*kidding*

@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.

Amen, brother Keith.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!

But too many words.

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.

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

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

Big Dog's Weblog

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.

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.

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