“When there’s so much
falsity and bad, a little bit of
new Truth and Justice seems
immeasurable, swallowed by the
enormity of the task
before it”.

The shortest distance between any two points has always been Keith Olbermann. Modern journalism should be modeled on his ‘direct’ approach which blends a razor sharp openmindedness and operates to maximum efficiency through an economy of motion. It’s all lean and MEAN, and that spells effective.  He has always been able to deliver the goods with consistency.  I feel this may be due to his ongoing struggle to keep an Ethic in Journalism that makes a reporter proud to express and uphold Our Freedoms as outlined in the First Ammendment.  Good Work, Keith.  That’s the old KTLA chops that you just can’t get anywhere else.  In fact, if all journalists were like Keith, Journalism would be a true martial art.  Now, you must leave Grasshopper!

The world must stand up against evil and injustice.  Dam it!  Non-violently stop and prosecute criminal action!  It can be done…

Keith Olbermann is a true patriot of Truth…a hero, strong and brave.  Enlist all media to provide Truth to all.  Do it now!

My contribution to the Truth movement is a book to be in print in or before December of 2006.  It’s just a small tome.

“Leaves Of Lavendered Lily”

It may just be the alkahest.

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A “Scholar For 911 Truth”

Keith Olbermann represents the epitome of great American journalism, hard-hitting and fearless, constantly questioning those in power, and doggedly pursuing the truth, no matter where it may lead. If only everyone on TV news were this courageous, not to mention witty, eloquent and downright poetic.

I agree with AC from Canada. I am in Australia and I was amazed at the acceptance of the result of the first “election”, but even more amazed at the US people voting the muppet and his evil handlers back into power.

Good to see that there is a glimmer of understanding being reflected in the main-stream press. Good on you, Keith.

Our own government has been quite opportunistic in its use of 911 to support the arguments for indecent amounts to be squandered on weapons and to erode civi liberties and pass draconan laws. All based on a lie.

It seems to me there is also a need for a wider awareness of who the enemy really is. This is a war between corporations and humans, which so far the corporatons are winning, hands down.

But I am still afraid. Very afraid.

The univoiced corporate media and their treasonous propaganda monkeys have to be brought into line!  By now, not only the perpetrators, but everyone down to midlevel in the administration must know that 911 was an inside job.  Yet they continue the same old disfunctional denial.  ENOUGH ALREADY!

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Keith did a great thing by keeping up the pressure and the momentum.  He responded timely and pre-empted them from turning 9/11 into another recruiting/brainwashing opportunity.  It is not easy for most Americans to speak up as we all have, but as more and more prominent personalities speak out, the louder our voices will resonate with the rest of America and the Bush followers.  The battle is far from over, we need all the motivated support we can get.  Remember all the past close elections, nothing is for sure, and watch how desperation will elicit even more dastardly deeds from this goverment.  They are not blind at all, far from it, and they will fight back even harder the more they are cornered.  Be ready and talk to every one you know and dispell this curse they have brought upon America.  One person at a time.  Take care and keep up the good fight.

I read endlessly all the puffing up of all the people who are outraged at the american government for there continual shredding of the American way of life (not to mention the devaluation of the thre Constitution)But i’m always dismayed by how all of you never send in the solutions to these problems the reason the world has gotten this way is because of us!!! each and every one who does nothing but sit back and critisize the actions and thoughts of others!!! it is our fault as a people, we sit back and relish all our luxury, (and that is really what we are afraid of losing isn’t it??)..totally without backbone courage and resolve ..let someone else do it is the ongoing cry i hear.. well as in everything else in life if you don’t do it, it won’t get done stop waiting for others to do what must be done and do it yourself….....

That Obermann should be irate is correct, though his tirade is a clear example of true corporate American fascism.  Please do not be fooled, my Truthdigging friends.

Look closely at the American ties to his rage.  If the deaths of 3,000 have brought this fearless crusader to a place of moral high ground, I ask you to consider the voiceless plight of the Iraqis, who watch with unmitigated horror (terror, if you prefer) as their world implodes to another order of magnitude daily: unrelenting car bombs, snipers target practicing on civilians, children eviscerated, parents devastated.  Families and lives ripped apart.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8359837863668193689&q=iraq+dead

Where is the lament for the scores of fallen Iraqis?
Five years later, your voice is yet silent.  America has been wronged.
Five years later, you are no closer to disclosing facts that the firemen on hand at the WTC heard concussive explosions immediately prior to the towers falling. Secondary and tertiary explosions are reported by fire brigade commanders, their radio communiqués recorded and ignored and buried in the burning rubble.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7152476643487115997&q=WTC+explosion

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5047702820460805143&q=WTC+explosion

Five years later, you have not yet demanded an explanation for the lack of physical evidence at the Pentagon site.

