership and concern for this country. You are really a patriot, the others pretend they are. They only wish they had the guts and the courage to be anywhere near the man that you are as their lives would be so much more balanced and stable in the eye's of people all over the world that view their all out ignorance, every single day. They think they are fooling people and could not be more wrong.
But unfortunately for the American viewer, these people think and care only about their own well being as they place their true allegiance to the all mighty bucks they make.
They will continue to toot their disgusting horns for a slime ball like John McCain, who now makes a daily function of all out lies and distortions of fact, then has the unmitigated audacity to accuse Senator Obama of being exactly what he, himself is.
They could give a dame what happens to this country or the people in it, and I mean all the people, not just people of color, whom they make like their actions are all about, but they are not even decent to other white Americans.
All they want is to use them to support their slime ball agendas and then do as they have done for the last eight years. Just kick them to the curb. The proof of this is just all over the place now, with employment, loss of their homes, health care and they are all paying the high cost of food and gas, just like people of color.
I thank you so much Keith, for all that you do to help keep some kind of truth and dignity in our national media.
You are the only one with a national television show that we can count on to be truthful, honest and direct and may God Bless You.
They should run the Special Comment on every TV and Radio station in America! Spot ON as usual Mr. Olbermann!
I was so busy praising Keith I forgot to mention there was one little objection to all of his good words, and that is the part about these networks, not being able to impact these elections.
Not true Keith. It is the major reason we are all over the Internet, trying to wake people up and guide them to where to find the truth.
It is the reason we value you so much and I really believe that it is working because in spite of the bogus polling data
Ooops...KO just lost his spot at the next McCain media barbeque
Make no mistake about it ...the sole reason for KO's rant last evening was heard in the end of it when he fumed over the fact that ANYONE might suggest that our illustrious, fact-checking, non-spinning media would DARE to be responsible in any way for the outcome of an election...despite his use of BIG WORDS (like the fool LIONEL on AAR) that should send folks to the dictionary, he is a media apologist like the rest. This was prompted by what was a most unfair characterization of Andrea Mitchell's comments in regard to the Saddleback fiasco as KO pointed out. ALSO, consider that it's possible for someone to be supportive of the present presumptive Dem nominee and still smart from the crap spewed by KO and others about Hillary during the primaries (in fact he still gets a smack out there every chance he gets so don't lecture US on being loyalists)...oops, course KO isn't partisan, sorry...HA!
McCain is basically uneducated. That is half his problem. He may have a lot of experience on capitol hill and in the military, but he still can't compete with Obama when it comes to intelligence.
DO NOT VOTE FOR MCCAIN...ALL YOU IGNORANT PEOPLE OUT THERE DONT YOU REALIZE BARACK IS THE MAN!!! MCCAIN IS 72 YEARS OLD..HES TOO OLD TO RUN OUR COUNTRY !!! NOW WE ALL KNOW IF THAT SARAH CHICK COMES INTO PRESIDENCY..OUR COUNTRY IS GOING DOWN..THAT IS GOING TO BE THE DAY I MOVE OUT OF THE US!! MCCAIN IS FOCUSING ON HOUSEHOLDS MAKING 500,000+..NOW YOU TELL ME IF YOU ARE ONE OF THEM!!! MCCAIN IS ALL TALK..HE WANTS WAR..HE WANTS OUR SOLDIERS TO STAY IN IRAQ FOR 10 MORE YEARS. MCCAIN SUCKS..END OF SORRY..HE IS A RACIST PRICK AND SARAH PALIN IS A HOE...SHE GOT KICKED OUT OF HER FIRST COLLEGE FOR FUCKING THE WHOLE FOOTBALL TEAM---WHAT KIND OF EXAMPLE IS SHE?? DID YOU SEE THE WAY MCCAIN WAS DEGRADING OBAMA AT THE DEBATE....FUCK MCCAIN....ITS ALL ABOUT OBAMA/BIDEN 08!
A dud of a special comment. Not only was it long-winded and included a dramatic sigh, Olbermann slapped Hillary around when she no longer deserves to be slapped.
Moral Compass @ 2:
recovering? i appreciate the charity, but that w. bush dude is so perpetually sauced up it's embarrassing.
Orangutan. @ 7:
DITTO!
"Senator, grow up!"
Hahahahaha!
Well done Keith. Spot on the money, again.
