Also not a fan of the usage of Murrow’s closing line, but it’s still an awesome video. I hadn’t heard about the golf thing before this, but it’s quite disgusting.

thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Still can’t get over the fact that after all this time NO ONE has had the balls to bring about “CRIMINAL” charges against this administration. BIG DICK CHANEY in particular! Worrisome really.

I don’t think it’s that no one has the balls to bring criminal charges against the current ‘administration’, more that no one has the money or power.

I’m just relieved something like that is still allowed in mainstream media in the U.S. today. Bravo.

The so-called “news” on CNN these days is just total garbage.
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I agree. A feud between Barbara Walters and Star Jones is their latest “hot topic” story.

I agree with Bill Maher when he say that the U.S. citizens are suffering from ‘Fuckup-itis’, that after so many fuck up’s from the current administration, the nation just shrugs it’s collective shoulders when another is added to the list.

(excuse the language)

“Now watch this drive.”

Bah.

(I was disappointed when Keith Olbermann left ESPN to pursue more mainstream pursuits. But having seen what he’s done since then, the American sporting scene’s loss is most definitely the American political scene’s gain. I’m glad that there’s somebody out there who can still feel–and show–passion on-air.)

Just wondering what people’s problem is with Olbermann’s use of Murrow’s “Good Night and Good Luck” tag line?
It seems to me that the use of the line is a perfect reflection of the perilous times we are in — where the attack on civil liberties and the fear being instilled in free citizens is real and disturbing — is just as in Murrow’s day.
As for Olbermann’s comments: poignant and chilling as usual.
The sad thing is that Olbermann is the exception to the rule of mainstream journalism, not the norm.

wow that was a hell of a tirade

“Sir” plus venom = heh heh, awesome!

It would be fun to count how many times he said that.

I read that commentary this morning when I got to work. It got me all fired up. What is there left to say about this administration?

Wow, that’s what we call in Germany “grosses kino”, a great performance. While watching this I always felt like Keith could swallow his tongue any moment. I don’t know the man but I agree to most of what he’s saying.

You Mr. Bush are RESPONSIBLE…..

Quoting rowmyboat:

Was that on TV???

Blasphemy on american TV? Honestly, I’m actually trying hard but yet can’t believe that… Would be a huge step in the right direction though.

Grand slam.

“See I done proved it written in crayon in the margins”.

It might have been Andrew Sullivan or someone else at the Atlantic who said that it was actually a knee injury that made W give up golf. But W pretends it was for the troops. Despicable. Revealing that W still has time to power-boat and fish and such up at the family compound in Kennebunkport.

Quoting Jon Dehm:

Strange. I usually feel Olbermann hits the nail on the head with his rants, just like in his rant about Hillary Clinton continuously rearranging the goalposts during her campaign. In this one, I wasn’t feeling it. Still, I’m glad he’s exploring these things when so many other mainstream journalists tend not to.

He’s calling a sitting President a liar and a war criminal, I haven’t seen anything like this since I was kid watching the Nixon adminstration self-destruct.

Considering what’s happened to others who’ve stood up to Bush, I imagine he’s nervous taking this stand. All Joe Wilson did was run an article in the New York Times disputing the adminstrations garbage on Iraq trying to buy uranium in western Africa and his wife was outed as a CIA agent.

Wow, I like the rant, but I’m not sure how effective it will be. If I did something similar on Harper, do you think I’d have the RCMP knocking at my door?

I wish the camera stayed rolling an extra ten or so seconds, you know, just to watch him jump on the desk and do a high-kick.

Or choke a producer.

Or punch a baby.

I’ll drink to that!

Olbermann gives me hope for the human race that maybe somehow we’re not all morons.