Don’t stop now !!!!  Tell him how you really feel…  I love it….

Keep up the good work…

Bravo, Keith ,when you started Countdown I knew you had more in you than Oddball and Worst Person.Now put 3.Rumsfeld 2.G.Bush and #number 1 worst person in the world (everyday)Dick(porkchop)Cheney. Keith you ROCK

Boy, there are some really dumb and really crazy people in the internet world.  Some of these posts prove it.

And that is more scary than any terrorist.

I’ll lend a little advice to all of these posters, and anyone else posting on the internet or emailing garbage to all their addresses in their email address book:

IF YOU CAN’T BACK UP THE STATEMENT/CLAIM WITH DOCUMENTED PROOF OR DOCUMENTED REFERENCES, THEN SHUT YOUR TRAP, STOP YOUR CRAZY POSTING, AND QUIT FORWARDING YOUR GARBAGE!

THANK YOU!

in re; #22060; you are as free as you were ten years ago and you note this without the least irony or complaint. i hate it when people refer to nazis, too. that most people hate reference to nazis should bring to mind those invariable reasons most people hate reference to nazis. think about that if you’re able. do what?

Robert L. Bufkin: To try and make claims that only the Muslim holy books demand the killing of all who oppose their way of life is false. I belive that you should open your bible and actually read it. Because I have never read a holy book in history that didn’t demand death in the light of faith. If it was not for the fear mongering religious text, religion would not have the power it does to this day.

thank you keith olberman

Who has lied through his teeth about everything under God’s Green Earth for the last 6 years?

Decency? Are you kidding?

How else can a group of minority extremests subvert the consitution, and gain complete and total control of the most powerful country in the world? Do you think they did this playing by the rules…?

Wake up, it’s a little late to be shocked…

1.  Who lowered your taxes?

  FOR THE RICH UPPER 150,000K (geepers can I work as a fat cat for the federal government and post all day making over 6 figures supporting BUSH)

2.  Who passed the No Child Left Behind Act?

NO MONEY TO BACK THE LAW and and UNEDUCATED PRESIDENT

3.  Who has not allowed a single attack against us in the US since 9/11?

KEPT SPREADING THE IRAQ TRAINING TERRORIST CELLS BY SITTING IN IRAQ AS THEY ARE USING OUR FORCES AS TRAINING ..we are getting closer to this side of the pond. Cheers to you!
4.  Who has lowered the unemployment rate to a 2 decade low?

GREAT JOBS LOWER THAN 30,000 a YEAR, ALL SERVICE SECTOR - WAITRESS , MORE WHITE AND BLUE JOBS HAVE BEEN OUTSOURCED TO CHINA< INDIA< UAE and the lists goes on and on.

5.  Who has gotten the economy growing (GDP growth—the bell weather economic indicator of an economy’s growth—the same one Clinton GOT credit for) at the fastest rate in three decades? 

Yeap, GREATEST FASTEST GAIN IN GDP THROUGH FOOD COSTS AND ENERGY COSTS AND HEALTH INSURANCE AND COLLEGE COSTS. more rice for YOU! JUST SAY INFLATION w/ hyper - inflation to follow!

6.  Who has authorized more money for social security, medicare and medecaid than any previous president (much more than your beloved Slick Willie)?  Remember libs, authorizing more money than the previous year, even though the rate of growth may not be as great IS AN INCREASE.  It is NOT a cut.

The consumer price index doesn’t include actual housing ONLY rent figures.  They have stayed stable for 5 years.  What about food and energy?  Those are included in YOUR CRB INDEX and NOT in CPI.  How is it GOLD has zoomed to 800.00 an ounce from the low 30.00 an ounce?  INFLATION? Sorry SS families are screwed!

7.  Who is taking A LEADERSHIP ROLE in fighting the global war against terror?

Bush needs to learn how to read a map.  OBL is in Afghanistan not IRAQ.  All the terrorists are sitting inside of the white house. A leader does not LIE.  A leader is EDUCATED.  I see no leader at all, just a little boy who NEVER grew up.

