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- theoallardyce, on 10/12/2007, -10/+97So lets see:
- No rebuilt twin towers, new tower or even memorial: check
- Bin Laden still not captured, Al'Qaeda still in operation: check
- 20,000 US soldiers wounded, 3000 dead, $314,313,348,860 tax spent: check
I think we're all done. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+76not to belittle the American troops dead/wounded, but has anyone even THOUGHT about the number of Iraqis dead/wounded due to our involvement?
Well over American death toll, and far less than if Saddam was in charge - littlebylittle, on 10/12/2007, -9/+59Watch it here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sA1vLDK_gQY - chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -15/+60"Yet what is happening this very night?
A mini-series, created, influenced -- possibly financed by -- the most radical and cold of domestic political Machiavellis, continues to be televised into our homes.
The documented truths of the last fifteen years are replaced by bald-faced lies; the talking points of the current regime parroted; the whole sorry story blurred, by spin, to make the party out of office seem vacillating and impotent, and the party in office, seem like the only option.
How dare you, Mr. President, after taking cynical advantage of the unanimity and love, and transmuting it into fraudulent war and needless death, after monstrously transforming it into fear and suspicion and turning that fear into the campaign slogan of three elections? How dare you -- or those around you -- ever "spin" 9/11? "
... Bravo sir. - mww2, on 10/12/2007, -8/+47Just for all the Bush apologists, Olbermann points out the metaphor twice:
"And there is something worse still than this vast gaping hole in this city, and in the fabric of our nation. There is its symbolism of the promise unfulfilled, the urgent oath, reduced to lazy execution."
"When we are scolded, that if we merely question, we have "forgotten the lessons of 9/11"... look into this empty space behind me and the bi-partisanship upon which this administration also did not build . . ."
I hate that this is a dupe, but I love it because it's poweful speech. This is what honest, elevating, powerful rhetoric looks like. - deut, on 10/12/2007, -6/+43Direct Link to Keith Olbermann's blog and video
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/#060911a
Obviously, because of the 5 year anniversary, this has also been widely commented on in our news and papers over here. It is a surprise to most people here in the UK why the place still looks like a building site. - talcyone, on 10/12/2007, -3/+39I'm from Australia and after hearing the president and vice-presidents recent speeches if i could have take them to task i would have ripped them to pieces. I feel as much duped as any American and i sincerely feel for your nation, and that you might finally one day rid yourself of this inept administration. Its good to hear an intelligent voice of reason is making an impact.
- Promantarius, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33Perhaps you shouldn't subscribe to the apple feed then Skunkman62. You'll notice the majority of the apple stories have /apple/ in their url.
- hobgobbler, on 10/12/2007, -5/+35Still waiting for some douche to mark this as 'inaccurate'.
- brufleth, on 10/12/2007, -6/+35The US military doesn't count Iraqi casualties or injuries. Its easier to ignore that they're supposed to be allies at this point and keep the focus on the relatively smaller number of US troops killed. A very telling policy.
- coolmos, on 10/12/2007, -16/+42nonsense. That is just shifting the blame to someone else in hierarchy.
The problem is that Bush lacks vision and passion for his country. He's not an inspiring leader, showing the real power of the nation. Its diversity, its strength, its compassion.
Instead he brings fear to your hearts and minds, takes away your freedoms, and tries to find opportunities to get richer.
Bush is like Gollum. A shadow of what he could have been, slimy, angry, deceiving, looking for his own 'precious'.
Sorry to have insulted Gollum. - CeeJayDK, on 10/12/2007, -6/+31I now have the greatest respect for Keith Olbermann.
I wish I could digg this twice. - drpeppper, on 10/12/2007, -8/+30For *****'s sake give me a break. Marking something inaccurate is for the article that is lying, or its information is incorrect. ITS NOT for the the damn title or description of the story. The inaccurate tool is for the article, NOT FOR the damn title or description of the story! Get this through your ***** heads!
