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Keith Olbermann Eviscerates
Eviscerate: To remove the entrails of; to disembowel
I'll let Keith speak for himself. I think this is well worth a look and listen.
link to video
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24635229#24635229
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Comments (38)
yeah. he was hella pissed.
and rightfully so.
May 14, 2008 11:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Indeed
May 14, 2008 11:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is there any reason TPM posters can't at least describe a bit what they're linking to? Hey, I get 100 emails a day saying, "This is so cool, please click and pass on". Thanks but no thanks.
May 15, 2008 4:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ouch! That had to hurt.
May 14, 2008 11:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
KO is dumb as a brick.
I see how Fox threw him out.
May 14, 2008 11:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
That makes sense, because Fox is so fair and balanced. At least that's what some of Hillary's advisors say, right?
Isn't it about time for you to create a new account and start trolling in support of McCain?
May 14, 2008 11:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
And now that I've seen the video linked above, it's interesting also that you are launching your lame-ass attack on KO because he harshly criticized Bush.
Just come on out and admit it, Slummy, you're a wingnut troll. You're making Hillary supporters look bad because your real goal is to help McCain. But you aren't quite smart enough to keep the pretense up consistently, so you sometimes slip and say something in defense of Bush, or Faux News, as you did here.
May 14, 2008 11:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rabbit, it's been pretty clear for a while now that "Present" is a Republican troll ... let's not indulge it.
May 15, 2008 12:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, this guy is a right-wing troll, or if he or she wasn't one before, he or she is now.
By the way, the reason why people are having difficulty directly replying to the troll directly is because of the quotations marks in the name. Sent a mail out to Golis about this.
Oh yeah, speaking of Olbermann: I saw him on the subway the other day (isn't it great that this guy rides the subways?), and I must say that this man has the most MONSTROUS-sized heads in the business.
His body is like 1/3's head. He gives Tim Russert a run for his money. He gives a whole new meaning to the term: "talking head".
Great guy though. He also has a cute, tiny, normal head-sized wife/girlfriend.
May 15, 2008 6:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, he took him to school!
May 14, 2008 11:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
The most blunt, passionate appraisal of Bush I have heard on TV. Its good to hear someone in the press talk honestly about Bush's folly.
May 14, 2008 11:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
So Bush gave up golf because of the war, but was still on the course two months after he said he stopped playing, and his actual reason for quitting was because he injured a muscle in his leg? And he lied about it on national television? And no one but KO has called him on it yet?
May 14, 2008 11:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
The multiple tragedies of this buffoon will be almost too many to count when history is written and they have stung the soul of a nation...I think to a certain extent people have become numb to what now feels like an endless nightmare.
It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
Thomas Paine
May 15, 2008 12:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
You felt him tonight!
May 14, 2008 11:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Keith Olbermann has become the Chump-in-Chief's worst nightmare.
I believe Attorney General Edwards will have Bush's head on a platter..oh..and Cheney's too!
BUSHED!
May 15, 2008 12:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
What a shame Keith can't be added to Obama's ticket for VP! :)
Can you imagine the VP debate with him going up against any Republican candidate?
A shame his intelligence and candor have to be spent on MSBC.
We love ya Keith!
May 15, 2008 12:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
Obama/Olbermann '08!!!
May 15, 2008 11:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
Better Still: Olbermann for Obama's Press Secretary!
May 15, 2008 5:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm for that!
Keith or Rachel Maddow. I like her, too.
May 15, 2008 6:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow. Color me dumbed down by 7.5 years of Bush machine appointments. I'd completely forgotten that Presidents can appoint competent people to their administrations.
Keith, hell yes. Rachel, oh my, that'd be fun to watch. How about ... Jon Stewart? He could tell the Washington Press Corps that they're hurting America, like daily, until they either get it or get used to being ignored.
Seriously.
It is amazing to stretch my optimism muscles. I am becoming convinced that either things really could change, even transform.
May 16, 2008 10:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
As I've written before my goal in life is to live long enough to piss on Bush's grave. Ok, so I've never been one to shoot for the stars.
But I imagine after what he's done to this country he'll be buried in an unmarked grave somewhere out on the baked hardpan of his beloved West Texas. It'd be fitting if his final resting place was over the last significant undiscovered oil reservoir.
It won't be easy. If the old adage "the good die young" is true he'll live a long time. An unmarked grave will take a lot of detective work to find. I'll probably have to do most of it on foot. There won't be any fuel for vehicles after the decline and fall. Global warming will probably drive those few hardy souls who make the area their home to a habitable clime. But a man's gotta have goals. And that's mine. I suspect I'm not the only one.
May 15, 2008 1:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
It would be satisfying to live that dream of peeing on Dubya's grave, but would it be worth standing in line?
May 15, 2008 8:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
It would be a waste of good piss!
May 15, 2008 9:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
At the end, I really wanted Olbermann to say "fuck," not "hell."
But it's MSNBC, so I guess ...
May 15, 2008 3:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
Didn't Hillary say that our enemies would be emboldened if we had an inexperienced President at the helm?
May 15, 2008 3:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
I have watched KO morph from a sports commentator, and a great one at that, to a formidable political commentator. What a breath of fresh air he is.