8.  Name one other president who had all of the main stream media, the ACLU, etc., etc. 100% against him and still won a mandate in an election (2004)?

Diebold software engineers.  You stated and I quote “100 against him “.  He must have really rigged those machines and lied more.

9.  Who is in dee White House?

TRUE, but he no president, NOT AT ALL just a fallacy of a person!

10.  Who doesn’t whine, whimper, complain, etc like you do?  Who just let’s it slide off and keeps on looking out for you?

Blotch face…....meds on the way, prozac! Or is he hitting the bottle again?

Bush GRADE F on all of the above and will remain on the grade books!

BUSH has failed the American people!

Bush’s use of Hitler analogies is meant to preempt Democrats from applying it to the person whom it actually fits - he himself. Clever strategy, too. Now to counter Bush’s attack, Democrats have to say “We’re not Hitler, Bush is”, which, while true, sounds a bit like when one child tells another child, “I’m not the devil, you are”. Whom is a person to believe?

Democrats should have been using the Hitler analogy as well as the words Nazi and/or fascist for at least a couple of years now.  Why haven’t they? For the same reason that they haven’t opposed the Iraq war; they suffer from a severe and chronic epidemic of spinelessness. Any cure. Yes, Democrats can get back their spine by coming out in support of troops out of Iraq, justice for the Palestinian people and the impeachment of George Bush. And what if they won’t?  We the people will have to see to it ourselves, that’s what.

Lawrence: “McCarthyism is not an American value…”

I used to think that too.

”...and that approach will only serve selfish political goals; it will not serve to protect deomocratic American values of freedom and equality.”

And that rings true.

However, and some of the posts here attest to this, there are enough Americans that actually do not believe in freedom and equality—except for themselves.

Their horrible lack of understanding of basic facts and events (like paul white saying a 1% margin is a “mandate”), their absolute support for the President and his policies—except when the President is a “liberal” (like LestWeJudge), their insane value of “We are in a War” so we can only absolutely support our President no matter what at the expense our own liberty (like patrick and Mark Jones), their hypocritcal thinking that only our “Holy books” are holy—and that they are all going to Hell and we are going to Heaven—(like Robert L. Bufkin), has been created and reinforced for them by the very media that they say is “Liberal”.

Those who believe like they, do not believe in freedom and equality for ALL NON-AMERICANS. In their eyes only AMERICA is great and right and superiour and should, therefore, rule the world. Ans since America is Godly and they are Heathens, it is entirely okay to KILL THEM.

Ann Coulter and Pat Buchannan and Rush Limbaugh—and their ilk—are the faces of the American Taliban, the Religious Right.

They say it all the time, over and over: all non-Christian, non-white, non-democratic people need to be destroyed—either by marginalization, by fencing them in (or out), by religious “conversion,” or by actual death and destruction via bombs.

The President of the United States of America, George W. Bush, is in this camp, has this belief—in the God-given superiority of the U.S.—and is the worst kind of human being on this planet. He may not be a Stalin. He is not a Hitler. He is more a Mussolini. Someone who got into a position of Power inadvertantly during a troubled time, and he has not the fortitude, will, integrity nor intelligence to be a leader of a nation.

The terrible divisions on this country is an attest to his inability to lead this nation.

Linda Iktome’ Spider Woman Sapp is right. People need to stand up and shout, “No more!”

Until several people on the floors of the Senate, the Parliments, the Knesset, the U.N., close to the top levels of power, take a stand, grab the attention of the media, and loudly and consistently shout, “No more!” we will continue to see hundreds of thousands of deaths and billions of dollars lost and massive amounts of infrastructure destroyed—ALL IN THE NAME OF “FREEDOM.”

“But there are TERRORISTS who want to kill us!”

