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May 14, 2008

Countdown with Keith Olbermann - May 14, 2008

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

Host: Keith Olbermann

Topics/Guests:

JOHN EDWARDS ENDORSES OBAMA: Richard Wolffe
ELECTION 2008: Chuck Todd
SPECIAL EDUCATION KOMMENT: "Mister" Bush golfing, or not golfing. Whatever.

It's a red-letter night on The Hour of Spin. The infamous deplorable Keith Olbermann disgorged his latest Special Education Komment, and the MisterMeter almost burns out! Bathtub Boy's jeremiad found him bellowing for more than ten minutes. Hey, maybe it's Keithy's way to get back some of that precious face time that mean old David Gregory is stealing from him! But first, there is always the opening spiel: Edwards endorsement shocker! It blows Hillary's win "out of the proverbial [Ding!] tub"! Hillary in crisis! Republicans lose! Another tour of a half-built baseball stadium! And of course, a plug for the latest Special Education Komment about "Mister" Bush! It's hump day--and obviously a day that Keith's demographics need some sort of hump--at Olbermann Watch.

UPDATED: with Special Education Komment video, annotated transcript, and special OlbyRobot dramatic reading! Also check out the devastating deconstructions of Monkeymann's diseased diatribe from Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, and Dennis Prager.

#5: Edwards endorsement renders Hillary "old news"! Herr Olbermann pimped out The Wolffe Man who simpered about super delegates. (Why does Fat Ass have a limey analyzing American politics anyhow?) Wolffie didn't think The Big Endorsement would mean much in the future voting but was nonetheless Great Thanksed.

Krazy Keith set out a scenario where all the Edwards delegates would go to Obama and he'd only be ten away for clinching it. Hot Toddy explained to him that the delegates go where they want. Wordsmith Keith referenced Todd's "proverbial [Ding!] maps". Yeah, because there are so many famous proverbs about maps. And bathtubs. Poli-Sci maven Olbermann opined that any electorate where Obama has a weakness is an electorate of Democrats "in name only" who are "really Republicans". Hot Toddy was Great Thanksed.

After Another Plug for the Special Education Komment (hereafter APftSEK) and APftSEK came #4: More on Edwards because it's "breaking News!", even though it's already over three hours old. Regurgitated video of Brian Williams with Hillary. That gives Bear a chance to surf on Kos and look on ebay for that elusive Mickey Mays bubblegum card.

After APftSEK and APftSEK came an early version of the Media Matters Minute (gotta leave room for that 11-minute screed). Attacked tonight were Republicans (Blue Blog Source: HuffPo), Terry McAuliffe (Blue Blog Source: Black & White), and of course the "worst" was saved for you-know-who. Of course by attacking O'Reilly that means Oralmann is going to bat for Boyce Watkins, who says right-wingers killed Malcolm X, and sneers at Juan Williams as a "happy Negro" and not even a true African-American. That's the kind of people Keith is happy to sit in the bathtub with.

#3: Republicans are losers. Republicans are "race-baiters".

After APftSEK and APftSEK came #2: America's worst home movies, with Oralmann actually reporting from the field--an unfinished baseball field. He is truly the next Edward R Murrow.

After APftSEK finally came #1: saved for the very last Nielsen minute, Herr Olbermann's lunatic screed on "Mister" Bush and golf. To ensure that every fringe stoner would be tuned in to his demagoguery, he once again used Daily Kos for purposes of self-promoting his philippic. That prompted this amusing exchange:

I am a huge fan, etc., but want to ask if this is the best time to make such a special comment...I am afraid that the energy is now very excitedly re. Edwards. Perhaps tomorrow.
Big tent theory. Plenty of room for Senator Edwards' Special Comment and my own. I have no problem being runner-up to him. Nor third to he and Elizabeth.

Third to he? To he?!? No wonder Fat Ass needs a staff of writers to fill his teleprompter.

You could almost see the venom dripping from his molars as he roiled through his diseased rant, complete with the obligatory shoulder shrugs, meaningful pauses, scowls, insinSirs (15 by our count), and of course more "Misters" than he hears from Katy in a week. And if you think this was borderline just imagine what Fat Ass would spew if "Mister" Bush did continue to play golf! See below for the full, annotated transcript.

Tonight's MisterMeter reading: 24 [DANGER!!!!!!!]