- sirgregmac, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
According to this site, at least 41,860 Iraqi civilians have perished in this war. - brufleth, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23In part, I think it is due to party loyalty. Bush isn't a particularly good Republican. He's grown government with huge increases in spending. His tax cuts have been mostly just token cuts to give people momentary gratification. His raising of gay, abortion, etc issues are things that are probably just fine to leave to states to decide on.
Some people look at politics a bit too much like a sport. They feel like team loyalty is important. Politics aren't like that though. Politicians can have more than two sets of views. All republicans aren't bible thumping homophobes who hates middle easterners and democrats aren't all hippy communists.
We're almost all middle/lower class working folks who just want to enjoy our life, do some work, have some fun, maybe have a family, etc. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Perhaps "marked as inaccurate" should be changed to "marked as terribly upsetting to partisan hacks".
- dallen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19None of those were ran during an election season that majorly invovled the parties depicted in the movies
- nmap, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21you impeached a president for having sex, yet you don't impeach bush for all he has done.
- usherzx, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21Thanks for your support guys, it's good to know that us Americans aren't the only ones who don't like our President. Anybody know how to impeach him or convince him to resign? Normally when this many people oppose you in America, you resign... whats his deal
Does he think we are kidding ? - bollox, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21I remember when Bush got in, the most common feeling on the left in Britian was "what will this unhinged, inadequate son of Bush senr do? He is going to create ***** havoc."
The second time he got in a began to wonder just who the ***** voted for him. Whats going on in the states? Are they all mad?
All the left's misgivings about the chimp have been proved to be true. The man is criminally irresponsible, both for inception and execution of the neo-con project.
And there is ther climate to consider.
The chimp should be imprisoned along with Saddam. - mucko, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19I would hope so but I'm afraid that much of America is still not "waking up." Far too many in this country still believe patriotism is best exemplified by undying support of our President.
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country." —Theodore Roosevelt - labmouse42, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Sometimes it takes an hour or two for the neo-cons to gather their forces. Give it time, this will be declared inaccurate.
- cragga, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19im an australian and i share this exact sentiment talcyone.
ive felt that way for so long im feeling anger fatigue.
is there nothing anyone can do?
but props to olbermann and colbert, someone has to speak for us. - bemenaker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16What Olberman is referring to is someone like FDR would have seen the importance in getting this done. While he was not directly responsible for it, he would have used his position to motivate people. Getting them all together in a meeting and not letting them out until they finally worked out the details. Getting them to sit down and compromise, hash out a plan, and get moving forward. And kept it all public. None of this closed door corporate meeting BS. Someone willing to get the ball rolling.
That is what a leader would have done. - dignon, on 10/12/2007, -7/+21FINALLY!!!! Thank f***in Gawd! Could it be that America is finally awakening from its long, dark slumber? I sure as hell hope so. Someone finally looks beyond the perpetual smoke screen of this Administration.
Bravo! - traviswalters, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Could someone please remove the innacurate button...
- neko, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15I'm amazed that this hasn't been "buried as inaccurate" yet. I thought that was standard policy here for anything remotely political that puts the US government in a bad light.
- 4degrees, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14i think that you shouldnt even be able to label an OPINION piece on Digg as inaccurate... thats just plain dumb.
- OneAndOnlySnob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Inaccurate? I saw the video.. It did happen. Sorry, this is accurate. Inaccurate doesn't mean "I don't like this," it means "This event or product is not real."
- commandar!, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12And the very term 'Islamofacist' is an absurd talking point from the right. Your point is?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13It happened -- it was marked as inaccurate.
The neocons have arrived!!
Seriously though, I was almost in tears hearing it on youtube. Best political speach that I have heard in years. - rlelina, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15Start watching him on MSNBC instead to help his ratings. Last time I checked, he was trailing O'Reilly by a lot.
- babayada, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12How the hell is this "inaccurate"?
