Write down the date, folks. That was the best TV you'll see

[WilliamPitt]

...in the 21st century.

Thank you, Mr. Olbermann.

For anyone who missed it, I ask:

1. For others to post video of that speech in this thread;

2. For others to post the text of that speech in this thread.

[babylonsister]

1. And when you get that text, and that video, send it to everyone

you know! Mr. Olbermann was unbelieveable, and it was nice to hear the truth!

[BluePatriot]

2. I saw it...truly awesome

a big Thank You to the bravery and eloquence of Keith O....my hero!

[WestHoustonDem]

3. And it will be rerun at 12am eastern and again tomorrow morning

Please have everyone you know watch it.

[Berry Cool]

41. Probably not tomorrow morning, MSNBC has been going live mornings.

Watch it at midnight ET or on C&L when it goes up.

Tell your friends. Pass it on.
This was AMAZING. Even better than I thought it would be--and I'm biased anyway!

[Maestro]

4. Please do. I missed it!

A big thank you in advance!

[SharonRB]

5. That was truly amazing.

[Connie_Corleone]

6. That was outstanding!!

Speaking truth to power indeed!!

[Janice325]

7. I just finished watching him.

I had goosebumps.
I was watching history in the making.
He is my generation's Edward R. Murrow.
For those who didn't get to see it, please watch Keith Olbermann's Countdown in it's repeat at midnight Eastern on MSNBC.
You won't be sorry.
Thanks, Will.
k&r

[The Backlash Cometh]

89. History in the making. Absolutely.

[wndycty]

8. I just gave my TV a standing ovation!

:kick:

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

22. LMFAO! I Did The Same Damn Thing!!!!!

:toast:

[lonestarnot]

28. I'm sure my repuke neighbor heard my ass yahooo'n!

He'll probably call the cops.

[Sydnie]

48. I did too ... and my son said

rather loudly ... "stop that ... Now that is embarrassing!" .... yet he and I were the only ones in the room? Who did I embarrass? :rofl: Certainly not me.

edit - sp

[bigtree]

9. It was the definition of democracy

journalism in its finest hour. Amazing. Stunning. An explosion that should be echoed around the world.

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. I missed it. Hope someone puts up the vid.

[mike_c]

14. me too-- I'd like to see it, but there's no TV at my house....

I'm sure it'll be online soon, though. The good stuff is usually up pretty fast.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

29. What is the site that usually has these clips on within a couple

hours?? I thought it might be CrooksandLiars.... not sure. Need to email that around the world.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

52. Crooks And Liars Has It Already. Link Below For Ya.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/08/30/keith-olbermann-delivers-one-hell-of-a-commentary-on-rumsfeld

[petgoat]

75. WooHoo! Is that for real? nt

[Coexist]

11. transcipt:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240

from this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2016805&mesg_id=2016805

[Cha]

25. That was an

Amazing transcript, thank you!

And, Thank you, Keith Olbermann! msnbcge must be freakin' in their knickers.

[ChiciB1]

30. Another Hit Out Of The Park!!

Need a printable link myself. For so many Americans who have decided that our "freedom" is worth sacrificing for "these people" who run our government now, I say SHAME ON YOU!

I fear too many will not hear the message, but it was brilliant and PATRIOTIC!!!

Thank you Keith Olbermann.... thank you for YOUR courage while far too many of "our" leaders are too filled with "fear!" Not a FEAR of an enemy, but FEAR that they might lose an election!

[EFerrari]

66. Thank you!

:)

[CrispyQ]

94. Absolutely outstanding!

I am especially fond of Keith's reminder that We the People have been here before & we prevailed. We can do it again!

Thanks for the link to the transcript. I like to print out anything this good & today I have two print outs -- this & the speech given by Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson. Both kick major butt!



:hi:

[MelissaB]

12. Link to speech

on MSNBC thanks to kpete: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240

[City Lights]

13. I had the chills and got choked up.

The tide has changed...

[K8-EEE]

15. oh DAMN Will Def Check The Rerun!

Thanks for the heads up everyone....DU is the BEST!

[Connie_Corleone]

16. Record it if you can. It's worth watching several times.

[Klukie]

17. Thank you Keith!

[nradisic]

18. KO just threw the gauntlet down...

It was amazing to witness. It was the first salvo IMO. The MSM better see the tide turning or they will become even more irrelevant.