And that's The Hour of Spin for this, the 737th day since the declaration that "Karl Rove will in fact be indicted".

APPENDIX: Krazy Keith's Special Education Komment:

Finally tonight, as promised, a Special Comment on two topics a lot of us had foolishly thought, had naively hoped, we would not again have to address... and a third topic nobody thought a President would ever seriously mention in public unless perhaps he'd just been hit in the head with something and was not in full possession of his faculties--how he expressed his empathy to the families of the dead in Iraq by giving up golf.

The President has resorted anew to the sleaziest fear-mongering and mass manipulation of an administration of a public life dedicated to realizing the lowest of our expectations. And he has now applied these poisons to the 2008 presidential election, on behalf of the party at whose center he and Mr. McCain lurk.

Mr. Bush has predicted that the election of a Democratic president could, quote, "eventually lead to another attack on the United States."
This ludicrous, infuriating, holier-than-thou and most importantly bone-headedly wrong statement came yesterday during an interview with Politico.com and online users of Yahoo.

The question was phrased as follows:
"If we were to pull out of Iraq next year, what's the worst that could happen, what's the doomsday scenario?"The President replied:

"Doomsday scenario of course is that extremists throughout the Middle East would be emboldened, which would eventually lead to another attack on the United States.

"The biggest issue we face is, it's bigger than Iraq, it's this ideological struggle against cold-blooded killers who will kill people to achieve their political objectives.'

[camera switch]

Mr. Bush, at long last, has it not dawned on you that the America you have now created, includes 'cold-blooded killers who will kill people to achieve their political objectives'? They are those in, or formerly in, your employ, who may yet be charged some day... with war crimes.

Through your haze of self-congratulation and self-pity, do you still have no earthly clue that this nation has laid waste to Iraq to achieve your political objectives?
'This ideological struggle,' Mr. Bush, is taking place within this country. It is a struggle between Americans who cherish freedom, ours and everybody else's, and Americans like you, Sir, to whom freedom is just a brand name, just like "Patriot Act" is a brand name or "Protect America" is a brand name.

[scowl at camera]

But wait, there's more.
You also said "Iraq is the place where al Qaeda and other extremists have made their stand and they will be defeated."

They made no "stand" in Iraq, Sir , you allowed them to assemble there! As certainly as if that were the plan, the borders were left wide open by your government's farcical post-invasion strategy of 'they'll greet us as liberators.' And as certainly as if that were the plan, the inspiration for another generation of terrorists in another country was provided by your government's farcical post-invasion strategy of letting the societal infra-structure of Iraq dissolve, to be replaced by an American Vice-Royalty enforced by merciless mercenaries who shoot unarmed Iraqis and then evade prosecution in any country, by hiding behind your skirts, Sir.

[shake head in anger; watch the spit]

Terrorism inside Iraq is your creation, Mr. Bush!

[look down at pretend notes; insert meaningful pause; don't forget camera pivot]

It was a Yahoo user who brought up the second topic upon whose introduction Mr. Bush should have passed, or punted, or gotten up and left the room claiming he heard Dick Cheney calling him. "Do you feel," asked an ordinary American, "that you were misled on Iraq?"

"I feel like -- I felt like, there were weapons of mass destruction. You know, "mislead" is a strong word, it almost connotes some kind of intentional -- I don't think so, I think there was a -- not only our intelligence community, but intelligence communities all across the world shared the same assessment. And so I was disappointed to see how flawed our intelligence was."

Flawed.

You, Mr. Bush, and your tragically know-it-all minions, threw out every piece of intelligence that suggested there were no such weapons.
You, Mr. Bush, threw out every person who suggested that the sober, contradictory, reality-based intelligence needed to be listened to, fast.
You, Mr. Bush, are responsible for how "intelligence communities all across the world shared the same assessment."

[use that trace-of-a-sneer look here]

You and the sycophants you dredged up and put behind the most important steering wheel in the world propagated palpable nonsense and shoved it down the throat of every intelligence community across the world and punished anybody who didn't agree it was really chicken salad.

[re-use head shake]

And you, Mr. Bush, threw under the bus [Ding!], all of the subsequent critics who bravely stepped forward later to point out just how much of a self-fulfilling prophecy you had embraced, and adopted as this country's policy in lieu of, say, common sense. The fiasco of pre-war intelligence, Sir, is your fiasco.