Where is your lament for the fallen American troops, brought into the military under the auspices of protecting the constitution, and in the end, their Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and maimed bodies, are left wandering the deserts of Iraq, forever looking for those US-sold WMDs.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1428446442516594401&q=iraq+dead

Five years too late, Mr. Obermann, and 30,000 dead lay without a Memorial for a Baseless War.  30,000 (perhaps 100,000) who’s lives were shattered so that the military industrial complex might more efficiently (let’s call it ethically) test their latest toys, rebuild an industry in decline.

The world watches in shock and horror, as the US lead War on Terror unleashes a terrorism so blindly ignored, the irony swells beyond disbelief.  Indeed, beyond shameful. 

But this is a backdrop to which there will be no photo op for you or for Mr. Bush, for these atrocities will not please MSNBC’s corporate sponsors, nor the Pentagon’s censors.  And pleading for a country’s forgiveness to a man without conscience is akin to asking the blind to read from the Book of Corinthians, or perhaps the Koran. 

‘May The Hague Imprison You’ is a more fitting rebuttal, but it’s one you’ll certainly not voice, for your very livelihood would be laid waste with such frank talk.  Phil Donahue learned that lesson, it’s one that you had best take to heart.

for all those people out there that say we are blind,especially those who do not live here,my question is this: what the hell can we do? you talk like we can just correct it if we would only make the effort. wrong. all we can do is wait 2 more years and go from there.so please quit trying to make me feel like shit for what they do. also, i do believe just about every countries government does things nobody likes and has their hands in things that are quite wrong by most human standards.we AMERICANS for the most part are good people. so why dont you find another way to mention what the government does here

What is most alarming, are the amazing similarities between those you attack, and yourselves.  The twisting of the truth, selective quotes and mis-information, the righteous indignation. 

“Keith Olberman…the best newscaster on television”?  Wow, we can’t even tell the difference between news and editorializing these days.  No, Olberman’s not politicizing…no.

“Of course it’s an inside job”!  I see we have the conspiracy theorist chiming in to spread their wisdom to the masses.  Another example of both sides doing the same damn thing.  Come on, he’s just not that bright.  No wait, he’s a genius!  Clinton can’t get a blowjob in the Whitehouse and get away with it, but in less than a year, Bush gets thousands of professionals in science, engineering, firefighting, policing, etc. to “go along” with his “plan”.  Many of our truly unselfish and unappreciated citizens, as our monetary compensation and placement of societal importance shows(until of course you need them to save your ass).  You are as delusional as you claim the administration is if you think 40% of Americans believe it was an “inside job”, and you grasp to the manipulative polls like they do to what they want to believe.  Please, we’re lucky if 40% of the people in this country vote.

As to Mr. Olberman’s eloquent (as he is a far better public speaker than the president) yet similarly unsubstantial rhetoric, he should read his very own quote: “The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices - to be found only in the minds of men.” I supect he rallied his troops, but as is his complaint, has used his position no more than the President to forward an understanding and unity against a very real enemy.  It seems that someone has missed an important point of the Twilight Zone story:  The aliens are real, and are the source of the internal strife, and we continue to proliferate it by ataacking and misjudging each other.  People who do not understand the nature of the enemy, are as scary as the ones who seem to deal with it so poorly. 

Ah what a beutiful document that was created for us.  Come on America, get a clue.  The politics of this country are a perfect reflection of the attitudes and understanding of the people of this country regarding the responsibilities set forth in our Constitution.  Less than than half the people vote, and less than half the people in politics participate in any meaningful way.  And I’d venture to say that it is only a percentage of those who do bother to spend the time accumulating the information and understanding (and more importantly the selflessness) that is required to acheive the greater good.  We are squandering our rights through our lack of resonsibility (for those who are really clueless, attacking and insulting others who do a poor job, is not taking responsibility).  The President and his people want to make their decisions and push their agenda, but won’t admit and take responsibily for their mistakes.  The other side, because they feel impotent, wants to attack and insult and judge, but wants no repercussions for taking a position.  We have the right to free speech, not the right to have everyone agree with us, or buy our records, or see our movies even if they don’t.  We have the right to pursue happiness, not to have someone provide it to us.  It’s “Of the people, by the people, and for the people”, not just for the people.

