"COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN" (8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M. ET)

Host: Keith Olbermann

Topics/Guests:

• WHITE HOUSE INVITES LAWMAKERS TO THE PENTAGON: Richard Wolffe, Newsweek senior White House correspondent and MSNBC political analyst
• 2008 ELECTION: Craig Crawford, Congressional Quarterly columnist and MSNBC political analyst
• HARRY POTTER: Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun critic who broke the embargo
• SPESHUL EDUCATION KOMMENT (again)

Geeze, the ratings must be worse than we all think. SK after SK. Is it three now in two weeks? Is Olbersturmfuhrer really that angry or just that desperate?

Oy vey, it gets even worse, the latest from J$

Gibson on the radio just said Jet Blue is withdrawing sponsorship of the Kos konvention, pursuant to eeevil O'Reilly's criticisms. Confirmation

Keith bellows the opening spiel about the "anticipated lost cause blame shift for Iraq." An eeeeevil Undersecretary of Defense brings up Vietnam suggesting discussing withdrawl emboldens our enemies. Olbersturmfuhrer says Nazi Germany [Ding!] and the backstabbers at home who killed our troops. Speshul Komment reinforced by John Kerry. Plame case dismissed (NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO) followed by a repeat of Hauptmann's pathetic attempt to smear "Bill-O" for asking questions of Miss New Jersey that have pieced together to make him look like a pervert. The hypocrisy (which it really isn't because O'Reilly isn't trying to sleep with the 22 year old) is almost too laughable to write. OLBY talking about ANYONE vis a vis a younger woman should make him take a long....long......LONG look in the mirror and then back at his bedroom where a one Ms. Katy Tur might be who's under 25 with nearing 50 Keithy Boy. Seriously Keith. Pathetic. Oh yeah, the usual loofah/falafel mention. And a reporter from the esteemed Baltimore Sun (my local newspaper that I long ago canceled my subscription to because it's so terrible) who broke the ban on Harry Potter! Thank god for that! Funny caption of "Potter Pooper." So we have glory holes, ho captions and now scatological references? What's next, Laughing Stagehand and lackeys?

#5: Keith is so angry he goes RIGHT TO THE SPESHUL ED KOMMENT laden with Nazi analogies that Der Fuhrer is well known for. The day's "ominous" and almost indescribable events. Read the transcript below. Enter defeated Presidential candidate John Kerry to buttress Keith's lunacy. Is Senator Clinton being targeted deliberately by the administration? Of course! They like to "attack, smear and change the subject." Olby pause as he feels the vindication. Could these remarks be any more divorced from the kinds of freedoms our country represents, Olby asks? Naturally, responds the Senator. Another hardball, "How does one fight claims as outrageous as the ones made against Senator Clinton...without stooping to their level? ...With fresh memories of your 2004 campaign..." *cough*suck up*cough*. It's the beginning of a scapegoat campaign that we've seen before. Really? Even if it has been done before it's the beginning? The Senator repeats exactly Olby calls for for those who support the war to go fight it themselves. The Senator finds it down right unsatisfactory with the "answers" he is getting. UNSATISFACTORY. Damning. Was the Q&A a one-way affair? (hardball) Again, he was not satisfied with the answers. The whole thing is finished with an "Amen" from Preacher Keith. Great thanks.

#4: The real motives at work from the dark missive of Mr. Eric Edelman who is an eeeeeeeeeeevil "Neo-Con" who is a subordinate of the eeeeeeeeeeeeevil Vice President Cheney. Welcome the Wolffe Man who starts with a crazy Konspiracy Theory. He thinks it's important to focus on who Mr. Edelman is. Well, kiddies, he has been a no good "neo-con" for a long time. Guess who he worked for when the Vice President was Secretary of Defense, a one Mr. Paul Wolfowitz. Who is he? Another horrible "neo-con." This is all very important because.....well.....it's not. Other than the Wolffe Man suggesting, without proof, that when he worked with Mr. Wolfowitz to develop a preemptive war strategy. Wolffe Man thinks it's strange that the letter to Mrs. Clinton included references to Somalia, Lebanon, Vietnam because it offers a window into what matters which is the strength and the will of American leaders. What a TERRIBLE thing. Strength of leadership. You don't want that in a LEADER. Furthermore, why is it so horrible to mention those things? Somalia only degenerated into a haven for jihadists after Fmr. President B.J. Clinton pulled U.S. troops out (not mentioned). The withdrawl from Vietnam arguably led to the slaughter in Cambodia (by pulling the plug on funding by a Democratic congress - not mentioned). Finally, Lebanon where a civil war ensued and the creation of a Syrian satellite along with happy places for terrorists (the withdrawl done by Fmr. President Reagan. Apparently, they are three totally different scenarios to Wolffie. Another Konspiracy Theory that the administration is just waiting to leave office to blame their successors for the supposed inevitable failure. No proof. Great thanks.

Oddball: Pete Rose goes to jail 17 years ago. A dog that "craps money" (classy Edward R. Olbermann). The dog made "change." Chalk homer.