You should build a great statue of yourself turning a deaf ear to the warnings of realists, while you are shown embracing the three-card monte dealers like Richard Perle and Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. That would be a far more fitting tribute to your legacy, Mr. Bush, than this Presidential library you are constructing as a giant fable about your presidency an edifice you might as claim was built from Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction because there will be just as many of those inside your Presidential library as there were inside Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

[look down; pause; ratchet it down to only 6 or 7; camera pivot]

Of course if there is one over-riding theme to this president's administration it is the utter, always-failing, inability to know when to quit when it is behind.
And so Mr. Bush answered yet another question about this layered, nuanced, wheels-within-wheels garbage heap that constituted his excuse for war.

"And so you feel that you didn't have all the information you should have or the right spin on that information?"

"No, no," replied the President. "I was told by people, that they had weapons of mass destruction..."

[change camera angle]

People?
What people?
The insane informant "Curveball?"
The Iraqi snake-oil salesman Ahmed Chalabi?
The American snake-oil salesman Dick Cheney?

"I was told by people that they had weapons of mass destruction, as were members of Congress, who voted for the resolution to get rid of Saddam Hussein.

"And of course, the political heat gets on and they start to run and try to hide from their votes."

Mr. Bush, you destroyed the evidence that contradicted the resolution you jammed down the Congress's throat, the way you jammed it down the nation's throat. When required by law to verify that your evidence was accurate, you simply re-submitted it, with phrases amounting to "See, I done proved it," virtually written in the margins in crayon.

You defied patriotic Americans to say "The Emperor Has No Clothes" only this time with the stakes (as you and the mental dwarves in your employ put it) being a "mushroom cloud over an American city."

And as a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party seemingly perpetual congressional seats in places like North Carolina and, last night, Mississippi, you can actually say with a straight face, Sir, that for members of Congress "the political heat gets on and they start to run and try to hide from their votes" - while you greet the political heat and try to run and hide from your presidency,

[louder, louder; no matter how loud, make it louder]

and your legacy, 4,000 of the Americans you were supposed to protect, dead in Iraq, with your only feeble, pathetic answer being, "I was told by people that they had weapons of mass destruction."

[same pattern as before: meaningful pause, look down, camera pivot, ratchet down]

Then came Mr. Bush's final blow to our nation's solar plexus, his last re-opening of our common wounds, his last remark that makes the rest of us question not merely his leadership or his judgment but his very suitably to remain in office.

"Mr. President," he was asked, "you haven't been golfing in recent years. Is that related to Iraq?

"Yes," began perhaps the most startling reply of this nightmarish blight on our lives as Americans on our history. "It really is. I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died, to see the Commander-in-Chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be as -- to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal."

[hushed irony]

Golf, Sir?
Golf sends the wrong signal to the grieving families of our men and women butchered in Iraq?
Do you think these families, Mr. Bush, their lives blighted forever, care about you playing golf...
Do you think, Sir, they care about you?
You, Mr. Bush, let their sons and daughters be killed.

[start ratcheting it up again]

Sir, to show your solidarity with them you gave up golf?
Sir, to show your solidarity with them you didn't give up your pursuit of this insurance-scam, profiteering, morally and financially bankrupting war.
Sir, to show your solidarity with them you didn't even give up talking about Iraq a subject about which you have incessantly proved without pause or backwards glance, that you may literally be the least informed person in the world?
Sir, to show your solidarity with them, you didn't give up your presidency?

[crank it up here; feign indigation up to, oh, 8 or 9]

In your own words "solidarity as best as I can" is to stop a game? That is the "best" you can? 4,000 Americans give up their lives and your sacrifice was to give up golf!

[camera switch; look down; no meaningful pause this time]

Golf. Not "gulf" -- golf.

And still it gets worse.
Because it proves that the President's unendurable sacrifice, his unbearable pain, the suspension of getting to hit a stick with a ball, was not even his own damned idea.

"Mr. President, was there a particular moment or incident that brought you to that decision, or how did you come to that?"

"I remember when de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad as a result of these murderers taking this good man's life. And I was playing golf -- I think I was in central Texas -- and they pulled me off the golf course and I said, it's just not worth it any more to do."

