Special Comment on the GOP's Trademarking of September 11
By SilentPatriot Tuesday Sep 09, 2008 8:50pm
Keith was visibly upset after the GOP ran their 9/11 "tribute" ad during last week's convention. Tonight, that outrage manifested itself in yet another scathing Special Comment aimed at John McCain and the rest of the 9/11 exploiting GOPers.
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This is supposed to be a day of remembrance. Remembrance of the attack, remembrance of the national unity which followed it.
Most important of all, remembrance of the dead.
But 9/11 has become…... a brand name. A Republican campaign slogan. Propaganda of the lowest form.
9/11 has become… 9/11, with a trademark logo.
FLASHBACK: Keith's 2006 Special Comment from Ground Zero.
Full transcript below the fold:
This is supposed to be a day of remembrance. Remembrance of the attack, remembrance of the national unity which followed it.
Most important of all, remembrance of the dead.
But 9/11 has become…... a brand name.
A Republican campaign slogan.
Propaganda of the lowest form.
9/11 has become… 9/11 **with a trademark logo.**
9/11 (**TM**) has sustained a president who long ago should have been dismissed, or impeached. It has kept him and his gang of financial and constitutional **crooks** in office without - literally - any visible means of support.
9/11 (**TM**) has made possible the greatest sleight-of-hand in our nation's history.
The political party in office at the time of the attacks, at the local, state and national levels, the party which **uniformly** ignored the warnings -- and the presidential administration already through twenty percent of its first term and no longer wet behind the ears -- have not only thus far escaped any **blame** for the malfeasance and criminal neglect that allowed the attacks to occur, but that presidency and that party, have managed to make it seem as if the **other** political party would be solely and irredeemably responsible for any similar catastrophe in the future.
Thus, Senator McCain, were you able to accomplish a further inversion of reality at your party's nominating convention last week.
There was the former Mayor of the City of New York -- the one who took **no counter-terrorism measure** in his seven years in office between the first attack on the World Trade Center, and the second attack.
Nothing, except to insist -- despite all advice and warning - that his Emergency Command Center be moved directly **into** the World Trade Center.
Yet there was this man, Sir - Rudolph Giuliani -- quite succinctly dismissed as "A Noun, a Verb, and 9/11," and repudiated even by Republican **voters** -- transformed into the keynote speaker, Senator McCain -- at **your** convention.
And his childish, squealing, braying, Tourette's-like repetition of 9/11 (**TM**), was greeted not as conclusive evidence that he is consumed by massive guilt - hard-earned guilt, in fact - but rather as some kind of political tour-de-force, an endorsement of your Vice Presidential nominee, a rookie governor -- a facile and slick con artist.
The blind endorsing the bland, to a chorus of 9/11 (**TM**), 9/11 (**TM**), 9/11 (**TM.**)
Your ringing mindless cheer of "We've Kept You Safe Since Then"...
While nobody asks "doesn't **then** count?"
All of this, sadistically disrespecting the dead of New York, and Washington, and Shanksville…
**Endorsed**, Senator McCain…
**Exploited**, Senator McCain…
**Trademarked,** Senator McCain… by **you.**
And yet of course **the** exact moment in which Senator McCain's Republicans showed the nation exactly how far they have fallen from the Better Angels of Mr. **Lincoln's** Nature, came the **next** night.
The television networks were told that the Convention would pause, early in the evening, when **children** could still be watching, for a 9/11 **Tribute**, and they were encouraged to broadcast it.
What we got was not a tribute to the **dead** of 9/11, nor even a tribute to the responders, or the singularity of purpose we all felt.
The Republicans gave us sociological pornography… a virtual **snuff film**.
Years ago, responsible television networks, to the applause of the nation, and the relief of its mental health authorities, voluntarily stopped showing the most graphic of the images of the World Trade Center, except with the strongest of warnings.
And yet, the Republicans, at their convention, having virtually seized control of the cable news operations, showed... the worst of it.
This is **all** anyone with a conscience can show you of what the Republicans showed you.
The actual collapse of the smoking towers.
A fleeting image of what might have been a victim leaping to his death from a thousand feet up.
And something new.
From this angle, ground-level, perfectly framed, images -- of the fireball created when the second plane hit the second tower.
It was terrifying.
After all its object **was**… to **terrify.**
Not to commemorate, not to call for unity, not to remember the dead.
But to terrify.
To open again the horrible wounds, to brand the skin of this nation with the message -- as hateful as the terrorists' own -- that you must vote Republican or this will happen again and you will die…
And just in case that was **not** enough, to also dishonestly and profanely **conflate** 9/11 with the 1979 **Irahn** Hostage Crisis -- to stoke the flames of paranoia about **another** Middle Eastern Nation.
This **was** a 9/11 Tribute.
Not to the dead, nor to the unity.
But a tribute to how valuable 9/11 has been as a political tool for the Republican Party.
9/11... (**TM.**)
Senator McCain, you had promised us a **clean** campaign.
You could be Snow-White the rest of the way, Sir, yet that manipulative videotape from **your** convention should tar you always in the minds of decent Americans.
