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Fired-Up Keith Olbermann Recites Laundry List Of Tea Party Offenses: “This Is The America You Want?”

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OlbermannConservatives and liberals alike will find their blood boiling when they watch the following video, in which Keith Olbermann delivers what he calls a “Special Comment” on the Tea Party’s midterm election candidates. In this nearly 20 minute-long segment, the Countdown host recites a long list of the movement’s affronts to progressivism before ending with a plea for all liberals, Democrats, disillusioned Republicans, moderates, and political neutrals to vote against the Tea Party next Tuesday.

It would be impossible to summarize every point Olbermann makes in his passionate speech, since he cites perceived outrages perpetrated by everyone from cable news staples like Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell to more obscure Tea Partiers like Delaware’s Glen Urquhart (who once said, “The next time your liberal friends ask you about the separation of church and state, ask them why they are Nazis”) and Missouri’s Vicky Hartzler, who has spoken out against the same government subsidies that have kept her family farm afloat.

Still, it is possible to suss out a central thesis to Olbermann’s address: he calls Tea Party candidates regressive, ignorant hypocrites who rail against government spending while reaping its benefits. As a whole, he says, the group is made up of “unqualified, unstable individuals who will do what they are told in exchange for money and power.”

Olbermann ends the segment with a harsh assessment of the movement, one that its supporters will dismiss and its detractors will cheer:

“You are willing to let these people run this country? This is the America you want? This is the America you are willing to permit? These are the kinds of cranks, menaces, mercenaries, and authoritarians you will turn this country over to?

“If you sit there next Tuesday and let that happen, whose fault will that be? Not really theirs—they are taught that freedom is to be seized and rationed. They can sleep at night, having advanced themselves and their puppeteers, and to hell with everybody else.

They see the greatness of America not in its people, but in its corporations. They see the success of America not in hard work, but in business swindles. They see the worthiness of America not in its quality of life, but in its quality of investing. They see the future of America not in progress, but in revolution to establish a kind of theocracy for white males with dissent caged and individuality suppressed.

“They see America not for what it is or what it can be. They see delusions, specters, fantasies. They see communists under every bed and a gun in every hand. They see tax breaks for the rich, and delayed retirement for everyone else. They fight the redistribution of wealth not because they oppose redistribution, but because their sole purpose is to protect wealth and keep it where they think it belongs, in the bank accounts of the wealthy.

“… But you know better. If you sit there next Tuesday, if you sit there tomorrow and the rest of this week and you let this cataclysm unfold, you have enabled this. It is one thing to be attacked by those who would destroy America from without. It is a worse thing ot be attacked by those who would destroy America from within.”

Watch Olbermann’s special comment in all its 19-minute, 33-second glory below.

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  • SmartAlec

    Less than 1/3 of 1% of the population saw it anyway. If a tree falls….

  • The Real Royal King

    This was a nicely done report. Factual. Balanced. I wish he delivery had been slower and less emotional. I understand how upsetting this all is, but it was important enough that a more controlled delivery style would have better showcased these important facts.

    Frankly, I was surprised to see Mr. Olbermann prepare such a thorough, fact-based report.

    The Koldys PHOX Phan Klub will be in over-drive whining about this.

  • Cecelia

    “They see delusions, specters, fantasies.”

    Look who’s talking…

  • NORBIT

    We’ll see on Tuesday which one they want, won’t we now little Keithy!

    LMAO!!!

    Progressives are going DOWN! – and no Voter Fraud is gonna save them!! —– heh-heh-heh!

    THEN, we start gerrymandering to keep them out of power!!!

  • Cecelia

    The Real Royal King said:
    The Koldys PHOX Phan Klub will be in over-drive whining about this.

    Awwwww… you miss Johnny so much!

  • dhg

    Hey Keith,prove to me what you blindly favor is a better alternative.Prove to me your side offers something better especially with the current track record.Show me how my increasing taxes will make my life better.Enlighten us on how a coming decade of massive government debt will aide me.

    And finally,show me how your words change anything.your supporters will agree,your detractors,which are a larger group,will not.No opinions will change,no votes will shift,no one will learn anything.

    In short you make no difference.you are irrelevent.

  • ModerateMan

    Does Keith have any credibility left anymore? I think not.

  • tatboy

    The Real Royal King said:
    This was a nicely done report. Factual. Balanced. I wish he delivery had been slower and less emotional. I understand how upsetting this all is, but it was important enough that a more controlled delivery style would have better showcased these important facts.

    Frankly, I was surprised to see Mr. Olbermann prepare such a thorough, fact-based report.

    The Koldys PHOX Phan Klub will be in over-drive whining about this.

    Nice to know you are such a fan of Keith’s. I’ll keep that in mind in the future.

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Jack Burns

    The only offence the Tea Party ever made was allowing Progressivism in the door at the beginning….

  • Pablo

    What’s funny is that probably as many people will see this on Mediaite as saw it when Keef coughed it up on MSNBC.

  • The Real Royal King

    Cecelia said:
    Awwwww… you miss Johnny so much!

    No, I meant it as a positive thing. Less time for whining about tje Newshounds.

  • The Real Royal King

    “tje” has a Danish quality to it, doesn’t it?

  • The Real Royal King

    Pablo said:
    What’s funny is that probably as many people will see this on Mediaite as saw it when Keef coughed it up on MSNBC.

    And, on the Koldys PHOX Phan Klub and a bevy of other extreme rightist websites. Olbermann actually gets a great deal of coverage.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Westover/1496648721 Tony Westover

    I was so looking forward to this hateful lunatic’s rant, made sure DVR it, and then the asshole makes me watch 40 minutes of his whining beforehand. Does he really think anyone cares about that? Tell it to Ms. Precious Perfect!

    But anyway, it was worth the wait!

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    Nah, he wasn’t laying it on thick at all *LOL*

    However, I actually liked this little retarded, or “special”, comment. Some of these candidates I’d never heard of before, and I was glad to hear many of their statements. I’m glad to know that we’ll be taking steps much farther to the right then we have this century, taking us back to the principles of the founders. As a libertarian, I couldn’t be happier. Took the rest of the damn body politic long enough! Better late then never I suppose, but we really could’ve done without the four years of Progressives busybodies running things….

  • The Real Royal King

    tatboy said:
    Nice to know you are such a fan of Keith’s. I’ll keep that in mind in the future.

    My surprise at a well done report notwithstanding, Twit? Whatever floats your boat, I suppose. As for me, when I see a jackass fly, I never say he flies poorly. ill you let me know if the Bekerhead is ever airborne?

  • Patrick Henry

    The Real Royal King said:
    This was a nicely done report. Factual. Balanced.

    That comment shows just how brainwashed you are. Try a little objectivity.

  • Cecelia

    “It is one thing to be attacked by those who would destroy America from without. It is a worse thing ot be

    The Real Royal King said:
    No, I meant it as a positive thing. Less time for whining about tje Newshounds.

    Either way, you’re hanging on every word posted there.

  • Rusty Shackelford

    Keith,Chrissy and Ed are really close to losing any grip they may have had on sanity. I honestly think one of them is going to crack by next Tues.. Its friggin comical. No one pays any attention to them.

  • murf

    The Real Royal King said:
    Frankly, I was surprised to see Mr. Olbermann prepare such a thorough, fact-based report.

    LMFAO, you are more delusional than I thought . It is well known that good Ole’ Rip-in-Read Olbermann does not do much research. His EIGHT ( highly -paid ) writers are to thank for his Special KkKomments. ( similar to John Leibowitz )

    Secondly , who always says you’re not big fans of Keith & Rachel but it never fails for you to applaud their every post at Mediaite .

  • murf

    not ^ who ^ — You*

  • The Real Royal King

    murf said:
    LMFAO, you are more delusional than I thought . It is well known that good Ole’ Rip-in-Read Olbermann does not do much research. His EIGHT ( highly -paid ) writers are to thank for his Special KkKomments. ( similar to John Leibowitz ) Secondly , who always says you’re not big fans of Keith & Rachel but it never fails for you to applaud their every post at Mediaite .

    Sure. Whatever.

  • The Real Royal King

    Cecelia said:
    “It is one thing to be attacked by those who would destroy America from without. It is a worse thing ot be Either way, you’re hanging on every word posted there.

    In the words of General MacArthur, “Know Your Enema.”

  • Big Eddie

    No . Better to stick with Carl Levin and Henry Waxman looking down their noses at the hoi polloi . John Dingell and Pete Stark making laws for the rabble . Dingell , who has been doing this since 1955 ! Just nuts . A punk rabble rouser cheap crook of a demagogue for a president ! And Big Eddie is being nice . Olbermann is deranged , as any thinking person knows .