Your one, tone-deaf, arrogant, pathetic, embarrassing gesture, and you didn't even think of it yourself? The great Bushian sacrifice, an Army private loses a leg, a Marine loses half his skull, four thousand of their brothers and sisters lose their lives, you lose golf and they have to pull you off the golf course to get you to just do that?

[wiggle your hand around; do something here to punch it up]

If it's even true.

Apart from your medical files, which dutifully record your torn calf muscle and the knee pain which forced you to give up running at the same time, coincidence no doubt, the bombing in Baghdad which killed Sergio Vieira de Mello of the UN and interrupted your round of golf, was on August 19th, 2003. Yet CBS News has records of you and photographs playing golf as late as October 13th of that year, nearly two months later.

[meaningful pause]

Mr. Bush, I hate to break it to you six-and-a-half years after you yoked this nation and your place in history to the wrong war, in the wrong place, against the wrong people.

[slowly, spitting out each word]

But the war in Iraq is not about you.

[ok, pick up the pace for the big finish]

It is not, Mr. Bush, about your grief when American after American comes home in a box. It is not, Mr. Bush, about what your addled brain has produced in the way of paranoid delusions of risks that do not exist, ready to be activated if some Democrat, and not your twin Mr. McCain succeeds you.

The war in Iraq, your war, Mr. Bush, is about how you accomplished the derangement of two nations, and how you helped funnel billions of taxpayer dollars to lascivious and perennially thirsty corporations like Halliburton and Blackwater, and how you sent 4,000 Americans to their deaths for nothing.

[louder; louder]

It is not, Mr. Bush, about your golf game! And, Sir, if you have any hopes that next January 20th will not be celebrated as a day of soul-wrenching, heart-felt Thanksgiving, because your faithless stewardship of this presidency will have finally come to a merciful end, this last piece of advice:

[keep screaming]

When somebody asks you, Sir, about Democrats who must now pull this country back from the abyss you have placed us at...
When somebody asks you, Sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation...
When somebody asks you, Sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead.
This advice, Mr. Bush...

[scream this; go to 11; you have to sell this for the Kossacks, but watch the spit]

Shut the... hell up!

[thoughtful, indignant pause; look down; meaningful stare]

Good night, and good luck.

The Special Education Komment as read by Text Aloud with AT&T Natural Voices. The OlbyRobot not only reads the SEK, it reads Olby's stage directions as well!

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41 Comments

By Katy Turic on May 14, 2008 9:25 PM

It's an (MS)NBC spitfest
From the moonbat that sane folks detest
The Dems voted for war
But like some 2-bit whore
They turn tail and now want to divest

By Cecelia on May 14, 2008 9:41 PM

Who but Olbermann knew that he was third in line to the Vice Presidency?...

Thanks, Kieth!,,,

By Dan Tanna on May 14, 2008 9:43 PM

I only watched because I thought his head would explode.....

By MikeH on May 14, 2008 9:50 PM

I guess I will have to agree with everyone about KO's somewhat over-the-top delivery, and possibly even his timing regarding his special comment tonight, ...... but unfortuantely for your side, every word he uttered was based on truth! (Although I admit I haven't personally verified when GW Bush last played a game of golf).

By Cecelia on May 14, 2008 10:01 PM

By MikeH on May 14, 2008 9:50 PM

I'm sure Olbermann must breath a sigh of relief that he was able to get his feelings across to you tonight, Mike. Otherwise, they'd be moot....

By The Factor on May 14, 2008 10:02 PM

So Keith spews a Spechul Komment because George Bush won't golf while troops are in harms way? If Bush was out golfing right now, Keith would show a clip of it every night and have a Spechul Komment about how Bush should not be golfing while troops are in harms way. Did Olbermann spike the clip of O'Reilly from his Inside Edition days? I guess Keith is afraid that someone might have tape of his little tantrum over David Gregory getting more face time than him. I guess MSDNC is not big enough for the egos of two liberal blow hards. I wonder which one will survive.

By Scott on May 14, 2008 10:19 PM

I thought KO was well on the way to complete mastery of cable news ratings. But then we get tonight's "for the first time since Valentine's day" SEK on "Mister" Bush's golf game, complete with his plea for relevancy, er, plug to the Koskids for viewers. Replete with three excerpts, and of course the completely gramatically incorrect use of "he" as J$ pointed out.

WOW! Is KO really so desparate as to usurp Johnny E's big day? Or was this a coat-tails thing?

