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2006-08-31 Fifth Column
Keith Olbermann suffers a major attack of BDS - Straight Jacket needed.
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Posted by 3dc 2006-08-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 These are not the words of a sane man.
Posted by Sherry">Sherry  2006-08-31 01:40||   2006-08-31 01:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Dissension and disagreement without cause, without merit, without explanation, etal. is NOT reason or humanism, just an over-glorified form of deception and inevitable betrayal.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-08-31 02:56||   2006-08-31 02:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Good words, Joe! Did you send you comments to Olberman? Mind if I borrow them?
Posted by Bobby 2006-08-31 07:30||   2006-08-31 07:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Follow you own quote from Murrow, Keith:

"We must remember always that accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law."

Even your accusations are not proof, Keith. When Bush is impeached, you'll have your proof. Are you gathering facts for the trial, Keith? Or just whining?

You're just a spoiled child with delusions of grandeur.
Posted by Bobby 2006-08-31 07:35||   2006-08-31 07:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Here are comments as I sent them to Keith's email:
It was interesting, your quoting of Edward R. Murrow:
"We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were for the moment unpopular."

>>Comments? Email KOlbermann@msnbc.com

Two:
1) I don't think this is the most apt quote you could have come up with. By invoking "causes that were for the moment unpopular" are you trying to draw a parallel between the Communists of the 1950s and Islamic suicide bombers today? Good luck defending that unpopular cause!

2) You were pretty good on SportsCenter. I was wondering where you had gone.

Regards


"What do you think, sirs?"
Posted by eLarson 2006-08-31 08:21|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2006-08-31 08:21|| Front Page Top

#6 He was good on Sportscenter. He was extremely witty when he was making fun of million dollar babies.
Too bad, he turns out to be just another elitist who has ventured into an area he clearly isn't smart enough to understand. Idiot.
Posted by JerseyMike 2006-08-31 08:46||   2006-08-31 08:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh, a sportswriter! SO he's as qualified as Madonna to write on such matters.
Posted by Bobby 2006-08-31 08:59||   2006-08-31 08:59|| Front Page Top

#8 I think he does this every so often just to stir things up and prove to people that someone does actually watch his show, even though those folks probably wouldn't admit it...
Posted by tu3031 2006-08-31 09:15||   2006-08-31 09:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Hey, Keith Olbermann - this is dissent -

In the 1960s, when no Egyptian dared voice dissent, he indirectly criticised Nasser's rule in Small Talk on the Nile and Miramar. Mahfouz's support of Egypt's 1979 peace treaty with Israel brought him the wrath of many Arab countries, who banned his novels. (See Nobel Laureate Dies -in Non-WOT)

Olbermann's just a whiney child.
Posted by Bobby 2006-08-31 09:27||   2006-08-31 09:27|| Front Page Top

#10 "In a small irony, however, Mr. Rumsfeld's speechwriter was..."

Minor point. I have no way to prove this but I get the impression that Rumsfeld pens the majority of content in his speeches.
Posted by DepotGuy 2006-08-31 10:56||   2006-08-31 10:56|| Front Page Top

#11 I'll tell ya who's nuts. That's the fool who allowed Olbermann to read straight news. This idiot used to do sports and mucked that up completely. Now he's spouting off about other topics of which he knows nothing. Just another puffed up fool like Dickie Morris.
Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-08-31 11:17||   2006-08-31 11:17|| Front Page Top

#12 Ah, the last flailings of a drowning man.
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-08-31 11:18||   2006-08-31 11:18|| Front Page Top

#13 Fortunately he said it on MSNBC, so nobody saw it.
Posted by mojo">mojo  2006-08-31 11:53||   2006-08-31 11:53|| Front Page Top

#14 I thought Rummmy and Condi made more sense than usual, while Olbermann has been slipping quickly to the dark, deranged side. I can't watch his smarmy CT rantings anymore, and I am ( god help me) almost off Jon Stewart.
Posted by J. D. Lux 2006-08-31 13:09||   2006-08-31 13:09|| Front Page Top

#15 Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers.
Posted by It is Mr. Olbermann to you 2006-08-31 16:20||   2006-08-31 16:20|| Front Page Top

#16 ROFLMAO at Capt. Queeg!
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-08-31 16:26||   2006-08-31 16:26|| Front Page Top

#17 I had the same problem with my coconuts.
Posted by Admiral Blight (ret) 2006-08-31 17:55||   2006-08-31 17:55|| Front Page Top

#18 Curtis LeMay? Huh??
Posted by Parabellum 2006-08-31 19:08||   2006-08-31 19:08|| Front Page Top

#19 Yeah, that brought me up short too...however...from Wikipedia...

Curtis Emerson LeMay (November 15, 1906 – October 1, 1990) was a General in the United States Air Force and the vice presidential running mate of independent candidate George C. Wallace in 1968.

He is credited with designing and implementing an effective systematic strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific Theatre of Strategic Air Command. After the war, he headed the Berlin airlift, then reorganized the Strategic Air Command into an effective means of conducting nuclear war.

Critics have characterized him as a belligerent warmonger (even nicknaming him "Bombs Away LeMay") whose aggressiveness threatened to inflame tense Cold War situations (such as the Cuban Missile Crisis) into open war between the United States and the Soviet Union.

This blurb explains a lot as to why a leftist or liberal might bring up LeMay's name.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg  2006-08-31 19:23|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com]  2006-08-31 19:23|| Front Page Top

#20 Curt was the thinly veiled basis for Kubrick's General Buck Turgison.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-08-31 19:26||   2006-08-31 19:26|| Front Page Top

#21 Thanks Greg and Nimble, but I already knew these things about LeMay. It's the idea that some fools wouldn't consider him a hero (and apparently consider him a villain) for them that's twistin' my melon.

Jeez, next thing you know leftoid college professors will be writing books villifying Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris and the practice of area bombing German cities in WWII.

Nah, that would never happen... {8^0
Posted by Parabellum 2006-08-31 19:59||   2006-08-31 19:59|| Front Page Top

#22 Now you know why mud-bog races has more viewers than Keith.
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-08-31 20:22||   2006-08-31 20:22|| Front Page Top

#23 My child dissents, keith, doesn't mean she has a cogent argument as to why, she just wants to be perverse. It's what children do.
Posted by anonymous2u 2006-08-31 22:53||   2006-08-31 22:53|| Front Page Top

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