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Ken Starr Joins With Keith Olbermann: Liz Cheney’s Ad “Very Unwise”

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You know hell has frozen over when Keith Olbermann and Ken Starr agree on something, and that sentiment was expressed in so many words on tonight’s Countdown episode. Starr had some harsh words for Liz Cheney‘s Keep America Safe ads from last week, which accused the lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees to be terrorists themselves. Though Olbermann wasn’t there (Lawrence O’Donnell has been subbing in while Olbermann is dealing with his father’s illness), he had commented earlier to say “That’s how serious we both take this, that even we agree on it.”




Starr may be a Republican, but he’s also a lawyer himself, and knows how harmful Cheney’s ad was to both entities.

(Sidenote: We love the 30 Rock reference in the chyron starting at 2:22.)

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  • same2u

    Liz Cheney is the evil spawn of DICK Cheney. Would we expect any less from her?

  • Olby Sucks

    Olbermann is still soakin in the tub out of fear of having to report negative democrat news. He’s been spewing all over the kos blog.

  • Michele

    Olby Sucks

    I gather you have read John Gibson’s book, if not, I recommend it. I used to watch MSNBC, way back in the day when Gibson was on their network, I used to yell at the TV, thought he was a lib, little did I know.

    As for Liz, I frankly think she has the right to ask the question, who are the lawyers, look at the guy who rep’ed the guy in NY, with the pony tail, he defends terrorists. That is his deal. If that is the deal of those in the DOJ we should know, we after all pay their salary.

    Also, it must take guts for Starr to go on MSNBC considering how they went after him day after day … and have continued to do so years later. I am shocked. To each their own I suppose.

    A few thoughts from middle America, Ft. Leavenworth KS.

  • same2u

    Yeah, I am sure Olby Sucks is a big reader. Especially of books written by reporters who make sudden transformations when they go to work for Fox News.

  • MichelleF

    same2u, as always, your comments are SO insightful. I see you get your talking points, straight from the lib media, since those are their exact words.

    I’m not surprised Liz is getting grief from some Repubs, we have several who have NO spine to tell the hard truths and ask the hard questions. I for one, love her, and she always gets the best of whatever lib she is debating.

  • same2u

    It is certainly your prerogative to support a fascistic demagogue like Liz Cheney.

  • Olby Sucks

    As opposed to someone who once worked for Fox and now works for msnbc? LOL!

  • ImNotBlue

    Bernie Goldberg made an excellent analogy tonight with Bill O’Reilly. He asked, “Would those on the left, and in the media, be concerned if a right-wing president hired former KKK defense lawyers to work on a new civil rights bill in America?” Great point!

    These lawyers may be right as rain, and simply wanted to help out or make a name for themselves. But don’t we have the right to know who they are, and why they’re where they are now? Why is it acceptable to say, “They probably have out best interests in mind, let’s just keep quite?” Since when is asking questions, or wanting to be more informed a problem?

    _____

    And speaking about O’Donnell… does anyone else find it interesting, that despite having had his mic cut, and being so rude on Morning Joe a few weeks ago, MSNBC doesn’t seem to have had a problem with him? He’s still guest hosting… still the same old Larry? Hmmm.
    _____

    HEY DREW

    How come Starr wasn’t identified as having been on Countdown to promote, “Pepperdine School of Law?” Hey, he was keyed as such, and that’s a “promotion if I ever saw one.”

  • StewartIII

    Michelle Malkin: Thank you, Keep America Safe
    http://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/08/thank-you-keep-america-safe/

  • SWWT

    Well I’m glad we can all rally around… lawyers.

  • the real john t

    John Adams represented the British soldiers for the Boston Massacre.

    http://www.aclu.org/national-security/john-adams-and-boston-massacre

    There were lawyers representing terrorists during the Bush Admin that were never named. So what the hell is the big deal now, all of a sudden?

  • The Real Royal King

    That Liz Cheney’s Neo-McCarthyism has the likes of Ken Starr speaks volumes. I suppose the good news is that Liz is botching any hope her father had for rehabilitation. In that sense, she is serving America well.

  • Jim R

    The right wing mentality laid bare for all to see. They never believed in America’s founding principles, or only to the extent that “conservatives” could manipulate the public by pretending to pay homage to our Constitution when it suits their agenda.

    This is much worse than McCarthyism as it undermines one of the most tenents of our society, that attorneys have a legal and moral obligation to provide a vigorous defense for ALL defendents.

    Shocking, I know, next thing you know lawyers will be defending poor people and Wall Street tycoons.

  • The Real Royal King

    This is much worse than McCarthyism as it undermines one of the most tenents of our society, that attorneys have a legal and moral obligation to provide a vigorous defense for ALL defendents.

    I actually think you are correct, and that you have not over-stated the matter. I’m always a better shaken when someone, anyone, but far too often a rightists, attacks the core principles of our Republic. We can only hope that Ms. Cheney has now so marginalized herself that she will cease be invited to appear on legitimate broadcast and will be relegated, isolated and quarantined to the 1.5% of Americans, or less, whose fealty is to FOX and not our Republic.

  • The Real Royal King

    HEY DREW

    How come Starr wasn’t identified as having been on Countdown to promote, “Pepperdine School of Law?” Hey, he was keyed as such, and that’s a “promotion if I ever saw one.”

    Perhaps, because he is about to become the President of Baylor University?

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