By Olby Sucks on May 14, 2008 10:31 PM

Is it ironic that obamaloons and olbyloons alike claim that obama is a 'uniter' all the while these same folks think olbyonesidedkanoby is the best thing since the tire is doing his best to divide us and his own party? BTW, he supposedy doesn't vote......

By Grammie on May 14, 2008 10:47 PM

I remember that in the days leading up to Gulf War I Bush Sr went fishing from his family home in Kenebunkport (sp). Not surprisingly the MSM jumped all over him for going fishing while the world was teetering on the edge created by Iraq.

Now his son has eschewed golf b/c of the War on Terror and KO, true to form, takes the opposite tack.

Damned if you do and damned if you don't!

If one were to remove all the histrionics from KO's dramatic reading I think it might have lasted maybe two minutes. He reminds me more and more of a junior high school girl that lives life on the perpetual edge of high drama.

By The Factor on May 14, 2008 11:13 PM

Keith always tries to show how much he cares about the troops by not visiting any of them. Keith always makes sure those baseball parks don't fly away.

By The Factor on May 14, 2008 11:30 PM

"and your legacy, 4,000 of the Americans you were supposed to protect" Keith

Since when is the president suppose to "protect" the troops? Why aren’t all those senators and congressmen on the hook for "protecting" the troops? Since they did vote to send them to war.

By MikeC

on May 15, 2008 1:24 AM

I hope you guys like my "OlbyRobot." I know Johnny got a kick out of it. :D

By Olby Sucks on May 15, 2008 2:14 AM

I guess the hack couldn't spare 10 seconds to mention the latest (d) to resign due to a sexual harrassment scandal. Shocker!

By cee on May 15, 2008 7:49 AM

Like I have said the day after election day 2006, the war in Iraq is 100% a political issue for the left with no real world interest in how it affects the future US foreign policy of the lives of the people of Iraq.....

Keith Olbermann, by pulling out The President's response to a specific question, once again shows how this is all about political positioning and advantage. The specific answer does not imply Bush believes the war is "about him." He answered a question. The left quickly seized on the soundbyte to once again try to frame the war in a way that is a POLITICAL advantage to themselves.

Nevermind the implications of their real continued support through funding the troops without forcing withdrawl. Like I said in 2006, President Bush will continue to lead, with the advice of his military and diplomatic advisors, without one worry about the political machinations of the democrats, including the idiotic Olbermann. Progress continues in Iraq....does Olbermann even report on what has been going on recently?....Do his viewers know the specific developments over the last 4 weeks in Iraq? No. He only mentions Iraq in his Special Comment in the context of Repubs vs. Dems and it shows how disgusting the debate has become.

Also, let us not forget why Olbermann does these Special Comments.....Ratings. So...he has a "double whammy" against him...his political motives for using the war as a weapon is wrong, and his financial/ego motives that drive his small mind crazy, as he looks at O'Reilly's butt, make him use the war to gain applause from his far left audience.

He will never be truly thought of as today's Murrow....He is a superificial, insecure, thin-skinned demogogue. When the time comes and there is no more fodder for Olbermann to manipulate with his spittle filled rants, he will pass away like so many before him.

By cee on May 15, 2008 7:57 AM

Like I said the day after election day 2006, the war in Iraq is 100% a political issue for the left with no real world interest in how it affects the future US foreign policy OR the lives of the people of Iraq.....

What can I say.....it's early...

By kb on May 15, 2008 9:35 AM

The Mister Meter is missing. Did it go tilt or did the needle get stuck on the right side last night?

This fat assed chicken shit (Yes, Mister Olbermann, I am talking about you, sir!) has absolutely no clue about what Iraq is really about. According to Mister Moron, you are not supposed to weigh the intelligence and make an informed decision. Mister Dumbass overlooks the facts because he cannot comprehend that we got into this war because Iraq was not cooperating with the UN resolutions. All of Mister Olberdick's rantings spin around the minor side issue of WMD's. Mister Olbernut makes no mention that his previous mentor's administration is the one who assessed that Iraq had WMDs. It doesn't matter on Olby Planet that those hundreds of truckloads of weapons were moved to Syria right before the much advertised military actions.

So my advice to you, Sir is to pull your head out of your fat ass, stop reading KOS for your information, and Shut the... hell up!