Is it Keith Olbermann's evil android duplicate that is giving the speech? - labmouse42, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Transcripts from newscasts have been marked as inaccurate, as well as political opinion pieces.
The inaccurate power is just used to mark something that is not liked. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13You can. It's already been posted like 3 times.
- keitho, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13I visited the WTC site in July this year for the very first time. I walked around the whole scene as well as around the buildings on the opposite side of the highway taking it all in, imagining how people in those same spots perceived what was happening while I was at home watching it unfold on TV.
Its quiet upsetting that Bush did not use his 15 minute speech on Monday to reunite us under the banner of rebuilding the site and giving us hope but instead to shove more political rhetoric down our throats. He should have called up the Port Authority, Congress, New York, Michael Bloomberg and everyone else involved in the reconstruction of the WTC site to rebuild and rebuild now.
I gotta say that I appreciate Olbermann's tirade here. Its well said and poignant. - echo1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13@ egoist
Yeah. so much money spent to help the troops. That must have been why there were all those news stories about how they had to build their own armor because they weren't being given enough from the US. They would take parts of old Iraqi tanks and strap them to their jeeps so that they at least had something between them and the gunfire. - CeeJayDK, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12He wasn't speaking in tongues , its was perfectly correct English and easy to understand.
Ironically I find your post difficult to understand. - Ndiggnation, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Marking a story as inaccurate is getting out of hand on Digg. It's becoming increasingly common that a story is marked inaccurate just because some people don't like it.
In the case of this particular story, the Digg post is essentially "Keith Olberman said this..". That is not inaccurate. The content of what he said may be inaccurate, or you may not agree with it, but that doesn't mean the submission is false. - bemenaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8So glad to see racism is a thing in the past for America
- mymidgetfriend, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Finally someone has said what I have been thinking for the past 5 years.
- mOdQuArK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9@meepus
No matter how you spin it, Clinton was impeached for _lying about a blow job_. I know Clinton-haters like to inflate the "under oath" thing as the absolute worst thing you could do under the law, but the effect on the country from Clinton's private stupidity pales in comparison to the sheer scale and ambition of neo-con stupidity.
It was about the BJ. Get over it and pay attention to the things which are _really_ screwing over our country (and not in a good way). - puffdigger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10"Keith Olbermann is without a doubt the best news anchor on television today."
Yikes. Olbermann is a highly entertaining, and a well informed, commentator, satirist, and sometimes insightful observer, but "best news anchor."? - chrisauman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Olberman is the much needed jolt the media needs. He speaks exactly what's on his mind and really lives up to the job that our media was traditionally supposed to accomplish - to be the fouth branch of government. Just one more step to keep the balance of power in check. Media and the American people MUST question our government. Even if they end up being wrong, at least they've done their job and made us question. We MUST question to preserve our rights or the balance of power will eventually sway to the people with ambition and money. You might call him a partisan hack. Maybe he's just doing his job without compromise or fear.
- Kirsha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Now I know that if an article that speaks in anyway against Bush is marked as innacurate, it MUST be really good.
- nocountries, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Fahrenheit 9/11 was broadcast on British TV for the first time last night (it was on at the movies before, but I missed it).
How, in the light of that film, anyone can continue to support the killing of young American men and women in Iraq in a war to further the financial aims of the Bush family and their cronies, I will never know.
It's always the poor who get sent, there's no Yale boys out there. It's as much a war on the poor people of the US as it is a war on the poor people of Iraq. - labmouse42, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8And he did a great job with that too.
- bemenaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@meepus, you don't necessarily have to digg every opinion up, it's ok to only digg the ones you like up. But don't mark them as inaccurate if you don't like them. That has a different connotation. If you don't agree, don't digg either way, it's an opinion.
Unless someone has a better idea, only thing that seems to fit the system here. - jscro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8He's a commentator, not a news anchor; and a damn fine one.
- GLSmyth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I only wish I could Digg this ore than once.
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