Olbermann giving a kick-ass commentary right now!

[MidnightWind]

We've got to get a transcript of this-he's firing on all cylinders!

[kdmorris]

1. Holy Cow!!!

I've been waiting to hear a journalist say something like that for YEARS now.

THAT was great!

[liveoaktx]

41. Vid Clip

Olbermann's Who's to Blame Commentary

Political Videos

[Bumblebee]

2. Best yet. Should be re-run every hour for months

until Bush resigns.

[babylonsister]

3. Keith's back-k-k! Loved it! Kickin' ass and we know the names! nt

[democrat_patriot]

4. Find the transcript people - he went off.

(paraphrasing) "Has anyone seen the VP lateyly? Wasn't he the one last year at this time, telling us he would keep us safe and the other guys wouldnt?"

"Maybe in the toxic muck of NO they will eventually find this governments credibility".

[ClickClack]

31. Transcript up now at Countdown site

Must have been posted right after Keith finished reading it on the air during "Countdown" tonight: <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240>

[Im with Rosey]

32. He was great

I also loved the toxic muck. I think he has had enough, we need to send encouragement to him. I think he really responds to the postitive mail we send, and I think it gives him the proof he needs when he has to answer the suits.

[nytemare]

5. Well placed Churchill quote!

You can tell, he is a bit pissed.

[diddlysquat]

6. Please give more info....

[MidnightWind]

8. I'm hoping he posts it on his blog after the show tonight--

but if not--a transcript will be available at the msnbc.com website tomorrow.

And please if you can--drop KO a note of thanks---
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

[spartan61]

29. I just sent Keith an e-mail

thanking him. Hope others will too.

[bunny planet]

42. I just did too. His network needs to know how lucky they are to have him.

[OctOct1]

7. Olbermann for Pres. NOW

[SheepyMcSheepster]

9. hopefully someone will have video up soon

[kliljedahl]

10. That was the best yet

KO :kick:s ass

[Berry Cool]

15. If he doesn't put it up on his blog tonight,

I will transcribe and post it.

THAT's how good it was.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new Edward R. Murrow, and his name is Keith Olbermann.

[Jeanette in FL]

11. Un-f***ing believable nt

[napi21]

12. Boy, talk about saying what we've all been thinking!

If any of you missed it, tune in to the rerun later tonight! That was the first honest opinion journalism I've heard in a very long time!

OH, and don't forget, Louisiana is a City! Ya got that!!!

[calimary]

19. Keith has ALWAYS been spot-on.

Except that he just keeps getting better and better and cuts deeper and deeper against these guys. He's had their number for quite some time now. But evidently he's just reached the had-it-up-to-WAY-HIGH-UP-THERE by now. He doesn't mince words anymore.

Can't wait to see the replay. We have it set to tape every evening. Thanks for the heads-up. He's the only thing worth watching on MSNBC, really. There IS Ron Reagan, but he's clogged and diluted by that nauseating GOP blonde.

[highplainsdem]

13. Wow, he called Bush a "21st century Marie Antoinette"!!!

[blonndee]

14. HOLY CRAP!!! Maybe they ARE going to stay on this!

Maybe they were holding off a little till rescue started getting better. That's what HE said about his own "editorializing." What do yall think?

[dave502d]

16. He said it all,WOW.n/t

[Rainscents]

17. It was the best I've heard in a long time!!!

:bounce:

[shraby]

18. He took names and kicked ass!!!

[mzmolly]

20. "This Government promised to keep you safe."

he was great!

[MadeinOhio]

21. YES!!!!!!! He called for his resignation!!!!!

This is not some dream, the media is growing back its spine!!!! :woohoo:

IMPEACH, IMPEACH, INDICT, PROSECUTE! END THE REICH!!!!

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[Berry Cool]

40. Sorry, this needs to be corrected: He did not call for resignation.

Or impeachment.

But he sure as heck did everything else BUT.

[Rainscents]

22. I'm sure right wing haed is getting ready to blow up!!!

[NightOwwl]

23. He basically just said...

people ahould no longer have any qualms stating that Bush is NOT THIER PRESIDENT!

