Keith Olbermann Special Comment On Gabrielle Giffords Shooting

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Run time: 09:03 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq38Nnf4pOw   Posted on YouTube: January 09, 2011 By YouTube Member: FixedNewsAlerts Views on YouTube: 93   Posted on DU: January 09, 2011 By DU Member: Amerigo Vespucci Views on DU: 7749

 

[politic_vic]

1. Well said,

[rocktivity]

2. And he hauled himself out of bed on a Saturday to do it.

Probably missed part of the Saints-Seahawks game, too.

:(
rocktivity

[PatrynXX]

32. She's been on his show hasn't she

When I first heard the shooting I knew she'd been on the show. So I almost expected Keith to be saying something except it isn't M-F. So good for him.

[valerief]

46. That's more than what Weeper Boehner did. nt

[roxiejules]

3. Her favorite quote

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/gabrielle_giffords_favorite_quote_20110108/

Truthdig is reporting this quote as a favorite of Gabrielle Giffords:

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

- Abraham Lincoln

[Grassy Knoll]

4. excellent, K & R.

[Kajsa]

5. Thank you, Keith!

K&R!

[Metta]

6. Here, here.

... as always.

[kestrel91316]

7. I'm sorry. Saying Dems share blame with Repukes when it comes to

gun violence rhetoric is TOTAL BS. As is his suggestion that we pander to them and just get along (my words).

Sorry. I couldn't finish listening. SHAME ON YOU, KEITH.

[progressivebydesign]

10. Agreed. I hate false equivalency.

it's been the weakness of the media for the past 10 years. They cannot just report or opine on the wrong of the right wing, they have to find something.. even a crumb of something that the left may have done, to make it seem as if we're all guilty. The two are never equal... like holding the class after school because one student misbehaved.

[molly77]

24. Excellent analogy. Jon Stewart, are you listening?

[Can of Whoop-ass]

30. Yep

I've been disturbed about that since the Kennedy assassination. How were DEMS responsible for that murder? They worshipped the ground JFK walked on.
It's just another Pug trick to pass the buck when they're caught. "Well he did it, too".
Saint Reagan was a master at that. He slithered out of Treason charges. Bush, not so good.

[mistertrickster]

14. Yup, also agree. It's not the Libs who put the targets on the faces of their political opponents.

It's not the Libs who called Kerry a "traitor." It's not Libs who said if you didn't support Bush's Iraq adventure based on a pack of lies you were a "terrorist lover."

It's not the Libs who called Dr. George Tiller a baby killer until Scott Roeder shot him in the head. It's not the Libs who shot up a Unitarian Church to "kill liberals." It wasn't a Lib but a RAD-CON Byron Williams who was arrested after firing at police and injuring two officers. He claimed he wanted to wanted "to start a revolution" by "killing people of importance at the Tides Foundation and the ACLU.

Or how about Richard Poplawski who opened fire on two Pittsburgh Police officers responding to a 911 call from Poplawski's mother. Three police officers killed and another two were seriously injured. Poplawski held many right-wing views such as Obama would confiscate guns, and FEMA runs concentration camps. He was not a liberal.

Not a liberal James W. Von Brunn did time for attempting to kidnap members of the Fed Reserve and in 2009 shot and killed a guard at the Holocaust Museum in DC.

Until the Weather Underground comes back and starts blowing things up, there's no way one can say "both sides are at fault."

So far the hate speech leading to violence has been entirely on one side.

[NuclearDem]

17. You notice he named himself as one of those on the left, right?

And by and large, he was naming only right-wing politicians and commentators, but his whole message was that no matter who you are, or what political persuasion you may be of, violence and violent rhetoric are unacceptable.

He had a really good message in there. It's unfortunate you didn't listen to the whole thing.

[bettyellen]

38. i believe he only called himslef out as making one bad comment, shame people didn't actually listen

and are condemning it. he was calling for higher standards for everyone.

[molly77]

23. I agree with you. Have never heard a progressive say they thought

guns were a solution to anything.

[billh58]

37. Every day on

DU...

[emilyg]

8. k/r

[DeSwiss]

9. K&R

Well said Keith.

[AtheistCrusader]

11. I've always disliked his use of Edward R. Murrow's sign-off

before tonight. That was fitting.

[jonthebru]

40. I have always liked his resurrecting that salutation.

I have always liked his resurrecting that salutation.

Another favorite:

“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” Thomas Jefferson

[RavensTown]

12. Great from Keith like always...though I don't think he should've brought up the Harper's Ferry

incident. Totally different time period where people were losing their lives. Sure, it was radical, but I don't think we can judge it with a modern lens. We ended up going to war over it.

[Charleston Chew]

13. YouTube

Please go read the comments at the OP.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

29. WOW

If that does not prove we have lots of crazy people - nothing will!!

Some of those post are down right scary!

