Letters to the Editor
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Nice Piece
Thank you Keith - nice to hear someone calling a spade a spade.
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Did Cheney set Bush up?
If this commutation was Cheney's idea, has he set up Bush for a resignation so that Cheney would then be President?
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My thoughts, exactly
Keith, you have just written what the 49 percent of the Americans who did not vote for GWB feel-that he spit in our faces by commuting Libby's sentence.
It is a disgrace that he is allowed to remain as president when even Nixon resigned in the face of shameful acts.
What is it about the man who does these things who cannot understand why so many people hate him so thoroughly and totally?
Is he so oblivious to his image that he doesn't believe that anyone could disagree with his mindset? Doesn't he have an ounce of conscience, or an iota of morality?
Thanks for the excellent article. It was timed perfectly.
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Keith, you called that one
but, he'll never do it...
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Keith, you ignorant, pompous ass
Where was your blathering about justice and fairness when Clinton pardoned terrorists and murderers to help Hillary's senate campaign in NY? When he pardoned a fugitive felon who just happened to have given oodles of money to the Clinton slush fund ... um, I mean, Clinton Library?
Lied into war? Have you read Al Gore's words about what a threat Saddam was? John Kerry's? Hillary's? Bill Clinton's?
You're historically ignorant, Keith, and you're a blowhard, but you disguise it behind highfalutin pompous language so that gullible people in the choir think you're somehow being profound.
Until you comment on the above, I accuse you of being a hypocrite and a liar.
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All to true
What you have said is, sadly, all too true, Mr. Olbermann. And I only wish that there was a snowball's chance in h___ that either Bush or Cheney had it in them to actually comprehend what they have done, finally face up to their responsibility and do what you have suggested.
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Whoa, Hornet Driver
time to start reading a newspaper -- I mean a real one.
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Amen, brother!
Way to go, Keith. What I cannot understand is that there still are those who will defend this travesty of a president. Yo, "Hornet Driver", why do you hate America?
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Thanx Keith
WOW it was a Beautiful Thing Keith !
I guess your still angry about buying that Hornet
Hornet dude ? Maybe you need an Executive Stress Ball.
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Thank you Keith---
For your articulateness, for your anger, for putting into so eloquent a piece all of my fragmented thoughts and outrage. You have my and my three children's (15, 13, and 9 who ask if they can turn on the tv (which I limit considerably) to watch you and who regularly keep me apprised of your comments when I don't get the chance to watch)considerable admiration and thanks. I also thank MSNBC for having you on the air. I don't watch a lot of tv, but I make a point to watch you. I will continue to do so.
Please keep up the great work of speaking the truth.
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Thank You Mr. Olbermann
Your's is the only newscast that I will watch with any degree of regularity, I prefer to read my news - from sources around the globe.
Needless to say, it is my opinion that tonight you spoke what a great majority of this nation's citizens, indeed this planet's citizens are thinking right now.
Having grown up in the era of Cronkite and Huntley & Brinkley I can honestly say that your's is one of the last true voices of journalism left on US television.
Thank you for your efforts sir.
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I don't hate America
I hate hypocrisy, and it's been overflowing the Dem sewers for the past 2 days. Utter silence when Clinton pardons terrorists and murders to help Hillary's campaign, but frothing at the mouth and pissing the pants over this minor affair.
And to the ignoramous who doesn't know which Hornet I'm referring to, it's official name was the F/A-18 Hornet, hell of lot faster and snazzier than anything you're driving.
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Brilliant!
Fantastic. Thank you. The Rubicon analogy was especially apt. With so much to hate about this administration, the Libby commutation may finally provide the focal point that galvanizes and unites the opposition. I'm not holding me breath for a resignation, but, who knows, if there is a sufficient uproar over this, the Democrats might begin to realize that they are the opposition.
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But, but, but ... Clinton
You know Hornet, the last time I checked, William Jefferson Clinton wasn't the current president of the United States. And it wasn't William Jefferson Clinton who ran for office vowing to restore integrity to the White House and be truly bi-partisan.
You can huff and puff all you want but you know the truth as well as I, William Jefferson Clinton didn't get us into this NeoCon wet dream. George Walker Bush did. And you own it.
Can you offer any arguments regarding the issue at hand here that do not include the name William Jefferson Clinton? Because quite frankly he's history.
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Hey, Hornet...
Instead of just repeatedly saying that what Clinton did was wrong (as you've been doing on just about every Salon thread related to this topic), how about explaining to us why what Bush did was right?
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Check your facts and your priorities, Hornet Driver
When Clinton granted clemency to the FALN members (who, incidentally, had never been convicted of actually hurting, much less killing, anyone), Hillary Clinton opposed the grant of clemency when campaigning for her Senate seat. He didn't pardon them. He let them out of prison after they'd served sentences equivalent to the average of what people convicted on those charges serve.
Unless you've got evidence even the President hasn't seen, Bush damn well lied us into war.
And more to the point, nothing Olbermann said makes him a liar. Hypocrite, maybe - if you have evidence that Olbermann didn't try to raise a stink when Clinton granted clemency/signed those pardons. Do you?
Lastly, about your priorities - if you have a greater problem with hypocrisy even when the message is correct than you do with this administration actually abusing their powers, ignoring the law, and burying this country's reputation, then you have a curious way of loving this country.
Thank you for serving. It doesn't make you right, though.