  • Cecelia

    attacked by those who would destroy America from within.”
    “It is one thing to be attacked by those who would destroy America from without. It is a worse thing ot be attacked by those who would destroy America from within.”

    Bronze– Those who attack America from without

    Silver– Those who attack America from within

    Gold– spittle-spewing former sportscaster demagogues, who think that the biggest threat to freedom is an opinion other than their own.

    Keith Olbermann Silliest Man In The World!

  • The Real Royal King

    I bid you all the best of evenings. I have an 03:00 Hours conference call, and I must make my toilette and retire.

  • Cecelia

    The Real Royal King said:
    I must make my toilette and retire.

    He’s going to go “Know” his enema.

  • gammaray

    SmartAlec said:
    Less than 1/3 of 1% of the population saw it anyway. If a tree falls….

    You seem to be forgetting that A) just less than a third would be incredible viewing figures for a live show and B) people can watch things online now.

    It’s good to see someone finally taking an assertive stance against the Tea Party, and highlighting that they’re just as bad for conservatives as they are for liberals.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    You see, in liberal la-la land its ok to generalize a group of people based on stereotypes and cherry picked information. Isn’t it mind boggling to watch guys like Olbermann preach about not making generalizations about Extreme Muslims one minute, and then do exactly that when it comes to fellow Americans?

    The left has officially gone psychotic.

    http://dronetek.net/

  • gammaray

    gammaray said:
    You seem to be forgetting that A) just less than a third would be incredible viewing figures

    Misread that, never mind.

  • gammaray

    Dronetek said:
    You see, in liberal la-la land its ok to generalize a group of people based on stereotypes and cherry picked information. Isn’t it mind boggling to watch guys like Olbermann preach about not making generalizations about Extreme Muslims one minute, and then do exactly that when it comes to fellow Americans?

    The left has officially gone psychotic.

    http://dronetek.net/

    You don’t see the irony in you now generalising liberals based on this one commentator?

  • dummy123

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkYmS5ylCrk

    Howard Dean condemns name-calling, and calls for people to show the President respect. Does he realize he’s talking to Keith Olbermann? This video shows the irony of it all

  • rocky road

    Why does the far left believe that vile, hateful, name calling furthers their agenda? What sane, civilized person is going to listen to Olbermann’s rant and move towards the left? Did he once defend the far left agenda or did he just spend 20 minutes name calling like a misbehaving child? Olbermann jumped the shark a long time ago and nobody with any sense seriously listens to him.

    Oh yeah, waiting for Mediaite to have front page story on what Rachel Maddow ate for dinner before her show tonight.

  • Cecelia

    You know, I have discounted the polls, and have really doubted any idea of big Republican headway in the upcoming elections.

    However, I’m rethinking this. We have MSNBC anchors reduced to slavering maniacs, alluding to a good portion of the citizenry as being Brown Shirts and down-right stating that they are worse than terrorists.

    I’ve never seen television professionals expressing such abject anger and hatred.

    Something’s up.

  • Patrick Henry

    The Real Royal King said:
    I must make my toilette and retire.

    Are you saying you have to go make a poo?

  • Cecelia

    Patrick Henry said:
    Are you saying you have to go make a poo?

    Yes, if “poo” is the name of one of the 150 sockpuppets he’s created here.

  • juan

    Olby, Chrissy, Big Ed, Joyless Behart, and Bull Maher all have something in common with Biden, Obama, Michelle, and the Democrat Party!

    All are IMPLODING!

    HeeHee

  • Big Eddie

    junajh said:
    Ed Hardy Bikini $23

    This does not sound right .

  • CosmosDan

    Cecelia said:
    I’ve never seen television professionals expressing such abject anger and hatred.

    Something’s up.

    really? I’ve got Chris ODonnell on and it’s one big campaign commercial for the Democrats, but in all fairness, Fox has been doing this for some time, so , although I’d rather see no channels behave so badly, but if channels are going to be unabashedly biased then have at it. It’s a slug fest.

    I can’t stand all the stupid Nazi references I’m hearing but no show will ever beat Glenn Beck

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-Scott/654124552 Soros Youth

    SmartAlec said:
    Less than 1/3 of 1% of the population saw it anyway. If a tree falls….

    You saw it, thanks for watching.

  • Alz

    Let’s see, the Tea Party focuses on the Constitution and Liberals hate most of the Constitution.

    Decisions, decisions. After 0.005 nanoseconds, the correct answer is: Tea Party!

  • Cecelia

    CosmosDan said:
    I can’t stand all the stupid Nazi references I’m hearing but no show will ever beat Glenn Beck

    Well, speaking as someone who is a greater threat to the country than those who would “attack America from without” [terrorists], I’m having trouble agreeing.

  • Alz

    rocky road said:
    Why does the far left believe that vile, hateful, name calling furthers their agenda? What sane, civilized person is going to listen to Olbermann’s rant and move towards the left? Did he once defend the far left agenda or did he just spend 20 minutes name calling like a misbehaving child? Olbermann jumped the shark a long time ago and nobody with any sense seriously listens to him.

    Oh yeah, waiting for Mediaite to have front page story on what Rachel Maddow ate for dinner before her show tonight.

    Watch the video “How Modern Liberals Think” and you can see what makes them tick.

    It’s by a guy named Evan Sayet, who used to write for Bill Maher. Evan is a genius: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c

  • Pablo

    Cecelia said:
    You know, I have discounted the polls, and have really doubted any idea of big Republican headway in the upcoming elections.

    However, I’m rethinking this. We have MSNBC anchors reduced to slavering maniacs, alluding to a good portion of the citizenry as being Brown Shirts and down-right stating that they are worse than terrorists.

    I’ve never seen television professionals expressing such abject anger and hatred.

    Something’s up.

    The consensus seems to be about 60 seats in the House. The Senate is anyone’s guess, but the Republicans will certainly be picking up seats.

    According to the President, this is because Americans are stupid. Good luck with that, Barry.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-Scott/654124552 Soros Youth

    Teabaggers know how to party though, beating women, beastiality vids, and desecrating our flag! Wow guys chill.

  • WildMan

    Keithy, just shut the hell up! You are a total waste of airtime!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-Scott/654124552 Soros Youth

    Keith rules! Some of these idiots want to give the country to these perverts. What a bunch of sickfucks.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-Scott/654124552 Soros Youth

    Alz said:
    Watch the video “How Modern Liberals Think” and you can see what makes them tick.

    It’s by a guy named Evan Sayet, who used to write for Bill Maher. Evan is a genius: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c

    Yeah you would have thought he would have saved some of that venom for the 9/11 families like Glenn Beck did, what a fucking pussy.

  • WildMan

    Soros Youth said:
    Teabaggers know how to party though, beating women, beastiality vids, and desecrating our flag! Wow guys chill.

    George ‘EVIL’ Soros Granddaughter, take your crap out to the outhouse where you faggotie libdumbs seem to live!

  • WildMan

    Keith Olbermann has pitiful numbers/ratings/viewers…LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

    THE OREILLY FACTOR……………………3,734,000 viewers

    PARKER SPITZER……………………………..401,000 viewers

    COUNTDOWN W/ K. OLBERMANN…..1,190,000 viewers

    NANCY GRACE…………………………………..670,000 viewers

    ROTFLMAO @ Keith. Bill O’Reilly has almost 4 times the viewers. ROTFLMAO…!!!

  • Call_Me_Ishmael

    NORBIT said:

    THEN, we start gerrymandering to keep them out of power!!!

    Keep moving. Nothing to worry about here. Nothing at all.

  • dummy123

    The question is….How many days with Keith work next week??
    Cowardly Keith always calls in sick when the going gets tough.

  • SmartAlec

    Soros Youth said:
    You saw it, thanks for watching.

    Wrong, I’m watching the World Series. Of course I don’t expect anyone using the name Soros to get anything right.

  • BlackWidow

    WildMan said:
    Keith Olbermann has pitiful numbers/ratings/viewers…LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL THE OREILLY FACTOR……………………3,734,000 viewers PARKER SPITZER……………………………..401,000 viewers COUNTDOWN W/ K. OLBERMANN…..1,190,000 viewers NANCY GRACE…………………………………..670,000 viewers ROTFLMAO @ Keith. Bill O’Reilly has almost 4 times the viewers. ROTFLMAO…!!!

    Just goes to show how many nuyz live in this country! That’s all good night.

  • Patrick Henry

    Call_Me_Ishmael said:
    THEN, we start gerrymandering to keep them out of power!!!

    I wish we would put a stop to that and use normal, obvious boundaries and keep them that way.

  • Seeing November From My Window

    Ah, the smell of desperation. Precious Perfect better hide the knives. I’m worried about Keith’s state of mind.

  • Seeing November From My Window

    King says:

    This was a nicely done report.

    Keith, didn’t your mom teach you that it isn’t nice to toot your own horn? That’s what you have Tingles for!