[Tripod]

15. K&R

[JJW]

16. Prays for the victims

[Rhiannon12866]

18. I read that he was doing this because they have the Super Bowl,

Same as he did on CBS last year because they had it. But I agree with you. You'd think he would have learned, after dealing with that rude guy who kept interrupting him. x(

[20score]

19. By far the best commentary that has been or will be made on the shooting.

[florida08]

20. If you didn't see his broadcast last night

Keith and several of his guests..the first being Eugene Robinson made a point of saying that today the vitriol is coming from the right. Another guest said the same and Keith emphatically agreed. Keith was making the point that in the past it has come from the left like the black panthers and the weathermen. That's why Keith said what he did in his special comment.

I had hoped Obama would have called for an end to the hate mongering that's coming from the right but he didn't. As usual I have to watch Keith to get that. This incessant mocking of Obama's birth, his religion and loyalty to this country has gone over the edge. Which is what the likes of Limbaugh, Beck and Palin wanted. I am still profoundly disillusioned that the likes of Westboro Church are allowed to abuse families at funerals in the name of freedom of speech.

The right to threateningly harrass and intimidate congressmen/women..voters or the president is NOT what the founders meant by protected speech. What Beck and Limbaugh do in their daily rants of lies and provocative bombasts of the left is not protective speech. It's emotional pot stirring and enticement. This is where it has led. The shooting of innocent people.

I was so relieved that the sheriff of Tucson had the courage to say what he did. It's time somebody did. Congress needs to have a hard look at the abuses being done to our 1st amendment. Sharon Angle and her second amendment remedies proposition was completely out of line. This stuff needs to end right now. We need to openly discuss why hate speech is protected speech.

[molly77]

25. Don't know about the weathermen but the black panthers were

pushing back against police brutality to their people..which is still going on. The panthers fed children. There is no comparison between what they did and the right. The right wants corporations to rule. It is corporations or US. Can't be both .

[florida08]

27. I don't think Keith was making a judgement call

against them..just pointing it out. There were some militants in the party unfortunately as there always are. They did openly carry guns and chant "off the pigs" and some policemen were killed. That's why it's dangerous to pander to the fringe in our society. Not that the panthers were. Just some elements.

You're right about the teabaggers wanting the corps to rule. I still don't get that at all.

[Stuart G]

21. K and R

[ScottLand]

22. I agree. It's wrong no matter who says it.

[Enthusiast]

26. Gotta love Keith.

Objectivity, how refreshing!

[Paladin]

28. K&R (n/t)

[mstinamotorcity]

31. kick

and rec

[HopeHoops]

33. K&R

[AlbertCat]

34. Repudiate this!

No "I know I'm right because god/founding fathers/Constitution says so" lug head is gonna repudiate anything. Olbermann's comment, excellent as it is, will fade and the Teabaggers and their ilk will be back at it in no time. The TV machine tells them so...

[barbtries]

35. that was touching.

i wonder...has any republican taken up the call to civility?

[teabaghater]

36. Keith's

statement was perfect. I don't understand why people here have to pick everything apart. Of course he had to include both parties, but the NAMES he mentioned said it all. He put the blame where it belonged, with right-wingers, there was no misunderstanding that point.

[barbtries]

39. no argument here.

but then i remain a huge fan of jon stewart and loved his rally.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

41. Keith, I can't imagine a day like yesterday without hearing your voice.

Thank you, you dear man.

[delightfulstar]

42. K&R - A true voice of reason on a very dark day.

Violence and bloodletting are not the answer. They have never solved a disagreement, and never will. We need an open dialogue that promotes intelligent, peaceful discourse, and need to work toward solutions that benefit everyone. I'm not at all a proponent of censorship, but when it threatens one's civil liberties and personal safety, there needs to be a line drawn - the Billos and Becks and Palins need to be brought down to Earth. We may not all agree on the issues, but it only compounds them when acts like this happen, and KO nailed that in his special comment.

I wish a speedy recovery to Rep. Giffords, a brave and distinguished woman who embodies what it is to stand up for what's right for the whole of the people she represents. And peace to all of those who were directly affected by this tragedy. May we find the answers we're looking for, so this never happens again.

[DemocraticPilgrim]

43. A very noble commentary will the right people listen though ???

[On the Road]

44. How ANYONE Can Portray This Man

as a left-wing counterpart to Limbaugh or Beck is completely beyond me.

[kd7gkn]

45. Bravo! Well Said.

Very well spoken. I can't disagree with anything in this speech.

[iandhr]

47. k&R keith

but it as two leaders of peace were assassinated in the 1960s

[craigmatic]

48. In a better more sane world his words would wake people up and cause a repudiation of violence

by the right. As it is, this just becomes more noise in the left/right fight. Ithink Olbermenn is right but I don't think the masses listen to him like they should.

[blackspade]

49. K&R!

I don't totally agree with his presentation, The message was spot on.
I think that the 1980 election was the turning point where America changed from a nation of dreamers, however fitful those dreams were, to a nation of violence and fear. The unknown used to becon us, now we cower, shake our fist at it, and call it 'enemy'.

[bdamomma]

50. Keith spot on as usual

violence begets more violence.