#3: Olby laments the dismissal of Valerie Plame's lawsuits dismissal. Welcome Slippery Shuster to help Keith out on all of the intrigue on Capitol Hill. Fat Ass hopes desperately for Josh Bolton to get charged with contempt. The case will go to the US Attorney for D.C. who is an appointee of the eeeeeeeevil Alberto Gonzales. Some Dems are worrying they might appear to be just chasing scandals and getting nothing thus sending their poll numbers down. Apparently this has to do with the US Attorney firings. Didn't this story have to do with the dismissal of Valerie Plame's case? Oh nevermind. Olby has nothing to say on that because there's no way to spin it to make it look like a Konspiracy orchestrated by Karl Rove. Oh wait, nevermind, he brought it up again. Jabba suggests that the judge was saying that leaking a "covert" (she wasn't) agent's name is "part of the job." Well, Fat Ass, it looks like your lackeys were not doing their jobs tonight - or just didn't want to. In fact, the Judge said this

For the reasons given above, plaintiffs have failed to state a claim upon which relief can be granted with respect to their four causes of action asserted directly under the Constitution. Furthermore, this Court lacks subject-matter jurisdiction over plaintiffs’ claim for public disclosure of private facts.

Furthermore, the judge said:

[D]efendants chose to rebut Mr. Wilson’s comments and attack his credibility may have been highly unsavory. But there can be no serious dispute that the act of rebutting public criticism, such as that levied by Mr. Wilson against the Bush Administration’s handling of prewar foreign intelligence, by speaking with members of the press is within the scope of defendants’ duties as high-level Executive Branch officials.

Thanks to Hot Air for picking that up.

Shuster naturally spins this the way his Fuhrer wants him to by saying this was dismissed purely on "consitutional" grounds. Obviously, the above quote demonstrates how the judge went on to take Ms. Plame's argument and toss it out the window in conjunction with its lack of constituinal standing. The ruling was really "far more critical of [a] law passed by congress." More hoping on Keithy's part for an appeal to succeed. Great thanks.

#2: Back to your regularly scheduled Olbsession - Bill O'Reilly. "Fox Noise." Oralmann calls "retired" comedian Dennis Miller O'Reilly's sidekick. A guy who is funnier in one sentence the Adam's Apple is in his entire career. Keith comes to the rescue of his DailyKos minions who need all the help they can get. Any website that can only get one sponsor of its CONVENTION (not the website, there's a difference apparently) probably has a slight PR problem. Don't worry guys, he's got you covered for all of his 10 viewers for this 10 vouchers. After using all sorts of Nazi analogies, Olbermahn doesn't like O'Reilly comparing the Kossacks to Nazis. Also, it's somehow hypocritcal to say you are for free speech but there is a line. You know that line Keith? It's called responsibility. Or to you, "accuracy and decency." Nah, you don't know it. Accuracy (lacking every night) and decency (a Senator's wife a ho?). You DEFINITELY don't know the aforementioend. O'Reilly's "salacious" interview with Ms. Polumbo that he stole from E! network. Of course, this whole thing is about pictures that were supposedly "salacious." Oh wow, great clip. So funny. AKA filler.

Keeping tabs: Emmy nominations. Paul McCartney divorce. Barry Bonds slump.

#1: Someone does a review of the new Harry Potter book.

In the Media Matters minute, Emmy Awards for nominating ABC's 9/11 drama which it got technical nominations for. So horrible. Sean Hannity for suggesting that there are investigations still worth investigating. Naturally, a Media Matters item. Winner, Tom Delay for suggesting that we would not have a need for illegal immigrants for illegal employment if there had not been 40 million abortions, Blue Blog source: Raw Story. Oralmann either has a "slip" or smears Mr. Delay by quoting him as saying "LEGAL" immigrants when, even on the Raw Story story, it specifically says ILLEGAL. Lie, smear, distort. Rinse and repeat. Thanks Olby.

Olbermann's book The book that bears Olbermann's remained at a humiliating, painful and otherwise embarrassing #8,704 on amazon.com, but "Culture Warrior" is #801. (It's that 2-for-$25 sale!) The OlbyTome managed to - wait - it didn't. It's still unranked at Barnes and Noble; O'Reilly's book is #1,274 there, and is one of the top five books of 2006 per Publishers Weekly. Wednesday's Hour of Spin managed a typical third place place finish in total that "money demo" Olbsession. Source. Tonight's MisterMeter reading: INCALCUABLE [BROKEN!!!]

APPENDIX: Keith's Latest Speshul Education Komment

Good evening from Los Angeles. And we begin with a special comment on this day‘s ominous, almost indescribable events.

It is one of the great, dark, evil lessons of history, a country, a government, a military machine can screw up a war seven ways to Sunday. It can get thousands of its people killed. It can risk the safety of its own citizens. It can destroy the fabric of its nation. But as long as it can identify a scapegoat, it can regain or even gain power.

The Bush administration has tonight opened this Pandora‘s box about Iraq. It has found its scapegoats: Hillary Clinton and us. The lies and terror tactics with which it deluded this country into war, they had nothing to do with the abomination that Iraq has become. It isn‘t Mr. Bush‘s fault.