By cee on May 15, 2008 9:57 AM

BTW, for those who really want to know what is going in Iraq (unlike the left who only use Iraq as a domestic political issue...Olbermann just one bloviating example), I recommend this site:

http://www.longwarjournal.org/

This challenge to defend freedom and democracy in Iraq is still a noble cause and those who thwart it for political power or ego are the worst of the worst....Olbermann, as we know, is just one of many....

Olbermann does not mention Iraq in any great terms until when?.....The President is asked a question on why he is no longer seen playing golf.....What a reason to get so exercised!

The facts in Iraq show slow but continued progress against the extremist elements that want to destroy what has been accomplished through democracy, and the sacrifice of thousands of Americans and Iraqis. Those that want a pull-out regardless of what reality dictates are aiding the totalitarians and threaten to make the sacrifices made since the fall of Saddam pointless....

Olbermann has not contributed one ounce of thoughful debate or constructive critique to the challenges the troops and the free Iraqis face against the terrorists, like all of the radical left....To these morons, Iraq only serves as a wedge to squeeze themselves into power for their own benefit; ego and influence....that is a shameful reality.

By johnny dollar

on May 15, 2008 11:30 AM

Here's an OlbyWatch flashback, to the glory days of the karmabites1 blog. The author exposed Keith as a sleazy, boorish (and inadequate) lover, but also had lots of insider detail about other matters. This is relevant since she posted the Olby Special Komment Formula:

1) Find something you can slam the Republicans about (preferably this will be an issue which will allow you to simultaneously ass-kiss the Democrats).

2) Bonus points if the segment can be directly addressed to the President (yeah, as if he's watching!!!).

3) Do a quick review for the audience of Bush's incompetence while in office.

4) Invoke mentions of other bleak periods in American history.

5) Draw parallels with "1984" or other Orwell works.

6) Quote the words of a former president (Lincoln is preferred).

7) As the ire of the segment rises, a planned camera switch from head on to an angle occurs.

8) Go back to the head on camera angle, and get even angrier.

9) Quote some other famous figure from literature/history/philosophy.

10) Get in a slam at Fox News, if possible.

11) Make a mention of 9/11, if possible.

12) Conclude segment in such a fury that you practically spit the words "good night and good luck" at the camera.

Best part of the comment (taken slightly out of context, but hey, if KO can do it, I can too!): "Had I in one moment surrendered all my credibility as a journalist..." Um, KO you might want to check yourself there, cause I'm pretty sure that's what you did on Friday by presenting Clinton with a check while ON THE AIR!!!

Add your own observations/steps to the "formula" if you feel there is something missing. posted by KarmaBites1 at 10:18 PM 47 Comments

By MikeH on May 15, 2008 12:06 PM

Cee: "Like I said the day after election day 2006, the war in Iraq is 100% a political issue for the left with no real world interest in how it affects the future of US foreign policy OR how it affects the lives of the people of Iraq....."

And as you contunue to delude yourself with this absolute FALLACY, it allows you to irrationally and unfairly marginalize the honest motives of others without a trace of the guilt that would otherwise be necessary to put forth such a tortured mental exercise.

By MikeH on May 15, 2008 12:17 PM

As I see the word "conservative" put forth today and ponder it's current manifestation, I can't help but think about the recent interview of Justice Scalia by Lestlie Stahl on April 28th.

Has everyone SEEN this interview? ..... It's readily available on the net.

This man......the SAME man that conservatives have been puting on a pedestal as the ideal "mold" of future Supreme Court Justices actually condones torture by claiming that it isn't REALLY intended as "punishment".

At first, I kept thinking this HAD to be a either a joke, or that I had somehow missed some important context to this opinion, but I was wrong. He REALLY believes this!

So THIS is what we've come to! THIS is what some would have America become if only we'll let it! THIS is the face of conservatism! Our founders must be writhing in their graves about this how this kind of tortured logic and interpretation is becoming more the norm than the exception.

By Quads on May 15, 2008 12:32 PM

Keith better watch himself, or else he is going to explode on stage like a Spinal Tap Drummer....

By MLong on May 15, 2008 12:54 PM

KO has only 2 bits..attacks on O’Reilly and attacks on Bush..He’s going to lose Bush in 8 months and He’ll never be able to drive the same level of hatred against McCain if he wins..and Obama/Clinton would be only A**kissed by him if they win..so he’s looking at a good chance that his ratings could nosedive next year because even his masters at Daily Kos will tire of him real quick..so that plus his little tantrum against MSNBC new wonderboy David Gregory could spell the end for the new “Murrow”.

