Now that makes me feel patriotic. I think I'm going to go watch 1776 now.

why does keith olbermann hate freedom?

*kidding*

send him to congress - if he writes his own stuff

I agree with him, even if he is starting to sound hammy...

I think that "hammy" sound is called sincerity, I'm not sure I haven't heard it in a while.

keith olbermann, i love you! i want to have your babies!

I like him, but he's got to stop saying, "Good night, and good luck." Clearly, words are his friend. He should use his amigos and pen an original tag line.

HOLY SHIT!!! thank you mister olbermann.

My other favorite Olbermann moment. Mostly for the barely-bridled, shit-eating grin at the end.

@3 - He does write his own stuff.

Thank GOD someone said this on the air, finally. About 5 years too late, but at least it's been said.

@7 I've never watched him before, but I kind of assumed he was purposefully invoking the memory of Edward R. Murrow... it was a bit pompous, but he was right to do it (if that's what he was doing) because most of today's media has forgotten that they SHOULD comment when the time is appropriate. If he says it every time he does a comment, he should cut it out.

This must be what the very religious feel like when they hear a really, really good sermon.

Amen, brother Keith.

God, he is so good.

Every time he knocks one out of the park like this, I want to make out with him.

If or when we get through this chapter of history, there will be statues erected of Olbermann as a Hero of the Revolution, or something. He's been the only one saying this stuff on mainstream TV for years. I don't know why he hasn't been fired or shot.

Somewhere there's video of him explaining why he uses Murrow's signoff. It's deliberate and tributary.

Okay...which of our local congresspeople or Seenators haws come out in favor of impeachment of George Bush?

None. that's right, none. Not even in favor of starting hearings or investigations into impeachable offenses.

Oh, they agree there are a host of impeachable offenses. Oh they agree thiese were and are a vital threat to our freedom the Constitution, the integrity of government and that they led to a horribly mistaken deceptive illegal war that is bankrupting us and creating more anti-Ameican feeling, as God damn well it should. And killing troops or ours. And resulted in conditions leading to deaths of about half a million Iraqis who are totally innocent. Kucinish just told Duncan Hunter about the same thing on TV and Hunter's only reply waas that Hussein had committed genocide (which ignores the fact that Geo. Bush the Sr. and the USA etc. had stopped that genocide and contained Hussein with the setrlement of that war, the no fly zone over Kurdistan, etc.).
They say this impeachment stuff could ....um...take up too much time... and um, um, it could repel voters....because you know, um, um, winning the next election is more important than protecting our Consitution. Got it?

Not that they're right about the winning the next election things... obviously impeachment would expose wrongdoing & provide leadership and this is what people want.

So ...what does Jim McDermott do? He recently came out for impeachment of ....Cheney. Not Bush.
Adam Smith--nope. Rick Larsen, nope. Brian BAirrd, nope. Patty Murray, nope.

Or, maybe they're chicken shit wimps who lack the courage of their convictions.

Unlike Olberman.

OK, Dan...so what happens when Dick Cheney "wins" the next "election"?

We are a soft country, and we're too spread out to revolt properly, even if we could be pried from our chairs.

There's not a person in office who is not in power because we let them be in power.

Austin - A-to-the-men.

Kat- except the fucking president.

I want to have Keith Olbermann's babies after hearing that.

It actually made me feel somewhat patriotic, which hasn't happened since Barak Obama's speech at the DNC in 2004.

I recently got rid of my cable and now I reminded of one benefit of having it (fortunately, youtube exists!). I miss Keith O's commentaries. Eventhough I am not American, I think I understand what America stands for which is why I am upset at the lack of outrage over Bush's decision to commute Libby's sentence. It seems like Bush's bubble gets more translucent and impossible to pop the longer he is in office. Stating that consideration for Libby's family as one of the reasons why he should not go to prison is such a double standard for all the families that have loved one's in prison or in Iraq fighting his illegitimate war. Short-sightedness, inability to empathize and complete disregard for the balance of power, is what this administration stands for. It is exhausting and seems to lead to a numbness or hopelessness for the sane, which is tragic indeed.

@ 11 & 14: I think he says it at the end of each broadcast. He also adds: "It's been X days since the declaration of mission accomplished." Now that's the kind of stuff I'm talking about!!!

I'd like to read/hear his rationale for using Murrow's line. Maybe I can be swayed...

Keith is SO FUCKING HOT!!!! I want hot sweaty sex with him while he is giving one of his commentaries.

I wish we would stand up but like has been said before we can not get off our asses to do anything. But I do not agree with the idea of being to spread out to revolt; if we understood what is happening and cared to change it there is nothing that the American people can not do. But we have become to soft and to apathetic to even get that angry.

Again, I go on this tangent all the time but it is worth repeating: READ what the founding Fathers wrote and then you would see that they would be willing to rebel with what we have in our nation today. We have allowed the executive branch to be come a quasi-elected monarchy and we allow the congress to become nothing more than the elected oligarchy which perpetuates the throne.

And the more I look at Hillary and Obama I just sigh: yeah I will vote for the one that gets the nomination but neither one will really give us the change we need. The change we need is much more substantial than what any one election or two elections will give us. We need to call for a full fledged constitutional convention. We need to put our best minds together (if any remain in our iPod and high fat diet culture) to really look at what is actually working in our system and provide real remedies that fix what is wrong while protecting the rights of all Americans.

