For a guy in the "infortainment" business, this guy never ceases to amaze me.

Well worth the watch. Somebody needed to say this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA1vLDK_ ... ed&search=

-A

It's always Olberman, Cafferty, Stewart or Colbert doing this. That's it. We got a modern day Murrow, and old man and two comedians saying what needs to be said. I love getting pissed in the morning. The rest of the pundits are so lost, they have no idea what's going on. Look at Chris Matthews, the guy "can't understand why Bush is so unliked." Scarborough is too much of an egotist, only calling out that HE never uses bullshit. I mean, we can go on and on down the list, but it's not worth it.

I used write off Olbermann as just that 'dude from Sportscenter' but the past year or so he's been breaking everyone's balls.

Outstanding.

An interview from Salon:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/09/11/olbermann/

absolutely fantastic.

thank you, keith olberman.

andyk

Thank you for posting this.

Watched it earlier today off of Crooks & Liars (a really great web site by the way if you don't know it: www.crooksandliars.com) and can't help but find myself ever more impressed with the guy. The Salon interview is great too. I rarely ever watch TV as so much of it is such total crap, but then a guy like him comes along and almost singlehandedly restores one's faith in its positive potential; and his ratings are climbing while those of right-wing blowhards like O'Reilly's are dropping. It certainly complicates the Chomskyan thesis that a corporate controlled media by definition prevents alternative, counter voices from emerging that might threaten the powers that be. As Olbermann says in the Salon interview, MSNC doesn't care about Bush; they care about making money. And if their ratings go up because he draws viewers on account of him criticizing Bush, they're all for it. But then Marxist superstructure-type analyses, like Chomsky's, are notorious for not leaving much room for individuals having any real effect on much of anything at all.

And if you want to just read some of the highlights, this is grabbed from Salon's War Room

Keith Olbermann on what Bush has wrought

Keith Olbermann began his commentary Monday night remembering what it was like to breathe air that "contained the remains" of thousands of strangers and four of his friends. He ended it with words and images from "The Twilight Zone." Somewhere in between -- somewhere before he started quoting Rod Serling -- Olbermann delivered the sort of probing, reality-based post-9/11 assessment we got from neither ABC nor the president of the United States:

"The only positive on 9/11 and the days and weeks that so slowly and painfully followed it was the unanimous humanity, here, and throughout the country. The government, the president in particular, was given every possible measure of support.

"Those who did not belong to his party -- tabled that. Those who doubted the mechanics of his election -- ignored that. Those who wondered of his qualifications -- forgot that.

"History teaches us that nearly unanimous support of a government cannot be taken away from that government by its critics. It can only be squandered by those who use it not to heal a nation's wounds, but to take political advantage.

"Terrorists did not come and steal our newly-regained sense of being American first, and political, fiftieth. Nor did the Democrats. Nor did the media. Nor did the people.

"The President -- and those around him -- did that.

"They promised bi-partisanship, and then showed that to them, 'bi-partisanship' meant that their party would rule and the rest would have to follow, or be branded, with ever-escalating hysteria, as morally or intellectually confused, as appeasers, as those who, in the vice president's words yesterday, 'validate the strategy of the terrorists.'

"They promised protection, and then showed that to them 'protection' meant going to war against a despot whose hand they had once shaken, a despot who, we now learn from our own Senate Intelligence Committee, hated al-Qaida as much as we did.

"The polite phrase for how so many of us were duped into supporting a war on the false premise that it had 'something to do' with 9/11 is 'lying by implication.'

"The impolite phrase is 'impeachable offense.'"

Right Wing Response Generator: Blah Blah Twilight Zone Blah Blah He's in the Twilight etc. Blah Blah Does he expect Bush to build a memorial by himself? Blah Blah Typical Liberal etc. Blah Blah Blah Democrat Party Blah Left Wing Media Blah Blah (Nothing substantive to refute what he said) Blah

Flip-Flopper

Good on him.