And still, as this seventh 9/11…(**TM**)… approaches -- that, Sir, is not the worst of your contributions to the utter politicizing of a day that should be sacrosanct to all of us.
Hard to believe, but the Senator has done worse with 9/11 and the evil behind it.
We heard it last week in Minnesota… we've heard it off and on since January…
But Senator McCain said it most **concisely** in June.
"Look," he said. "I know the area, I've been there, I know wars, I know how to win wars, and I know how to improve our capabilities so that we will capture Osama bin Laden -- or put it this way, bring him to justice. We will do it. I know how to do it."
Senator McCain seems to be quite serious -- that he and he alone -- not the CIA, nor the U-S Military, nor the current President -- can capture Bin Laden.
Thus we must take him at his word, that this is no mere ludicrous campaign boast.
We must assume Senator McCain truly believes he is capable of doing this, and has **been** capable of doing this, since last January.
"We will capture Osama bin Laden… we will do it. I know how to do it."
Well then, Senator... you'd better go and **do it**... **hadn't** you?
Because, Sir, if a man or woman in this nation, Democrat or Republican, had a clear and effective means of capturing or killing Osama Bin Laden…
If that person had been advertising his claim, Senator… for **eight** months…
But if that person not only refused to go to responsible authorities in government and **advise** them of this plan to catch Bin Laden, but further announced he would not even begin to **enact** this secret plan to corral the world's most hated man… until the end of **next** January…
What would be **your** description of such an individual, Senator?
Charlatan?
**Do-nothing**?
**Opportunist**?
Senator McCain, if you have -- if you have **had** -- a means of capturing Osama Bin Laden, and you do not immediately **inform** some responsible authority of the full scope of that plan, you are to some degree great or small… **aiding and abetting** Osama Bin Laden.
If you could assist in **capturing** him now, Senator McCain, but you have chosen not to… you, Sir, have helped... Osama Bin Laden... stay **free.**
**Free** to inspire and supervise the terrorists.
**Free** to plan or execute attacks here.
**You**, Sir, are **blackmailing** some portion of the American electorate into voting for your party, by promising to help in the capture of Bin Laden… **only** if you are made president!
I'd rather win an election than catch Bin Laden!
No more cynical calculation has ever been made in this nation's history, Sir.
If you **lose** the election, Senator, are you **not** going to tell the President-Elect?
Are you intending to keep this a **secret** until the next election and your party's next nominee?
Senator, as you and your Republicans shed your phony, crocodile, opportunistic tears tomorrow on 9/11 **TM**, in front of the utterly disingenuous banner "Country First"….
The **fact** is, you have shown that it is **John McCain** first, and the country **last.**
The **fact** is, Sir, by **holding out** on your secret plan to catch Bin Laden...
By searing those images into our collective wounded American psyche at your nomination last week...
Terrorists are not what you, John McCain, **fight**.
Terrorists... are what you, John McCain, **use.**
Good night, and good luck.
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It sure is : it is a sign of absolute failure , and nothing else.......................
Great Job, Keith. But ya' forgot to mention the REAL ‘Pig in Lipstick’
Failure that may work . . . UNbelievable
Don Davis @ 2:
aw man, it's dinner time.
shit.
Nice, but please don't paint Rudy with the Tourette's brush: people with Tourette's syndrome cannot help their tics, whereas Rudy has cultivated his.
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Like this should come as a complete surprise to anyone...
I've said it before, I'll say it again...the right-wing has been using 9/11 since the beginning & and they will continue to do so regardless of who gets elected...
Holy crap! How does he continue to so eloquently say what I'm feeling?
Be the media. Spread the Truth.. YouTube of Keith Olbermann's Special Comment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odb09esH8z4
Always remember 9/11 and the people who let it happen.
Damn fine work Keith. Thank you.
Bless you, Mr. Olbermann. Your country will thank you in due time, once the blinders are fully off.
Folks, keep talking. Keep up the dialogue. Keep pushing for positive change. Be that change.
TPRA
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Remember, remember,
come 4th of November
The Neo-Con treasonous plot.
I know of no reason
Why the Neo-Con treason
Should ever be forgot.
killin it, keith...
Remember the "purple cross" bandaids the trolls wore in the Kerry election? They should be wearing the bleeding TwinTower badge on their lapel to show their patriotic feelings. No, never mind. How 'bout a bronzed turd?
republicans own 911 because they were warned it would happen and did nothing to stop it.
i dunno. That was kinda disappointing. He didn't come down as hard as i expected- maybe it's because of this whole neo-con MSNBC crackdown? i wish he'd used the word "traitor" or something...
thanks, Kieth
you are a good person
on the other end of the spectrum glenn beck
who is lying is ass off tonight to cover for palin
and mccain...he is a bad person
Even more disgusting is the rebranding of 9/11 as 'Patriot Day.' We will be sure to be treated to scenes of Bush Administration notables laying wreaths and looking solemn. They will talk about how they knew people would forget, and that they alone have some magical formula for remembering 9/11.
The fact that we've sprouted surveillance programs that would make Felix Dzerzhinsky proud, engaged in torture and then covered it up, created holidays like 'Patriot Day' and 'Loyalty Day' should make a true American stand up and ask WHY, and not settle for convenient slogans and flag-waving.