For a far more balanced documentary on 911 have a look at “9/11 Press For Truth”.  No conspiracy theories, just putting together the timeline following the attack.  It puts this administration and it’s desparate attempts to block the investigation into proper focus.  I believe this is the one to show to your republican relatives. Really well done and based on undisputed facts.

As a Brit., living here in U.K., I am mystified at Blairs ongoing support of the Neo-Con controllers behind their puppet clown front man….Your President. I am ashamed. Is Blair aware of something far more sinister than we,the general public are aware of. What could be more sinister ?

The obvious involvement of internal assistance to bring about 911 is screaming at any reasoning soul prepared to face the dreadful reality.

One of two things is going to happen within the US in the near future….Bush will be told to come out of The White with his hands up ! The other…. Extreme action will be taken to shut up critical opposition.

For the US, with all it’s wealth to have an infant mortality rate worse than Cuba is a disgrace which only proves your nation’s internal policies are as disgusting as your International.

Hey Rob, sorry, but Keith’s editorial IS about the non-memorial at ground zero specifically.

Of course 911 is an inside job. Unfortunately most Americans are too thick to comprehend it and most importantly, do anything about it. Wake up America.

When is Mr. Olbermann going to get real honest and tell the American people that the Chimp and his gang of thugs were complicit in the 9/11 attacks? According to recent polls about 40% of Americans already know. For those who still believe the “Official Fairy Tale”,spoon fed us by the controlled media, who, may I ask, planted the cutter charges in the Twin Towers and WTC7 that brought those buildings down? Osama and his bad boys?

I agree with ‘Reluctant sceptic’.
There are hundred other more important issues that POTUS has let America down on.
Iraq
Katrina
Afghanistan
Osama bin Laden
the investigation into 9/11
etc etc
But on the other hand it was a magnificent speech and after all it was the fifth anniversary of 9/11

I admire the courage of Keith Olbermann- he spoke truth to Power - and if the rest of the media followed suit….... then there might be some hope for America and the rest of the world

Obviously Keith’s commentary was amongst the most important words I have heard on TV in years.  What is amusing are the couple of mouth-breathers who really thought the commentary was about the fact that there is no 9/11 memorial yet.  Have they never heard of the concept of metaphor?  Remarkable.

As a Canadian, I have watched from the sidelines for many years now and it has never ceased to amaze me just how much the American people have had to endure with this President. Your great grand children will be paying for it, I’m sure. From these sidelines I have felt deep sorrow and frustration over 9/11, as well as his personal war with Iraq. But nothing, and I mean nothing could amaze me more than the morning I woke up to find you all voted him in for a second term.

What were you thinking?

Nobody despises Bush more than I, but really — is it Bush’s fault that there isn’t a monument at ground zero yet? Of course not! That’s due to years of bickering among the many interested parties about what exactly should be put there.

And even if it WERE Bush’s fault that there isn’t a monument at ground zero yet, so what? That, among all the reasons to despise Bush, would surely be the very least.

I’m sorry, Keith, but I think the speech is kind of weird, pompous, and beside the point.

And on this (relative) hill of beans you erect your most scathing denuciation of Bush yet? If you’re going to damn Bush to hell about something, how about denouncing his aiding and abetting of Israel’s recent, grotesque orgy of destruction in Lebanon — a matter that’s more timely and about a million times more important?

What a joke.  I’m actually laughing…Bush left that hole in the ground?!  All I can put this down to is the polarization that 2000/2004 caused.  It’s becoming insane. And I thought the “right” were wackos when they tried to skewer Clinton on baseless grounds.  Oberman sure comes off crazy on this one.

Wow!

Thanks, Keith, for another spellbinding summary on the politicising of 911. I am true fan of yours, and please keep up the tremendous work. You are, by far, the “BEST” newscaster on television. Thanks again. 

          GUY.

Mr. Keith Olberman is the Edward R. Murrow of our generation !