Well, one must ask “Why?” first, and understand the reasons, and then work with all soveriegn nations together as equals in order to stop the terrorists. That is the only way to stop the war we are in.

Everytime we kill a “terrorist” by a bomb, we create two in his place.

Interesting that those who refer to the Koran and Hibib in such a negative way are never able to provide the reference (much less the context!) for their opinions.

“The “media” will not face the truth-that the Muslims holy books, the Habib and the Koran both demand the killing of all who oppose their way of life and their doctrines.”

Wow! So all this time, ever since the Crusades, they’ve just been sharpening their knives, befriending us in the workplace, making us use their numerals and their silly “al-Jibra”, buy their oil, plant palm trees in our yards and eat dates, just waiting for the moment to strike, and slit our throats while we sleep.

My orthodox sephardic Jewish family lived among the Arabs in Baghdad for a thousand years (until 1948, of course). And my grandfather helped, as an aide to St. John Philby, to set up both the Transjordan and Saudi Arabia.

I’d prefer that instead of trying to kill them all (and let God sort ‘em out), we instead tried to wean them off salafist tendencies. Otherwise, one or another of them is bound to visit Greeley, Colorado again. My (maternal - descended from a long line of Danish marauders, who once threatened Anglo-Saxon order) grandmother always said, you can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar.

TS

For everyone who wants to read how a REAL conservative looks at the Bushies latest PR blitz of fear, I would suggest Paul Muslshine’s column in the New Jersey (Newark) Star-Ledger today:

“The anti-fascist oxymorons”
By Paul Mulshine
Thursday, September 07, 2006

http://www.nj.com/columns/ledger/mulshine/index.ssf?/base/columns-0/115760886083820.xml&coll=1

Quoting from it:

It’s a little silly to talk about “victory” in Iraq when the government Bush put into power is allied with the fundamentalists who took our Iranian embassy in 1979 and truck-bombed our Kuwaiti embassy in 1983.

The neocons, on the other hand, retain the internationalist outlook of the Marxism that so many of them claim to have aban doned in their youth.

Ah, such vitriol from the right. Please tell Karl Rove we know all of his pseudonyms. Karl, stop posting to Truthdig!  I applaud Mr. Olbermann for saying all the things others in MSM are afraid to say. Point 2: I do not understand why the Bush supporters are so angry. Hey, folks—you won twice. You have used up all of our money. You have all the gas, the oil. Your friends have jobs, you own TV, radio stations, newspapers and Wall Street. With all of that—why are you so pissed off? Why begrudge the rest of us the right to free speech or open discussion minus the name calling?

Mr Olbermann is doing what he is suppose to do.  Question what these politicians are doing and when they get caught lying or in Mr Bush’s case, breaking the law, call attention to it.  Far to many people in the USA allow fascist aggitators like Limbaugh, and Savage do their thinking for them.  George Bush has broken about every law you can break.  He has thrown out treaties.  He has commited war crimes.  We do not have to throw out the Constitution to fight the war on terror.  There was a system of justice in place before Bush came into power and it would have worked fine.  We don’t need the Patriot Act to fight this war.  We are not fighting Nazi Germany with a 10,000,000 man army.  We are fighting a bunch of religious fanatics led by cowards who live in a damned hole.

While I agree quite a bit with Keith on the presidents lack of tact and common sense (as it relates to his ability to communicate anything sensible to us).  I have to say that I don’t see anything better coming from anyone else in the adminstration, the congress, or the bulk of the media…........ It took the following essay to put this entire “Terrorism” thing into perspective for me.  Anyone (Dem, Rep, Christian, Jew, Islamist) who takes the time to read all of this (yes it’s long), should end up with quite a different perspective on the situaiton we all face, and the messages that we (the world) are being bombarded with from all angles that don’t seem to make any sense.  (http://shrinkwrapped.blogs.com/blog/2006/08/reasons_for_opt.html)

Here is a good quote from Edward R. Murrow:

“we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.”