It's OUR safety we're talking about, after all. We're the ones who are making the sacrifices, while a bunch of wannabe tough-guys tell us we don't have the guts for the fight, and that they do. Funny, though, how they don't want to meet with the families, they don't want to see those flag-draped coffins ... they hide in their offices and take comfort in busts of Winston Churchill, or paintings of horse thieves, then make shiny speeches about the charges they have to keep.
And where was this fervor before 9/11? We're really to believe that George W. Bush's favorite hymn, and favorite painting (though the subject has, as noted above, been put in its proper context) inspires him with this sense of duty, and it was nowhere to be seen before we were attacked?
Do we really want a man known for his temper, and a woman who believes smiting Muslims is 'God's Will' with the authority to order the release of nuclear weapons, let alone occupy the White House?
I sure as hell don't.
Nice work, Keith. It is shameful how the GOP continues to dance on the ruins 9/11 for political purposes. I wonder how much money Rudy Guilani Inc. stands to lose when Obama is elected?
Olbermann's words must feel like acid when Republicans are forced to listen to them.
Holy Shit!!!!
Finally the truth!! I'm tired of being the pussy party............................bring'em the fuck on!!!!!
Ooooops!
Keith and the Dems have fallen for Karl Rove's bait that he has had McCain dangle for several months.
Osama Bin Laden has been sitting in a prison cell for several years, waiting for the right time to be pulled out as the real October surprise and nail down an overwhelming Republican election victory.
Barack Obama has the opportunity to pre-empt this trick by announcing at the debates that "some say" that Bin Laden has been in captivity for years to be used for cheap political gain.
But is Barack gutsy enough to actually say it?
kit wilson @ 15:
How 'bout an actual turd?
Another....'Going going ...gone!' hit out of the park for Keith. What a pro at saying what we all feel. Divert,distract just won't work on us at all, repub lies are just that, lies. Wanted a OBL look-a-like, call John McSame at once!!!
Milford Loudermilk @ 22:
Damn straight.
THis Friday if Obama doesn't pull way ahead in a majority of polls Obama should go to plan B.
.....and when you pass the link on and somebody fingers him and/or you a librul, partisan hack, etc, remember that the only reason anyone would do that is because they would rather dismiss out of hand what they refuse to acknowledge.
or in simpler terms, killing the messenger.
someguy @ 26:
What *is* plan B?
Chuckling Canuck @ 23:
I always thought the Shrub would tackle him on the White House lawn during the easter egg roll. Good Tee Vee, that.
OK. So, let's put it out there.
One of two things will happen in November: McCain or Obama.
If Obama: we can surmise that the Republic will go into a massive economic decline courtesy of the idiocy of the past 8 years, compounded by the Republican congress of 1994 - 2006, and triple whammied by peak oil, the federal debt, and the deindustrialisation of the USA. Obama will have the greatest challenge ever presented to a president, ever. Period. Lincoln had the secession to deal with, but at least the gold mines in California were on all cylinders, pumping money into the treasury. Obama's inheriting a bankrupt nation. But he's a real leader and I am convinced he will be able to patch some mitigations together to prevent an all out collapse. He's very smart and he surrounds himself with smart people.
If McCain: Then what? Even if its a democratic congress, the gridlock would be terrific, and the Dems, as usual under the likes of Reid and Pelousy will cave and cave and cave. McCain will inherit the same deck of cards: a mismanaged economy, peak oil, massive debt, and no industrial base. What will be his choices? What will be the reaction? The international reaction will certainly be deeply negative. China's been buying up all the dollars it can. It has $1.8 trillion in cash. It could waltz in and buy a huge amount of the American infrastructure and what little remains of its resources. Oil production peaked in 2005, and it looks to drop and continue dropping. It might go up, but not much before it really dives. The debt is simply unpayable.
If McCain, then what? The collapse of the USA as a political entity? Will the South Rise Again, only along with the Northeast and West and Texas and Midwest all rising up doing rearguard actions to protect themselves?
We are on an historic cusp, and mark my words, these next two months are the most critical in the history of the USA.
It's not the end of the world, just the end of the world as you have come to know it. The amount of change between 2000 and 2020 will be as great as that between 1900 and 1920. Only in the other direction...
ZERO: An investigation into 9-11
ITALIAN MOVIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3kBn1usddI&feature=related
NO MORE LIES MR MCCAIN!
Hello all on this blog,
On the eve of the tragedy that was 911, I'm posting a link to something that I created shortly after the attack.
It's posted on my newly created blog.
The blog is not what I want you to see, per se, but if you scroll down to the picture, and then go to the link to my flickr slideshow you can see the picture in more detail.
If you so wish, check out the blog as well.
Anyway, please don't lambast me about a shameless plug.
It is a plug, yes, but if you get as far as the picture itself, and my description on flickr, you'll see why I created the picture and what it meant to me at the time, and still does today.
Here it is.
www.argueblog.blogspot.com
{OK, e-mail the site and ask next time OK? SiteMonitor}
KO really is on the GOP crony-squad case - a slam dunk to say the least.