By MikeC

on May 15, 2008 1:18 PM

Any comments about my OlbyRobot?

By Rick on May 15, 2008 2:07 PM

It should be interesting to witness Odiousmann's outrage tonight, what with President Bush's comments in Israel re negotiating with terrorists. I can see his face going from orange to orange red, maybe even vermillion.

By Katy Turic on May 15, 2008 2:29 PM

He's the expert on war ad hoc
But Keith's never been to Iraq
The cringe factor's high
That's probably why
Karma claims he has a small cock

By Grammie on May 15, 2008 2:49 PM

MikeC, I just saw your comment and looked for the OlbyBot and played it.

That is hysterical, especially his production notes to himself. I loved "meaningful stare" and later on "no meaningful stare".

He never makes good sense but his words read in a monotone really show how vacuous he is.

Thanks! I enjoyed it>

By Cecelia on May 15, 2008 3:06 PM

MikeC,

I just caught it too!

For Americans like myself, who think that "freedom is a just a brand name...": Love it!

By Great Thanks on May 15, 2008 4:04 PM

I have to disagree that every word Keith said was based on truth. First, he said
"Mr. Bush has predicted that the election of a Democratic president could, quote, "eventually lead to another attack on the United States."

But, that's not what the question nor Bush's answer said. Bush said the worst-case scenario of ANY pullout of Iraq could lead to, in the worst-case, another US attack. How did Keith get Democrat out of that? Anybody who isn't living in a cave knows Hillary has mentioned removing troops from Iraq EVENTUALLY, but not in the next year, which the question specifically mentions.

Second, Keith said Bush threw out intelligence that disagreed with his view, which is just wrong, but then 2 sentences later says
"You, Mr. Bush, are responsible for how "intelligence communities all across the world shared the same assessment."

Not only is that a lie, it is a bizarre one at that. How could Bush be responsible when governments across the globe before he was even President say Iraq had WMD? Bill Clinton maintained Iraq "probably had" chemical weapons....in 2003! Was Bush also responsible for the US missile strike against Iraq's WMD "capabilities" (look up Operation Desert Fox) in 1998?

By MikeH on May 15, 2008 4:33 PM

Great Thanks, what will amaze people like myself for the rest of my life is how people like yourself can continue to defend the indefensible when things have gone so wrong...and every single prediction of the nay-sayers has come true.

Yet people like you STILL maintain that the nay-sayers are the ones who were wrong.

Human nature is amazing!

By Grammie on May 15, 2008 4:52 PM

Cecelia, do you remember that MikeC did the same thing at J$P?

I suddenly remembered that we all had compared notes on what struck us as the funniest. I remember that one of my favorites was that KO came out "KOH" and the "ding" was too much!

MikeC, do you remember when that was and whose speech it was?

By johnny dollar

on May 15, 2008 4:57 PM

Actually that was here, when we had the OlbyRobot read off one of our nightly recaps:

http://tinyurl.com/4frlbq

By Grammie on May 15, 2008 5:12 PM

Shush, Johnny, don't say that too loud or everyone will know I had a senior moment. :)

By cee on May 15, 2008 5:17 PM

"every single prediction of the nay-sayers has come true.

What hyperbole! I was told in 2004 by the left that Iraq would be a Vietnam like situation in a year....It is not...In fact, the great civil war that was predicted with Sunni countries like Saudi Arabia getting involved and Iraq coming in on the side of the Shia has NOT occurred....The predictions of the nay-sayers have changed as time has gone on and no, those horrible predictions have not come true. The Iraqi army is still getting better and NOT fighting against the Americans. Al Queda in Iraq is being defeated and NOT growing in support...nor are the Shia extremists.

What has the US casualty count been so far this month, Mike?

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/15/ardolino-in-iraq-as-mosul-operation-moves-forward/

SO please, Mike, scale back the hyperbole. Saddam Hussein was brought TO JUSTICE and his awful regime was ended and slowly but surely, the state of Iraq continues to improve with the assistance of US troops. Not all of the predictions of the anti-war crowd have come to fruition....There is no wider middle-east war, the wide spread civil war never occurred and the Vietnam-like casualty numbers never occurred. The radical anti-war left's fear is still palpable and in need of the macabre but the progress in Iraq is just simply the reality....I know news of a successful terrorist attack in Iraq always makes the kos and HuffPo board....but good news from Iraq....nah.

