Obama Must Prosecute Bush War Crimes

Keith Olbermann's Monday night Special Comment:



Here's the transcript.

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Bush Legacy: Eight Years in Eight Minutes

Friday night, Keith Olbermann covered the Bush Legacy as only Keith can.

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Keith Gets McCain Wrong

I worship Keith Olbermann. For the last two years of the Smirky-Darth maladministration, Countdown is the only thing that's kept me marginally sane.

But in his Special Comment Monday night, Keith got one thing wrong. Dead wrong.

Senator, of all the things I don't like about you or your campaign I have never thought you a racist. As imperfect as was your moment with the Minnesota woman, mumbling about Arabs, I thought it was the finest moment of your campaign.

I believe that you feel as I do – that racial hatred and prejudice have no place in this campaign, or in this country.

I hope that Olbermann said that just as a complimentary introduction to his plea to McCain to condemn the Ashley Todd racist hoax. I hope Keith, of all people, knows how cruelly false is the persistent myth in the media that McShame is this sweet old man whose loving heart is just broken by the hateful, vicious racism of his campaign.

No. Nameless nasty "others" have not hijacked McCain's planned campaign of respect and issues; the filth and obscenities are of McShame's making and McShame's approval.

McShame is not saying those vicious, hateful, racist things just because he's stressed out. He's saying those vicious, hateful, racist things because he can't believe he's getting beat and beat bad by that uppity ni**er.

Stress doesn't cause people to do or say things out of character; stress causes people to reveal their true personality.

When I'm stressed, I freak out and scream obscenities. That's because my basic personality is obscenity-screaming freak.

When John McCain is stressed, he spews vicious, racist attacks. That's because John McCain's basic personality is vicious, racist thug.

John McCain is a vicious, racist thug. His campaign proves it.

Cross-posted at They Gave Us A Republic ....

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Blast From The Recent Past: Olbermann Calls Il Doofus A Fascist

I missed this when it came out in February, after that "spontaneous" Republican walkout from the House. It's a good enough comment to do a redux now, many weeks later. This was posted on YouTube on Valentine's Day by CSPANJUNKIEdotORG.

Just how long the media moguls are going to let Keith Olbermann do this sort of thing on MSNBC is a question to ponder. In many places, he would not merely be suspended or fired. He would go to a concentration camp, or perhaps just disappear. The Pinochet regime in Chile had a trick, I've read, where they would just fly a plane off the coast, with a suspected dissident on board, then just eject the person over open water. Like, we'll let the sharks do the rest.

Well, on with the show, this is it. -- MJ:

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Bipartisanship on the NIE

Who says the Left and Right don't agree?

The NIE finding that Iran discontinued its nuclear weapons program in 2003 brought two divergent voices together within 48 hours to acknowledge that Bush-Cheney have exaggerated the Iranian threat to scare the bejesus out of people... well, those of us still gullible enough to believe the warmongering.

From the Right, Pat Buchanan (with emphasis):

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BLITZER: What do you make of this new intelligence estimate that Iran actually froze or suspended, stopped its nuclear weapons program four years ago?

BUCHANAN: This is a horrendous indictment of the Bush administration, of the Bush intelligence community. The president of the United States and Mr. Cheney have really created almost hysteria in this country where half the country thinks we will have to smash Iran because they're building nuclear weapons. The question, Wolf, is when after 2005 when the intelligence community said that Iran was driving towards nuclear weapons, when did the community come to believe that they had stopped in 2003? Did the president know this when he is talking about a nuclear holocaust and World War III?? If he did, what does that say about the president of the United States? If he didn't, what does that say about the intelligence community?

BLITZER: Sy Hersh was writing about this new estimate a year ago.

BUCHANAN: Certainly then Mr. Negroponte and the head of the CIA certainly have got is to [start] walking into the president and saying, Mr. President, a lot of the community now believes and we're getting more evidence of this that they shut the program down and if they told the president that, how could the president talk about a nuclear holocaust and World War III and have the whole country and half the country believing we have to attack Iran.