If only KO's SC's were translated into real investigative action and impeachment, Bush and Cheney would've been gone possibly sooner (if not later) than Nixon.
The **fact** is, you have shown that it is **John McCain** first, and the country **last.**
That was well said, anyone who votes for McGrampa is a fool.
We all remember 9/11 ,so what is the problem with the Republicans remembering in their convention ? The Democrats can too ... Their choice, but they didn't.
I think that Rudy Giuliani will have to sue the rest of the Republicans for infringement. 9-11™ belongs exclusively to Rudy. I'm sure he has between 9 and 11 reasons why that is so.
Freedom of speech is wonderful......Thank you for speaking the truth!
Oh snap. Bet that leaves a mark.
Milford Loudermilk @ 22:
Totally. Feels good to be Patriotic.
He went a bit OTT at the end, but that's Keith. But really, what's McSame going to do to catch Bin Laden? Crash (another) jet into the mountains in Pakistan on his solo Team America reconnaissance mission, get captured by the Taliban and spend five and half years making Taliban propaganda films before coming back, cheating on Cindy and marrying Palin? He'll be nearly eighty years old by then!
Seriously, Keith should have mentioned that McCain wanted to have Walter Reed Army Medical Center as the backdrop for his speech at the convention. The place where wounded soldiers from the misguided war come to terms with their broken bodies, missing limbs and traumatized minds -- all in conditions that have been reported to be scandalous.
Even though the GOP couldn't even get that right (just like the war and capturing Bin Laden), the sheer audacity of these people is incredible. McCain has no honor left. They're absolutely shameless.
I wonder how much Bush and Cheney should've been impeached like how Reagan could've possibly been impeached during the Iran-Contra scandal.
someguy @ 21:
Most of them will never hear the words. Fox will not air them so most of the really ignorant will never hear them!
Anyone else think KO should run for office? I love his passion, honesty, and fearlessness. He's not afraid to call out the fear mongering lying bastards. Anyone with any sense of decency would not have invoked any of our emotions by using that video for political gain. Who didn't go there? The Democratic Party. Obama and Biden. Hillary Clinton. Name one that did. [chirp, chrip]
Disgraceful and shameful are the only words I can come up with. I'm sorry for all the families and friends who lost someone on 9/11/2001. I have friends who lost friends. I'm sorry for New York and I'm sorry for America. This could have been prevented had G.W. Bush not wanted it to happen for his oil family and Saudi friends.
I still can't believe Clinton got impeached for trying to cover up his infidelity while George Bush remains unaccountable for the hundreds of thousands of DEAD innocent lives he's responsible for! This country needs an enema.
tweakerbell @ 30:
Thank you, Keith. You helped me get through the last four years.
He has a BAZOOKA!!!
One thing we need to remember is that the people behind 9-11® we're organized in Afghanistan. We had a pretty good ally in Musharraf on the Pakistan side of the war, and left Musharraf pissing in the wind for 4 years while we pursued this folly in Iraq. Yeah, so while the Republicans use 911, lets remember that it wasn't so important that they couldn't put in on hold to nation build in Iraq.
Important judgment question to be considered during the campaign - "If you knew then, what you knew now, would you repeat the invasion of Iraq"? McCain would. (We already know that Obama wouldn't have invaded the first time - Bill Clinton declined PNAC's request to invade during his presidency.)
Sounds like Nixon's secret plan to end the war in Vietnam. A war Henry Kissinger prolonged for the sole purpose of getting Nixon reelected by CREEP ( The Committee to Re Elect the President.)
And CREEPS they were. Organizing a break in at Democratic Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel just the most famous of their crimes.
McCain has no plan to capture Osama Bin Laden. He has a very cynical plan to get elected and if he wins we will all lose.
Fantastic job on the special comments tonight.
Tomorrow's headlines? Pelosi's new offshore oil drilling deal. Thanks for nothing Nancy.
McPale's Navy @ 43:
Yes, but he may have a better forum and purpose where he is now.
I'd sure vote for him, and Imagine how Rachel Maddow could be KICKING some ass as well.
Maybe a future "tag team" red frog/green frog, f'ing frog STOMP.
thanks for posting this...I will need to watch it a few more times....
Why is KO the only one on tv to call stuff like this out. Is everyone that oblivious to what is really going on. Special comments like these give me hope that reality might prevail. No BS, the truth........how refreshing!!!
Wouldn't it be great if, everywhere McSame and Caribou Barbie appeared there were hundreds of folks carrying signs saying "Republican = Country Last". *Sigh* Well, I can dream, can't I?
enigma4ever still digging through the Moosepoop @ 51:
Hi Enigma. :)
Like your new title. :)
Morganifitz @ 52:
Did you notice that everyone in the media today said that McCain was lying about Obama's program to teach kindergarteners about sex, but instead of condemning it they said it was working?
This is from NPR to Fox.
What a piece of shit this country has become.
God Bless Keith Olbermann. He is what newsmen are supposed to be.
xoites defends Constitution @ 48:
Right on! The GOP just uses 9/11 and terrorism to help boost their political campaign for themselves and thereby only use the war on terror, as opposed to fighting it in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
There certainly is a huge difference between seeking truth and justice, and waging a political campaign.