"Senator McCain, grow up!" Isn't it kinda too late?
And why are we not hearing this directly from Obama!?!? I want to hear this from Obama & his camp! What are they waiting for...a building to land on them? Because right now McCain is only throwing the kitchen sink. I so want to look up and hear from Obama the same loud and clear message KO sent last night.
I was a Hillary supporter but quickly transitioned over to Obama (including monthly donations). I believe we are going to win but I was hoping to win strong and decisively which I don't think is going to happen.
I don't know why KO wastes his time being the only guy with an expressed opinion. I see that CNN.com has an article called "The Night that Changed McCain's Life" with a 1967 photo of the young pilot featured front and centered. The article quotes McCain as saying, "It's just a chapter in my life that I'd rather remember the good parts than the bad parts," Yet in February of 2000, John was quoted as saying, "I hate the gooks, I will hate them as long as I live." Not a word regarding that side of Big John from the CNN.com "puff" article.
He has had a cake walk from the media so far so it only stands to reason that the McCain camp can openly call out media outlets when they feel something was not to their liking.
I think there are a lot of undecided voters who look at the way the news organizations portray John McCain and feel that he's a patriotic man who served his country and now deserves a chance at the white house. No mention of the Keating 5, no real facts on his neocon voting record, no talk about his personal life (especially his leaving his wife after she suffered life altering injuries for a young rich woman which he had an affair with), no mention of any of the negative points of his life. As far as how Obama looks to these undecided voters, as a man with a muslim background that attends a church of white-haters and he didn't bother to visit our troops when he went on his European tour (and then on a vacation to the foreign land of Hawaii).
Yes indeed. The McCain scum will not be afforded any niceties at all for the remainder of the campaign. As it should be! And just wait until VP Joe Biden starts giving them a piece of HIS mind.
By the way, for anyone who's interested, Karl Rove has a nick-name. It's Duke.
Really? McCane crashed five planes? You mean he's still blind? We have cataract surgery for that condition now.
When are KO, Rachel and the whole MSNBC group going to grow up?????
I so miss being able to watch them, but they've all become such complete tools and so out of touch with facts and serious analysis that I can't stand watching them the way I can't stand watching W. It's gotten that bad.
Why am I posting? Because this view is very common these days and needs to be out there. Murrow is tuning in his grave.
I am SO sick and tired of the way the media is giving this election to McCain. KO is the ONLY voice that even ATTEMPTS to give the other side. I have stopped watching CNN entirely as they are so in the tank for McCain and simply unable to have any agenda except whatever GOP-fed storyline of the day is fed to them. Unreal...these people are unthinking robots who are doing the American public a grave disservice.
This special comment was a good one, I thought. Why is no one else in the media calling McCain out on ANY of this stuff!?!?
Don't cut these slime balls any slack. You bloggers should dig up as much dirt on Rove's activities back in Austin before 2000 as you can.
I beg to differ with Rove and DUKE Rove is (TURD BLOSSOM) straight from PRES., Bush.
McCain got it wrong about his wife:
McCain is a C * N T
Holy Wow, it's not just Keith. I love these new comments by Jack Cafferty: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/18/cafferty.mccain/index.html
Ah, dumb democrats. I'm looking forward to Obama losing. : )
87 Scott :
Yes, Cafferty is wonderful. In that essay, he scrutinizes McCain's intellectual shallowness. McCafferty asks, "Where are John McCain's writings explaining the vexing moral issues of our time? Where are his position papers setting forth his careful consideration of foreign policy, the welfare state, education, America's moral responsibility to the world"?
Reminds me. When Joe Biden was a young senator, he wrote a paper on Poland. After John Paul, II of Poland's Papal election, he invited Joe Biden to Rome for an audience. Biden arrived with an entourage of Delaware Catholics and his Priest, Father Roberto Balducelli from St. Anthony of Padua Church in Wilmington.
Unlike McCain, Biden has proved his intellectual curiosity stemming from as far back as 1972. And yes, Joe Biden is a Catholic. He will help deliver the Catholic vote to Barack Obama.
Perfect.
"... in other words — and I am embarrassed to have to say this to a man who turns 72 at the end of this month — Senator, grow up!"
I fuckin' *love* it!
This guy is still taking cheap shots at Clinton? Olbermann should listen to himself and grow up too!
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