Olbermann To Bush: "This War Is Not About You...Shut The Hell Up!"

To say that is a little over the top, Aunk. I dislike the GOP as much as the next guy, but do you seriously expect them not to carry Texas, Idaho, Utah or West Virginia?

Hetep and Respect TheFunkyBunch, You have a point but I think, like Mohammad Ali said, November is going to shake up the world.

To say that is a little over the top, Aunk.

I thought about your words as I stepped out on this limb. I know I am swimming against the tide (Red/Blue State Model) However, there is something about the Obama revolution that is demonstrating to me that America will be purple in November.

Texas, Idaho, Utah or West Virginia?

Especially Texas, as it is the only way they can recover their good name.

As a 6th generation Texan I can guarantee you that Texas will not recover it's 'good name' but will continue it's time-honored traditions of intolerance, ignorance, revenge, racism and generally Mississippi-With-Highways mentality. McCain will carry the state with Travis County being the only county going to whoever his opponent turns out to be. 10% of the populace who still support Bush live in Texas and they are damned proud of it. No way @!$%#y woman or an alien Negro will EVER be elected in Texas, we got traditions to live up to here!

we got traditions to live up to here!

The word you were looking for was "prejudices" I believe.

-Dave

I live in a blue dot surrounded by a sea of Texas red. There were way more Obama signs than Hillary signs before the primary -- and no McCain signs. If only we could reverse the godawful district lines drawn by Tom 'the exterminator' deLay, so we could boot out our dreadful repub congressman!

Thanks for bring back those bad memories of losing my congressman thanks to 'the exterminator'

Oh, I never forget the work of the Texas Hammer; especially when they trot out those congress district maps that look like buckets of spaghetti. Where is old deLay these days and how has he managed to remain out of prison?

DeLay moved out of state did he not? Go figure...

You know from what I am reading, plenty of folks are pretty sick of politics as normal. Beside the highest power prices and home insurance rates in the nation, a campaign done correctly, just might turn Texas blue.

We used to be. In my lifetime--I guess I can hope eh?

Hetep and Respect ddog and folks, thanks for sharing your on the ground insight regarding Texas.

it's time-honored traditions of intolerance, ignorance, revenge, racism and generally Mississippi-With-Highways mentality.

This does not sound encouraging. Mississippi-with-Highways, dam.

DeLay moved out of state did he not? Go figure...

Here's a quote from his website: "He was responsible for developing the issues and policies that formed the Republican agenda." Sounds to me like that's an admission of guilt, at the very least on conspiracy charges.

Here's what he blames on "Democrat control" of Congress:

1) Consumer confidence plummeted;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soared to?over $3.50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);

To me, this suggests he now lives in Egypt -- the state of denial!

"3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);"

Huh? Is he trying to say it was -..-05% before? Is that even possible? Not one person unemployed?

If it was at 4.5%, a ten percent increase of that figure would be roughly five percent unemployment.

duh... teach me to type and talk on the phone at the same time...

Yeah, I'm not much of a multi-tasker either... ;)

Funky Bunch, Frank Rich made quite an interesting point today about the GOP's latest loss of a safe seat in a safe district, when Travis Childers won an interim election. This was a run-off election, because in the previous election in April, no candidate in the three-way race got a clear majority. Childers got 49% and the Republican candidate, Davis, got 46%. But this past week, Davis hadn't budged from 46%, while Childers got 54%. What happened in the interim? Why did the entire swing vote swing to the Democrat? Well, for one thing, President Bush, John McCain and Karl Rove all campaigned for Davis, and Dick Cheney made a personal appearance. For another, the state GOP ran some very negative ads trying to link Childers to Obama, and by extension with Rev. Wright. Oops, can you say "backfire?" Looks like maybe being associated with Obama does a candidate a lot more good than being associated with McBush.

Hetep and Respect trex, I think they said the Republican Brand is damaged. Bush still thinks he is the best thing since sliced bread and is likely to keep trying to help. The numbers you quote tell an important story, what a Democratic blessing.

Speaking of blessings did you hear about the Rev. Huckabee Obama gun incident.

I love how he speaks with passion.

He's got one camera for the setup...and then he turns...to the camera with the spit-screen. Then takes a breath or two as he calms down and turns back to the screen for the next setup.

This kind of anger being portrayed is a good cathartic thing that we may need as a country. I'm sure there will be several more that come along--maybe trying to top Olbermann.

The people who really deserve to do this kind of talking on-air are the soldiers, their families, Iraqis, people who were run out of their jobs because they tried to do them...not me. Probably not Olbermann, but he did put things starkly and clearly and hit the hard truths, and it was nice to hear.

I just felt like punching something afterward. Joyful punching. Not sure about that.

That's funny, because he is right and you are wrong. Maybe instead of trying to be impressed you should try to get educated. Ignorance is only bliss for the ignorant.

Who's yours?

John's buffoons are George W Bush and Bill O

Buffoons all of them...

Dubya - Self-explanatory
Cheney - Still linking Iraq to 9/11 and special mention for poor marksmanship
Douglas Feith - see Tommy Franks assessment
Dana Perino - press secretary who didn't know what "Bay of Pigs" was
Rumsfeld - going to war with the army he had, not the one he wanted
Messrs. Chertoff and Brown - fumbled Katrina but made no waves
Gonzalez - Mr. Chairman, I'm a buffoon but I don't recall that meeting. Torture, anyone?
Wolfewitz - neo-con-man
Condi Rice - doormat extraordinaire

if Keith Olbermann wasn't such a buffoon

What makes him a buffoon? He has a pretty good education, legitimate journalism credentials and strings together some pretty sensible sentences. Compare that to some of the other TV faces.