Thank you to Keith!

Thank you so much Keith Olbermann and to all of you who have posted above.  America needs more people like you, people who take for granted their freedoms, people who attack their government and anyone else who attempts to protect those freedoms.

If only your President had the same short sighted views that you do, my job would be so much easier.

It is my view that the entire world should be governed under a Muslim dictatorship, where the freedoms you enjoy today are non existant, non-conformance is punishable by death and access to the outside world is forbidden so that you are unaware of just how well others in the free world live.  Everyone will be forced to convert to Islam, women will lose their rights to buy new shoes, and any attempt to convert back will be punishable by death.  Any attempt to flee the country like the millions who have done so in the past will also be punishable by death.

Everyone please join with me in denounsing the man who stands in the way of our dream - Mr Bush!!

As I read all the comments I must reflect on the past 30 years, and it seems as though this is a repeated theme. The goverment is evil and they are out to get us, huh? Well as someone who is ex-military I would say that there is some truth to that. The goverment does do alot of things that are worng, and unjustified. The problem is that all Americans really want to be is safe, drive big cars, and live in big homes. As long as we can do and have those things, we don’t really care what the goverment does. Also, keep in mind that the President does not(really) run this country, and that it is easy to blame him for all that is wrong in this country. If the preident makes a decission   that makes one half of the country happy, he pisses-off the other half. There will always be liberals complaining about the Evil GOP, and there will always be conservatives complaining about the Liberal Dem’s. That is how it has always been. If things were not this way what would the media have to talk about? People love to complain, but no one wants to do anything about the problem. So I say good job Mr. Olbermann, I will check the TV guide to see when I can catch your next bitch session.

The “media” will not face the truth-that the Muslims holy books, the Habib and the Koran both demand the killing of all who oppose their way of life and their doctrines.
It is not ‘correct’ to brand the Muslims…all Muslims as disciples of murder, having been taught the Koran and the Habib from childhood.
Olbermann, you said, “whatever the true nature of the al Qaeda…” Any honest observer would KNOW the true nature of the al Quaeda, given the commandments of their holy books, and their long history of attacks on women and children and attacks against our homeland, and their open declaration of war against America and the sneak bombing of innocent civilians in many countries. WHOSE side are you on Olbermann… You paint Germany and the former dictator Hitler in a better light then any historian. Did you ask the loyal soldiers who fought Hitler to defeat for the sake of OUR Homeland and the world.
Whose side are you on.
OLBERMANN, do you have no loyalty or patriotism for America. Bush is the greatest president the USA has had in many years.
President Bush is only REACTING to your downgrading of the threat of Muslim terrorism. Or did you swollow the late Pope’s announcement that the Muslims are our brothers in Christ, since they came from Abraham through Ishmel, and that therefore we should sit and talk to them instead of returning their murdering secretive bombing attacks, as suggested by the UnAmerican Senators, Kennedy and Kerry.
AND just how do you talk to a religion whose values call for strapping bombs on little children, then when the child walks among women and children of a different religion, they dial their cell phones and set off the bombs.
Don’t you have any sense of decency or sense of patriotism Olbermann?

bravo, mr. olbermann

I, for one, am glad that Bush is becoming more plain about the politics and propaganda of terror.  His discussion of the realistic threats, and his candor about the psychology of terrorists like bin Laden, is helpful for the typical American.  There is real reason for fear.

But I would submit the principle reason for fear is not rooted in the terrorist attacks themselves.  Rather, the true reason for fear is what the world populace will become willing to sacrifice (ex: freedom, national sovereignty, privacy, etc.) to supposedly allow politicians and governments to “protect” them.  I think Orwelle was right on the money in some of his conclusions, although he could not have foreseen the subtlety of the mechanisms for getting there.

