Fuck it. This is the ultimate download. KO IS BRILLIANT!

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

vent here: http://www.knology.net/~rareandfirsts/OlbermannBlastsRumsfeldOnFacism.wmv

Please, pass it on. This is the most important rail against the machine I have seen or heard in 30 years.

Give it its due. Make sure it's heard.

Peace.

Please download and pass it on. I'll get it up as a flash tomorrow if enough people want me to or smarter people don't do it b4 me.

By free download I mean that it's not taking away from anyone's site. This is a personal web space that they did not put a limit on band width or really anything else other than disk space.

[fooj]

1. Yes. It was extraordinary!

A true American patriot...:patriot:

Keith speaks for me.

[acmejack]

2. Thanx!

I'll distribute it widely.

[TomInTib]

3. I didn't know whether to cheer or cry.

What the fuck has happened to us as a Nation?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. I cried 15 minutes starting halfway through....

It's a sad thing.

[TomInTib]

6. You know from where I come...

and this shit is killing me a little bit more each day.

[fooj]

5. I cried.

I cried for my country. These are troubling times, indeed.

[TomInTib]

8. Without more voices raised...

we are all fucked, fooj.

My hat is off to Mr Olberman.

[fooj]

16. Just remember what he said...

Keep HOPE in your heart. Always.

:hug:

[savemefromdumbya]

10. as someone famous said it is the people's fault

[Human Torch]

13. It was 50-50 for me...

The cheering part came (naturally) with what he said and the way he said it.

The crying part came when he said:

That about which Mr. Rumsfeld is confused… is simply this: This is a Democracy. Still. Sometimes just barely. And as such, all voices count — not just his. Had he or his President perhaps proven any of their prior claims of omniscience - about Osama Bin Laden’s plans five years ago - about Saddam Hussein’s weapons four years ago - about Hurricane Katrina’s impact one* year ago - we all might be able to swallow hard, and accept their omniscience as a bearable, even useful recipe, of fact, plus ego. But, to date, this government has proved little besides its own arrogance, and its own hubris. Mr. Rumsfeld is also personally confused, morally or intellectually, about his own standing in this matter. From Iraq to Katrina, to the entire "Fog of Fear" which continues to envelop this nation - he, Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney, and their cronies, have - inadvertently or intentionally - profited and benefited, both personally, and politically. And yet he can stand up, in public, and question the morality and the intellect of those of us who dare ask just for the receipt for the Emperor’s New Clothes.

They know what they're doing, they get away with it, and they do more. It's just that we never hear this from Leslie "Wolf" Blitzer, Chris Matthews, or anyone other than Keith Olbermann. One guy with the balls to say what we already know and feel. One guy who, no matter how bad things are right now, has the courage to believe that the wheel will turn:

The confusion we — as its citizens - must now address, is stark and forbidding. But variations of it have faced our forefathers, when men like Nixon and McCarthy and Curtis LeMay have darkened our skies and obscured our flag. Note - with hope in your heart - that those earlier Americans always found their way to the light… and we can, too.

We will. God willing, the light will start to work its way through the cracks in November.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/08/30/keith-olbermann-delivers-one-hell-of-a-commentary-on-rumsfeld/

:toast:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. Kicking because KO's diatribe was the best I've heard in years...

And I think it's important. Please help keep it kicked.

[derby378]

9. Link doesn't work for me

Any chance of a link for those of us still stuck with dial-up?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

12. The file is there... I just clicked and it worked for me.....

I'll put it up on a regular website in a Flassh format this weekend and if you PM me I'll send you a download link.

[derby378]

15. Sounds good. Thanks!

[ComerPerro]

11. transient occupants?

[ComerPerro]

14. dare ask for reciept for the emperor's new clothes?

Holy fucking shit.

This is amazing.

[rateyes]

18. I liked that line too...

"just a RECEIPT for the Emperor's new clothes..."

He was freaking brilliant!!

[rhiannon55]

17. I am stunned

Keith Olbermann just moved me to tears. We truly live in dark and dangerous times.

This video deserves a wide audience.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

19. Heading south at the moment... Changed the OP to get actionl....

The KO here is too much,

[BlueCentrist]

20. thanks

:toast:

[ecstatic]

21. ok i'm curious now... lol.. after seeing 100+ posts about it nt

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

32. I hope you got it to play.

[progressoid]

22. DAMN, Keith. That was amazing!

[Mr_Spock]

23. Keith really hit a chord with that commentary

Let's hope the darkness ends soon.

[Hailtothechimp]

24. After tonight, his name is RumSTFUld

Keith laid it out. It was inspiring.

[classof56]

25. Thank you...thank you for posting and thanks to KO for speaking truth

Truth to power. And to hope.

As we used to say in the 60s--keep the faith!

[libnnc]

26. Holy Moses in the Morning...

Keith...wow.

That was historic. :wow:

[Beausoir]

27. Refreshing to see a journalist who can actually write.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

33. Heh. He's a goddamn sports writer, whaddya expect?

[HeeBGBz]

28. Wow, that was beautiful

Good on you, KO!

[blondeatlast]

29. Just. Fucking. Brilliant.

I had to run out to my kid's open house right after he finished; I so wished I could come here and discuss it.

Let's hope the aptly abbreviated KO is still around next week.

A baseball reference seems apropos here: Out of the ballpark.

[Strawman]

30. Eloquent and profound oratory

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

34. One of the best I've ever heard/seen.

[TechBear_Seattle]

31. How long until KO is "disappeared"?

As far as the neo-cons running the country are concerned, he has committed treason by questioning the Junta. I expect he will be forced off the air by the end of September and none in the media dare say a word. :cry:

[Garbo 2004]

35. So at least let MSNBC know how much you appreciate their carrying his

program and giving him the freedom to speak. His program stands out among the cookie cutter "news" programs out there. Give them and KO props. It can't hurt.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

37. Spot on! n/t

[Mojambo]

36. That was special. Very special. n/t

[doublethink]

38. K&R ...... n.t.

Really what more is there to say. Keith said it all. Peace. :kick:

[FredStembottom]

39. If there be a God in heaven......

Let this be only the first of an avalanche of such talk on our media.

[nadinbrzezinski]

40. It was the Do you have no shame moment of our generation

[demo dutch]

41. Just great!

[Fuzz]

42. KO at his best for sure

Very well said, very well presented, and most importantly, true and poignant.