And I've watched a few of his rants against the dumb antics of our President, who displays the typical symptoms of most dry drunks.
But Wednesday night was just unbelievable. KO unloaded his most passionate indictment against Bush, and rightly so. It almost sounded like one of those closing arguments made famous at the "Law & Order" franchises. Or better yet, it was as if I was listening to James Spader acting the part of Alan Shore in "Boston Legal," making one of his impassioned "speeches," whether it be at a judge to address what he considers a great injustice, or to a jury, defending his client.
Keith, thank you for giving voice to so many of us who continue to be amazed and surprised by the ongoing lunacy that passes for the current Executive branch of our ongoing experiment with Democracy.
Marcus
May 15, 2008 4:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Olbermann is typically right on the merits. But his penchants for melodrama and prolixity really turn me off. His "special comments" are embarrassing, and I can't even watch them anymore. He needs to keep it real and stop bloviating.
May 15, 2008 8:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
It seems he is trying to be the left-wing Limbaugh, but I revile Limbaugh as much for being pompous as for being wrong.
May 15, 2008 8:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, right. Keith is trying to be a left-wing Limbaugh. Well, except for the fact that Limbaugh is a lying sack of shit whose goal is to deceive all of his listeners. Aside from THAT small difference....
May 15, 2008 9:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Limbaugh's goal is to tell them what they want to hear, get them on his side, and sell his agenda.
May 15, 2008 11:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
McCain Of The Panderosa.
More War Years! More War Years! More War Years!
A vote for The Maverick Of The Panderosa, is like a Vote for the Cowboy from Crawford that rounded him up and branded him.
More War Years! More War Years! More War Years!
May 15, 2008 11:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
kernel if find it first I get the lemonade stand concession. If there's still lemons and sugar to be had and I can find water nearby of course. It's gonna be a long hard trek across the desert and folks are going to need fill their bladders before and after they do their patriotic duty. If there's a currency of some kind after the fall of the dollar I'll make a mint coming and going so to speak.
May 15, 2008 11:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
KO done good.
'nuff said.
May 15, 2008 1:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
As I was watching it last night, I thought to myself that it was incredibly refreshing to have a commentator on a major media outlet who has the guts to take on that sniveling little wimp in the White House. Bush has gotten a pass from the media for 8 years. They allowed him to intimidate them during both of his campaigns by blackballing anyone who was critical of him. They all rolled over on the Iraq war and did us a devastating disservice. That there is at least one who was not part of the sniveling rat pack and who throws Bush's stupidity right back at him is so so so refreshing.
May 15, 2008 1:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Only in a political culture as deranged and limited as this one -- and hopefully one President Obama can help to enormously widen and deepen -- could a blowhard such as Keith Olbermann be considered some kind of journalistic hero.
First, the hideous structure of the show. 35 minutes of "content" and 25 of ads and promos. No one, no matter the topic or guest, is allowed more than a couple minutes.
And such content! Every talking head is from the non-Neanderthal side of the MSM street. (If there is such a side): Jonathan Alter, Howard Fineman, Rachel Maddow. And let's not forget that giant Dana Milbank!
Come on. If this guy is the "Ed Murrow of our time" -- what a time! And (literally) spewing spittle at an incumbemt President who's about as popular -- and has been since the entire length of "Countdown" -- as contracting leukemia? Wow, what a man Keith Olbermann is.
Let's see how long this "man" would keep his show if he started attacking all the profits GE has reaped because of the Bush wars and tax cuts. Let's see how long "Countdown" would last if the Fineman/Milbank wad was replaced by Chomsky or Michael Parenti or Robert Fisk or Barbara Ehrenreich or Alex Cockburn. (About as long as it takes Keith to ride home each night in his GE-paid-for limo.)
The Ed Murrow of our time? Here she is:
www.democracynow.org
May 15, 2008 2:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hear, Hear for Amy Goodman!
May 15, 2008 3:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm all for Amy Goodman. I'm just not sure how many people are tuning in to Tavis Smiley or surfing to democracy.now on a daily basis. I get 90% of my information via NPR, PBS, and several liberal sites and blogs including dnow but I am not a 'very sizeable' demographic.
You can question the veracity of the corporate media news. It is no doubt deplorably laughable. You can even not like KO for his heavy rhetoric or spittle across the bow of the camera.( I think I felt some spray last night)....
But in my estimation he captured a slice of the raging vehemence against the sitting 'regime' in his rant last night and threw light on Bush's utterly contemptible displays of compassion.
Cable television along with its viewers, I feel, are better for it.
May 15, 2008 9:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
As much as I love Keith Olbermann, I have to agree. Ironically, his special comments are the only things of his that I really do like- they're rousing, heartfelt and pack a punch.
My problem with Olbermann is that, as great as it is to see a commentator who spouts liberal rhetoric, in the end, it's still just rhetoric. The news channels in this country are a sham, passing off spin and media coverage of media coverage of media coverage as "news."
I'm not as articulate as the great Jon Stewart, though, so to see what I mean, watch his famous appearance on Crossfire:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
May 15, 2008 4:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
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