So as GW Bush speaks the “truth”, where is the truth in the one-sided presentation by the media of what is happening in Iraq?  Where are the positive reports of the infrastructure and economic reconstruction going on in that country?  Sure, there should be freedom of the press.  But a free press does not imply a fair or truthful press.  And a slanted, propagandistic press soon ceases to be truly free.

So Olbermann should show more respect for the values and intelligence of the American people and allow other “truths” than their own, especially from a commander in chief that knows far more details than do they.  Let Americans make up their own mind by giving them all the facts.  If that’s not going to happen, shut up your shrill whining and stop calling yourself a “free” press.

Olberman is an just another idiot, trying to work ratings. We are in a war, and anyone who cannot see this has their head in the sand.

The terrorists have succeeded…we are divided…and thus weakened..
sadly,it will take another catastrophe to unite us again..

Isn’t it just great that we have so many that are so qualified to pass judgement on the most powerful man in the free world?

If you are all sooooo qualified to do a better job, where were you in the last two elections?

Oh, I forgot, you didn’t crawl out of the cracks until your liberal sex freak of a president ran out of time.

Maybe you can get him back with his no good wife next election?  God help us.

I guess, if this gets published, then I haven’t lost any freedoms, huh?  Maybe if I were a scheming, freaking hateful, terrorist loving, bomb making, only want freedom to kill, terrorist…or a liberal dem, then I might be scared.

I’m not scared, and neither are millions upon millions of other TRUE AMERICANS.

Good Night, and God Bless the Great Country, the USA!

Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged.

What a blithering idiot.  Go back to ESPN, Keith…you horse’s ass.

Lilly (22088) and almost all of the rest of you:

1.  Who lowered your taxes?

2.  Who passed the No Child Left Behind Act?

3.  Who has not allowed a single attack against us in the US since 9/11?

4.  Who has lowered the unemployment rate to a 2 decade low?

5.  Who has gotten the economy growing (GDP growth—the bell weather economic indicator of an economy’s growth—the same one Clinton GOT credit for) at the fastest rate in three decades? 

6.  Who has authorized more money for social security, medicare and medecaid than any previous president (much more than your beloved Slick Willie)?  Remember libs, authorizing more money than the previous year, even though the rate of growth may not be as great IS AN INCREASE.  It is NOT a cut.

7.  Who is taking A LEADERSHIP ROLE in fighting the global war against terror?

8.  Name one other president who had all of the main stream media, the ACLU, etc., etc. 100% against him and still won a mandate in an election (2004)?

9.  Who is in dee White House?

10.  Who doesn’t whine, whimper, complain, etc like you do?  Who just let’s it slide off and keeps on looking out for you?

11.  Who are you going to say is an idiot and sucks, etc., etc. in your response to me (in addition to me, of course)?

You know who.  It’s W—your Daddy!!!  Who, by the way, is IN DEEEE WHITE HOUSE. 

Let’s blockade Iran Now.

Paul White
In the Right

Kieth Olbermann, would he be liberal or conservative?

What is the channel?  MSNBC?  Never expected this from a news channel.  I have to start watching Keith Olbermann.

What do you call a person who uses fear to promote their agenda?
  A. Desperate
  B. Insulting
  C. A Terrorist
  D. All of the above
  E. None of the above

What do you call an American politician who uses fear to promote their agenda?
  A. Neo-Con
  B. Post-9/11 Republican
  C. Mr. President
  D. All of the above
  E. None of the above

Which common trait of tyrannical actors most concerns you as a citizen?
  A. Efficient Killing of Innocents
  B. Declaration of self as Monarch (Decider)
  C. Eroding Liberty, Justice, and Human Dignity
  D. All of the above
  E. None of the above

Decency? Dubya? Ha. The man sleeps well, no worries. His decisions responsible for the deaths of far more innocent lives than the 9/11 thugs .. and for those who disagree with Olberman, liberties are lost easily, in a heartbeat, when the free media is vilified.