  • JamesA1102

    dhg said:
    Show me how my increasing taxes will make my life better.Enlighten us on how a coming decade of massive government debt will aide me.

    Actually tax increases will help us avoid massive government debt. If you really want to cut debt, the biggest single part of the budget is defense spending. Right now we spend as much on defense as the rest of the world combined. So we could cut defense spending in half, still be spending more than everyone else in the world, and save $3 trillion over the next 10 years. Letting the Bush tax cuts expire on the wealthy will save $700 billion over the next 10 years. And with some of the savings we can invest in infastructure which will spur employment in the short term and encourage economic growth in the long term. In the ’90s taxes were increased and we still had one of the greatest peacetime expansions of the economy in history.

  • Michele

    I am proud that my father served our country gave the ultimate sacrifice, that my husband continues to serve this country so that Mr. Olbermann can use his show to exercise his right to free speech to make this comment!

    I hope all those who comment on this page, that I read with interest, will vote next week. While my husband was in Iraq he told me of the great honor it was that Iraqi’s felt with regard to their vote, that even death wouldn’t keep them from the polls.

    Please consider that as you decide on whether your vote matters or that maybe you are to busy!

    My 2 cents from Ft Leavenworth, KS

  • JamesA1102

    WildMan said:
    Bill O’Reilly has almost 4 times the viewers. ROTFLMAO…!!!

    Dancing with the Stars has more viewers than Law & Order. Does that make it the better show?

  • Call_Me_Ishmael

    Patrick Henry said:
    Call_Me_Ishmael said:
    THEN, we start gerrymandering to keep them out of power!!!

    I wish we would put a stop to that and use normal, obvious boundaries and keep them that way.

    Just for the record, as warped as it may be, the gerrymandering quote was NORBIT’s.

    Does anyone occasionally feel, when reading Mediaite’s comments section, like they have been thrown into a pit filled with Mel Gibsons?

  • JamesA1102

    Alz said:
    Let’s see, the Tea Party focuses on the Constitution and Liberals hate most of the Constitution.

    Really??? Is that why the Tea Party wants to do away with the 1st, 14th and 16th amendments?

  • JamesA1102

    Call_Me_Ishmael said:
    Does anyone occasionally feel, when reading Mediaite’s comments section, like they have been thrown into a pit filled with Mel Gibsons?

    That’s an insult to Mel Gibson:-)

  • cd ohio

    1st amendment who said that?

  • NeoKong

    JamesA1102 said:
    Actually tax increases will help us avoid massive government debt. If you really want to cut debt, the biggest single part of the budget is defense spending. Right now we spend as much on defense as the rest of the world combined. So we could cut defense spending in half, still be spending more than everyone else in the world, and save $3 trillion over the next 10 years. Letting the Bush tax cuts expire on the wealthy will save $700 billion over the next 10 years. And with some of the savings we can invest in infastructure which will spur employment in the short term and encourage economic growth in the long term. In the ’90s taxes were increased and we still had one of the greatest peacetime expansions of the economy in history.

    What a bunch of horse shit.

  • bye bye libs

    I will bet any amount of money old bathtub boy will be calling in sick next Wednesday.

  • CosmosDan

    Michele said:
    I am proud that my father served our country gave the ultimate sacrifice, that my husband continues to serve this country so that Mr. Olbermann can use his show to exercise his right to free speech to make this comment!

    I hope all those who comment on this page, that I read with interest, will vote next week. While my husband was in Iraq he told me of the great honor it was that Iraqi’s felt with regard to their vote, that even death wouldn’t keep them from the polls.

    Please consider that as you decide on whether your vote matters or that maybe you are to busy!

    My 2 cents from Ft Leavenworth, KS

    Thank you Michelle

  • Michele

    NeoKong said:
    What a bunch of horse shit.

    Your comment to NeoKing is spot on — a quote you might find of interest “I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse.” James Madison

    Just a thought from Ft Leavenworth, KS.

  • ChinaCat

    I’m still, still, still, STILL waiting for KO to attend a Tea Party rally like he said he would once his father passed on.

  • dummy123

    I just watched the replay.
    A hour of desparation!

    Say goodbye Nancy P….!
    Ding dong the witch is dead….which old witch…you know which witch….lolololololololololooooooool!!!

  • juan

    Thanks for writing that, Michelle, and thanks to your husband for his service!

  • felixw

    Keith prefers the Democrat agenda. Namely:

    Spend money we don’t have
    On bills we don’t read
    For programs that don’t work

    So of course he doesn’t like the tea party.

  • Michele

    juan said:
    Thanks for writing that, Michelle, and thanks to your husband for his service!

    Juan I will email him a note, he will appreciate your kind words. Those that serve do not seek out applause but we appreciate our fellow American’s words of support.

    I recently bought him a small, gilt edged pocket US Constitution, he was so moved by this, he believes in what the Founder’s of our country stood for, and proudly wears the uniform in defense of our country.

    Also, CosmosDan, thank you for acknowledging my comment.

    Responding proudly from Ft. Leavenworth, KS

  • Call_Me_Ishmael

    Michele said:
    I am proud that my father served our country gave the ultimate sacrifice, that my husband continues to serve this country so that Mr. Olbermann can use his show to exercise his right to free speech to make this comment!

    I hope all those who comment on this page, that I read with interest, will vote next week. While my husband was in Iraq he told me of the great honor it was that Iraqi’s felt with regard to their vote, that even death wouldn’t keep them from the polls.

    Please consider that as you decide on whether your vote matters or that maybe you are to busy!

    My 2 cents from Ft Leavenworth, KS

    Two of my great great grandfathers fought in the Civil War,one a Scotsman by secent and Union soldier, a conscript, the other a German, a Confederate, a slave owner and an officer. My paternal grandfather fought in WWI and died before I was born from mustard gas induced tuberculosis, my other grandfather was full blooded Lebanese. My genetic father flew the DC-9 Skytrain carrying troops into N. Africa and Italy. My stepfather served with the Japanese Occupation troops, post surrender, at Sugamo prison in Ikebukuru, Japan guarding Tojo among others. I volunteered and served in the US Navy 1972 -1976.

    I value your right to vote. I disagree with your politics.

    Am I deserving of your respect?

  • the real john t

    felixw said:
    Spend money we don’t have

    Would that be like Bush and the 2 wars he started?

  • Michele

    Call_Me_Ishmael said:
    Two of my great great grandfathers fought in the Civil War,one a Scotsman by secent and Union soldier, a conscript, the other a German, a Confederate, a slave owner and an officer. My paternal grandfather fought in WWI and died before I was born from mustard gas induced tuberculosis, my other grandfather was full blooded Lebanese. My genetic father flew the DC-9 Skytrain carrying troops into N. Africa and Italy. My stepfather served with the Japanese Occupation troops, post surrender, at Sugamo prison in Ikebukuru, Japan guarding Tojo among others. I volunteered and served in the US Navy 1972 -1976. I value your right to vote. I disagree with your politics. Am I deserving of your respect?

    Of course you have my respect. I occasionally differ with my husband on politics, heck when I take my pup’s to the vet, we chat politics and sometimes we differ, but I always enjoy his point of view.

    You have much to be proud of, and sharing your history as part of the discussion is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your service.

    A humble appreciation from Ft. Leavenworth, KS.

  • Kird

    the real john t said:
    Would that be like Bush and the 2 wars he started?

    it appears, at least on countdown, that the tea party has become an even bigger bogeyman than Olbermann’s former nemesis. I wonder who Keith would pick if he had to choose between a tea party congress or a President Bush.

  • the real john t

    Kird, so do you agree with felixw that spending money we don’t have is all the Democrat’s fault?

  • Kird

    the real john t said:
    Kird, so do you agree with felixw that spending money we don’t have is all the Democrat’s fault?

    nah, I don’t know if that’s what Felix said, but I disagree with what you said he said. =)

    so, in conclusion and to clarify: the republican congress under bush spent a shitload this past decade too. both parties, in essence, suck when it comes to fiscal responsibility.

  • the real john t

    felixw said:
    Keith prefers the Democrat agenda. Namely:
    Spend money we don’t have
    On bills we don’t read
    For programs that don’t work
    So of course he doesn’t like the tea party.

    Well Kird, that is what felix wrote in case you missed it.

  • Kird

    my thoughts on liberal punditry tonight after viewing a 3 hour special comment by Keith Olbermann and a 90 minute John Stewart interview with the President:

    Stewart > Olbermann (by a big mac margin)

  • Kird

    the real john t said:
    Well Kird, that is what felix wrote in case you missed it.

    ‘ight, I came to a slightly different conclusion than you did from what he posted, but I can see why you came to the conclusion you arrived too.