Does that sound radical? Yeah it is radical but look what is happening around us? Do you really believe in your heart of hearts that "moderatation" will provide anything beyond an asprin to cure the cancer that exists? And yes it is risky but let's face it boys and girls, the concept of representative government is new in the totality of history and honestly just a drop in the bucket of the entire time frame of the thing we call civilization. Part of the risk is being willing to evaluate it and change it. It is an experiment and when it shows signs of failure we need to fix it. And failure is everywhere around us.

We have to wake up to the fact electing a different set of politicians to the same system that refuses to reform itself in any substative way just will not work. We need to call for a convention and do it before it really is too late. Long live our freedom, long live the republic! God Save the Union!

I would be glad to help out with your convention and restore the Republic!
I am ready to stand up for your ideals, Cato the Younger Younger! In fact we could work together on this....

Don't just post... write your congressman!

I just had an intellectual orgasm. Wow.

Gore/Olberman '08.

Good sentiments.

But too many words.

I love you people. Especially you, Cato. I've been moved to tears, and I feel more patriotic than I have....well, maybe ever.

I think this is the best I've seen from him yet. But has anyone else noticed that his writing style is straight-up National Review?

This gentleman gives me hope for your entire country. The transcript is available here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19588942/

It is really, really worth reading a few times. Beautifully worded, perfectly phrased, and absolutely, entirely compelling. I had almost lost faith--these nine minutes restored it.

BAM!

C'mon...It's refreshing to hear those sentiments, but Olberman is such a windbag. He could be much more effective if he cut down on the long winded cheesiness.

@30: I disagree. It's a long piece, but it's comprehensive, which I think is important. He'll be able to do the executive summary in subsequent interviews, but to lay it all out in one stream of well-written dissent is good.

Nice frothy indictment, but Thomas Jefferson will roll over in his grave (again) when President Edwards pardons Bush in 2009. If he ever gets the opportunity, that is.

@ treacle--T.J. and other Founding Fathers (despite their human faults) are all rolling complete 360s in their graves because of the current WH like a fundie when a gay man kisses his boyfriend.

As it is, I love Keith Olbermann's show. This is one of my favorites of his.

Now that my brother's convinced me to remain in the United States, maybe I'll buy a TV, too! After so much silence, after so many lies, it is incredibly refreshing to hear someone say what must be said.

If they erect a statue of him it will be phallic, no doubt.

Who is this twerp and where is he on any other day when other politicians are really breaking the law? Where was this jackass when William Jefferson was stuffing money in his freezer, or when Harry Reid was making bogus land deals or when Dianne Feinstein was sending war contracts to her husband and thus becoming a war profiteer?

This jerk was nowhere but let the President do something that is legal and authorized by the Constitution [Article II, Section 2], regardless of how distasteful anyone might find it, and Olbie goes nuts. I wonder where this guy was when Clinton was selling 140 pardons on his last day in office and I wonder how he felt when all the Democrats voted not guilty on Clinton's impeachment for perjury, the same crime Libby was convicted of.

Hey Keith, we just want the same penalty the criminal in chief Clinton got and we want you to shut your loser mouth. No wonder O'Reilly kicks the stuffing out of you in ratings, you suck.

As for Joe Wilson, it has been proven he LIED you jackass. Why don't you get your stuff together.

This boys and girls is what happens when the mentally ill do not take their medications.

Big Dog

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Big Dog:

Hey Keith, we just want the same penalty the criminal in chief Clinton got

Nice to know you want the president impeached too. The rest of your stuff is bullshit, but I like finding common ground.

@15 I agree with you for the most part but I believe the decision of most politicians to not pursue impeachment was for political (surprise) expediency. Pelosi and Reid and many others went to great lengths to assure the country that if Democrats took control of Congress there were no plans to pursue impeachment. They are merely holding to that commitment.

However, at this point, I believe enough new crap, pardon my language, has come to the surface that Congress should just go for it...for all the reasons Olberman stated so eloquently. This administration is a danger to the very stability of the Republic.

@35: I agree, so why don't you take them?

I forwarded this around...

I got a considered response from a critical thinking friend of mine. He sent me this link which I forward to you to consider:

http://www.slate.com/id/2168642/nav/navoa

I guess I'll be flamed but that's what bar room debate is all about! Where's that flaming sambucca?!?!?!?!?!?

The Wet One

Olbermann continues to hit 'em out of the park. The "I accuse" trope, by the way, comes from Emile Zola's "J'accuse ... !" indicting the French government of the Third Republic and especially the Army, for gross misconduct during the Dreyfus Case (Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, framed for and convicted of treason, served several years on Devil's island before he was eventually pardoned, thanks partly to Zola's efforts). Yes, Olbermann borrows tropes from other people. But the content is all his, and who else is saying stuff like this? Check out Hendrick Hertzberg's column "The Darksider" (on Cheney) in the latest issue of The New Yorker (Jul. 9 & 16, 2007). Hey, you guys at The Stranger were putting quotes around "Vice" President since the very beginning! Take a bow!

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