Also, Wolf, look at the republican candidates. Many of them have been saying we may have to use tactical atom weapons. Look at Hillary Clinton. She's for that Kyl resolution which authorizes virtually the president to attack Iran. The whole political community in this country looks like it's doing the same thing we did when we went into Iraq without justification.

From the Left, Crooks and Liars, a Countdown special comment from Keith Olbermann... excerpt from the transcript at C&L (with emphasis):

We have either a president who is too dishonest to restrain himself from invoking World War Three about Iran at least six weeks after he had to have known that the analogy would be fantastic, irresponsible hyperbole — or we have a president too transcendently stupid not to have asked — at what now appears to have been a series of opportunities to do so — whether the fairy tales he either created or was fed, were still even remotely plausible.

A pathological presidential liar, or an idiot-in-chief. It is the nightmare scenario of political science fiction: A critical juncture in our history and, contained in either answer, a president manifestly unfit to serve, and behind him in the vice presidency: an unapologetic war-monger who has long been seeing a world visible only to himself.

After Ms Perino’s announcement from the White House late last night, the timeline is inescapable and clear now.

In August, the President was told by his hand-picked Major Domo of intelligence, Mike McConnell, a flinty, high-strung-looking, worrying-warrior who will always see more clouds than silver linings, that what “everybody thought” about Iran might be, in essence, crap.

Yet on October 17th the President said of Iran and its president, Ahmadinejad:

“I’ve told people that if you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge to make a nuclear weapon.”

And as he said that, Mr. Bush knew that at bare minimum there was a strong chance that his rhetoric was nothing more than words with which to scare the Iranians.

Or was it, sir, to scare the Americans?

Now that's some bipartisanship!

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Olbermann Interviews George Carlin 10-23-07

I didn't know whether to run tonight's video as campaign video of the day. After all it is Keith Olbermann interviewing George Carlin, but Carlin is serious and introspective. What makes this video tonight's funny is the clip of Arlen Specter doing stand up at the Improv. Now that's funny.



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How To Protect Yourself If Bill O'Reilly Sends His Goons, Er, Producers To Ambush You

We have been focused on Rush Limbaugh for the last few days. It occurred to me that we have been ignoring the Fox News blowhard-in-chief--Bill O'Reilly. So that BillO doesn't feel neglected, I submit tonight's funny. It is clearly from a recent episode of Keith Olbermann's Countdown. The guy who posted the video to YouTube, apefist, claims he swiped it from Crooks and Liars. Since Crooks and Liars couldn't possibly be copyright owner, I think we can fairly use this clip. Right.

Tonight's funny

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Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, Hillary Clinton Debate Foreign Policy

I picked this up at TPM. What I find intriguing about this video is that Keith Olbermann lets Hillary Clinton into the middle of the exchange. I thought it odd when I watched the debate tonight. I still think it is odd. The exchange was clearly between Dodd and Obama. Both were doing well. A third player wasn't needed. It looks like Olbermann gave Hillary is a chance to take some free shots at Barack who was in the middle of a tangle with Chris Dodd.

Notice that the crowd boos Hillary when she talks about Barack keeping his mouth shut, and applauds when Barack comments that the American people have a right to know what their leaders think about important foreign policy issues. My guess is that this exchange will be scored a Hillary win by the big boys, but both the crowd and PA commenter Leon723 disagree.

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Rachel Maddow's Take

Here is a link to David Edwards and Nick Juliano's story entitled Olbermann: Minority voting suppressed by Justice Dept. The really good thing about the story is that it contains Rachel Maddow's take on Brad Schlozman's efforts to only hire Republicans in the Civil Rights Division and to suppress minority voting. It is about as good as I have seen. I'll keep looking to find it in a form I can upload to the site. So far no joy.


UPDATE: Here is the video YouTube:

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