  • the real john t

    Kird said:
    but I can see why you came to the conclusion you arrived too.

    Well see, felix could come on and defend his comment, but he’s too busy logging off and on under his many sockpuppets so he can vote on the thumbs up or down.

  • Kird

    the real john t said:
    Well see, felix could come on and defend his comment, but he’s too busy logging off and on under his many sockpuppets so he can vote on the thumbs up or down.

    well, it’s almost 3 AM/2 central so maybe we’ll give him a pass this time, ya?

  • the real john t

    Kird said:
    well, it’s almost 3 AM/2 central so maybe we’ll give him a pass this time, ya?

    Well the little guy stays up all night to do that. What a life huh?

  • Latin2

    the real john t said:
    Would that be like Bush and the 2 wars he started?

    You mean the ones the Democrats PUSHED FOR?

  • Kird

    the real john t said:
    Well the little guy stays up all night to do that. What a life huh?

    I think that since you and I are seemingly the only two up late posting on this site, your last statement does more to diss me and you then it does Felix. My excuse is I missed the original airing of the Stewart/Obama interview and needed to watch it for class tomorrow; it just finished re-airing =)

  • the real john t

    Latin2 said:
    You mean the ones the Democrats PUSHED FOR?

    Well look at that. Felixw shows up under another one of his sockpuppets.

  • Kird

    Latin2 said:
    You mean the ones the Democrats PUSHED FOR?

    Correction: Latin2 is on the prowl; looking like a three-way dance.

  • Latin2

    the real john t said:
    Well look at that. Felixw shows up under another one of his sockpuppets.

    I didn’t know Felix was a female? I know that you are a eunuch or of questionable gender…lol.

  • Latin2

    …and as for your LIE about Bush starting the “two wars”…why looky what I found…lol

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5p-qIq32m8

    Liberal Democrats PUSHING AND ASKING for the war.

  • the real john t

    Latin2 said:
    I didn’t know Felix was a female? I know that you are a eunuch or of questionable gender…lol.

    You’d better log back off again so you can start voting for the thumbs.

  • Latin2

    the real john t said:
    You’d better log back off again so you can start voting for the thumbs.

    What’s the matter eunuch…you can’t handle the fact that Liberals voted and requested that we go to war;

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5p-qIq32m8

  • sean_m

    There’s no way I’m sitting through 20 minutes of that drivel. Typical left desperation a week before the election. Why waste my time?

  • Latin2

    sean_m said:
    There’s no way I’m sitting through 20 minutes of that drivel. Typical left desperation a week before the election. Why waste my time?

    Desperation is Liberals middle name…like the real DESPERATE john t…lol

  • Kird

    Latin2 said:
    …and as for your LIE about Bush starting the “two wars”…why looky what I found…lol

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5p-qIq32m8

    Liberal Democrats PUSHING AND ASKING for the war.

    I didn’t click the link, but i do want to point out that only congress can declare war and that people dissing the war should know that it was a bi-partisan affair that got us there.

  • Latin2

    Kird said:
    I didn’t click the link, but i do want to point out that only congress can declare war and that people dissing the war should know that it was a bi-partisan affair that got us there.

    Try explaining that to the braindead on the Left.

    X^)

  • Latin2

    I didn’t even watch Olbermann’s “Special Commentary” it is the usual desperate tirade.

  • the real john t

    Latin2 said:
    I didn’t even watch Olbermann’s “Special Commentary” it is the usual desperate tirade.

    No, you probably watched O’Reilly crying and whining about Juan Williams getting fired. When are you RWers going to grow up and put your big boy pants on. You are a pathetic bunch of crybabies.

  • Kird

    sean_m said:
    There’s no way I’m sitting through 20 minutes of that drivel. Typical left desperation a week before the election. Why waste my time?

    ya know, I think that’s probably the most profound comment posted about this “special comment.” If Olbermann cares so much you’d think he’d be media savvy enough to execute his message in a time frame that the average American would invest in, considering the attention span demands on “US” voters these days.

  • Kird

    the real john t said:
    No, you probably watched O’Reilly crying and whining about Juan Williams getting fired. When are you RWers going to grow up and put your big boy pants on. You are a pathetic bunch of crybabies.

    poor Juan, forever crucified for being a political moderate in an extreme partisan landscape. he’ll end up being the John Birth Society’s keynote speaker in twenty years if this shit keeps up. Strange.

  • the real john t

    Kird said:
    if this shit keeps up.

    Yeah, that’s all Fox can talk about. Freedom of Speech doesn’t include Freedom of Employment.

  • jrcmi

    For all the right-wingers foot-stomping/hand-wringing/weeping/thumbsucking here, not one – not ONE – has disproven anything KO quoted or asserted.

    It’s tragic that, despite the extremist right’s intellectual and ethical sloth, they will almost certainly make gains in Congress.

  • jrcmi
  • the real john t

    I see Felixw/latin2 had to leave so he could keep logging back on and off to vote on the thumbs.

  • Michael_T

    Good reporting Hillary Busis .

    No perceivable political bias as you simply reported Olbermann’s Special Comment without any snarky or partisan comments that you sometimes find at right-leaning sites like TVNewser and Mediaite … especially when they have articles about Olbermann. At least that was the case in months past.

    Keep up the good (balanced) work. PLEASE.

  • Michael_T

    jrcmi said:
    It’s tragic that, despite the extremist right’s intellectual and ethical sloth, they will almost certainly make gains in Congress.

    Nate Silver’s fivethirtyeight blog at the NY Times currently has the GOP picking up 54 house seats and seven new Senate seats. I just checked an hour ago.

    It’s quite alarming how many voters have chosen to vote against their own self interest without using any discernible form of critical thinking.

  • stehil912

    the real john t says:
    October 28, 2010 at 3:34 am the real john t(Quote)
    0 17
    Kird said:
    if this shit keeps up.

    Yeah, that’s all Fox can talk about. Freedom of Speech doesn’t include Freedom of Employment.

    You are you right, and all the people you vote for and stand by in office are being voted out over the next few days due to their views, and their screw ups.. (just like the republicans screw ups before them) It appears they are in the same boat as Juan.. Well, no thats not true, they wont be given a multi million dollar contract with another company, they will be jobless..

  • Bop_mojo

    WOW, what an impressively delivered bunch of racist hate speech. i think folks like keith Oberman are so racist and polarizing. He should look a little deeper at folks than what he says about them ,speaking like he does about his fellow americans and then ready to sell out all americans who need jobs to illegal immigrants. those jobs that illegals are working at, that unemployed americans could have are not all picking fruit and to say that is not the truth. just ride over to a few electric plants bein built right now to buold Clean coal Joke, so did i get the run on sentences, and check out the hundreds of ilegals who are making 26 bucks an hour building a new coal plant there. they have union people working there and non union workers also. i talked to 3 guys who quit working there who said they would rather draw unemployment than work with non union hands , when did they get to be better than the rest of us. and there are many projects going on with better pay than this for illegals to work on while americans are sitting unemployed. wow if you actually did your job and did some research on illegals like koreans , middle easterners and central and south american natives, its a shame that you dont get any facts, you would stop being a racist and realize we are not racist we just dont see why you would sell out americans who need work and support criminals who have snuck into our country, do the numbers on unemployed americans , and all ilegals and aint it funny folks are out of work for 2 years and we still have all these ilegals in the country. OK you want to help them get a better life but at the same time you rhetoric of hate and racism, is keeping americans from getting a job, while you sell them out for folks who snuck into our country or were lucky enough to be invited to visit our country for a better education and , oh we need these really best and brightest from around the world, Bull….., what about the best and brightest students from america where will they work if you let them stay, but you know better because you are snide, arrogant, mean, and in my opionion you are a traiter to all those poor americans you go on about needing help by selling them out for ilegals, who have those jobs that many americans would be happy to have even tho you wouldnt dare stoop so low as to work those jobs while many proud americans would rather have a job than draw a free check, but you wouldnt understand because you are you and we are america. oh i am not a republican you are the type that gives us real democrats a bad name. do you know why your opinion doesnt matter, because it isnt yours its what you think ours shouldbe. wow how arrogant and racist would we be if we acted as you //. So did i get the run on sentences and capture the arrogance and i tried hard to mispell as much as possible and mis punctuate as possible so i fit your idea of most of us ignorant rural democrats that you think hang on your every word and believe all the hate you spew . give an american a chance. republicans democrats , wow most of us dont even know what that means anymore yall are really messing up the present and future. please get off the elite wagon and go call a game or two, it might do you and us all some good.

  • Michael_T

    To poster Bop_mojo.

    The ENTER key is your friend. Try it sometime.

    paragraphs = readability

  • Bop_mojo

    sorry dude it represents how keith talks. lol

  • VRWC Destruction Machine

    The Real Royal King said:
    This was a nicely done report. Factual. Balanced. I wish he delivery had been slower and less emotional. I understand how upsetting this all is, but it was important enough that a more controlled delivery style would have better showcased these important facts.

