Keith Olbermann hits one out of the park…

…though I still don’t care for him using Murrow’s famed closing line, even if as just a tribute.

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    I’m glad you posted this. I do not know how he got through it without breaking down in either tears or a profanity laced tirade. I know I would have.

    05 / 14 / 21:15
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    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.

    05 / 14 / 21:55
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    When I get like this there are no tears or profanities but my heart starts pounding in my ears like a drum…

    As I was reading the transcript for the interview, I remembered about this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vefD3WSiis - it is an interview Bush had with an Irish reporter back in summer of 2004. I’m afraid she was not as polite as the interviewer for Politico.

    p.s. from interview given to Politico we can now finally see that Bush suffers from some sort of PTSD - he clearly associates golf with death :(

    05 / 14 / 21:56
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    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.

    05 / 14 / 22:06
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    Bloody hell!!! That’s scary stuff! Mr President needs a frontal lobotomy. I wish we (Europe) had a political anchor man like Olbermann.

    05 / 14 / 22:46
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    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.

    05 / 14 / 23:16
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    Wow…
    Thanks for posting that..

    05 / 14 / 23:56
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    I’m just relieved something like that is still allowed in mainstream media in the U.S. today. Bravo.

    05 / 15 / 01:19
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    I think this is why I subscribed to MSNBC. The so-called “news” on CNN these days is just total garbage.

    But, wow, what a commentary.

    05 / 15 / 01:22
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    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)

    05 / 15 / 02:18
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    I gave up golf when I got a job and couldn’t play everyday.

    It feels good to know that I’m part of an act of solidarity.

    05 / 15 / 04:58
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    “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.)

    05 / 15 / 05:12
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    obelmann’s departure from ESPN was a little more than just “leaving”. It was not an amicable seperation.

    05 / 15 / 05:29
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    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.

    05 / 15 / 05:41
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    Thanks for posting. I caught the last half of this last night and was blown away. I’d reach through the screen and give Keith a hug if I could! Integrity on main stream media? What a concept!

    05 / 15 / 05:52
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    wow that was a hell of a tirade

    05 / 15 / 05:53
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    This passionate commentary is long overdue.

    (how long do you think it will be until he’s apologizing / fired / disappeared?)

    05 / 15 / 06:06
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    “Sir” plus venom = heh heh, awesome!

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

    05 / 15 / 06:40
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    My last post was entirely in quote format. Ugh. That’s the last time I post something immediately after waking up.

    05 / 15 / 07:36
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    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?

    05 / 15 / 07:39
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    NBC’s stock rose slightly by letting him go.

    05 / 15 / 07:42
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    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.

    05 / 15 / 07:48
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    It’s about time somebody was honest enough to say what many already know.

    The US political system was designed to keep people like Bush out of office, individuals that only owe their access to power to who they know and what family they come from instead of what they believe and stand for.

    Few families have brought more pain and suffering to the US and the entire world than the Bushs, if there was any true justice in this world, George Bush would be sitting in a cell in the Hague awaiting trial. After all he’s responsible for more death and destruction than Milosevic ever was and all in the name of a nasty black substance that gets pumped out of the ground.

    Few people with the exception of Phil Donohue had the guts to stand up to Bush early in his mandate, it’s so sad that many lives could have been saved if there had been any real courage still in journalism. Donohue lost his job over his opposition to the Iraq war, but events have proven him right.

    05 / 15 / 08:07
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    You Mr. Bush are RESPONSIBLE…..

    05 / 15 / 08:42
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    Was that on TV???

    05 / 15 / 09:21
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    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.

    05 / 15 / 09:50
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    Not in Canada I don’t think. I could be wrong.

    05 / 15 / 09:52
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    Grand slam.

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

    05 / 15 / 10:07
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    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.

    05 / 15 / 12:33
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    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.

    05 / 15 / 12:45
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    I love the internet. I linked this in my journal earlier today, and already at least 5 or 6 other people have now linked it in their journals, too. Hooray, dissemination of news via blogging!

    05 / 15 / 13:45
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    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.

    05 / 15 / 14:06
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    Quoting Desensitized:

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

    Agreed. It’s about time that the common grumblings of many American citizens are brought to mainstream media in such a passionate way. It is refreshing to see a journalist who is not afraid to call it exactly as he sees it. Let’s hope that the Bush administration tries to do something similar to him that was done to Joe Wilson, and Olbermann can expose how Bush deals with dissent.

    05 / 15 / 15:01
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    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?

    05 / 15 / 15:03
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    Bravo is right. That rant was excellent, and voices many of my beliefs about the administration.

    05 / 15 / 15:49
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    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.

    05 / 15 / 16:08
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    Always enjoy his comments. This is the only person on American network news taking it the Bush administrion. Kudos to him, & to NBC for letting these kinds of comments air.

    Also i love when he’s done an angry tirade and then when he goes to his next point he’s instantly speaking perfectly calmly again lol.

    05 / 15 / 17:58
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    I’ll drink to that!

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

    05 / 15 / 22:14

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