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Jim Webb made an exclusive video to explain why Congress must support the troops and pass the "Webb Amendment," on Wednesday. He asks us to call our elected officials and tell them to support this very simple, but important measure. It received 56 votes last time it was introduced, but was filibustered by the Rubber Stamp Republicans which included McConnell and Warner. You can read all about it here...Jim's website has a fact sheet also.

Please call and ask these senators to support Jim Webb's pro-troop amendment:

Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)

DC: 202-224-6665

Anchorage: 907-271-3735

George Voinovich (R-Ohio)

DC: (202) 224-3353

Cleveland: (216) 522-7095

Elizabeth Dole (R-North Carolina)

DC: 202-224-6342

Raleigh: 866-420-6083

John Warner (R-Virginia)

DC: (202) 224-2023

Roanoke: (540) 857-2676

Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky)

DC: 202-224-2541

Louisville: 502-82-6304

Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania)

DC: 202-224-4254

Harrisburg: (717) 782-3951

Bonus - Ask Harry Reid to "don't let Republicans obstruct -- make them stand and filibuster":

DC: 202-224-3542

Las Vegas: 702-388-5020

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Tonight on Countdown, Keith delivered a powerful special comment about the leaked Bush Administration letter that blames Senator Hillary Clinton and all war dissenters for President Bush's own failures in Iraq.

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This, sir, is your war. Go to Baghdad now and fulfill, finally, your military service obligations.

Go there and fight, your war...yourself.

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  Download | play Download | play (last few seconds were clipped)Keith Olbermann lets the Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, know how insecure the homeland must be if we are to rely on his "gut."

So there are your choices: bureaucratic self-protection, political manipulation of the worst kind, the dropping of opaque hints, a gaffe backfilled by an "instant report," or the complete disintegration of our counter-terror effort.

Even if there really is never another terror attempt in this country, we have already lost too much in these last six years, to now have to listen to Michael Chertoff's gut, no matter what its motivation.

John Amato: "I wrote about Chertoff's "gut" remark the other day which resonated throughout the blogosphere and said he should be fired for it. O'Reilly liked it because he's paid to say that about "Chertgut."....Olbermann had a few choice words of his own." Transcripts below the fold...

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Keith gave a scathing commentary on the compromise struck by the Democratic Party over the war supplemental. he also flames Bush over his childish stand.

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And yet when faced with the prospect of someone calling you on your stubbornness--your stubbornness which has cost 3,431 Americans their lives and thousands more their limbs--you, Mr. Bush, imply that if the Democrats don't give you the money and give it to you entirely on your terms, the troops in Iraq will be stranded, or forced to serve longer, or have to throw bullets at the enemy with their bare hands. How transcendentally, how historically, pathetic.

The Democratic leadership has, in sum, claimed a compromise with the Administration, in which the only things truly compromised are the trust of the voters, the ethics of the Democrats, and the lives of our brave, and doomed, friends, and family, in Iraq.

You, the men and women elected with the simplest of directions - Stop The War - have traded your strength, your bargaining position, and the uniform support of those who elected you... for a handful of magic beans.

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Keith Olbermann blasts the Bug Man, (one of the vilest men to ever roam the halls of Congress) after his Hitler quotes hit the Internets. Tom can't even perform a Google search let alone make any sense in his well researched book...I cower in fear of what the Hammer might say about me after this post...I'll let Keith explain...

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Olbermann: The quote with the context sucked out from around it is astonishing. In a new book, former Republican leader of the House Tom DeLay writes "liberals have finally joined the ranks of scoundrels like Hitler." But, restore the context, as with anything else, and you change the meaning of any quote.

In this case, you make it worse. Mr. DeLay is comparing how he's been treated, to how the world was treated, by Hitler and the Nazis (Transcripts below the fold)

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For those of you that didn't understand the reference Keith Olbermann made to Stephanie Miller in his Special Comment yesterday, After Stephanie Miller's appearance on H&C, she received an incredibly ugly letter from a Fox News viewer who called himself "Sock." Bradblog has full, unedited letter in all its hate-filled glory.

The idiot, er...the Fox fan was dumb enough to give Stephanie his phone number. So of course, Stephanie called him.

The meme we constantly hear from Fox is how "liberals are just full of hate." Well, Fox, look at how much hate YOUR fans are full of.

Update: John Amato

I receive a lot of hate and death threats so I've gotten used to it, but the hatred has really gotten out of hand from the right. Of course the media will not report on it because they are more interested in asking Youtube why a Malkin video got removed then deal with anything hurtful that conservatives say or do. It's very sad.

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...initiatives that go nowhere....sometimes buying off columnists to write how good a job they're doing instead of doing any job at all.I wish I could say that this was the only instance in which the majority party has sought to politicize the events of Sept. 11th, but that would not be accurate...

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Keith Olbermann presented Barack Obama with a few options on how to handle the pending FISA legislation in a Special Comment on Monday's Countdown.

Senator Obama had once said he was against giving immunity to telecom companies who assisted the Bush administration in illegally spying on American citizens, but more recently has said he would, in fact, vote for the FISA legislation, immunity included. As Keith points out, Obama has taken political hits from the right and the left and the right is going to attack him no matter how he votes, so he might as well do the right thing and demand telecom immunity be stripped from the bill.

You've already taken the political hit from the Right, for saying you'd seek to strip out, or rescind immunity. You've already taken the political hit from the Left, for saying you'd vote for the FISA bill even with the immunity. You've paid the political price in advance.

Now buy yourself -- and those who have most ardently supported you -- something worth more than just class action suits against Verizon.

Explain that you are standing aside on civil immunity, not just for political expediency, but for a greater and more tangible good -- the holding to account, of the most-corrupt, the most dangerous, and the most anti-democracy presidential administration in our long history.

Of course, if you disagree with this interpretation -- if you think the FISA bill doesn't have the giant loophole, or if you don't think you, as president, would be ready to support criminal prosecution of... well, criminals -- then your duty is clear.

Vote against the FISA bill, if it still carries that immunity.

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John McCain has said many a stupid thing during this general election campaign. But when he told Matt Lauer on The Today Show that bringing our troops home was just not that important, he crossed a line from stupidity to being unforgivable:

You have attested to: a fairly easy success; an overwhelming victory in a very short period of time; in which we would be welcomed as liberators; which you assured us would not require our troops stay for decades but merely for years; from which we could bring them all home, since you noted many Iraqis resent American military presence; in which all those troops coming home will also stay there, not being injured, for a hundred years; but most will be back by 2013; and the timing of their return, is… not… that… important.

That, Senator McCain, is context.

And that, Senator McCain, is madness.

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In his latest fire-breathing Special Comment Keith tears into President Bush for firing a true patriot that spoke out against torture, while cowardly and simultaneously ordering others to commit the very same heinous crime.

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No matter how thorough you might try to brand disagreement as disloyalty, Mr Bush, there are still people like Daniel Levin who believe in the United States of America as true freedom, where we are better not because of schemes and wars, but because of dreams and morals. And ultimately, sir, these men, these patriots will defeat you and they will return this country to its righteous standards, and to its rightful owners: The People.

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