    Frankly, I was surprised to see Mr. Olbermann prepare such a thorough, fact-based report.

    The Koldys PHOX Phan Klub will be in over-drive whining about this.

    Factual? Dopeymann says the Tea Party wants to take America back to the days of Jim Crow. Need you be reminded Jim Crow was the invention of the DNC. By calling Dooeymann’s rant a fact-based report you have confirmed my contention you base your commentary on someone who writes Cliff Notes for retards.

    Dopeymann spent twenty minutes telling us he cannot debate the issues and that frustrates him all to hell.

    Dopeymann is such a good Marxist lackey when he says “They fight the redistribution of wealth not because they oppose redistribution, but because their sole purpose is to protect wealth and keep it where they think it belongs, in the bank accounts of the wealthy.”

    It appears Dopeymann has sent a thrill down the legs of idiots who can’t think or look up the truth for themselves.

  • bigbrainbrad

    WildMan said:
    Keith Olbermann has pitiful numbers/ratings/viewers…LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

    THE OREILLY FACTOR……………………3,734,000 viewers

    PARKER SPITZER……………………………..401,000 viewers

    COUNTDOWN W/ K. OLBERMANN…..1,190,000 viewers

    NANCY GRACE…………………………………..670,000 viewers

    ROTFLMAO @ Keith. Bill O’Reilly has almost 4 times the viewers. ROTFLMAO…!!!

    Dancing With the Stars pulled in 19.3 million viewers.

    ROTFLMAO @ YOU: DWTS has 5x’s as many viewers as Bill O

    what do rating have to do with the points Olbermann was making?

  • bigbrainbrad

    Latin2 said:
    You mean the ones the Democrats PUSHED FOR?

    yes, the ones the Democrats pushed for but now we are broke because of them

  • gammaray

    When will people learn that ratings never determine quality?

    Olbermann was standing up for something he believes in, how does the fact that more people watch Bill O Reilly take anything away from what Keith was saying?

  • gammaray

    bigbrainbrad said:
    yes, the ones the Democrats pushed for but now we are broke because of them

    So it wasn’t the unnecessary wars? Not to mention that we were broke way before the Democrats took power.

  • bigbrainbrad

    gammaray said:
    So it wasn’t the unnecessary wars? Not to mention that we were broke way before the Democrats took power.

    i meant the wars and not the Dems

    sarcasm never works on the internet

  • NORBIT

    OPRAH BITCH-SLAPS “THE VIEW”

    Oprah (on her new network):
    “It’ll be fun and entertaining, without tearing down people and calling them BITCHES!”

    Wow! – Behar took that one right across the face!

    So will she be coming back at ‘O’?
    Not likely with that cowardly BITCH!

    Hey BayWhore, to paraphrase:
    “Come say that in Chicago, Bitch!”
    heh-heh-heh!

  • bigbrainbrad

    SmartAlec said:
    Less than 1/3 of 1% of the population saw it anyway. If a tree falls….

    The NFL’s TV ratings hit yet another milestone this week when the league announced that the 12 most-watched programs of the current TV season have been NFL games.

    The Green Bay Packers’ win against the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday night, which with 25.7 million viewers was the most-watched Sunday night game in history, became the latest game to highlight the NFL’s domination of the TV viewership market this fall.

    well, i guess we should get our news from Brett Favre. He has 6X’s the ratings of Bill O

  • jrcmi

    Bop_nogo: You either didn’t watch KO’s commentary or failed to take your meds.

    Race has absolutely nothing to do with this. You have taken a cue from your right-wing masters and baselessly claimed racism on Olbermann’s part – an absurd and offensive assertion for which you should be deeply ashamed . . . as if.

    And something else; Olbermann wasn’t so much asking us to vote AGAINST these “misfits of politics” as he was asking us to vote FOR our better interests. Democrats may not always be the ideal choice – but compared to these deluded, dishonest and dangerous cretins, there are clearly far better choices in every instance.

    There are third-party candidates running in many local and statewide races. If you refuse to vote for a Democrat, at least give some encouragement to such candidates by giving them your vote. I have done this myself and would do so again.

    Olbermann quoted verbatim, contextual statements from many of these people. He truthfully and concisely related their actions and sentiments. He presented compelling, factual evidence for his conclusions – evidence seldom heard from the screeching, self-serving right. If you lack the attention span to actually absorb such information and vote accordingly, you richly deserve the havoc these people will wreak on our country.

    Olbermann did his homework. For the sake of our democracy, do yours.

    http://www.RepubliCorp.us

  • gammaray

    bigbrainbrad said:
    i meant the wars and not the Dems

    sarcasm never works on the internet

    fair nuff.

  • NORBIT

    bigbrainbrad said:
    The NFL’s TV ratings hit yet another milestone this week when the league announced that the 12 most-watched programs of the current TV season have been NFL games. The Green Bay Packers’ win against the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday night, which with 25.7 million viewers was the most-watched Sunday night game in history, became the latest game to highlight the NFL’s domination of the TV viewership market this fall. well, i guess we should get our news from Brett Favre. He has 6X’s the ratings of Bill O

    Does the word “incongruous” come to mind?

  • The Real Royal King

    NORBIT said:
    Does the word “incongruous” come to mind?

    Yes, when you judge credibility, authenticity and truth solely by ratings, you often end up with yolk dripping from your chin, Niblet.

  • Dave Richards

    The Real Royal King said:
    This was a nicely done report. Factual. Balanced. I wish he delivery had been slower and less emotional. I understand how upsetting this all is, but it was important enough that a more controlled delivery style would have better showcased these important facts. Frankly, I was surprised to see Mr. Olbermann prepare such a thorough, fact-based report. The Koldys PHOX Phan Klub will be in over-drive whining about this.

    Much of his fake outrage was false, For instance…

    “They see America not for what it is or what it can be. They see delusions, specters, fantasies. They see communists under every bed and a gun in every hand. They see tax breaks for the rich, and delayed retirement for everyone else. They fight the redistribution of wealth not because they oppose redistribution, but because their sole purpose is to protect wealth and keep it where they think it belongs, in the bank accounts of the wealthy”.

  • valkyrie101

    SmartAlec said:
    Less than 1/3 of 1% of the population saw it anyway. If a tree falls….

    Yes, had he been on FOX news that figure would go all the way up to 1%.

  • The Real Royal King

    VRWC Destruction Machine said:
    Factual? Dopeymann says the Tea Party wants to take America back to the days of Jim Crow. Need you be reminded Jim Crow was the invention of the DNC. By calling Dooeymann’s rant a fact-based report you have confirmed my contention you base your commentary on someone who writes Cliff Notes for retards.

    Dopeymann spent twenty minutes telling us he cannot debate the issues and that frustrates him all to hell.

    Dopeymann is such a good Marxist lackey when he says “They fight the redistribution of wealth not because they oppose redistribution, but because their sole purpose is to protect wealth and keep it where they think it belongs, in the bank accounts of the wealthy.”

    It appears Dopeymann has sent a thrill down the legs of idiots who can’t think or look up the truth for themselves.

    Actually, the DNC had nothing to do with Jim Crow. Jim Crow was the product of various state legislatures in the Cracker Belt, then controlled by Democrats but now controlled by Republicans. The Republicans are those people who left the Democratic party after it became aggressive about civil rights, or the spawn of these people. Please try to get your facts straight.

  • The Real Royal King

    valkyrie101 said:
    SmartAlec said:
    Less than 1/3 of 1% of the population saw it anyway. If a tree falls….

    Yes, had he been on FOX news that figure would go all the way up to 1%.

    And, we’re talking about it here. Some blond twit on FOX will be talking about. Lard Limbaugh will be talking about it. The Koldys’ PHOX Phan Klub will be talking about it. Olbermann’s reach is enormous. And, more’s the pity.

  • Pablo

    Michael_T said:
    Nate Silver’s fivethirtyeight blog at the NY Times currently has the GOP picking up 54 house seats and seven new Senate seats. I just checked an hour ago.

    It’s quite alarming how many voters have chosen to vote against their own self interest without using any discernible form of critical thinking.

    The lack of critical thinking appears to be yours. Unless, like the President, you’re convinced that Americans are stupid and crazy, which would explain how he got elected.

  • TfT

    Keith is one “sick puppy”. And to think Griffin claims that MSNBC is NOT the propaganda arm of the DNC.

    Too funny.

    MSNBC=meltdown

    Keith’s head is gonna explode on Tuesday night.

  • Pablo

    The Real Rabid Kook said:
    The Republicans are those people who left the Democratic party after it became aggressive about civil rights, or the spawn of these people. Please try to get your facts straight.