The selection of the wrong war in the wrong time in the wrong place, the most disastrous geopolitical tactic since Austria-Hungary attacked Serbia in 1914 and destroyed itself in the process, that had nothing to do with the overwhelming crisis Iraq has become. It isn‘t Mr. Bush‘s fault.

The criminal lack of planning for the war, the total jump off a bridge and hope you can fly tone to the failure to anticipate what would follow the deposing of Saddam Hussein, that had nothing to do with the chaos in which Iraq has been enveloped. It isn‘t Mr. Bush‘s fault.

The utter blinkered idiocy of staying the course, of sending Americans to Iraq and sending them a second time and a third and a fourth until they get killed or maimed, the utter de-prioritization of human life simply so a politician can avoid having to admit he made a mistake, that had nothing to do with the tens of thousands of individual tragedies darkening of lives of American families forever. It isn‘t Mr. Bush‘s fault.

The continuing, relentless, remorseless, corrupt and cynical insistence that this conflict is somehow defeating or containing or merely engaging the people who attacked us on 9/11, the total “Alice Through the Looking Glass” quality that ignores that in Iraq we have made the world safer for al Qaeda. It isn‘t Mr. Bush‘s fault.

The fault brought down, as if a sermon from this mount of hypocrisy and slaughter by a nearly anonymous undersecretary of defense, the fault has tonight been laid on the doorstep of Senator Clinton and by extension on the doorstep of every American, the now vast majority of us who have ever dared to criticize this war or protest it or merely ask questions about it or simply plaintively, innocently, honestly plead, don‘t take my son, don‘t take my daughter.

Senator Clinton has been sent, and someone has leaked to the Associated Press a letter sent in reply to her own asking if there exists an actual plan for evacuating the U.S. troops from Iraq. This extraordinary document was written by an undersecretary of defense named Eric Edelman.

“Premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq,” Edelman writes, “reinforces enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia.”

Edelman adds: “Such talk understandably unnerves the very same Iraqi allies we are asking to assume enormous personal risks.”

A spokesman for the senator says Mr. Edelman‘s remarks are “at once both outrageous and dangerous,” and those terms are entirely appropriate and may, in fact, understate the risk the Edelman letter poses to our way of life and all that our fighting men and women are risking, have risked and have lost in Iraq.

After the South was defeated in our Civil War, a scapegoat was Confederate President Jefferson Davis and the ideas of the lost cause and Jim Crow were born in that wake.

After the French were beaten by the Prussians in 1870 and 1871, it was the imaginary Jewish influence in the French army general staff, and there was born 30 years of self destructive anti-Semitism culminating in the horrific Dreyfus case.

After the Germans lost the First World War, it was the backstabbers and profiteers at home on whose broken bodies the National Socialists rose to prominence in the succeeding decades, and whose accused membership eventually wound up in torture chambers and death camps.

And after the generation just before ours, and leaders of both political parties escalated and re-escalated and carpet-bombed and re-carpet-bombed Vietnam, it was the protest movement and Jane Fonda, and as late as just three years ago, Senator John Kerry, who were assigned the blame, the kind of blame which no rational human being could concur and yet which still across vast sections of our political landscape resonates unchallenged and accepted.

And now, Mr. Bush, you have picked out your own Jefferson Davis, your own Dreyfus, your own profiteer, your own scapegoat, not for the sake of this country, not for the sake of Iraq, not even for the sake of your own political party, but for the sake of your own personal place in history.

But in reaching for that place, you have guaranteed yourself tonight not honor but infamy. In fact, you have condemned yourself to a place among that remarkably small group of Americans whom Americans cannot forgive, those who have sold this country out and who have willingly declared their enmity to the people at whose pleasure they supposedly serve.

A scapegoat, sir, might be forgivable if you had not just happened to choose a prospective presidential nominee from the opposition party. And the accusation of spreading enemy propaganda, that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia, might be someday atoned for, sir, if we all didn‘t know, you included, and your generals and the Iraqis that we are leaving Iraq, and sooner rather than later. And we are doing it even if to do so requires first that you must be impeached and removed as president of the United States sooner rather than later.

You have set this government at war against its own people and then blamed those very people when they have said enough. And thus it crystallizes, Mr. Bush, when the Civil War General Ambrose Burnside ordered a disastrous attack on Fredericksburg in which 12,000 of his men were killed, he had to be physically restrained from personally leading the next charge himself.

After the first lord of the British admiralty, Winston Churchill, authored and enabled the disastrous Gallipoli campaign that saw a quarter million allied soldiers cut down in the First World War, Churchill resigned his office and took a commission as a front line officer in the trenches of France.

Those should be your new role models, Mr. Bush. Let your minions try to spread the blame to the real patriots here who have sought only to undo the horrors you have wrought since 2002.

Let them try that until the end of time, though the words might be erased from a million books and a billion memories, though the world be covered knee-deep in your lies, the truth shall prevail: This, sir, is your war.

Senator Clinton has reinforced enemy propaganda? Made it impossible for therapy you to get your ego-driven, blood-steeped win in Iraq? Then take it into your own hands, Mr. Bush. Go to Baghdad now and fulfill, finally, your military service obligations. Go there and fight your war, yourself.