[NightOwwl]

24. He basically just said...

people ahould no longer have any qualms stating that Bush is NOT THIER PRESIDENT!

[Karmadillo]

25. Hope lots of Leading Democrats were listening. Olbermann just

laid out the path for electoral success. Speak the truth and don't sit on your anger.

[Karmadillo]

26. Dupe

nt

[A Brand New World]

27. Olbermann is the best of the best! He just gave an honest, amazing

editorial on the state of our screwed-up government. I LOVE Keith Olbermann! I checked his blog and nothing there yet. Hopefully, it'll be posted there because it is the best piece of journalism I've heard for a while. Keep it up Keith. And hopefully the rest of the media will strive to catch up with you.

[MidnightWind]

28. Let's just hope that MSGOP doesn't tan his hide for this one

and put his head on the wall like a trophy the way they did Phil Donahue.

[Bumblebee]

30. They won't -- they know where their audience is at right now.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

33. I emailed KO and thanked him for "keepin' it real" and

for saying what needed to be said. I said we've "got his back."

[roguevalley]

35. its there

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240

[Buns_of_Fire]

34. boosh's* "legacy" summed up in two words: New Orleans

I wrote him and thanked him, but said that he could probably forget about any invitations to the White House for dinner for a while...

Keith..... :yourock:

[kodi]

36. you're right. the 2006/2008 Dem bumper sticker will be "New Orleans"

olbermann is the best of the best. i have watched his show from day one on msnbc and is the only show i think speaks truth to power about the busheviks.

[SharonRB]

37. Hi, MidnightWind

Someone has posted a video clip of the rant at the link below:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4652965

That's about the only part of the show I saw, but I hope they do the rerun -- I've got my VCR set.

[MidnightWind]

39. I'm rolling mine too!

It just about killed me to hear him choke up and tear up at the end.

Hi Sharon! :hi:

[calimary]

45. Thanks for this. We watched it last night - twice. My husband has

a program set up to record it. MAGNIFICENT. Just outta the ballpark. He said WHAT NEEDS TO BE SAID. AND REPEATED. Hopefully, if he's coming out on the airwaves and stating this, flat-out, others won't be far behind.

More power to ya, Keith! MIGHTY PROUD of you, we are.

Olbermann speaks for me. Just like Cindy does. This one's a keeper.

[tinrobot]

38. Great quote:

And most chillingly of all, this is the Law and Order and Terror government. It promised protection — or at least amelioration — against all threats: conventional, radiological, or biological.

It has just proved that it cannot save its citizens from a biological weapon called standing water.

[Greylyn58]

43. Here is the text of Keith's commentary

The "city" of Louisiana (Keith Olbermann)

SECAUCUS — Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said it all, starting his news briefing Saturday afternoon: "Louisiana is a city that is largely underwater..."

Well there's your problem right there.

If ever a slip-of-the-tongue defined a government's response to a crisis, this was it.

The seeming definition of our time and our leaders had been their insistence on slashing federal budgets for projects that might’ve saved New Orleans. The seeming characterization of our government that it was on vacation when the city was lost, and could barely tear itself away from commemorating V.J. Day and watching Monty Python's Flying Circus, to at least pretend to get back to work. The seeming identification of these hapless bureaucrats: their pathetic use of the future tense in terms of relief they could’ve brought last Monday and Tuesday — like the President, whose statements have looked like they’re being transmitted to us by some kind of four-day tape-delay.

But no. The incompetence and the ludicrous prioritization will forever be symbolized by one gaffe by of the head of what is ironically called “The Department of Homeland Security”: “Louisiana is a city…”

Politician after politician — Republican and Democrat alike — has paraded before us, unwilling or unable to shut off the "I-Me" switch in their heads, condescendingly telling us about how moved they were or how devastated they were — congenitally incapable of telling the difference between the destruction of a city and the opening of a supermarket.

And as that sorry recital of self-absorption dragged on, I have resisted editorial comment. The focus needed to be on the efforts to save the stranded — even the internet's meager powers were correctly devoted to telling the stories of the twin disasters, natural... and government-made.

