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Olbermann to Bush: "Go there and fight your war...yourself" [VIDEO]

Posted by Adam Howard at 4:49 AM on July 20, 2007.


On Countdown, Keith Olbermann delivers a powerful special comment about the leaked Bush Administration letter that blames Senator Hillary Clinton and all war dissenters for President Bush’s own failures in Iraq.
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In an unusual move, Keith Olbermann opens his program with a special comment about the Bush Administration's attempts to blame the Iraq War's failure on its critics instead of the people most responsible for this disaster, themselves. Check out the video to your right for more.

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Adam Howard is the editor of PEEK.


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Maybe this will awake...
Posted by: ShrubtheWarcriminal on Jul 20, 2007 6:18 AM   
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...the Clintons, but I doubt is...it seems the Democraps do not have the stones to fight anyone.

As for the Chimp, he is a proven coward and I would not imagine this girly man fighting his way out of the proverbial wet paper bag.

The outrages continue unabated...

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Imagine if you will...
Posted by: JoshuaLudd on Jul 20, 2007 6:19 AM   
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Imagine a world where leaders had to fight to the death with the leaders of other nations, rather than having whole armies fight for them. Imagine bare handed combat between George Bush and Saddam Heussein which would result in one of them dying at the hands of the other. You've just imagined a world where war doesn't exist.

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» RE: Imagine if you will... Posted by: rinthy
» RE: The Shrub would have lost and... Posted by: ShrubtheWarcriminal
Time for Regime Change
Posted by: jillbooks on Jul 20, 2007 6:28 AM   
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Draft Bush!

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Speaking Truth to Power
Posted by: leelee on Jul 20, 2007 6:38 AM   
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At last, what a breath of fresh air. Thank you Keith Olbermann
for speaking truth to power. I hope that your example will inspire other journalists in mainstream media outlets to stop pandering to the Bush administration, and to speak honestly and passionately about the atrocities that we are forced to witness (in our names as Americans no less) on a daily basis.
More, more, more!

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» RE: Speaking Truth to Power Posted by: 360guy
How can Alternet
Posted by: Ellie1 on Jul 20, 2007 7:32 AM   
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expect its readers not to be enraged to the point of profanity with the state of this country? How can Alternet NOT expect its readers to be furious with certain posters (and you know who they are) echoing Bushit which they claim to be truth? They deserve personal attacks for their stupidity, lies, and misleading statements, for by making these statements they set themselves up as targets and deserve to be slapped down by all and any means. And what is EXCESSIVE profanity? To me the biggest profanity is the name GEORGE W. BUSH. You don't get any more evil or hateful than that.

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Keith Still can Do It
Posted by: LeftCoastProgressive on Jul 20, 2007 7:36 AM   
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It is unusual for Keith Olbermann to open his program with a special comment. It was usually placed at the last of his hour. Wonder what MSNBC machinations caused him to place it at the beginning of the hour? Probably the dippy commentators who followed his program complaining about EVER getting the viewer's attention again.

LOL...DipShite Bush attempts to blame the Iraq War's failure on its critics instead of the people most responsible for this disaster, themselves. This constitutes the height of imbecilic hubris. Remember the schoolyard "complaint"... "He made me do it! It wasn't my fault, mom! He made me do it!"

Little schoolyard woosie BushShite, stabbing his finger at everybody else, has been this chiefFool's forever remembered earmark. We used to solve this little assholes problems by putting human excrement in his locker. A very edifying connection with reality for the victim. I see Bush did NOT have the appropriate edifying experiences when he grew up.

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Give em' hell, Keith
Posted by: georgiaorwell on Jul 20, 2007 8:22 AM   
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You are the real package in a patriotic American, Keith, for stating the hard truths that need to be stated. Always brilliant, always articulate, always outraged on a greatful nation's behalf - at least those freethinkers who still can manage outrage with what seems like an impossible cause - ridding America of a tyrant. Watching Bush swagger about makes me sick. He only is missing a monacle, crop, and jackboots. Bush doesn't know nor does he care about the fallout or the potential consequences of his actions. But anyone will push the envelope, if left unchecked, and this is what he's done. I believe his fascist DOD will not be ignored by Hillary - she and Bill have both WH experience and brains and even Hillary has fighting pride - something the Bush criminals lack as they are chickenhawks.

I predict the Iraq occupation must last through Bush's last day in office because it was planned that he would be a war president, enabling him to obtain unimaginable power over the people of this country and abroad. This was definitely a premeditated Presidency - isn't that obvious?

My only question is: how long will this country leave people like Keith O. to hang out there alone as almost a single voice in the wilderness. When will ENOUGH BE ENOUGH!