    The Republicans are the party that freed the slaves. The Democrats are the party who hated them for it, the party of the KKK. It was the Democrats that called Republicans the “Party of the Nigger”. Get your facts straight, indeed.

  • The Real Royal King

    Pablo said:
    The Republicans are the party that freed the slaves. The Democrats are the party who hated them for it, the party of the KKK. It was the Democrats that called Republicans the “Party of the Nigger”. Get your facts straight, indeed.

    Your overstatement notwithstanding, it is the Democrats who purged the racists from their party in 1965, and the Republicans welcomed them with open arms. And, there they have remained.

  • The Real Royal King

    Pablo said:
    The lack of critical thinking appears to be yours. Unless, like the President, you’re convinced that Americans are stupid and crazy, which would explain how he got elected.

    You certainly are a bitter, intolerant person for so early in the morning. If I were able to convince President Obama to call you and apologize for his being an African-American, would that help you.

  • Latin2

    The Real Royal King said:
    Your overstatement notwithstanding, it is the Democrats who purged the racists from their party in 1965, and the Republicans welcomed them with open arms. And, there they have remained.

    The KKK was diminished after that, and never returned like when it was under the Democrats. The Democrats put their eggs into racial politics and DESTROYED the minority communities with the “Great Society”. They enslaved many people of color for votes as they created large welfare states and enslaved many poor people by offering them ‘free money’ as long as they voted for them. Meanwhile destroying the family units in black, Latino and poor white homes, replacing husbands with the GOVERNMENT CHECK…as long as they voted Democratic.

  • Latin2

    The Great Society, brought upon by the Democrats, has done more damage to the minority communities than the KKK did after the 1970s. Before the 1970s the KKK WAS the Democrats, but after that the KKK was kaput, as Democrats enslaved Latinos, Blacks and poor whites under the not-so “Great Society”, which happened around the same time around 1970. The not-so Great Society DESTROYED minority communities and I saw it first hand.

  • The Real Royal King

    Latin2 said:
    The Great Society, brought upon by the Democrats, has done more damage to the minority communities than the KKK did after the 1970s. Before the 1970s the KKK WAS the Democrats, but after that the KKK was kaput, as Democrats enslaved Latinos, Blacks and poor whites under the not-so “Great Society”, which happened around the same time around 1970. The not-so Great Society DESTROYED minority communities and I saw it first hand.

    Hurry and down a bottle of Bean-o. Even given the gas you just shared with us, you’re in serious danger of a near fatal explosion. What really gets you is that the Great Society empowered African-American children and Hispanic children all across America to become the today’s leaders simply by leveling the playing field, by giving people who had no hope, no opportunity both. Just admit it: You can’t tolerate America having an African-American president. Now, get out the Saltines and play with your Crackers.

  • Latin2

    The Real Royal King said:
    Hurry and down a bottle of Bean-o. Even given the gas you just shared with us, you’re in serious danger of a near fatal explosion. What really gets you is that the Great Society empowered African-American children and Hispanic children all across America to become the today’s leaders simply by leveling the playing field, by giving people who had no hope, no opportunity both. Just admit it: You can’t tolerate America having an African-American president. Now, get out the Saltines and play with your Crackers.

    uh…I am a LATINA…and I know the effects of the Great Society first hand,and you don’t. The Liberals “Great Society” enslaved many of the poor and people of color by giving free money instead of having to work, what happened was a disaster to the minority communities by the Great Society ‘experiment’ that failed.

  • Latin2

    The Great Society forced the poor and minorities into segregated government public housing, many of them full of crime and several had to be destroyed. Families were penalized the poor if they were married. If you were an unmarried woman with children you got a free check and low rent housing…so many women didn’t need a husband or stopped getting married…they just kept having children. The more children you had…the bigger the check…but you could not have a husband or the government would penalize you…and that is just one of many things the Great Society did.

  • valkyrie101

    Latin2 said:
    uh…I am a LATINA…and I know the effects of the Great Society first hand,and you don’t. The Liberals “Great Society” enslaved many of the poor and people of color by giving free money instead of having to work, what happened was a disaster to the minority communities by the Great Society ‘experiment’ that failed.

    Here is the problem with your theory: There is literally not enough jobs. So if a person happens to be one of those with no job, what is your suggestion for living?

  • Pablo

    The Real Royal King said:
    You certainly are a bitter, intolerant person for so early in the morning. If I were able to convince President Obama to call you and apologize for his being an African-American, would that help you.

    No. If you could get him to apologize for being a tone deaf moron, that might help. It probably won’t do him any good on Tuesday, but it would be a wise gesture.

  • Pablo

    valkyrie101 said:
    Here is the problem with your theory: There is literally not enough jobs. So if a person happens to be one of those with no job, what is your suggestion for living?

    Wait, what is it we need 12 million illegal aliens for again?

  • Latin2

    Pablo said:
    Wait, what is it we need 12 million illegal aliens for again?

    …and many Mexican-American, poor whites, and African-Americans did the jobs before Illegal Aliens came here. Before the Great Society and Welfare my own family used to work in the fields picking the same fruits/vegetables now picked by Illegal Aliens. We did it during the summer months when they were in season. and during the weekends. The Great Society changed that.

  • JimBob

    Oh, Damn. Just when I thought the Gop had everything in place for a blowout on
    Nov 2, Keith Olbermann comes along and does one of his Special Comments
    on National TV. I was afraid of that.
    I doubt if we will take the House now. Dems may keep house and gain in
    Senate!!
    Damn it Keith! I should have expected this October Surprise.
    Lean Forward

  • Seeing November From My Window

    Latin says:

    The Liberals “Great Society” enslaved many of the poor and people of color by giving free money instead of having to work, what happened was a disaster to the minority communities by the Great Society ‘experiment’ that failed.

    Just as the Dem’s planned. They want minorities under their boot and not able to do for themselves. That’s their power and there’s NO way they’re gonna give that up.

  • Oregon Conservative

    That’s it, I’m watching (while trying not to vomit) MSNBC on Election Night. The meltdown should be EPIC. What a fucking jerk Olbermann is.

    I’m meeting Chris Christie on Saturday! Yay me!

  • Oregon Conservative

    Who’ll be on the air at MSNBC when Sharron Angle is declared the new Senator from Nevada?

    I kind of hope it’s Maddow. When Scott Brown won she looked as if she had just taken her childhood dog to be euthanized. So pathetic how these clowns wear their emotions. Tom Brokaw was right when he critiqued the garbage coming out of his own employer.

    Lean Forward to Comcast.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Oregon Conservative says:
    “Who’ll be on the air at MSNBC when Sharron Angle is declared the new Senator from Nevada?”

    You really think that people from NV will, next Tuesday, vote for a racist?

    Olbermann was right on with two points: the Tea Party is extremist. I’ve been using the word reactionary for months, and that mean the EXTREME, far right. They are outside the mainstream, all of them.

    The other thing that he was right on about was the choice that Americans must make next Tuesday. Voters will choose to move forward into the 21st Century putting reason before beliefs, or they will choose to go back either to the failed Bush policies (voting for an establishment Republican) or wayyyyy the hell back– by voting for a Glenn Beck inspired TP — candidate to the 19th Century.

    It’s that simple.

    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/10/for-undecided-voters-various-strains-of.html

  • lane

    I never watch MSNBC at night, but I will be a loyal viewer on election night. So many ‘career’ politicians are going to learn that ‘the people’ need to be heard. Indepndents are always ignored, until election night, but like the republicans, the democrats will learn the need for fiscal responsibility.

    I’m with you Oregon, watching either Maddow or Olby announce the Anngle win sounds fun. I predict the shock will really come when the New England races go red. When you lose the northeast as democrats, you’ve lost everyone.

    Good times, democracy at work. Maybe next time, they’ll read some bills and do some work before they spend all our money.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

    They see the greatness of America not in its people, but in its corporations.

    This message brought to you by General Electric.

  • Seeing November From My Window

    GBR says:

    Olbermann was right on with two points: the Tea Party is extremist.

    I guess you missed the recent poll which found that a majority of the American people think it’s the DEM party that has the most extremists. That meme just isn’t working.

  • lane

    What a surprise. Olbermann attacks the Tea Party as bigots and racists. Maybe he should just repeat the same show nightly, and save himself the work.

    The hate I see comes from the Olbermann’s of the world. You can’t keep calling bigots then slander groups based on fringe elements. It’s intellectually dishonest and just really stupid. But, I’ll be watching him on election night…..

    Independents are pulling even more anti-incumbent as the days draw near. The attack the Tea Party and attack the candidate ugly tactics are seriously backfiing this week.

  • JimBob

    Hell for a minute, I thought GBR was going to get all
    the way through one without mentioning Glenn Beck!
    Man when you do go off, please try not to hurt any
    innocent bystanders!

