Anyone willing to donate to the "Olbermann 2012" campaign I've just started?

uuuhh... gulp

all i can say.

Karl Rove will stop at nothing.

Karl Rove will stop at nothing.

Where did the quote, "Have you no sense of decency sir.", come from?

Thank you Keith Olberman! I plan to write to MSNBC and thank Mr. Olberman there, too! Nazi sympathizers, indeed! Bush said: “The world ignored Hitler and paid a terrible price”. So true, now we’re all paying dearly for cowboy diplomacy. It’s time to remove Bush and his tyrannical, imperialistic regime.

Olberman for President!

No seriously though, the only way I have ever been able to reconcile why some Americans willingness accepted the whole Al-Qa'ida = Nazi's argument is that they haven't learnt their history - therefore, could the Bush administration's continual use of this farce be an indicment on the quality of the American education system?

That's pretty freaky. The new cold war on the media. Gotta love Keith, though, fighting the good fight.

GO KEITH!! It's so refreshing to see at least one commentator refusing to pull any punches - especially one so eloquent.

It is reprehensible for any world leader to invoke Nazism when the comparison is so ludicrous - and doubly so when that leader's own action could more reasonably compared to those of a fascist.

I saw the speech. Cringeworthy. Apart from having a go at the Media I thought it was hilarious that he also had the nerve to blame AQ on the destruction of the US economy. I guess he couldn't get away with blaming Clinton like he did the last term.

I saw the speech. Cringeworthy. Apart from having a go at the Media I thought it was hilarious that he also had the nerve to blame AQ on the destruction of the US economy. I guess he couldn't get away with blaming Clinton like he did the last term.

Dmonfan wrote:

"Where did the quote, "Have you no sense of decency sir.", come from?"

The quote is from an exchange between Senator McCarthy and Special Council for the Army Joseph N. Welch. The quote seemed to be a pivotal moment in the decline of McCarthy's influence.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/welch-mccarthy.html

There is an audio recording of the exchange on that site, though a video recording has a much stronger impact -- I couldn't find a copy with sound.

Keith stops just short of the real issue and irony here: The Nazis consolidated their power in much the same way as the Bush administration is attempting to, by finding a scapegoat and mercilessly flogging it as a demon in front of a public without the resources or willingness to dig for the truth. In the case of the Nazis, it was the communists, who they blamed for the Reichstag Fire, and later the Jews, who they blamed for the economy. I begin to believe the tinfoil hat conspiracy crowd who think that 9/11 was part of the plan, and that the administration's destruction of the economy is deliberate, not just moronic.

Mein Kampf = Pax Americana… Religious fundamentalists (of all religions) = Nazis

All I can say is it's about time more people are listen to Olbermann. The past two weeks are not something new from him. Olbermann is the only anchor left in the newsbiz who knows that being objective does not mean sitting back and allowing yourself to be lied to.
Give Keith's ratings a boost and watch it everynight; buy his book and write to MSNBC and let them know just how much you appreciate Keith's speaking truth to power

I guess this is just another case of Godwin's Law, albiet not in an internet debate.

Interesting times ahead, folks!

Buddy up!

This is cool, he should run for prez! ... He might need to be careful (speaking all that truth to power), stare clear of grassy knolls and all that malarky.

I second: Olberman for President!

He better be careful though, speaking soo much truth to power, he might consider steering clear of grassy knolls and the like ...

Does anyone think Keith is going to get all worked up about Congressional Democrats dictating programming on ABC? http://www.housedemocrats.gov/news/librarydetail.cfm?librarycontentid=876

Projection is 9/10 of the law...or something like that...

I don't like to be the one to throw cold water on this stuff, but it's a very strange series of statements by Olbermann. If I agree with Olbermann's argument, it would seem that I wouldn't be justified in calling Rumsfeld and Bush immoral and stupid. But I think that it is very important to continue to call them immoral and stupid. Democracy is not just about criticizing and defending ideas but also criticizing and defending people--like people who want to be put in charge of things. Rumsfeld is not immoral because he calls war critics immoral, he's immoral because he supports a plainly failed foreign policy, because he did care when Iraqi society was slipping into chaos, and because he, at the very least, winked at clear cases of torture. Sticks and stones have broken many bones. I can handle the names, and so can Olbermann.

The attack on certainty is also wrongheaded. What's wrong with certainty? I might as well complain in a boxing match: "Is it really necessary to hit me that hard?" I'm pretty certain that looking up car batteries to people's genitals, making them stand up for days on end, and using dogs to attack them and terrorize them is wrong. I'm not going to budge on those things. Same with blowing up kids and old people in shopping centers in the name of the oppressed, sacrificing this generation to the next, or the next to this one, or blasting urban centers with air power because the civilians "had their chance to leave". Leaving suspects to rot in prison camps without trial, using rape as a weapon of war, fostering cultural and religious warfare for cheap political gain, etc. etc. These are things that many Americans disagree about. I don't really care. I can find as much certainty as just about anybody out there. It's a very weak or a not self-reflective kind of politics that puts up certainty as the cardinal sin. Churchill was just as certain as Chamberlain; the important thing was that the former was right and the latter was wrong. Let's stop complaining to the refs and get in the game and play.