Look, Franklin Graham the heir to the family scam said that Bush was elcetd by God showing that Billy was too busy making bucks to teach Junior the difference betweem the Supreme Court and Supreme Being.
Bush must figure the only way that a former drunk, druggie failure could get to head the greatest country on Earth is because God chose him so he doesn’t care what others think.
Someone may have also told him that even though David broke the law of not having sex with the wife of another, he not only got to keep the Kingdom but also the loot from his crime Bathsheba and hence he knows if you have an in with the judge you can be the buggest creep on Earth but you will come out okay.

Olbermann is an American hero. He is brave and honest, I never miss his show on MSNBC ever.

Re Comment #22060 by gator70:

I was waiting for the day that Larry the Cable Guy would make it to this website and, wow, now here you are! Welcome, Bro! Kick back on the ole Bacalounger there and grab yourself a Bud. And, hey,  even if you’re not everyone’s favorite ball-scratching, elbows-dragging-the-ground yahoo, you still capture his, as it were, sensibility so perfectly that I’m sure Blue Collar’s nose-picker-in-chief would be honored.

Of course you hate Olberman. He stirs people up so that they may start asking all sorts of uncomfortable questions about their soi-disant “leaders’” wisdom (or even sanity). With his fearless wit and passion, Keith almost singlehandedly manages to redeem the the sorry state to which those other cable-news hacks (Blitzer, Beck, and the whole Fox stable of ho’s)  have reduced their profession.

As anyone who watches him regularly will know, Olberman is consistently able to think and speak clearly and critically about the key issues of the day in a medium where brains and eloquence are, as often as not, impediments to a successful career. Keith’s program is worth catching if only for his choices of “Worst Person in the World,” a daily segment in which—-against some pretty stiff competition—-the lovely and charming Bill O’Reilly (no doubt one of your heroes)has repeatedly cinched said title.

Oh, and as for this cutting insight: “Olberman is a complete tool.”  Or perhaps not so complete: a literate writer would understand that describing someone as a stand-alone tool makes little sense. People are normally tools OF a particular entity/agency. So: tool of whom, or of what? I’m betting the whackoliberaljewishfeminazifag media? Or is “tool” a typo for “fool?”

Being conscious isn’t really necessary for producing the kind of crap you deposit in cyberspace, but some of us do get kinda confused when we try to extract nuggets of meaning from the mess.

Of course, you’re right on the key point: if you dont even know what your rights are, then there’s little point in explaining—sorry, “whining”—-to you about how and why they’re being threatened.

Killer quote: “I’ve been sitting around wondering what rights I have been missing lately. Nope can’t find any.” Well, clearly you couldn’t find your own ass with a roomful of On-Stars, so never mind.

While I’m sure “sitting around wondering what rights I have been missing lately” passes for thinking in the dimly flickering 5-watt bulb that you call your brain, you might want to rouse yourself occasionally from that self-induced coma (no doubt brought on by o.d.-ing on reruns of American Idol and/or Jerry Springer) and check out something called a “newspaper.” It’s a “tool” for disseminating something called “ideas” and “information” (as distinguished from Fox Squawking Points and Factoids). There are even electronic versions of this “tool” available online!

Obviously, life is too short for you to waste even one precious nanosecond of it lip-reading your way through that quaint (thanks, A.G. Gonzales!) document the Constitution, much less the Bill of Rights. However, you might want one of your pals to read the CliffsNotes version of this Basic Charter of Our Freedoms to you some day between whackfests on those porn sites. It contains words of over two syllables, so you might want to try enriching that sub-Neanderthal vocabulary of yours with a few new words. First word: “democracy.”

Oh, I did find one statement in your studly, non-whining little defense of the Prez that rang true: “I’m as free as I was ten years ago.” Yup, hyeugh hyeugh. If only we could all be that “free”—-of intellectual curiosity, of any sense of the complexity of history. (Liberals and their goddam wniney-ass “nuances.”) Stagnation rules, dude!