Its the same old repeat a lie enough times and it becomes the truth..... How does that work? A lie is a lie. It becomes depressing when you feel more informed than the national media. I feel sorry for those that only get their news from the tv......regurgitated lies......yummy.
Guitar Man @ 50:
I thought about that, but now that's he's been "demoted" it feels like he needs a new path to make some more gains. Rachel is great, and I think she could fill his shoes in the meantime. In a perfect world, Olbermann/Maddow would be my pick this November, but no one really believes in ideologies yet. Unless this country is willing to go to war with itself again, we're stuck with the same old, same old.
I'm ready tho'. I have nothing to lose.
I was just getting on C&L to see if they had tonight's Special Comment posted. Holy crap did he lay into the Cons.
obama voted on 'age appropriate sex educaton' not
sex education. the program he approved of was to help children identify a predator scenario.
the mccain should be ashamed of themselves. the
mccain campaign has taken lying/deception to a level i can't ever forgive.
Morganifitz @ 58:
We are not more informed. They know perfectly well what is going on. They choose not to report it or to report it in such a way as to trivialize it.
constituent @ 61:
It's just about all of Karl Rove's ploy, as he is substantially the man behind the curtains.
constituent @ 61:
If only they had the integrity.
james Ratliff @ 42:
We all could send this vid to all of our local GOP HQ and all the Independence or moderate Republicans we know.
McCain is a Neocon and his "branding of 9/11" while repugnant to any sane American shouldn't come as a surprise to any of us.
You can judge a man by the company he keeps and look at who McCrazy has as his foreign policy adviser....
Randy Scheunemann... McCain's Foreign Policy Adviser
A.K.A. Randy Neocon
Scheunemann's résumé as a War Party apparatchik is lengthy. He signed the PNAC (Project for the New American Century) letter to President Clinton urging war on Iraq, four years before 9-11.
He signed the PNAC ultimatum to Bush, nine days after 9-11, threatening him with political reprisal if he did not go to war against Iraq.
He was executive director of the "Committee for the Liberation of Iraq," a propaganda front for Ahmad Chalabi and his pack of liars who deceived us into war.
Now Scheunemann is the neocon agent in place in McCain's camp.
The neocons got their war with Iraq. They are pushing for war on Iran. And they are now baiting the Russian Bear.
Is this what McCain has on offer? Endless war?
Why would McCain seek foreign policy counsel from the same discredited crowd that has all but destroyed the presidency of George Bush?
"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence ... a free people ought to be constantly awake," Washington warned in his Farewell Address. Our Founding Father was warning against the Randy Scheunemanns among us, agents hired by foreign powers to deceive Americans into fighting their wars. And none dare call it treason.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan95.html
xoites defends Constitution @ 62:
It's all about Karl Rove as the man behind the curtains who we're not supposed to pay attention to.
John Bram @ 35:
Are you joking? Are you trolling? It happened on their watch. They had intel that it was going to happen. They didn't capture the guy who did it -- he still mocks them! They attacked the wrong country with predictable results. They blew the world goodwill they had after it in record time. Seven years later and they still need to send more troops to the first country they invaded! They war-profiteered. They diss the veterans who come back. They diss the community workers who help the veterans who come back. Rudi 9u11iani has made a living from 9/11. Let me put it this way for you, seeing that you have a sensitivity chip missing: It, and the aftermath are collectively the most shameful events that have ever happened to a US government. Yet they still think it's alright to 'own' 9/11. If you still think that's ok, you're wasting your time posting on a website like this.
Rasputin @ 65:
I'm really liking your style. Thank you for jumping in head first.
wow.......keith was hardcore tonight. i have to say i have some agreement with him regarding how the right talks about 9-11.personally i don't worry about it. people have
to understand blow back we fxxk with people they're
going to fxxk with us.
It's off to Gitmo for McCain(and the rest of the GOP). Thats where we put people that USE terrorism right?
tezza @ 67:
John Bram knows all this and every John Bram in America knows all this. They just refuse to admit it.
I have no idea why, but they stuffed their brains up their anuses and called it cherry pie and claim it tastes good.
steve b @ 70:
Depends on how long the power and corruption lasts under GOP rule.
Its just sad that the truth that everyone should be able to hear is garbled and mixed with as much misinformation as information. Its control of the masses, I know that but its sickening to see such success with such large groups of people.
America is on the verge of electing a bald faced liar for the third or fifth or eighth time in a row (take your pick.)
Americans are living in a fantasy world. They have no use for reality whatsoever.
xoites defends Constitution @ 74:
People are not smart, not to mention failing education and the No Child Left Behind act go up in smoke.
it's obvious why they moved KO out of the way for the debates.
"We must speak the truth about terror." -- George W. Bush
I didn't see much of the RNC so I had never viewed the 9/11 "tribute." I did that just now. Downright creepy. Creepy narrating voice and creepy footage. Did people actually shout 9/11! 9/11! during Rudy's speech?
