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Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment: You ceased to be the President of

crooksandliars.com — From C&L: Keith Olbermann delivers arguably his most pointed and most powerful Special Comment yet on the ramifications of Bush’s commutation of Libby’s sentence.

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  • chewood, on 10/11/2007, -11/+84Bush has again showed everyone in the world that we have the worst President and VP in the history of our great country. It it time that Congress does something about this situation.
  • maxwellpower, on 10/11/2007, -7/+69Resign.
  • swrostmore, on 10/11/2007, -6/+60RESIGN. is the new IMPEACH!
  • RedSaber, on 10/11/2007, -10/+62Wow.... this is great stuff! If only more journalists would speak that way.

    It's about time impeachment makes it way in the mass medias!
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -8/+58Articulate and resounding. Too bad our congress falls extremely short of this caliber of thinking.
  • chrisgeleven, on 10/11/2007, -7/+54It is time we go after the Bush administration with everything we got. He has just made a complete mockery of the constitution. How can you pardon someone who was in your own administration and was accused (nevermind found guility) crimes that were done in the name of this administration?

    Time for him to resign.
  • bsharwood, on 10/11/2007, -7/+54This is a great comment. Why don't we see more of this! Here's to Mr Olbermann!
  • Niffer, on 10/11/2007, -5/+46This was without a doubt his best comment since the first one on Rumsfeld. Just when I thought I couldn't get any madder about this *****, Olbermann brought it to a whole new level.
  • Treason, on 10/11/2007, -5/+36Keith Olbermann 2008
  • obliviousfool, on 10/11/2007, -6/+36Watching this made the transition to the 4th of July less disheartening than it was shaping up to be. We have a friend in the mainstream media and his name is Olbermann!
  • mrASSMAN, on 10/11/2007, -3/+31Yeah Keith has been doing this for a couple years now. Usually when people see his special comments they become instant fans. It's not often you see people like him on TV.

    I knew one was coming after the commutation. Glad it was submitted.
  • ILoveher, on 10/11/2007, -6/+28Today Keith Olbermann spoke the words that many people have been thinking. This marks tomorrows July fourth a real Day of independence; not simply a day where we remember when the signers did what they did, but a day where Americans are slapped awake by truth in the media, a rare thing these dark days.
  • illDemon, on 10/11/2007, -2/+24I joined Digg just so I could digg this.
  • jimmoses, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21This Oberman fellow is quite a firebrand. From the other side of the pond, US politics appears so corrupt and dumbed down, I always wondered if there was any substance to it at all.

    I have changed my mind. Americans actually do have the ability to smell a rat in office, and Oberman is able to able to articulate that most eloquently.

    He's a bit of a firebrand, it's true, but you need one.
  • beejive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21Amazingly well said. Now if congress would get some balls and take him to task.
  • cantoral, on 10/11/2007, -3/+21There are some members of Congress ready to impeach him, all the American people have to do is give the go ahead.
  • Drewboy64, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18Wow... that left me speechless. Fantastic job by Keith Olbermann, put every word he said on fire and kept it truthful and with great meaning. That takes some guts to say stuff like that, I applaud him. Extraordinary articulate and very well said.
  • bblades, on 10/11/2007, -5/+21Keith keep on fighting the good fight.
  • redrighthand, on 10/11/2007, -2/+17What must I sign in order to add my voice to the impeachment movement?
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+17to Bush & Cheney....

    show some intestinal fortitude you honor-less arrogant bastards and resign.
  • swrostmore, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15I agree, our leaders should not resign when they make tough decisions that aren't popular. On the other hand, Bush should resign.
  • bbrigg1, on 10/11/2007, -6/+20Hahahaha, sweet camera change when addressing Bush. Olbermann whips ass.
  • mal1964, on 10/11/2007, -4/+18"Booyah!"
  • swrostmore, on 10/11/2007, -5/+19and over 70% of Mass Media CEO's voted for Bush. What's your point?
  • GrownupPhan, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14Wow! Finally, someone on point and ON FIRE about the outrage!
  • apothekari, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14Resign Resign Resign Resign Resign!!!
  • TTwoA, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13I don't usually post here (passive Digger, sadly), but I must say one thing about this... Holy awesome. =]
  • Ezekiel25:17, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12He truly is awesome. Because he reads this bush rant so precisely, this is probably a stupid question. Does Keith Olbermann write his own material?
    I know George W. Bush doesn't.
  • fuzzmeister, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13Maybe that's one good thing Nixon did, to set the precedent of getting out before the ***** absolutely hits the fan.
  • tensuns, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13YouTube Link:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN-eGOtBGbg
  • Tenlow, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10I didnt even know who he was before I saw his "special comment" segments on digg. I must say, I became an instant fan.
  • Justinsb, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Don't worry about the world. The world doesn't give a flying **** about Scooter Libby. The world would like to see Bush, Cheney and a good portion of the US Govt. brought before the Hague for war crimes - along with Bush Sr. Reagan (I know too late) and even Clinton - remember that medicine factory he blew up in Sudan trying to get Osama? That was the countries chief source of vaccines - thousands and thousands have died of easily preventable disease because Sudan couldn't afford to rebuild and the US refused to help.