What makes him a buffoon?

the fact that he doesn't join JohnRussell in being a NeoCon apologist.

JohnRussell in being a NeoCon apologist.

I don't have the honor of the acquaintance of said JR, but I suspect he is very busy in that role. There's a heck of a lot to apologize for!

Mars - clearly you have no idea who John is; name calling is childish and inflammatory. I note that rather than the community collapsing your comment in violation of the COH, they are voting you up.

Obama supporting newsviners - you are showing your lack of respect for newsvine and it's members as well as your prejudices.

Obama supporting newsviners - you are showing your lack of respect for newsvine and it's members as well as your prejudices.

So you're blaming all Obama supporters for a single incident of name calling? Be careful of the rock throwing, you're dangerously close to hitting your own house.

Mars - clearly you have no idea who John is

No, but I know what kind of person he plays on Newsvine. Someone who makes excuses for the Neo-Con agenda.

name calling is childish and inflammatory.

When someone who is a cheerleader for the Neo-Cons gets called a "Neo-Con apologist" it's not so much name calling, as it's calling that person out.

I note that rather than the community collapsing your comment in violation of the COH, they are voting you up.

That's because they agree with me.

Obama supporting newsviners - you are showing your lack of respect for newsvine and it's members as well as your prejudices.

What a crock of rhetorical bull@!$%#.

A) show me where what I said had ANYTHING to do with Obama.

B) tell me how I, somehow, represent ALL Obama supporters? Do you represent all Bush/Cheney enthusiasts? Thanks for @!$%#ing up our country and economy!!!! we owe you one!

It is not certain that our action period will ever get off the ground, too many things have happened that I would have never believed possible.

We don't know how this awful and monstrous administration will proceed through the next few months and if they wont make a grab at dictatorship. Olbermann's comments merely articulate the frustration and disgust so many of us feel when each new vile Bushco stupidity flops out onto the world stage with all the charm of a maggoty corpse.

I sincerely hope that we can get through the next few months, elect Obama, and get on with our action period which will be dominated by trying to dig out from under the wreckage left from 8 years of GOP misrule and malfeasance.

My, my...so angry, Lisa.

this comment done by mistake. my apologies

Watch the violence talk Lisaed. First warning.

Jimster-20.1---violence talk?--A slap to the face from the charming conservative? I assure you--Keith would probably enjoy it. My goodness---jimster---ya got me shaking in my Nancy Sinatra boots....just because polls say majority of Americans are dissatisfied (not surprising with an unpopular war and economic downturn) does NOT in any way translate to the majority of Americans believe the hate filled trash spewing out of Keith Olberman's mouth each night...his ratings support my premise---NOT your's. Read the Nielsen ratings. oh, and by the way--keith is on the pay roll of Daily Kos. And PS - just what do you think you are warning me about?????

So Olbermann's ratings somehow make your views correct, Lisa?

You don't have to have a giant audience to be correct. What a silly, senseless argument, thanks for the laugh.

And anyone who listens to, reads and agrees with Coulter is in no position to comment about "hate filled trash." At least Keith has reality and facts, not just anger.

I agree with Jim...such violence from you. Blech.

Mary-21.0--please....Mr. Olbermann does not speak for all Americans....far from it. If he did---he'd be producing much better ratings.

lisaed - Agree. Keith, although I enjoy his passion, his state of being is so hate filled in so many ways that he might need some help for his own good. I believe this emotion of hate is so energizing to him that it is frightful. President Bush just decided it was not appropriate to play golf when the military are engaged in two wars, that's it. To show such disrespect and plain ole bias to the president no matter who he is shows the cards he plays. Where was he when Clinton was running the show? A lot of nuggets during those 8 years. Nothing ever gets done effectively with the emotions Keith is showing except if you consider inciting a revolution a good way to deal with your views...

Mary-21.0--please....Mr. Olbermann does not speak for all Americans....far from it.

Heh... per the latest poll on Bush's job approval, he speaks for about three quarters of us... that's a significant majority.

he speaks for about three quarters of us...

Jim 21.3--heh...then too bad for Keith they're not watching Count Down.

I suspect though, he wouldn't trade ratings with Bush for all the tea in China...

Jim-21.5--actually--Bush's ratings are far better than Keith's----ya big silly.

Then he could go to ESPN. No, wait MSNBC hired him after ESPN fired him....

Ahhhh, Stop whining as you know he is absolutely correct. His ratings are far ahead of FOX NOISE, BUSHED.............

EllenR-282008 I'll second that.

It is sad that so many Americans still want to play partisan politics. If you look at the vast majority of those wagging their fingers and spouting rhetoric, they are Republicans who can no longer justify their irrational anger. They can no longer blame the Democrats for failed foreign policy or disastrous domestic policy.

When Clinton left office almost 8 years ago our country was in the best economic shape of the last century. When good ole George leaves office we will be in the worst economic condition. We are hated around the world and losing ground on the world economic stage as well as at home. No child is being left behind, because ALL of them are being left behind.

When Bush took office he had already planned to invade Iraq. So when he turned his focus from Osama Bin Laden to chase Saddam and his WMDs many people protested, including the Democratic minority of congress until they were literally bullied and called unpatriotic for not getting with the program. Sure they caved when they were taken aside one-by-one and talked to and it seemed the majority of the public wanted to invade. Many of us never thought it was a good idea but remained silent for fear of being labeled UN-American.

Thank you Mr. Olbermann for speaking what the "Silent Majority" is feeling.

Exactly and thank you for that imput, the two are joined at the hip and I agree with all ten. Hypocrites and discraceful.