Finally , it seems as though atleast a few correspondents have reached a point of saturation where the constant barrage of lies will no longer work for the criminals in this administration. If we can only remove enough republicans to make the much needed real investigations into this administration’s dealings start up, not headed by some republican stooge, then perhaps there is some glimmer of light to be seen. I encourage everyone who can to influence as many as possible between now and the upcoming mid term elections to vote republicans out of office. They, with a very few small exceptions have been goose-stepping behind this lunacy all along and deserve no less then their walking papers for ignoring the citizens of this country, our constitution, our future - all to help these few greedy criminals continue dragging our country down..Its high time we all remember what being a patriot is all about…its not about towing any party line. Its about making sure, as best we all can, that out elected leaders do whats best for us all ( not only themselves & their fellow millionaires )...VOTE OUT THE REPUBLICANS, LET THE TAR & FEATHERING BEGIN.

YOU ARE 100% RIGHT ON KEITH!! Bush lies…..THOUSANDS have died.  Keep up the good work Keith….the rest of the media has just rolled over like a good dog while Bush, Cheney & Rove pat their belly.

I want to hear ALL media attack Bush. Bush should be impeached.

Keith Olberman’s magnificently brave and justly merciless skewering of Monkeyboy’s betrayal of the legacy and promise of 9/11 deserves to take its place alongside Edward R. Murrow’s phillipics against Joe McCarthy.

It’s amazing that some variant of Gresham’s law hasn’t knocked him off MSNBC’s line-up in favor of more Bush-friendly boneheads like Joe Scarborough and Tucker Carlson. Against all odds, he’s survived and recently his ratings have even shown a marked uptick, a small but reassuring sign that ball-scratching yahoos like Hannity and O’Reilly haven’t completely monopolized the cable-news audience.

Now watch our fundie fascists briefly crawl out from under their Bibles and start splattering cyberspace with the ususal Rovean squawking points about how any dissent against the demented policies of this administration somehow equals treason. That would, of course, include the roughly 60-70% of the electorate who now believe tha the Iraq war is a “mistake.” Traitors! Commies—-ooops, make that “appeasers.” Sorry, guys, get a new playbook: the with-us-or-with-them bullshit just ain’t working anymore.

You’d think these zombified loyalists would want to take a break from planting their well-chapped lips on Dubya’s ass every time everyone’s fave AWOL chickenhawk stutters “9/11,” but no, obedience to Dee Massah, like the War on Terror, is a never-ending task.

Too bad for these blindly faithful that karma has started to double back and bite them on the keister. Those falling poll numbers! Those rising Iraq casualties (even though the insurgency is in its “last throes”)! That select Senate Committee report disproving any link bewteen Saddam and Osama! Doesn’t reality just suck sometimes? In Trent Reznor’s lovely phrase, “Bow down before the ones you serve/ You’re gonna get what you deserve.”

As for these immune-to-reason homegrown authoritarians, well, to put it as diplomatically as possible, fuck them—-or rather have Bush and his crew fuck them (again),since they clearly get such a bang (as it were) out of being repeatedly gang-raped by these criminal psychopaths.

(Crude as it is, the foregoing Anglo-Saxon verb is particularly appropriate for one blogger who regularly posts here and insists on calling Bush his “Daddy,” meaning, I guess,  “Daddy” in the pimpin’/homoerotic rather than the strictly paternal/biological sense. OOOOO, so strong and so dangerous! As a longtime supporter of gay rights, may I suggest that you please bust out of that closet and start working out your sexual-identity crisis with your therapist, girlfriend?)

Since our notoriously reality-challenged right-wing friends can be counted on to miss the point here and thus won’t bother to link onto the full text of Olberman’s speech, in the interests of providing a “teachable moment,” I’ll reproduce the key passages below. Bon apetit, morons!:

“The polite phrase for how so many of us were duped into supporting a war, on the false premise that it had ’something to do’ with 9/11, is ‘lying by implication.’”
     
“The impolite phrase, is ‘impeachable offense.’”
     
“Not once in now five years has this President ever offered to assume responsibility for the failures that led to this empty space… and to this, the current, curdled, version of our beloved country.”

     
“Still, there is a last snapping flame from a final candle of respect and fairness: even his most virulent critics have never suggested he alone bears the full brunt of the blame for 9/11.”
     
“Half the time, in fact, this President has been so gently treated, that he has seemed not even to be the man most responsible — for anything — in his own administration.”
     
“Yet what is happening this very night?”
     
“A mini-series, created, influenced — possibly financed by — the most radical and cold of domestic political Machiavellis, continues to be televised into our homes.”
     
“The documented truths of the last fifteen years are replaced by bald-faced lies; the talking points of the current regime parroted; the whole sorry story blurred, by spin, to make the party out of office seem vacillating and impotent, and the party in office, seem like the only option.”