    The world would like to see the US withdraw it's forces from ...well just about everywhere really, and pay reparations to those that it's harmed (though there really isn't enough money in the US to do that. The world would like to see the US take climate change seriously, and stop making more and more powerful weapons - not to mention dirty bombs (see enriched plutonium) - again the world doesn't give a flying **** what happens with Scooter Libby, or Paris Hilton for that matter.
  • MrKrinkleDude, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11Gotta agree. Repubs clamored to impeach Clinton for a BJ, cigar, and what is is. And here we have the Dems doing nothing but running their mouths off knowing that nothing will come of it. People need to get off their asses and actually do something real.
  • ziffel, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9No one's arguing that Americans made a foolish mistake, especially in the 2nd term. But you say that as if he'd win again if an election was held today. We also have a guy who has the lowest approval rating of any president in U.S. history, and has remained below 50% approval for longer than any president as well. So a lot of those that voted for him are now saying "oops". And as for your "he wasn't pardoned" bit, Libby received what amounts to a pardon, and also Bush stated today that he is still considering a full pardon.

    You follow this complete walking disaster and call us sheep?
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9"tough decisions that aren't popular"

    Ha.

    More like "stupid decisions that were obviously stupid before they were acted upon."
  • jango381, on 10/11/2007, -5/+12IMPEACH! IMPEACH!
  • DoctorJazz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8The amazing thing about wingnuts like yourself is this endless projection of your own worst faults onto those who are courageously trying to save what's left of our country from your fear and ignorance and magical thinking. Olberman merely states the obvious truth and you call it propaganda. While your feudal masters in the Bush regime spout a never ending and utterly shameless stream of blatant lies and it doesn't bother you at all. Can you explain?
  • GARussell, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Very powerful speech.
  • jbhannah, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6And unfortunately you can only digg an article once.

    KO said it better than any of us could have, and is in a much better position to be heard.
  • Gotar, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8I say if you want the congress to do something why not write your state's senator and representative a letter or email them. It may sound old fashioned but even if you do that little thing it can mean a lot. Tell em how you feel, just don't be rude! Make it happen!
  • formulathree, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8
    Ah yes, the thumbs down button. This is the extent of the American attention span. Sit on your couch, eat potato chips and watch Oprah.
  • qubesquare, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9I re-watch this over and over again... There is still hope in America. If even just a few members of this democracy can see the ills of this administration then maybe not all hope is lost. It's time for Bush and Cheney to hit the road.
  • LavaHot, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I now have a valid replacement for John Stewart in my TiVo schedule. Words cannot express the admiration that i feel for this man and his courage to say, in a powerful and meaningful way, what we are all thinking, but don't say. Godspeed, sir!
  • SwabTheDeck, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Ellipses give me a headache.
  • madtimber, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6So I sit here tonight, having just watched Keith's comments about Bush's latest debauchery, and i cant help but ask myself how things have gotten so bad in this country lately? And I think, who's to blame? Is it us, the people? Is it the Congress? Is it anyone?

    One view, is that it is indeed the people's fault. We as a country elected a sub-par public servant. We as a country have sat idly by and watched him bend laws, break laws, and show no regard whatsoever for the constitution that this country was founded on. We as a country stood behind him during one of the most darkest times in our history, because we knew that it was Country that mattered, not partisanship politics. Home is everything.

    Another view is that Congress is to blame. There hasnt been enough impeachment support for Congress to act upon. Why? What does an impeachment mean for both sides? For the republicans, it adds insult to injury. An impeachment would signify their confession. They know they're wrong and have been wrong on Iraq, 9/11, WMDs but they dont want to have to admit it. By actively participating in an impeachment binds and shackles all of their political careers because that will be fodder for Democrats. So that leaves the burden up to the democrats to push an impeachment thru. But why havent they? The '08 election is the answer to that. The Dems do not want the Reps to spin an impeachment as a political witch hunt. Thus reducing the chance that a Democrat will be elected president. They're content with holding out on removing Bush until the election replaces him. It saves face for them. But I dont think we have time to be saving face....

    So who's to blame? I think we're all to blame. And I say that totally multi-partisanly. We've elected these folks, they've failed us, yet we dont care to replace them. As I'm writing this, i've noticed that its July 4th now, the birth date of our independence from tyranny. Thats kind of ironic, isnt it? That we've come full circle, back to the place our fore fathers despised and sacrificed so much to get away from. Is it time again for revolution?

    When do we stop being sheep, and start being the shepherds?
  • scoobydoo84, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Got my vote!!
  • otakushark, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8...a letter to your Congressional representatives.
  • johnlandes, on 10/11/2007, -4/+9Our government in Canada fell last year over some advertising deals that went to corrupt goverment friends. The whole nation was in an uproar over it, even though no members of the government were actually even aware of the deals.
    Kind of seems trival compared to what Bush has done, and yet your congress remains completely incapable of acting. Even the saviour of the dem's, Obama, is against impeaching.
    Keith can make whatever comments he would like, but unfortunately, it seems to be falling on deaf ears.
    America has brought democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan (not very well, but it is in place), but the American people need to earn (yes, earn) their own democracy by standing up to their irresponsible, corrupt and immoral goverment.
  • mrASSMAN, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8He should take a cue from Blair.
  • akashra, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7We've all joked at one point or another "Colbert/Stewart '08", but what about "Stewart/Olbermann 2012"?
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