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» RE: Give em' hell, Keith Posted by: djnoll
» RE: Give em' hell, Keith Posted by: Ellie1
If only more Media Puppets were like Olbermann
Posted by: ~Fiona~ on Jul 20, 2007 8:37 AM   
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Rupert Murdoc take note, "You can't buy Every Journalist"

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» Point of Clarification... Posted by: ~Fiona~
Olbermann is great but......
Posted by: hilaryuk on Jul 20, 2007 9:06 AM   
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As over, Keith Olberman was impressive and incisive. I have only one caveat - although powerfully invoking the terrible human price the US has paid, he failed to mention the awful and all encompassing price the Iraqis have paid. The Iraqi suffering will not stop when the American and British troops have gone, and may well only end when another dictator imposes himself. Remember, Saddam was helped to power by the West and, for much of his reign, sustained by the West. For some reason our leaderships hail dictators as "moderates" as long as they keep the oil flowing and do not seriously object to any action the only Middle East nuclear power - Israel - takes.ns.

Keith Olbermann is a great ambassador for America's better self, but he does have a blind spot about the suffering of non-Americans.

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RE: "Put bush in jail"... amen,
Posted by: ~Fiona~ on Jul 20, 2007 12:15 PM   
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Amen, AaaaaMEN!!!

And it can't happen Soon Enough!

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Not to mention
Posted by: hurricane hugo on Jul 20, 2007 11:14 AM   
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Frankie Goes To Hollywood before that.;)

"When two tribes go to war, one is all that two can score!"

plur

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Over the top.
Posted by: gistre on Jul 20, 2007 12:37 PM   
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Olbermann is loosing it. He's like self parody with embarrassing diatribes like this. We used to like "Countdown", but lately it's just become a self-important orgy of bombast from Keith.

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» RE: Over the top. Posted by: whatzaname
» gistre needs a hobby Posted by: fanny666
» RE: Over the top. Posted by: Knowmad
» RE: Over the top. Posted by: Mojoe
Hasn't anyone noticed that
Posted by: bettyn on Jul 20, 2007 4:40 PM   
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Keith is the ONLY commentator who is ALLOWED to make these comments on TV without someone from Bush's pack of attack dogs shouting them down? Is he MSM's "token liberal"?

I cannot watch ANY other news program besides Keith's because I find myself yelling at the TV for the Republican Noise Machine to SHUT UP! No one else can get a word in edgewise. These are the rudest, most arrogant pack of damned Nazis I've ever seen or heard!

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a warrior w/ TBI
Posted by: 360guy on Jul 20, 2007 6:48 PM   
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tears welled up ... to hear the truth so eloquently conveyed with passion and PUNCH...the media , save for what has been presented by keith, has failed also to state the facts / truth ..Thank you Keith... the tears were for the painful joy of hearing again empirical data... a warrior who stands and 'fights' for those who are unable... that's what the K.O. is... and let's hope his 'impeach' word... will K/O the 'pretender and thief' from the oval office...... write on Keith !!!

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hillary's fault
Posted by: guntotingliberal on Jul 21, 2007 6:21 AM   
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Well, she did vote for the war so yeah, there's some bit of blame to lay ther.

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I Loved Olbermann When He Was At ESPN
Posted by: rgoalierob on Jul 21, 2007 7:30 AM   
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He had a knack for speaking to the inanity of sport in America. Most jocks just thought he was funny. Olbermann's talents were lost on that network, and I'm grateful that he has chosen a "higher" calling by speaking truth to power via MSNBC.
Thanks to MSNBC, for whatever reason, despite their ties to General Electric defense contracting, they have allowed Olbermann to become the beacon for hope for rational thought in America.

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Kudos, Bravehearts!
Posted by: electriclady281 on Jul 21, 2007 11:52 AM   
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It's all very well and good to condem Bush from the safety of your laptops, and I certainly agree, but what good does that do to counter our daily slide into dictatorship? "WHERE'S THE RAGE? Where are the protests that shut the country down? What does Bush have on the members of congress that they are all behaving so extraordinarily tamely? Remember, these guys work for us! And they are supposed to represent all of their states, even those of another party. Picket them untill they understand that! Most people can't or won't do this, even though, with dire warnings from even republicans that we are in fact becoming a dictatorship, it is literally a matter of life and death for our freedom and democracy.

So, what are YOU doing?

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» RE: Kudos, Bravehearts! Posted by: susanbm
bigtime
Posted by: pnut on Jul 21, 2007 4:14 PM   
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Keith, is a great man we should make him run for president,I will give all I have to him and I think 60% of all Americans will give to. As the leaders of the countries to fight all my life I have this way to stop all wars. (Here it is we should give the president of the waring countries a single edge razor blade, tie their left hands togeather take all of their clothes off all of them, put them in a 8 by 8 room no windows no lights and when we turn out the lights in the dark they go at it, then in 1 hour we turn on the lights and open the door and their you are the one alive is the winner.) But they have the option to talk before they get in that dark room. Bill davidson

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Truth to Power?
Posted by: justaguy on Jul 22, 2007 3:47 AM   
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I don't think so.

The truth is that the war is going magnificently for Bush and the neocons. These are purely evil people who see war, terror and the Balkanization of the Middle East as a means to an end for USraeli global dominance and their notion that the US can sustain itself economically through global empire.

Their power is that you are all confused, and they are laughing at all of you, including KO. They don't care what you think while you aren't angry enough to actually challenge them.

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» . . . tell me more . . . Posted by: KaptainSpiffy