  • writer

    Olbermann is melting down as election day approaches like Jack Nicholson in The Shining. I’m sure he’s sad he’s not on HBO, so that instead of just name calling, he could break into outright swearing.

  • StewartIII
  • valkyrie101

    Yea, he should chill. This is all a no lose situation for the dems.

  • RepublicansAreLiars

    You people have really drank the Kool-Aid or perhaps it is the Cruel-aid for most of you Tea-Baggers. I really get a great chuckle out of how you ill informed, middle to lower class individuals are so fired up to SCREW YOURSELF next Turesday. It will be hysterically funny watching all of you in a few years lose your job and not have unemployment benefits which the TEA-Idiots like Sharon Angle want to do. I’ll be ROFLMAO watching when you and your children are denied health care coverage for preexisting conditions when your good TEA SCAG buddies repeal the new health care law. As you and your children are dying, they will be taking your home from you, then you will truly understand what you are voting into office you bunch of IDIOT morons. You want jobs yet you don’t want the goverment to spend money to help make this happen. Are you just completely DAFT? No, you TEA Imbecils are the people that slept through government and economic class in high school. If you even took the time to finish high school. BTW ladies… When your daughter gets raped and is pregnant with the rapists babies in TEA World you will get to look into the eyes of that rapists child the rest of your life. OH BTW… for the rest of you morons ..if the fact that in every Republican administration the gap between the rich and the poor widens doersn’t give you momment to pause then how about this… The number of private sector jobs created during democrat administrations is almost double the number of private sector jobs created during Republican administrations…Look it up, Moron Now go vote your schill for big oil, big insurance and big banking into office so they can start screwing you real good. You TEA Wipes disgust me.

  • writer

    Damn. Now the tea party is going to kill kids. This is much worse than we thought.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Palin Wanna-Be Seeing November From My Window says:
    “I guess you missed the recent poll which found that a majority of the American people think it’s the DEM party that has the most extremists. That meme just isn’t working.”

    Right; once Americas see all the rest of their manufacturing jobs exported by the US Chamber of Commerce backed corporations, then the American people will figure out whose side the two parties are on. Meanwhile…

    Again, it’s simple: Democrats work in Congress to help the people.
    Republicans work in Congress to help the corporations rape the land, pollute the air, despoil the water and export the jobs of the Americans who will be supporting those corporate -backed candidates next Tuesday.

    That’s not a meme; that is the reality of people voting against their own self interest.

  • Seeing November From My Window

    Palin Wanna-Be Seeing November From My Window says:

    Ah thanks!

    Right; once Americas see all the rest of their manufacturing jobs exported by the US Chamber of Commerce backed corporations, then the American people will figure out whose side the two parties are on. Meanwhile…

    Didn’t you hear, this attack was a big, fat FAIL!! Try something new!

  • writer

    Aren’t we still trading with China? With a record trade deficit? And didn’t Clinton push NAFTA, telling us in effect that our auto companies moving to Mexico would be a good thing?

  • VRWC Destruction Machine

    The Real Royal King said:
    Actually, the DNC had nothing to do with Jim Crow. Jim Crow was the product of various state legislatures in the Cracker Belt, then controlled by Democrats but now controlled by Republicans. The Republicans are those people who left the Democratic party after it became aggressive about civil rights, or the spawn of these people. Please try to get your facts straight.

    Jim Crow Laws were instituted by White Democrats. On another topic, you were given a list of Democrats who remained Democrats when you said Dixiecrats became Republicans. That list proved you to be delusional. Jim Crow Laws came about after the Civil War and were instituted by Southern Democrats.

    Again, you get your commentary from a guy who wrote Cliff Notes for Retards.

    Let’s cut to the chase. List some “facts” Dopeymann gave to the idiots that lsiten to him. I’ll be glad to debate those facts.

    Along with Dopeymann’s moronic Jim Crow claims, I noticed you did not dispute my claim of your mentor Dopeymann being a Marxist.

  • glider02

    “Conservatives and liberals alike will find their blood boiling when they watch the following video, in which Keith Olbermann delivers what he calls a “Special Comment” on the Tea Party’s midterm election candidates.”

    Oh Contrare !! My blood won’t be boiling because I won’t be watching neither his show, nor your clip of it. I enjoy debating with sharp minded progressives, but this dude is one step away from being a roomie with “the Chief” in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. I mean really, the fact that you place any relevence or importance on what this whack job says is entertaining to me. He’s a freak in side show.

  • valkyrie101

    Pablo said:
    Wait, what is it we need 12 million illegal aliens for again?

    And so you think that those illegal aliens are the reason there are no jobs? I wonder how much the average illegal alien makes an hour? And, does that imply that the big corporations are employing illegal aliens?

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Palin Reactionary Seeing November From My Window says:
    “Didn’t you hear, this attack was a big, fat FAIL!! ”

    It may not be getting traction in the polls, but that won’t stop the Congress, bought and paid for by the USCOC, from exporting your jobs.

    Reactionary Destruction Machine says:
    “I noticed you did not dispute my claim of your mentor Dopeymann being a Marxist.”

    Maybe he didn’t deign to respond to such an idiot and loony idea. You really need to get educated about the difference between liberalism and socialism, between reformers and radicals. Here, learn something for a change:

    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/06/what-is-glenn-beck-politically.html

  • notsofast

    bigbrainbrad said:
    ROTFLMAO @ YOU: DWTS has 5x’s as many viewers as Bill O

    LOL

    You are too stupid to know that you don’t compare the ratings of an entertainment show to those of commentary/ news shows.

    ROTFLMAO- if you where so stupid to do that , you would cancel all network news broadcasts and run DWTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    ROTFLMAO

  • notsofast

    VRWC Destruction Machine said:
    Jim Crow Laws were instituted by White Democrats. On another topic, you were given a list of Democrats who remained Democrats when you said Dixiecrats became Republicans. That list proved you to be delusional. Jim Crow Laws came about after the Civil War and were instituted by Southern Democrats.

    So true, but please try not impair his lib talking points with the facts. He has too much invested in the lib rewriting of history.

  • bigbrainbrad

    notsofast said:
    LOL

    You are too stupid to know that you don’t compare the ratings of an entertainment show to those of commentary/ news shows.

    ROTFLMAO- if you where so stupid to do that , you would cancel all network news broadcasts and run DWTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    ROTFLMAO

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    –adverb
    1.
    in or at what place?: Where is he? Where do you live?
    2.
    in what position or circumstances?: Where do you stand on this question? Without money, where are you?
    3.
    in what particular respect, way, etc.?: Where does this affect us?
    4.
    to what place, point, or end? whither?: Where are you going?
    5.
    from what source? whence?: Where did you get such a notion?

    were   [wur; unstressed wer; Brit. also wair] Show IPA
    –verb
    a 2nd pers. sing. pt. indic., pl. pt. indic., and pt. subj. of be.

    c’mon man this is 2nd grade stuff

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Olbermann could have made his case even stronger. There are strong racist and nativist elements in the tea party.

    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/10/for-undecided-voters-various-strains-of.html

    Why weren’t reactionaries raising Caine about Bush’s massive deficits? He was white. The Obama backlash is not all racist; but that’s not too far from the case for much of it.

    Now watch the racist and non-racist (both of them) reactionaries attack this line of thinking.

  • SmartAlec

    Michael_T said:
    It’s quite alarming how many voters have chosen to vote against their own self interest without using any discernible form of critical thinking.

    They have used critical thinking. It’s called putting your country first. A selfish person like you will never understand that. You go ahead and vote for someone who acts in your self-interest and I’ll vote for who puts the country first. You lose.

  • SmartAlec

    bigbrainbrad said:
    The NFL’s TV ratings hit yet another milestone this week when the league announced that the 12 most-watched programs of the current TV season have been NFL games. The Green Bay Packers’ win against the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday night, which with 25.7 million viewers was the most-watched Sunday night game in history, became the latest game to highlight the NFL’s domination of the TV viewership market this fall. well, i guess we should get our news from Brett Favre. He has 6X’s the ratings of Bill O

    What a birdbrain…comparing football and DWTS to news.

  • Patrick Henry

    RepublicansAreLiars said:
    …Look it up, Moron Now go vote your schill for big oil, big insurance and big banking into office so they can start screwing you real good. You TEA Wipes disgust me.

    Did you even make it past 2nd grade?

  • writer

    GBR, Bush ended up with about a 23% approval rating and Obama was elected. Where are you coming up with this stuff that no one complained about Bush?