By Tony on May 15, 2008 5:28 PM

I enjoy laughing at Olbermann, however, the fact that there are some left nuts who believe what he is saying scares me. I think that he has to know that he is full of poop, but he doesnt care because he is making good money doing it. (at the Country's expense). But again, the fact that there are that many left wing USA hating nuts out there should scare us all.

By Great Thanks on May 15, 2008 6:21 PM

MikeH, things have gone wrong, but it cannot be argued that the vast majority of intelligence agencies, foreign and domestic, before Bush took office and after, didn't say they thought Iraq had stockpiles of WMD. Bush and his admin continued the speeches of the threats Iraq's WMD posed given by Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright and the rest of his admin. The CIA said in defending the National Intelligence Estimate that said they had "high confidence" that Iraq still possessed proscribed weapons, "The only government in the world that said Iraq did not have Weapons of Mass Destruction was in Baghdad." Every single US Intelligence person that swore an oath during the Iraq Intelligence Commission said they received no pressure from the Bush Administration to change their analysis to support a particular political position. Yes, there were nay-sayers, but the majority thought Iraq had WMD's. Hindsight's 20/20.

This is probably why Bush isn't being impeached like Olbermann and his fringe friends would like. Hillary definitely can't be for impeachment because the first question for her would be, "Why did your husband tell us Iraq had WMD's for 8 years and that they were a threat to us?"

By MikeC

on May 15, 2008 9:22 PM

To Grammie and Cecelia, I'm glad you two liked it. For the next Komment, Johnny has asked I have a female voice do the reading. I will oblige.

By Quads on May 15, 2008 11:11 PM

It's nice to see the upgraded Blog in full bloom. The posts are top notch and we don't have to wade through the wackos.

I did not watch Citizen Keith last night, but feel like I was there anyway. And as he continues to try and "out -Olby" himself with every new special comment, Olbermannwatch will be there to call the weak hand he so constantly plays.

Great job, Robert, Johnny and Owatch staff. This remains an important forum for good discussion.

By Robert Cox on May 16, 2008 12:09 PM

I like that description of Keith's special comments.

I'd like to turn that into something more. Maybe a "how to" primer on delivering Special Comments which includes how to write them and how to promote them.

Can anyone else chime in?

By MikeC

on May 16, 2008 5:28 PM

I can't chime in on that, but I would like to repeat something I posted last night in both the OlbyLoon Joe Buck thread here and the Thursday open thread at J$P, which I don't want to go unnoticed:
Apparently, on tonight's "Countdown," Merkle trotted in his own body language "expert" to do perform a double team on BOR regarding the "meltdown quip." Olby read the transcript of the quip (Blue Blog Source: probably Media Matters) in that ridiculous voice he thinks is a laugh riot, followed by a reference to OlbyHero Jeremy Glick. Also, Keith gleefully reported the 507,000-507,000 demo tie. Hey, Keith, why is your Olbsession so big? By the way, the "expert" was ex-Daily Show actress Stacey Grenrock Woods. Tonya Reiman is an actual expert. Maxine Lucille Fiel, who filled in for Tonya one week last month, is an actual expert. SGW is a radical left comedienne/actress who fits in perfectly with Monkeymann and OlbySpin. I skipped to the end of this segment (one of the last digs was about BOR looking for a woman to dominate as he stormed off the "Inside Edition" set) and SGW's true identity was finally revealed. For her BOR bashing efforts, she was Well Doned and Many Thanksed.
Worse, Boehner; Worser, Salter; Worst, McInerney; didn't watch, tired of Fat Ass.
I watched the segments on MSNBC.com's "Countdown" page. I don't have the guts to watch the show as it airs. I prefer "The #1 cable news show for seven years and counting."

By Grammie on May 17, 2008 10:40 AM

MikeC, I just noticed that your next OlbyRobot will be a feminine voice.

Sounds like fun. Are you going to go for a MM type voice singing Happy Birthday Mr President or a cackling brooding hen type voice like HRC? :)

Grammie

By MikeC

on May 17, 2008 11:53 PM

The voice will be Crystal, one of the AT&T Natural Voices.

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