When An Olbermann Special Comment Kicks Ass

If you love your country, (for USA residents), watch the video below.  MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann sometimes borders on committing the same sins of hyperbole and one-sidedness that he rightfully calls out the likes of Hannity and Glenn Beck for on a regular basis.  Every now and then I’m reminded he is truly on a different intellectual plane than his detractors when he delivers an especially hard-hitting, well-reasoned “Special Comment” that spares no one, not even the political leaders with which we all may think he is normally aligned.

Tonight was such a night, with Keith coming to the Shirley Sherrod fray guns a ‘blazin.  He really had me when he said to President Barack Obama – beseeching him to return to the ‘Fired Up – Ready to Go’ Barack – “We’re in a freaking war out here!”

Watch Olbermann, you’ll know of which war he speaks. And, even if you’re not on his side, perhaps some of his words will at least make you think about where you’re getting your information — and what you’re doing with it.

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Maybe I’m a fuddy-duddy, but my once personal hero, Keith Olbermann, has been wearing my last nerve with the unabashed continuous liberal dogma slant on Countdown.  Most of it I agree with.  The fuddy-duddiness comes into play when I have to remind myself I’m still looking for news and information from the news on TV and not the constant spin cycle of partisan slant and infotainment.

I resigned myself to the fact that Countdown is going to be the liberal version of “The Factor,” and I continue to watch it occaisionally.  I lean left, but I get irritated with anyone or any source that is as cliche left as O’Reilly’s piece of shit show is cliche, bullying right.

Last night, Olbermann proved again he is not entirely in the tank for Obama and that he’s willing to speak out when he disagrees with the president.  I respect that:

Transcript: Olbermann Special Comment Obama Half-Measures on Bush Era Torture

(Source: MSNBC)
As promised, a Special Comment now on the president’s revelation of the remainder of this nightmare of Bush Administration torture memos. This President has gone where few before him, dared. The dirty laundry — illegal, un-American, self-defeating, self-destroying — is out for all to see.

Mr. Obama deserves our praise and our thanks for that. And yet he has gone but half-way. And, in this case, in far too many respects, half the distance is worse than standing still. Today, Mr. President, in acknowledging these science-fiction-like documents, you said that:

“This is a time for reflection, not retribution. I respect the strong views and emotions that these issues evoke.”

“We have been through a dark and painful chapter in our history.

“But at a time of great challenges and disturbing disunity, nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past.

Mr. President, you are wrong.

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Transcript: Keith Olbermann Gets Tough With Bailed Out Banks – Enough!

(Source: MSNBC)
Finally tonight, as promised, a Special Comment on the latest atrocity from the banks. The vast, engorged, gluttonous multi-national corporations. Whose sneezes can be fatal to our jobs. Whose mistakes can turn us into the homeless. Whose accounting errors can be so panoramic that they can make our economy tremble and force us to hand them billions after billions in a blackmail scheme that has come to be known as “bailout.”

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