  • VRWC Destruction Machine

    FecklessReview said:
    Palin Reactionary Seeing November From My Window says:“Didn’t you hear, this attack was a big, fat FAIL!! ” It may not be getting traction in the polls, but that won’t stop the Congress, bought and paid for by the USCOC, from exporting your jobs. Reactionary Destruction Machine says:“I noticed you did not dispute my claim of your mentor Dopeymann being a Marxist.” Maybe he didn’t deign to respond to such an idiot and loony idea. You really need to get educated about the difference between liberalism and socialism, between reformers and radicals. Here, learn something for a change: http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/06/what-is-glenn-beck-politically.html

    It’s amazing how you try to mask your idiocy with condescension. You and Royal Pain in the Arse’s mentor Dopeymann is a Marxist who fantasizes in being a Robin Hood in RED tights.

  • Pablo

    valkyrie101 said:
    And so you think that those illegal aliens are the reason there are no jobs?

    Do you think we need them or not?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Arthur-Clough/1419363514 Arthur Clough

    Keith, how about some name calling. Oh, wait, thats all you have left. You have no legit points to discuss. Libs are now found to have a gene defect. Who said it was a disease was right after all.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Arthur-Clough/1419363514 Arthur Clough

    Real Roya King said:
    Hurry and down a bottle of Bean-o. Even given the gas you just shared with us, you’re in serious danger of a near fatal explosion. What really gets you is that the Great Society empowered African-American children and Hispanic children all across America to become the today’s leaders simply by leveling the playing field, by giving people who had no hope, no opportunity both. Just admit it: You can’t tolerate America having an African-American president. Now, get out the Saltines and play with your Crackers.

    Is that meant to be a racist remark toward my Latina friend?

  • bigbrainbrad

    SmartAlec said:
    What a birdbrain…comparing football and DWTS to news.

    ok, so i guess we should get our news from 60 minutes which doubles Bill O

    does that count?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jibreel-Riley/100000612543859 Jibreel Riley

    KO make the New York State College of Agriculture looks great

  • Cecelia

    VRWC Destruction Machine said:
    Again, you get your commentary from a guy who wrote Cliff Notes for Retards.

    Amen to that.

    I’m a southerner. The south didn’t go solidly Republican until the early 1990s.

    The notion that there was nothing to make socially conservative people go Republican, other that the majority are unreconstructed Confederates is just the most simplistic crap around.

    “Cliff Notes for Retards” is on the money!

  • rockloper

    Well this pretty much sums it up for the teatards. Dumb losers!
    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100224132655.htm

  • felixw

    the real john t said:
    Would that be like Bush and the 2 wars he started?

    Keep on blaming Bush. Then see on Tuesday whether the voters are convinced.

  • JamesA1102

    NeoKong said:
    What a bunch of horse shit.

    Really??? Please tell us which part you consider factually incorrect. And be sure to provied links.

  • RepublicansAreLiars

    Yes we will keep blaming Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Clarence Thomas, Anthony Scalia, Dick Army, Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Anne Coulter, Karl Roves, Michael Powell, Ruppert Murdoch, Sarah Palin john Boehner, Mitch McConnell,and the 100′s of thousands of non-thinking Tea-Waggers that blindly follow these cretins over the cliff. I don’t care if you go but I don’t want to be taken with you.

  • valkyrie101

    Pablo said:
    Do you think we need them or not?

    Of course we need them, who else would we blame for all our economic problems?

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    writer says:
    “GBR, Bush ended up with about a 23% approval rating and Obama was elected. Where are you coming up with this stuff that no one complained about Bush?”

    No one on the right complained about his national debt bomb. If you can show me where there were tea party like demonstrations against Bush’s deficits, then I’ll stand corrected. I didn’t hear of any.

    rockloper says:
    “Well this pretty much sums it up for the teatards. Dumb losers!
    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100224132655.htm

    You should know that no one in the tea party is going to click on a site that has the word ‘science’ in it. They are belief and faith oriented. Science only gets in the way of their 19th Century beliefs.

  • gammaray

    notsofast said:
    LOL

    You are too stupid to know that you don’t compare the ratings of an entertainment show to those of commentary/ news shows.

    ROTFLMAO- if you where so stupid to do that , you would cancel all network news broadcasts and run DWTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    ROTFLMAO

    So you’ve never heard of the term infotainment?

  • gammaray

    SmartAlec said:
    What a birdbrain…comparing football and DWTS to news.

    You’re saying the quality of news is based solely on how many people watch it?

  • gammaray

    I like how the same people who advocate the “you can’t spend your way out of a recession, the government has no money” argument are the same who oppose higher taxes i.e. the government’s main source of income for GETTING more money.

  • Alz

    GlennBeckReview said:
    No one on the right complained about his (Bush’s) national debt bomb

    People complained: http://www.google.com/search?q=conservatives+grumbling+about+bush's+spending&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Hf3JTMCeBYiKnQfxvPj6Dw&ved=0CAkQpwU&source=lnt&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:10/1/2004,cd_max:10/31/2007

    It wasn’t news, plus people hoped he would wake up.

    Regardless, I think with what is going on it is more obvious that Bush and Congress were much more wrong that previously discussed.

    That’s why it’s disingenuous for the Left to keep blaming Bush when Obama is many times worse. The unemployment rate (and the prospect for it to go down) is a good indicator.

  • Alz

    gammaray said:
    I like how the same people who advocate the “you can’t spend your way out of a recession, the government has no money” argument are the same who oppose higher taxes i.e. the government’s main source of income for GETTING more money.

    The government has plenty of money. It just spends too much. So the idea that taxes should go up is silly, plus it takes money out of people’s pockets. Glad I could help you understand.

  • notsofast

    bigbrainbrad said:
    c’mon man this is 2nd grade stuff

    Lib hall monitor who can do nothing but correct spelling and grammar because he is a microcephalic with no brain!

    LOL

  • no3rdparty

    During the Presidential election my two nephews had a school wide mock election, and 99% of the school voted for Obama, these kids could barely wipe there own ass and feed themselves but they were chanting they hated Mccain and that he was evil. One child voted for Mccain and was taken aside by his black teacher for a little discussion. Reminded me of the Nazi’s! And I told them to never let anyone tell them who to vote for and that they were to young to worry about it and they were relieved to be excused from the whole indoctrination.

  • Snidely

    Olbermann cannot ever have attended a Tea Party rally. A less corporate gathering one cannot imagine. Certainly there are big money interests that are trying to use the Tea Party for their advantage. There are Democratic interests trying to use the Tea Party to split off non-Democratic votes from the Republicans. I’m sure there are racists who support the Tea Party. And there are racists in the Republican and Democratic parties also. David Duke ran as a Republican, and Raul Grijalva is a Democrat; both are racists. Why anyone pays any attention to Olbermann, I have no idea.

  • CAconservative

    It looks like Olbermann is heading for a nervous breakdown. His obsession with the Tea-Party is becoming hysterical.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Alz says:
    “That’s why it’s disingenuous for the Left to keep blaming Bush when Obama is many times worse. The unemployment rate (and the prospect for it to go down) is a good indicator.”

    That explains how Obama stopped the bleeding and turned the economy around is just a few months of taking office. Sorry Alz, your are just another right wing propagandist trying to blame Obama for Bush’s depression. Oh, yes, this would be a deep depression were it not for TARP, which is mostly paid back, and the stimulus package.

    In every recession ever, employment lags behind stock market and GNP recovery. Now the right wing propagandists on Fox and their minions here want to blame this fact on Obama, like he’s supposed to do anything about this without spending more money.

    Snidely says:
    “Olbermann cannot ever have attended a Tea Party rally. A less corporate gathering one cannot imagine.”

    Then you don’t know who’s behind much of their candidates.
    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/10/becks-fake-populism-exposed-he-sides.html
    and this outlines the tea party segments, including the racist elements.
    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/10/for-undecided-voters-various-strains-of.html

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

    This shithead must be aware that Zucker and his commie cohorts are now removed from NBC’s front office and his own contract will NOT BE RENEWED about 90 days from now. I wonder if MessNBC is ready for a transition to sanity or whether they’ll continue raving in the back wards of the MSM asylum…!

  • Noe Schitt

    WildMan said:
    Keith Olbermann has pitiful numbers/ratings/viewers…LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

    THE OREILLY FACTOR……………………3,734,000 viewers

    PARKER SPITZER……………………………..401,000 viewers

    COUNTDOWN W/ K. OLBERMANN…..1,190,000 viewers

    NANCY GRACE…………………………………..670,000 viewers

    ROTFLMAO @ Keith. Bill O’Reilly has almost 4 times the viewers. ROTFLMAO…!!!

    Wow, really?! That just proves one thing. That we’ve been asleep for a good number of years as a country and it’s time we wake up. O’Reilly panders to the ignorant. Plain and simple. Now go back and sit in the corner -dunce.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    David Mangan says:
    “This shithead must be [bla bla bla]”

    Be nice! Or at least civil!

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