By the way, thanks for confirming Bill Burrough’s famous observation. “A functioning police state needs no police.” Just keep kissin’ De Massah Georgie’s ass and don’t go breaking no laws now—-who knows,you might still be safe, as long as they don’t start making up new laws to trip you up, you complacent, obedient Good Citizen. The Trade Unionists, Jews, etc., in the Germany of the 30’s didn’t think they were breaking any laws, either. Boy, were they in for a surprise.

P.S.: Here’s an example of one of those informational “tools” I mentioned earlier from RHONDA CHRISS LOKEMAN:

As we, the American people, approach the anniversary of our independence from tyranny in 1776, it pays to consider the Bill of Rights threatened by the secrecy-obsessed Bush administration.

Freedom of the press and religion, the right to peacefully assembly, freedom from unlawful searches and seizures have all been endangered by this administration’s reckless conduct in the global war on terror.

The Clinton administration brought us the end to welfare as we knew it.

The Bush administration has brought us an end to the Constitution as we knew it.

We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare, must examine the Bush administration’s excesses, misconduct and unlawful agenda affecting individual liberties and democracy.

To paraphrase Edward R. Murrow, the Bushvolk have defended democracy abroad and denied it at home. They have out-Nixoned Nixon.

In the next few weeks, expect several columns that celebrate our independence by describing our threatened liberties.

Let’s have an open and honest public debate about issues of importance to our national identity.

We should all question why the federal government silenced librarians until after Congress renewed the USA Patriot Act.

Librarians who had wanted to speak publicly or testify before Congress during hearings were prohibited from doing so. They were threatened with federal imprisonment if they did. Once the Patriot Act was renewed, the gag was lifted.

We should question why animal-rights groups, environmental organizations and civil rights interests fall under the label “domestic terrorism.” Since when is People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals equal to al-Qaida?

Since when does telling the public about global warming threaten national security? Expect to learn why this White House considers your phone calls and e-mails the government’s business not yours.

This White House has sought to quell debate by invoking such things as “executive privilege,” “state secrets” and “national security.” It has made the U.S. attorney general, sworn to uphold the Constitution, its lapdog.

It has made citizens fearful of writing signed op-eds and letters to newspaper editors that might get them labeled as subversive or “anti-Bush.”

The Bushvolk are goose-stepping their way into history. They’re trampling the Constitution. They have slandered jurists as “activist judges.” They have misinterpreted Congressional intent and bent and/or broken laws.

Through indefinite incarcerations of people not charged with crimes, they have deprived people of the right to outside legal counsel and privileged communications.

With the oversight of an emasculated Congress, the administration has abused its powers to establish an imperial presidency.

We escaped one King George only to have crowned another.

We can keep America safe and free. We must confront terrorism and resist tyranny.

We, the people, must let freedom ring. To do anything less is to lose America.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/opinion/14895627.htm

Bush & Co. are determined to make us afraid.  They use fear to hold our own people in line.  They don’t realize a strong, united America is the best antidote for threats of any kind, from anywhere.  A president with any intelligence knows we have to be aware of the threat, but not be bowed by it.  An intelligent president would know not to bankrupt our nation on an essentially unprovoked war in Iraq, leaving us ill equipped to deal with greater threats.  A smart president would allow educated, savy Democrats, Republicans, or whatever, to express their viewpoints.  Once in a while someone outside of his own cronies could possibly have a viable idea.  A smart administration gives other people’s viewpoints some decent consideration, and not dismiss them by calling them “appeasers.”  A smart administration can utilize a plan from other parties and adapt it, if necessary.  A smart president would know that we can withstand any enemy.  A smart president would know that we are brave.

Kieth Olbermann is a great American and a true Patriot.  Thank you Keith.  Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you.

Make sure you send an email to Keith and MSNBC telling them that you like Keith and that they should have more people like him on.

glad he is standing up!!!!  I think we should shut down the news networks and take them over!