[Catbird]

19. Fantastic!!!

I am glad to know that so many of you were watching it with me.

:patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:

[Hekate]

20. Jaw -dropping goosebump-making speech; KO on a white horse!

Gods, I am so glad I caught that. It replays at 9pm Pacific time, so I will get a chance to listen again.

That was the finest, that was the best, that was NEWSCASTING.

And that, my friends, is Keith Olberman. Up there in the pantheon with the rest of my heroes, of which there are not many.

Hekate

:applause: :yourock: :bounce: :toast: :rofl: :applause: :yourock: :bounce: :toast: :rofl: :applause: :yourock: :bounce: :toast: :rofl: :applause: :yourock: :bounce: :toast: :rofl:

[Hekate]

72. Here's my fan letter:"Thank you a thousand times"

Dear Mr. Olbermann:

Thank you a thousand times for your editorial "Feeling morally, intellectually confused?" tonight. You have eloquently expressed what so many of us have sputtered with varying degrees of inarticulate dismay and downright despair over the past six long years.

Back in the day -- that is, the late 1960s when I was a college student -- I used to think calling our government "fascist" was both inappropriate and historically inaccurate. In the years since then my government has periodically enraged me, but I was never, ever, afraid of my own government -- until Bush and Cheney entered the White House and began their mad career.

As of the Supreme Court decision, I knew we'd had a "bloodless coup." Isn't that what we've always said of banana republics who changed regimes without aan election, but also without shedding (much) blood? "They had a bloodless coup d'etat." That was pretty breathtaking.

Still, I don't know when it started to dawn on me that the Bush administration itself was beginning to fit the classic definition of a fascist regime: government wedded to unchecked corporatism, with the military in service to those ends alone -- and religion, quite conveniently serving to calm the consciences of the people. I do know that I recognized the blatant propaganda in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq: the constant drumbeat in the media, special graphics, special theme music -- all voluntarily provided by our "free press."

Once when I was a child I asked my mother if America could ever be conquered and made totalitarian, like the USSR or Nazi Germany. She said something I never forgot: that the danger to our nation was that we would vote in our oppressors and never recognize it until too late.

Thanks for speaking truth to power. I hope to be watching your broadcasts for years to come.

Sincerely,

(Hekate by another name)

Arlington West, Santa Barbara, California
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Arlington_west_121003.htm

Stalin channels Diebold and Sequoia electronic voting machines:
"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." - Josef Stalin

Teddy Roosevelt on dissent:
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else." – Teddy Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star, May 7, 1918

[Harry Monroe]

76. I'd like to pass on to others your mother's quote..

..Hetake, with your permission.

"the danger to our nation was that we would vote in our oppressors and never recognize it until too late."


So true.

[Hekate]

86. Absolutely you can. If a foreign nation had marched in & taken our liberty

-- shredded the Bill of Rights the way the Bush admin has done, the American populace would have risen up in righteous wrath to expel the invaders, and blood would have flowed in the streets of our cities.

Instead, in the name of security we have ceded our rights hand over fist. I don't advocate violence, ever, but I do think we as a people are confused. We are accustomed to peace and good order, we are accustomed to believing we are a nation of laws, and we are accustomed to believing those laws protect us. We are accustomed to orderly transitions of power via democratic elections.

We are confused because all of our expectations have been subverted and turned on their heads, starting with Bush's "election".

Keith Olbermann did a good job of naming reality tonight.

Hekate

[malaise]

21. Absolutely brilliant

and absolutely spot on. KO:yourock: :yourock:

[Catherine Vincent]

23. That commentary was the bomb!

I hope some lucky lady rewards him tremendously tonight!

[Sydnie]

24. He IS worthy of his sign off words

Borrowed though they may be.

Thank you Keith! We sure could use a real life Superman about now.

[Armstead]

26. It should be all over the web soon

It was truly a classic moment.

[lonestarnot]

27. Keith! Keith! Keith! Amen!

What a fucking star!

[Name removed]

31. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[DURHAM D]

32. Hi Jerry - trying again. eom

[wellstone dem]

33. WTF what does this have to do with the opening post???

[malaise]

35. How many handles does Jerry have?

This really doesn't belong here.