I guess that when reality gets so unbearable....people just shut down and begin to develop their own reality to fit their own comfort zone. After the last decade I can see why that is happening, but it doesnt work.....if you shut your eyes the world doesnt stop.
"They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings" ~ bob dylan.
peace @ 78:
No, "USA! USA!"
Orangutan. @ 77:
Not to mention he said, "you are either with us or with the terrorists".
And we all say, "Amen."
Olbermann could also have added how neither of the two major candidates have addressed how the "war on terror" has been co-opted by the U.S. government to instill fear into the populace of this country.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/giraldi.php?articleid=13430
Orangutan. @ 80:
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel
John Adams
neamhni @ 28:
Well plan B isn't for Obama but for the rest of us.
It consists of hitting the GOP with fact mixed with whatever might hurt them.
For example report what this site says as fact.
http://palininvestigation.com/
Reasonstein @ 75:
keep 2006 in mind when you see/hear the SCLM quote poll numbers.
ask yourself: would they be working this hard if the election was in the bag?
give all your whining a rest and help the people of virginia and ohio keep their votes.
And I thought the Repubs hated the Soviets. I guess they sure don't hate their manipulative, controlling tactics. I think Stalin would be delighted that his tactics actually got some traction in the USA. But that happens when you are the crass and soulless party that believes the ends justify the means.
Way to go KO in calling these 9-11 pimps for what they truly are.
We are not going to be able to sway a single voter who has already decided that they will vote for Palin because it is "God's Will" that she get elected.
They should be honored tomorrow not used in politics.
The gop have no honor, no decency and not country first.
KO is dead right on this one.
Its sickening and disgraceful.
(Sitemonitor: I hope this isn't OTT.)
I'm a registered Democrat, but ...
I"M VOTING FOR JOHN McCAIN.
If he sucks my dick.
On camera.
In prime-time.
Before a live studio audience.
(C'mon Johnny. I've got an urge to surge.)
xoites defends Constitution @ 89:
they were voting for repugs anyway. the 38% independents are the ones you want to sway.
jakflorida32169 @ 91:
Too bad he does not need your vote. He now has every fundimentalist Christian nutcase in his hip pocket. I was baffled by his choice of Palin at first, but i get it now.
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 92:
No i think a lot of them would have skipped the election because they did not have a candidate.
xoites defends Constitution @ 74:
America is like an aged movie star, who will do anything for anyone that will tell her she's still beautiful.
Geraldo @ 95:
Best annalogy i have heard in quite a while.
"I don"t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don"t care. It"s not that important. It"s not our priority."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02
"I am truly not that concerned about him."
- G.W. Bush, repsonding to a question about bin Laden"s whereabouts,
3/13/02 (The New American, 4/8/02)
Why in Gods name are the Democrats not reminding the American people of this?
* Republicans must own thier failures *
Ok. I didn't wanted to say this but this is getting ridiculous now. Comon!! Senator Obama, this is not enough. I watched MSM and all they are talking about is Palin, Palin Palin Palin and Palin. What the heck is this? How can you just sit down and say that issues issues issues issues? Issues is not what matters in this campaign. John McCain will win the Presidency and Palin will be sitting right next to him and all we are going to talk about is issues issues issues. Lets be brutally honest shall we? This election is not about issues. Americans will never look at issues. We are done with issues. Forget about issues. Why can't we play hardball politics? John McCain is sitting down quietly smiling that stupid smile of his laughing at us and all we care about is how to try to sway this tsumani of deceits, lies and dishonesty. Comon man! if they want to bring Palin forward, lets go after her records. Lets bring everything to the table and discuss everything. Gloves are off. I can't watch this anymore. If they are conservaties, we are liberals? What difference does it make? Yes, we are liberals, we care and just like Roosevelt, we can stand up and say lie when it is a lie. We are being played and are we just going to sit down quietly listening to all this bullshit being said? Man!! this is ridiculous!!
Ahem,
"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel"
---Samuel Johnson
Robin @ 98:
I am looking out my window to see how many reporters are on my front lawn trying to find out what i think about this.
So far i can't see any.
There are many stories out there about Osama bin laden. Many respected world leaders such as Benazir Bhutto before she died said that OBL is dead. Thats why bush doesnt care....he knows the truth. OBL is just another TM as KO put it, to keep control of our fear. Watch out, the terrorists are going to get you.
xoites defends Constitution @ 63:
you ask them too much
Maldoror_Is_Ded_Ded_Ded @ 99:
Sorry. you are correct. Too distracted to look it up. LOL :)
xoites defends Constitution @ 89:
That is not the problem. The problem is with white women who want to vote for McCain for gynecological reasons.
Palin and all those white son of a bitches in a welcome home rally. All I can think about is how the indigenous people there have been nearly obliterated for the same reasons here in the southwest. Come on, what is it about that god awful voice do you people love?
NoBuddy @ 36:
Rudy ran his whole campaign on 9/11 but found out people didn't think he was the hero HE thought he was! Thank goodness he wasn't the choice on second thought maybe he would have been easier to beat but i guess the rep would have played their gender card anyway!
Truer words were never spoken.
hotmouth @ 97:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Gutter Politics: McCain Campaign Called Out For Half-Truths
take heart andd stop whining.