   
“How dare you, Mr. President, after taking cynical advantage of the unanimity and love, and transmuting it into fraudulent war and needless death… after monstrously transforming it into fear and suspicion and turning that fear into the campaign slogan of three elections… how dare you or those around you… ever ‘spin’ 9/11.”
    —
“Just as the terrorists have succeeded — are still succeeding — as long as there is no memorial and no construction here at Ground Zero…”
   
“So too have they succeeded, and are still succeeding — as long as this government uses 9/11 as a wedge to pit Americans against Americans.”

   
“This is an odd point to cite a television program, especially one from March of 1960. But as Disney’s continuing sell-out of the truth (and this country) suggests, even television programs can be powerful things.”

   
“And long ago, a series called ‘The Twilight Zone’ broadcast a riveting episode entitled ‘The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street.’”
   
“In brief: a meteor sparks rumors of an invasion by extra-terrestrials disguised as humans. The electricity goes out. A neighbor pleads for calm.”
   
“Suddenly his car — and only his car — starts. Someone suggests he must be the alien. Then another man’s lights go on.”

“As charges and suspicion and panic overtake the street, guns are inevitably produced.”
   
“An ‘alien’ is shot — but he turns out to be just another neighbor, returning from going for help.”
   
“The camera pulls back to a near-by hill, where two extra-terrestrials areseen, manipulating a small device that can jam electricity. The veteran tells his novice that there’s no need to actually attack, that you just turn off a few of the human machines and then, ‘they pick the most dangerous enemy they can find, and it’s themselves.’”
   
“And then, in perhaps his finest piece of writing, Rod Serling sums it up with words of remarkable prescience, given where we find ourselves tonight.”
   
“‘The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices - to be found only in the minds of men.’”
    —
“When those who dissent are told time and time again — as we will be, if not tonight by the President, then tomorrow by his portable public chorus — that he is preserving our freedom, but that if we use any of it, we are somehow un-American…”
   
“When we are scolded, that if we merely question, we have “forgotten the lessons of 9/11”… look into this empty space behind me and the bi-partisanship upon which this administration also did not build, and tell me:”
   
“Who has left this hole in the ground?”
   
“We have not forgotten, Mr. President.”
   
“You have.”
   
“May this country forgive you.”

    As charges and suspicion and panic overtake the street, guns are inevitably produced.
    An “alien” is shot — but he turns out to be just another neighbor, returning from going for help.
    The camera pulls back to a near-by hill, where two extra-terrestrials areseen, manipulating a small device that can jam electricity. The veteran tells his novice that there’s no need to actually attack, that you just turn off a few of the human machines and then, “they pick the most dangerous enemy they can find, and it’s themselves.”
    And then, in perhaps his finest piece of writing, Rod Serling sums it up with words of remarkable prescience, given where we find ourselves tonight.
    “The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices - to be found only in the minds of men.
    “For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own — for the children, and the children yet unborn.”
    —
    When those who dissent are told time and time again — as we will be, if not tonight by the President, then tomorrow by his portable public chorus — that he is preserving our freedom, but that if we use any of it, we are somehow un-American…
    When we are scolded, that if we merely question, we have “forgotten the lessons of 9/11”… look into this empty space behind me and the bi-partisanship upon which this administration also did not build, and tell me:
    Who has left this hole in the ground?
    We have not forgotten, Mr. President.
    You have.
    May this country forgive you.

Thank you, Mr. Olbermann, for speaking the TRUTH about the debacle the president has created in this country!  Everyone needs to stand up and say:  “ENOUGH!” to this hand-picked frat boy who knew nothing about foreign policy but who now has the power to mess up this whole world!  Foreign policy, domestic policy, energy policy…..whatever can go wrong is going wrong because the American people have succumbed to the “climate of fear” created by the neocons and their frat boy.  When are we going to grow up and stand up with a vision of what this world could be like if the president and Congress would respect all the citizens of the world and try to
find a way in which all nations can live in this world together?  Shame, shame on all the scaredy-cats and their lies!  Americans deserve better!

Thanks Keith for saying in front of America what I feel!

If you think Mr. Olbermann should be congratulated for his commentary, tell him so by email.  I did.

I proudly pay my cable bill just to listen to the Daily Show, Stephen Colbert and now Keith Olbermann.

This is the most powerful and moving tribute to the events of September 11, 2001 I have yet to hear or see.

Thank you Mr. Olbermann for given us a voice

Just awesome and inspiring, America needs more like you Keith.