[TheWatcher]

36. Christ you have spammed this into four threads already that are COMPLETELY

unrelated.

Take your agenda and shove it.

By the way, Glass Houses, Stones and all that.

Go away.

[mcscajun]

39. Four? More like 14 or more

on three separate boards.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

69. I feel safer knowing that someone else is keeping track.

Besides me.

Pardon me while I unfurl the flag.


It's an event at my house.

[mcscajun]

87. And way before bedtime last night, IT was Gone.

TS'ed.

As it should have been.

All credit to the Mods. :)

[Horse with no Name]

37. There is a rule against spamming

This is the third thread that you have tried to hijack.

[mcscajun]

40. CLoser to 23 threads...on three boards.

:grr:

[mcscajun]

44. It's Gone...

...to Boot hill...
Tombstoned. :)

[Horse with no Name]

54. Undoubtedly it's like Herpes

It'll be back just as annoying as before.:)

[mcscajun]

56. Ha!

:spray:

You're probably right...it's gone away to build up sufficient energy to enable mitosis.

[Sydnie]

38. ....

[Richard Steele]

46. Enjoy your stay. Or don't- it don't matter.

[ramblin_dave]

34. Crooks and Liars has it...

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/08/30/keith-olbermann-delivers-one-hell-of-a-commentary-on-rumsfeld/

[blonndee]

42. Thank you! I missed it. n/t

[The Jacobin]

55. WOW!

Thanks for the video - it packs a much stonger punch than the edited web text.

[LuckyLib]

64. I'll second that. I read it first, thought it good, then watched

the video. A smackdown of the highest order. YES!!!

[bklyncowgirl]

62. Wow. nt

[lvx35]

85. Wow! Excellent.

I wonder if republicans will be able to understand the big words well enough to see what he was saying.

[Redneck Socialist]

43. Wow, God damn!

Way to go Keith!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

45. C&L

http://www.crooksandliars.com/

[w8liftinglady]

47. I needed this tonight.keith olbermann was magnificent.

[w8liftinglady]

50. let keith know what his speech meant to you

[e-mail]

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

49. I wanted to stand up and cheer!

After listening to that, I wanted to grab up my torch and my pitchfork and storm the battlements. What an awesome, courageous statement!

[lonestarnot]

51. Support those troups! Yeaya!

[bleever]

53. Yep. A great moment that everyone should see.

:thumbsup:

[bklyncowgirl]

57. ...and I missed it, DAMN.

I do hope someone puts up the video.

[DURHAM D]

61. They have it up at Crooksandliars. eom

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

65. Old School.

:thumbsup:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2016805&mesg_id=2017133


6:26 PM @ DU by DURHAM D posted 6:22 PM at C&L.



What were you doing during those 4 critical minuts? :D

[DURHAM D]

67. Actually - after I found it at C & L I looked on several DU

threads to see if anyone else had posted the info. I could of had it up two minutes earlier but I hate it when people repeat and repeat and repeat.

Also, I was eating a bowl of ice cream.

[bklyncowgirl]

68. Thanks, just saw it. It was great. nt

[Berserker]

58. For one brief moment

during that speech I let my mind wonder and thought what would it be like to have our country's leader speak this way with intelligence and truth.

[AntiFascist]

59. Um, what about that other thread?

K&R, anyway!

[lamp_shade]

60. This comment sent chills up my spine:

"But variations of it have faced our forefathers, when men like Nixon and McCarthy and Curtis LeMay have darkened our skies and obscured our flag. Note -- with hope in your heart — that those earlier Americans always found their way to the light, and we can, too."

[Opusnone]

63. Bravo!

Now that's what I'M TALKING ABOUT!

[Harry Monroe]

70. Damn, that was f**king GREAT!!!

I don't get MSNBC on cable but I do hear quite a bit about Keith Olbermann. He is a true patriot; America needs more journalists like him. This needs to be shown to EVERY Democrat running for office; it may just put some starch in their shorts and let them know the true meaning of political courage for once!!! Thanks for the link on this thread, it was duly bookmarked and the word spread!!!

[Kurovski]

71. Absolutely telling that Mr. Olbermann didn't refer to Bush

as "his" president or "the" president, but rather "your president" when addressing Rumsfeld.

[Oilwellian]

73. I'm in tears

Thank you Mr. Olbermann for restoring my faith.