I didn't think I could be more appalled by what republicans would come up with, they just put lie after lie out there. Is this what people want another liar, manipulator, how will that work for you america. Another president who thinks he is above all laws,who will twist facts to suit his purposes, who as we can see, will do ANYTHING to win. He dishonors all that we stand for and I have very little faith that enough people will see thru all these distortions, its a horrible sign of the deterioration of our principles and our low esteem around the world. Surely, our founding fathers would hang their heads in shame.
keith olberman is the man
Fact Check: Palin and the Bridge to Nowhere
the repugs have shot themselves in the foot.
you can put lipstick on an elephant....
take heart.
Does the Truth Matter Anymore?
someone else getting smarter?
hhhmmmm.....
It's sad how the Republican bullshit will play in the rest of the U.S. but in the city of ground zero you won't find a greater concentration of citizens who hate those mother fuckers. I remember when the Pugs held their convention in NYC in 2004 and a half million people marched in the streets against them.
The whole convention was one big 'tribute' to 9/11 but the year before GW didn't visit the city cause he said it was 'time for folks to move on'.
At least until it's time to dust off the props for another photo op...
hotmouth @ 97:
God Damnit. How have we let these criminals get away with this shit. All of us have been too silent as treason occurs.
Nuts on. Good for KO for also calling out cable media as complicit propagandists.
The Pig Takes the Cake
tasty, If I may say so...
BaddogLtd @ 114:
aye-fucking-men!!!!
Orangutan. @ 115:
that's why we should take advantage of this election, yes?
Let me start by stating that I have been a Democrat for all of my adult life, and I am proud to call myself a liberal.
Therefore I hope all of you will not harm my immediate family and shall grant me a quick, relatively painless death, after you read what I am about to post.
Ahem.
Keith Olberman has degenerated into the most tiresome, shrill, self-satisfied, narcissistic prig. I will grant him this bit of back-handed praise: it is surely must be a task of the greatest difficulty to be unfair to the criminal Bush Administration or the craven, cynical McCain, but Olbermann makes it look almost easy. It gets f*cking worse with every "Special Comment" of his to which I most masochistically subject myself. This latest one: he cites a bit of blowhard, boilerplate bluster once uttered by McCain to... what? So Keith, do you believe McCain has knowledge of bin Laden's whereabout? That he thus could orchestrate the killing or capture of this SOB from where he sits in the Senate, yet has cynically chosen to let him be, as he believes that the spectre of Bin Laden will aid his campaign? Flatter the Senator not, and while you are at it, give me a f*cking break!! To my mind Olbermann is a liability to the Democratic/liberal cause, not an asset.
Oh, and stop ending (what Bob Somerby aptly calls) your "Special Embarrassments" with the shamelessly pretentious Edward R. Murrow riff. You are no Edward R. Murrow.
Robert
9/11 trademarked by the same party whose Vice President watched as a plane hit the Pentagon and refused to allow the military to engage the plane.
Never forget the victims of 9/11...and never forget who's responsible for those deaths.
Tommy Gunn @ 121:
Thank You.
Robert Murphy @ 120:
Perhaps you are a Liberal in another version of reality but not in this one.
Sleep well, your family is safe from us real liberals. Don't forget that we had warned you about McCain and Bush and all the rest when you are regreting your misbegotten choices.
Defense chief: War in Afghanistan an uphill battle
"Frankly, we are running out of time," Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the House Armed Services Committee, referring to the international effort to stabilize Afghanistan.
Thank You george Fucking bush and The republican Crime Syndicate!
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 119:
Trying Man.
hotmouth @ 124:
Link
The McCain-Palin Lies and the Neil Armstrong Principle
it's kind of important that we see what appears to be happening. McMississipiRiverboatGambler picked a runner-up(not even best in show - she lost to a black woman - oooohhhh!!!!!!!) to be his running mate and she's showing us why she lost. They hide behind POW/9-11 then throw rocks from behind the cover and take every opportunity to use her gender as a political shield. I trust women not to go for that. I also trust that, just like 2006, people will fight and work and wait to take the opportunity to take this country back. KO is a great start and now he has Maddow calling them liars.
Obama is unleashing the 527s. For all of the WATBs, here is a salient truth you keep ignoring: Obama has beaten everything thrown at him by candidates and media to become the Democratic Party candidate for the Presidency of the United States.
Step back, take a deep breath and watch Obama continue to let the McKeatingFive exhaust every fucked up argument made against him. If you were paying attention during the O'LIElly interview, Obama called out fux and singled out Hannity.
When Obama went on KO, he called out Palin to show up on KO's show. He has survived vicious racial onslaughts from the clinton camp, including Ferraro and Obama has not lost a step. Now the attacks are coming from the McLobbyistLover and Co., again to no effect.
Obama has led the most efficient moneymaking machine in the history of the Democratic Party and the American Electoral system with money generated from the citizens of the US. He beat the clintons. Whoever thought that was possible a year ago.
So now that Obama has accomplished all of that, every blogger, pundit, editorialist and/or blog visitor knows better than Obama what Obama should do.