Olberman is a complete tool. He should have stuck with sports reporting. How is he or even half of these “newscasters” even qualified to write essays on government? He throws the “Nazi” terminology around more than anyone. I’ve been sitting around wondering what rights I have been missing lately. Nope can’t find any. I’m as free as I was ten years ago. And since I don’t break the law, I’m pretty good to go. Geesh, quit whining.

Thank you Mr. Olbermann. Finally, someone who has the courage to speak up and does not care about practicing access journalism. While most of the media acts like a stenographer for the GOP adminsitration, Mr. Olbermann reminds us how the government, specially the GOP led administration, uses fear as a tool of manipulation.

1.  Osiyo! (Greetings!)
As a Native American, I can see where the genocidal efforts of this administration are headed. Beware the greed of powerful families!
We all lose when one loses.
As a Sovereign Nation that prided itself on protection of its people and the environment—it pains us now to see the reckless use of toxins and wastes to kill the salmon and poison the water and kill our Mother—- the earth. Where are the leaders who said a Sovereign Nation would have the same rights as any foreign power to govern itself? Where are the treaties? Broken promises! This time of lies and deceit goes back farther than anyone can realize! Every magestic eagle that bears its young to die of toxic poisons is a black mark on the administration, Every child that goes to bed hungry on a reservation or in any bed in America is a black mark on this administration. Every wild mustang rounded up and slaughtered for dogfood is a black mark on this administration and every son who dies of a bullet in a foreign land because of the Presidents greed for oil is a black mark on this administration. Stand up and beat the drum! Stand up and shout “NO MORE”!!!!! Vote and make it count. Write letters and disagree with wrongs not righted! Stand up or be bent down!!!
Wado
Spider Woman

All I can say is thank God for Keith Olbermann for speaking the truth and for the brillance of his bosses to actually let him…He is the Edward Murrow of our time and he couldn’t have come at a more crucial time in the history of these United States….we are under attack from this Administration and Keith is exposing them for what they are…......thank you sir, you give hope for the next generation…....Murrow would be the first to give you a very big pat on the back and wish you continued good luck!!!!!!!!

How could such a completely incompetent asshole like G. dubya Bush have any sense of decency ?
The man is a pathetic excuse for a human.

Finally, someone has the courage to call it like it is.  I applaud Keith Obermann.

I am reminded of another quote from a time when a government attempted to remove all opposition:

First they came for the Communists,
  and I didn’t speak up,
  because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
  and I didn’t speak up,
  because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
  and I didn’t speak up,
  because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
  and by that time there was no one
  left to speak up for me.

by Pastor Martin Niemoller, 1945

Finaly, someone in the media has said what needs to be said. I cannot understand why the so called “free press” allows newsmakers to give us such unadultrated bullshit. News reporters have an obligation to inform the public that we are bing lied to.
Go get’em. We can stand the truth.

Bush should be impeached on the charge that he is simply a notorius liar who has manipulated every aspect of our government, including our election process, to attempt to cover up for his total incompetence, stupidity and inane policies. He is on the same road of Hitler with his trumped-up invasion of Iraq and his callous killing of over 45000 Iraqi citizens. Maybe the World Court should try Sadam and GW together.

For years I have thought exactly what this gentleman says about the dangerous politics of fear; dangerous to us, Americans and our values. At the same time I have wondered when “the media” would have the courage to speak up about this truth and report that “the emperor has no clothes”. I am glad to see that moral courage in this editorial and only hope to see more of it.

McCarthyism is not an American value and that approach will only serve selfish political goals; it will not serve to protect deomocratic American values of freedom and equality.

Its about time someone with media influence actually critique as well as attempting the derivation of logic from this propagandist bullshit.
Fire both barrels and keep reloading, KO…

Keith Olbermann thank you very much,,It is too bad a lot of Americans cannot see through the presidents lies..

surely ‘decency and a politican’ is an oxymoron!