Write to them about how much we value Keith's lone voice of sanity in the MSM wilderness. I have a bad feeling he might be out of a job soon because for some reason the media thinks they can't market the truth.

... Olberman gets better and better. He is exactly what this world needs right now. Someone unafraid to tell the truth. Maybe, he'll rub off on the rest of his profession.

Relevance, accuracy and timeliness.

Mr. Olbermann's commentary is one of the most compelling editorial commentaries I have seen in my relatively few years on this planet. If ABC still intends to send its flawed program to schools in an effort to spread the word about 9/11, then MSNBC should make this a companion piece.

but the dems cannot walk around acting like they weren't in anyway critical and partisan after 9/11. They also can't say "well Bush started it first" like a bunch of kids. Go back and read what dems said about any decisions or comments Bush made at the time and you'll pop the bubble you all want to live in.

Flowery diatribes by Olberman won't change that fact.

As we slog through the days inundated by lies and spin, every once in awhile we are given a sliver of something to believe in. Keith Olberman provides us with these slivers every night and last night was no exception.

KO is the lone voice in cable news (Lou Dobbs notwithstanding) who has the balls to tell the truth without regard for consequences.

Olbermann speaks for me! I feel like the light is starting to break through every time I hear him speak.

You've outdone me!

The key difference between us and you...and your ilk...

is that not in the depths of your bereft imagination can you imagine there are people who actually believe what they say, are truly passionate about their love of country, have a vision of how truly great this country could be....and we don't we don't have a venal lust for power, money, and dishonesty on which we project on our political enemies.

We don't see this struggle as a matter of winning and losing, and getting even with people we are envious of....

The struggle is for the soul of America...and for a world where our children don't have to live in fear and where improving our lot isn't just for those born into the right race, sex or class,...and where the suffering of others isn't cause for celebration on the part of bitter little men who can't get no respect....in the name of a 100 year Republican realignment.

The history of the Bush administration has been told in squandered opportunities, blatant incompetence, the inability to effectively governing, pandering to ignorance, and using fear to manipulate people.

But it is the venality and wastefulness which reveals how little you...and by extension, the people you claim to admire, have seem to understand what conservative values means. It doesn't mean throwing money down rat holes, overt cronyism...and thinking that principle is something you hawk to the suckers.

You don't have a clue what we are really like, because you assume that everyone is like you.

That is what sociopaths think.

No matter what the Joeys of the world use to distract us from the questions to be answered, what we all should be asking is whether Olbermann's words are true in the context he delivered them. That's is the question Joey, not what knuckleheaded Dems did or will continue to do to as they lemming-out while they curl into fetal positions and suck their thumbs, afraid of not being welcomed at the white house christmas party. The question Joey is: Did Olbermann speak the truth? Get it? You never go there do you, Joey?

Your ilk like to use the tactic of changing the conversation away from whether truth is being opinioned. Spin forever, change the conversation and say "they do it too". So what. "They", all of them, are all alike, our political class. Is Olbermann speaking the truth? We'll take it from there...

One: Keith Olbermann is the herald of a shift in the MSM away from aiding and abetting the criminal regime in Washington, and we can all rejoice that the pendulum has finally begun to swing in the other direction.

Two: We won't be seeing or hearing much more of Olbermann. His show will die of "low ratings" or some other malady that translates into "Shut the fuck up."

Anybody want to give odds?

I was with Olberman last week, but not last night. Last night's commentary did not have the immediacy of the Rumsfeld commentary. Olberman was there, in front of The Hole, and he couldn't resist a poke in the eye. The President doesn't deserve the respect, but the site and the occasion do. His somber tone couldn't paper over the opportunism. The smoldering outrage is best used sparingly, and I don't think he gets that yet.

I thought that Joe Scarborough's and Tom Brokaw's short commentaries after the President's speech were much more to the point. Brokaw said basically that Bush could have made this speech three years ago, but can't get away with it now. He needed to say something more substantive (and contrite) to have an impact today, but he's incapable.

I thought the Twilight Zone reference (to the classic "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" episode) was the most effective, if clumsy, part of Olberman's commentary. It's what Bush has done for the last five years, and pretty effectively for four of them. He and Rove and Rumsfeld and Cheney spin the dials, toss out the "appeaser" rhetoric, the left and right yell and snipe, and 24 hours later we're the dividers.

Of course Keith Olbermann spoke the truth. Everyone knows that. Everyone knows Dick Cheney is well aware of the lies he tells. I have several arch-conservative friends and what is the most frightening thing of all is their almost glee in welcoming and accepting all the lies and distortions. Its beyond my comprehension. Truth is meaningless to them at this point. Now its just a matter of "we're in charge, and what we say goes." Lies and fabrications are a means to an end: stay in control and bully their distorted and deranged beliefs and points-of-view on everyone else. Repeat the lie relentlessly and you keep your opposition of the constant defensive. They don't actually believe the lies. The moment they admit they were wrong the whole deal comes crashing down.

I've said it before, you can only blame Bush and the Republicans to a point. They're succeeding only because a huge percentage of the American public allow them to. There needs to be a big shift in the thinking and morals of the American people before anything will change...and listening to too many people like Joe makes me sadly say that day is far off.

Olbermann's commentary should be everywhere, on editorial pages, being discussed...but how many people are really aware of it? Bush reached the willing masses with more of his lies and distortions.

David Bowie imagined a world where people would beg for Big Brother. Ok, he imagined a world gripped by glam nazis, but he was pretty prophetic..."Any day now, the year of the Dimaond Dogs." I'm afraid that day is here.