I can see now why so few could possibly run for president. Who could possibly have the patience to conduct a successful campaign for 19 months with so many 'supporters' clamoring to run the already successful campaign?
What's saddening is that he'll win and people will complain about the margin of victory.
Robert Murphy @ 120:
what a total waste of keystrokes.
Tom M @ 34:
Hmmm! That reminds me of a snippet in DeGaulle's biography, where during the 1958 election, one of his aides, frustrated and frazzled , said to the General: "Mon Général! We must kill all the fools!" (Il faut tuer tous les cons!)
DeGaulle replied, pensive:"A massive endeavor." (Vaste Programme!)
*evil grin*
Francois @ 128:
People keep trying to "kill all the fools."
Stalin tried.
Hitler tried.
Reagan tried.
Bush tried.
McCain and Palin will try.
Why is it the fools are always the ones trying to kill all the fools?
9/11 is my birthday, damn it, and I'm sick of these faux patriots capitalizing on it and propagandizing with it. I had it first, and I'll continue to celebrate it while always remembering the victims of that awful day. I was in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 10 of that year, and my wife and I ended up being on the last flight out of National (not Reagan) Airport after the Pentagon was struck. I can still remember the scaffolding on that enormous building. We flew through the night and woke up in L.A. to the cataclysmic news.
Happy b-day to me. And the hell with Giuliani and Thompson and Rove and Cheney and Rice and McCain and the drunken dimwit who let this horrible event happen, Wanton Boy himself. You're all scum.
BID
McPale's Navy @ 68:
John McCain and the Neocons had seven wars planned they got Iraq but they still have six to go...
"Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.”
General Clark first heard of this when he was a one star general assigned to the Pentagon for Strategic planning and he met Wolfowitz for the first time.
The second time was in the Pentagon after 9/11 in conversations with another flag rank officer. As he recounts to Amy Goodman at Democracy Now:
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/3/2/gen_wesley_clark_weighs_presidentia...
Olberman is great.#120.. I think you're missing his point. Keith is not assuming that McCain actually HAS A PLAN to capture Bin Laden. He's saying that McCain is using Bin Laden to instill terror among the voters, and that only McCain can catch him. If you can't understand the implications, then no wonder you don't like Olberman.
As for me, I am extremely appreciative of his passion, his sincerity and his insight.
Were there only more like him in the media, we wouldn't be in this horrible mess.
As far as the "Good night, and good luck".. it's a tribute to a great and courageous broadcaster by another great and courageous broadcaster.
Both are outstanding figures in their time.
Robert Murphy @ 120:
Maybe this guy would be more to your liking? No shrillness, narcissism, self-glorification, or tiredness here. No way!
Link
Maldoror_Is_Ded_Ded_Ded @ 99:
Thank you for setting that straight. I would have if you didn't.
She's the lipstick on the pig. The pig being John McCain's policies.
Love her all you want, she is still just the lipstick on bad policies.
tell everybody.
I'm a southern boy.
She's the lipstick on the pig. The pig being John McCain's policies.
In the south we said "she's polishing a turd."
Carville is a southern boy. Someone should tell him to go say it on camera.
"Yeah, she's pretty but she's polishing a turd."
What I don't understand is why one, just one Democrat can't say half of what KO is saying. Just once.
richard @ 137:
Exactly!
She was put there to distract Americans from the disaster of the McBush and the past 8 yrs and being under the iron fist of The Republican Crime Syndicate.
This guy is still around
I'm surprised
All he is, Is a spokesman for the FAR left.
And everybody knows it.
So, It makes him irrelevant.
Really
He might be able to get his sports commentator job back.
O'Really @ 140:
I'm surprised you think your comment carries any relevancy.
Robert Murphy @ 121:
I believe your irony meter is broken. Olbermann was clearly (albeit in a somewhat belaboured fashion) making a point. If McCain had a plan, this election would be in the bag and everyone would be hailing the presidecy of John "I caught Bin Laden" McCain. The degree of absurdity to which Olbermann carried the point is a reflection of the absurdity of McCain's statements on the matter, not just the one he quoted but all that "to the gates of hell" (so long as those gates aren't in Pakistan) bullshit.
Yes, Olbermann can come off a little haute sometimes but the strengths of his arguments are undeniable.
this is why we watch him
the rest are wimps
will let the country go down the tubes while they get their story and try and pretend they are not bias
at least fox is not bias; liars but they go after the demos
with corp america running the media keith will be asked to leave
wait and see
repubs are good for corp america
and they know that even nbc
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 128:
Don't feed the troll.
Keef was amazing. I saw it live. He nailed it, and thank you, sir for being honest.
Last words should have been "Use and employ".
O'Really @ 140:
Can't deal with the truth of what he said, so you resort to ad hominem. Typical of your ilk.
Here -- try this on for size... The truth is the truth, regardless of who says it. And Keith was quite truthful, and always has been.
The Dems could've run the video as a more truthful scare tactic against electing a Repugnant for the White House. Get on teh bandwagon already.
WHEN
will 9.11.01
NOT
be given the overabundance of reverance that it has for the last 7 yrs?
Hopefully next year.
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