I talked with some elderly folks the other day and I tried to explain to them that all the activity in congress right now is not just an effort to get immunity for the bush administration for violation of the war crimes act. It is bigger than that. When you drag the dirt out and stir it up for everyone to see it is human nature to get used to it and get over it. That way they can get by with even more horrendous crap later on. The assholes are just getting started. We need a real leader now to tell the truth in a way that everyone will recognize it, vote their conscience, and refuse to accept a stolen election. I wonder if that person exists.

I never noticed Keith Oberman until the night of September 11, 2006, when he used the phrase, "impeachable offense". I couldn't believe anyone had the guts to actually say on mainstream television what so many AMERICANS are thinking. I'd just seen the Tim Russert interview of Dick Cheney and the quip to Cheney about the shotgun. I had an eerie feeling that Cheney really could go after Russert if he wanted to. It was as if in that moment, Cheney was a man possessed by a very large demon. Then this fellow Oberman came on on 9/11 and wow! This really is a free country, I thought. (At least, freer than most) For the first time, I actually wrote a letter of congratulations to MSNBC. And the other news that day was soooo depressing, bleak. And the photo ops, sooooo silly. Then here's this man on mainstream news un-afraid! Fear, says Michael Crichton, is to be eliminated. Both Democrats and Republicans and Libertarians can take a lesson from Oberman. Then again, they might be afraid of a shotgun in the face, or, an undisclosed prison sentence.

Rock on Mr Oberman! This is totally Thoreau, totally American! (And rock on Chris Matthews too!)

Now we have three or four speaking up for all the rest of us who did not vote for Bush and his gang of criminals.

Now we have Keith, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert,Jack Cafferty(on some issues, but getting better ie. more openly critical of the Bushco) Lou Dobbs(stands up for american worker).

Otherwise MSNBC is useless as it is decidedly right wing although not quite as bad as Fox, but very close. That makes sense because it is tied up with Microsoft which is first on the list of businesses that got the most dollars from the Small Business Administration, which we taxpayers fund to help SMALL BUSINESSES not corporate giants like Microsoft. So that is why MSNBC is so right wing republican all of whom are corrupt.

Microsoft is a prime example of corporate corruption in america.

So now there are a few, very few, people standing up for the little people in american, 'we the people'.

Thanks once again Keith

it is funny to watch countdown and see how they spend the time; to see the crap nbc makes olbermann report on as recompense for the few moments of....(what do you call it?)

i have a deep respect for olbermann, in how he is using the time given to him. it is so funny to watch the passoff between him and scarborough. there is almost a glint of envy in scarborough's eye, these days.

the only real thing i have to say is if everybody were contributing to reality as olbermann is, as opposed to the pseudo reality everyone else is spinning; if cnn, fox and the bc's, and bs's, were equally contributing to reality, olbermann would find himself right of where i think we really should be. nevertheless, i realize this is so because of the nature of how bad things really are.

"But among the crowds a little child suddenly gasped out, 'But he hasn't got anything on.' And the people began to whisper to one another what the child had said. 'He hasn't got anything on.' 'There's a little child saying he hasn't got anything on.' Till everyone was saying, 'But he hasn't got anything on.'" -- Hans Christian Andersen.

If not for 9/11, Osama and Saddam, Bush would be known worldwide as "George Who?"

At last, someone has spawned the debate as to what future academics, diplomats and historians will say when asked, "Which was the greater disaster: 9/11 or eight years of the Cheney... er, um... Bush administration."

jrf

"As for Nixon... he was an unprincipled puppet, which is the most dangerous kind." -- Nikita Khrushchev.

Someday will we look back on these supremely dramatic moments, when Keith dared to speak out from inside the corporate media, as the tipping point that led to We the People stopping neo-fascism (let's call it by name) before it completely engulfed the United States, and before war completely engulfed the world? Will future generations write that Letterman begat Stewart, who begat Colbert, who begat Olbermann (who begat Lauer?), and that the revolution not only was televised, but was must-see TV? Stay tuned . . .

Good article on KO. I found his blog by accident one Sunday when I was sitting alone in my office. He had posted emails from religious wingnuts and I cracked up. After that I watched his show occasionally and then whenever I could. I was so happy to find someone who isn't afraid to tell the truth.

Olbermann is the only newsman/pundit on national TV with the guts to speak the Truth: This isn't "business as usual." The Bush regime is not only radical, but dangerous. Why is Olbermann the only national media figure willing to acknowledge this fact?

Powerful stuff. About time someone with some gravitas called Bush/Cheney/Rummy/Rove on the carpet. No doubt there will be an attempt to paint him as a lunatic now; no doubt the lapdogs of the right will do everything they can to make him seem unpatriotic or unAmerican.

Have at it. Here is a man who would not take it anymore.

Keith's spoke some truth tonight. Quite a contrast to the President who threw out a few tired soundbites.

Thanks Keith.