Love,
Kathryn

[Sydnie]

74. Olbermann replaying now on MSNBC

for those just hearing about it or that missed it earlier and want to see it on tv.

[misternormal]

77. Bravo !! n/t

[Jacobin]

78. KO for president

He has said it more clearly, more concisely and more powerfully than any politician that we have in this country today....bar NONE.

[bbgrunt]

79. that, indeed, was the best and most righteous speech!!

[leftofthedial]

80. I just watched the rerun.

Had a show to do earlier and misssed the original airing.

I have goosebumps, a lump in my throat and an email of the transcript and a link to the vidoe being sent to a 5000-person mailing list.

[babylonsister]

92. Wow! That's getting the word out! Good for you! nt

[magellan]

81. KO fires the shot heard round America

Phenomenal. I'd even say monumental. He was so angry and on target. I hope the Dems get a clue -- what Keith said is what needs to be said, over and over.

Thank you, Keith Olberman!!

[emmadoggy]

82. Hot Damn and Holy Crap!! That was spine-tingling!

That was a wonderful, impassioned, and oh-so-true speech. Salve for the deep wounds this country is nursing. This needs to be seen far and wide, over and over.

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:
:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[Critters2]

83. Agreed!! F*ckin' awesome! nt

[Major Hogwash]

84. Whattya bet - they fire Olbermann in the next 2 months?

They have to silence him, ya know.

They have to, or else the truth just might get out.
They can't afford that.
Not now, not with elections coming up in just, oh, 68 days.

Senator Roberts has held onto the pre-war intelligence report like it is a pirate map to some sunken treasure chest, he ain't going to release his grip on it.
Why can't they keep people like Olbermann quiet like Senator Roberts?

So, why would the networks let a guy like Keith go on tv and speak to the people about dissent like that?
That doesn't serve their purpose.
That doesn't help them.
That doesn't look good.
It's untidy.

Maybe, someone will call Olbermann "macaca" and then they can make an excuse that they thought his nickname was Keith "Macaca" Olbermann.

Where's Coultergiest to call Keith un-American for disagreeing with our beloved Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld?
Why hasn't Bill O'Reilly called Keith French lately?
Why is Rush Limbaugh so upset about colleges teaching hate, when he knows that Keith went to college?!

Just put two and two together, using modern neocon math, and you get one.
Yes, you started with two, and then added two more, but now you have just one.
So, where did the other three go?
Why, they're missing!
Just like the billions of dollars we are missing that was allocated to rebuilding Iraq after we blew Iraq up.
Halliburton probably has them, but we'll never know, because we aren't supposed to know!
We are the people, and we don't need to know!
Just listen to our leaders, and don't worry, be happy.

If Keith thinks this is going to be ignored, he's sadly mistaken.
The one thing that the Bush admin doesn't like is dissenters.
And it doesn't matter if they are from within their organization, on board, as it were.
No, they can even "reach out and touch someone" from outside of their organization.


Just ask Mike Malloy.

[Harry Monroe]

90. Sadly, you may be right...

...intelligent dissent, which has been lacking for years in the mainstream media (where are Bernstein and Woodward when you need them) for years has suddenly been resurrected in the eloquence of Keith Olbermann's deadly accurate commentary. I'm sure the Bushies will do all in their power to squash this voice of reason in the forest of meek compliance.


“The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus become vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State”
Joseph Goebbels, propaganda minister to Adolph Hitler


"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials

[Cooley Hurd]

88. The lump in my throat grew larger and larger...

...until it threatened to choke me. It's a rarity in my adult life when a mere speech can bring tears to my cynical eyes. Keith Olbermann's historic rant did just that, and more.

You're correct - we witnessed a Murrow moment tonight. Mark your calendars.

Bravo, Keith. Bravo...

[DinahMoeHum]

91. Will, did you also get to read Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson's

speech yesterday??

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/8/30/164516/543


Best TV yesterday, hell...one of the best days for us good guys, period. August 30, 2006.

:kick:

[gkhouston]

93. I'm not so sure about that...

he might just pull something else out of his pocket in the near future. Don't you think BushCo might try to get some extra political mileage out of the 5th anniversary of 9/11? Betcha that'll push his "outrage" meter into the red zone in no time flat.

Not dissing what he did last night in any way, shape, or form, just sayin'...