But now, at least, it is has stopped getting exponentially worse in Mississippi and Alabama and New Orleans and Louisiana (the state, not the city). And, having given our leaders what we know now is the week or so they need to get their act together, that period of editorial silence I mentioned, should come to an end.

No one is suggesting that mayors or governors in the afflicted areas, nor the federal government, should be able to stop hurricanes. Lord knows, no one is suggesting that we should ever prioritize levee improvement for a below-sea-level city, ahead of $454 million worth of trophy bridges for the politicians of Alaska.

But, nationally, these are leaders who won re-election last year largely by portraying their opponents as incapable of keeping the country safe. These are leaders who regularly pressure the news media in this country to report the reopening of a school or a power station in Iraq, and defies its citizens not to stand up and cheer. Yet they couldn't even keep one school or power station from being devastated by infrastructure collapse in New Orleans — even though the government had heard all the "chatter" from the scientists and city planners and hurricane centers and some group whose purposes the government couldn't quite discern... a group called The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

And most chillingly of all, this is the Law and Order and Terror government. It promised protection — or at least amelioration — against all threats: conventional, radiological, or biological.

It has just proved that it cannot save its citizens from a biological weapon called standing water.

Mr. Bush has now twice insisted that, "we are not satisfied," with the response to the manifold tragedies along the Gulf Coast. I wonder which "we" he thinks he's speaking for on this point. Perhaps it's the administration, although we still don't know where some of them are. Anybody seen the Vice President lately? The man whose message this time last year was, 'I'll Protect You, The Other Guy Will Let You Die'?

I don't know which 'we' Mr. Bush meant.

For many of this country's citizens, the mantra has been — as we were taught in Social Studies it should always be — whether or not I voted for this President — he is still my President. I suspect anybody who had to give him that benefit of the doubt stopped doing so last week. I suspect a lot of his supporters, looking ahead to '08, are wondering how they can distance themselves from the two words which will define his government — our government — "New Orleans."

For him, it is a shame — in all senses of the word. A few changes of pronouns in there, and he might not have looked so much like a 21st Century Marie Antoinette. All that was needed was just a quick "I'm not satisfied with my government's response." Instead of hiding behind phrases like "no one could have foreseen," had he only remembered Winston Churchill's quote from the 1930's. "The responsibility," of government, Churchill told the British Parliament "for the public safety is absolute and requires no mandate. It is in fact, the prime object for which governments come into existence."

In forgetting that, the current administration did not merely damage itself — it damaged our confidence in our ability to rely on whoever is in the White House.

As we emphasized to you here all last week, the realities of the region are such that New Orleans is going to be largely uninhabitable for a lot longer than anybody is yet willing to recognize. Lord knows when the last body will be found, or the last artifact of the levee break, dug up. Could be next March. Could be 2100. By then, in the muck and toxic mire of New Orleans, they may even find our government's credibility.

Somewhere, in the City of Louisiana.


Incredible!! :)

[HysteryDiagnosis]

44. Olbermann for public office... both him and Andersen Cooper.

[calimary]

46. Here's what I sent him:

Dear Keith -

I could say "there are no words," but I've got plenty. Starting with "THANK YOU." Continuing with "BRILLIANT." And adding "BRAVO!" And a whole lot more.

You are like a cool drink of clean water to a stranded survivor of Hurricane Katrina. That's what we ALL are, in this country, now. Survivors and victims of both the hurricane, AND of this criminally negligent, incompetent, and indifferent "administration." You have said what NEEDS to be said - and repeated every minute on the minute.

Perhaps if you continue like this, you will encourage your colleagues in the media to grow some backbone, resist the pressure from the hyenas and jackals on the "right" wing, and the threats and intimidations from the rovian bullies in the White House, stop mindlessly giving this White House the benefit of the doubt that it no longer deserves, and start telling the truth about these people.

I truly dread the next three years, or however long our country remains in the clutches of these miscreants. We are NOT in good hands. We are NOT safe, and bush is NOT keeping us safe. And it fills me with fear.

At least we have you...