Keith Olbermann Suddenly Quits MSNBC, Countdown: Is there Scandal Involved?
Biased liberal news pundit Keith Olbermann is definitely without morals and scruples, but left-wing squawk-boxes are all aflutter in disheveled chaos as their top stool-pigeon has suddenly announced he is quitting MSNBC and hit propaganda program ‘Countdown’. Is there a foul scandal involved?
Keith Olbermann is a patently boorish person who showed his greatest sins by challenging our fair leader, President George W. Bush, after he healed America after 9/11 with strong leadership and bombing terrorists into passive submission to our authority.
The Armies of Islam, if only for several months, hid in caves and bowed only faced East to cower before America’s God-ordained military. Uday, Hussay and Saddam Hussein all learned the hard way that hell is a hot place and America possessed the authority and ability to send anyone there in an explosion of wrath and fury.
And even as such, Olbermann had no kind words for President Bush. Only criticism and deceit; secrets and lies. While Bush tried to heal a nation and sometimes had to make tough decisions in doing so, we found Olbermann continued to derail Bush’s true intent with the sort of snide, petty remarks that encourage teenage rebellion and feed the dangerous habits of conspiracy nuts.
Keith Olbermann is a shame to journalism, so today’s news of his departure is good for the industry. How can we find ethics in a man who dates a woman 30 years his junior? That is most foul of geriatric sins there can be.
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10:03 pm
That loser just thinks he’ll be like Juan Williams.
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10:58 pm
bush was nice.
he did make one error by saying 130 jews died on 9/11. it was only 3 ..
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12:32 am
I watched this smarty-pants every night, sometimes online other times on the tube. I was even tricked into supporting him last November when he was honest about those political contributions. I was one of the 250K signatures delivered to msnbc to reinstate him. I’ve listened to him delineate all the areas for improvement within the conservative tea party movement and the GOP. I really liked the Thurber on Fridays. Worst persons made me giggle like a Japanese schoolgirl with sake in her lunchbox.
Many times we like to hear only what we want to hear, but sometimes a little criticism is a good thing. He wasn’t really that far left, even if he is friends with that pinko Michael Moore.
As far as intelligence, he outscores that Irish potato head O’Reilly and booze hound Beck. He is wound a bit tight, but solid in his reporting. He admits mistakes and offers sincere apologies.
I will most likely follow him if he appears on another network.
BB
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2:38 am
… You know, I have to agree with Blanche on this. Nothing wrong with Olbermann, really. It’s a shame that he’s gone, but we’ll see what this means in the future.
Olbermann did a lot of good for MSNBC. The whole concept of a news programme analysing and criticising both the left and the right, Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, was fantastic, and it’s one of my favourite things about that network and its news programmes. Criticism is always good. It’s how we improve.
Also, Bush was a terrible president. I’m sorry, but there’s nothing “good” about starting a pointless war because you “think” that they’re harbouring terrorists. How many thousand innocent lives have been lost on either side in this war? Every life is precious and worthwhile. Ending lives for the sake of fighting a war that was never needed in the first place is just ridiculous. I fail to see what “good” Bush ever did for this country.
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9:40 am
How many people did Saddam Hussein murder? We were justified and had every right to put him down.
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11:33 am
And how many people did we murder in the process? How many people continue to be murdered daily as a result of our actions?
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5:58 pm
It’s not murder because we were at war and now that the war is over, we are rebuilding. Sadly, there are still loyalists to Saddam and terror there and as the governing nation of Iraq we have to impose law on them until they can govern themselves.
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10:19 pm
“Killing under the cloak of war is no different than murder.” – Albert Einstein
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11:52 pm
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it”. – Adolf Hitler
So with your little quote up their, Claire, I’m assuming that you’re calling all of our heroic World War II ancestors — from America,Europe and even Russia — who marched into Nazi oppressed Europe to free the Jewish people and others facing persecuted, a band of murderers?
If you dare call the Greatest Generation such, I spit on your thoughts and ideals. How dare you disrespect our elders who defended humanity from a genocidal dictator of the holocaust. How dare you.
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12:12 am
You hate Jews, you hate Russians, you hate Europe, you hate all of the ‘heroes of the greatest generation’. Hell, you’ve shown favoritism towards Hitler several times, and you’re only point in saying that is a futile attempt to make Claire look bad simply because you can’t find any other way. You’ll resort to common tactics when you’ve got nothing left, only a fool brings Hitler into a debate when they’ve got no choice left.
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12:16 am
Hitler? Really?
She never said anything ABOUT Hitler or the Nazis. Killing innocent lives is NEVER okay or permissible. Hear that? Innocent lives.
And here I thought you were all, “NO ABORTION BECAUSE ENDING INNOCENT LIFE IS BAD”, but now you’re saying that it’s only acceptable if it’s an American life. That’s disgusting.
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1:19 am
No, no. Claire boorishly threw Einstein’s quote out there, as if it were some golden, inarguable edict. The fact is that Einstein had to flee to America because there was genocide in Europe. A brutal monster named Hitler was trying to kill the Jewish people and even resorted to allying with the Nazis to cripple America.
Let’s look at Claire’s quote one more time:
““Killing under the cloak of war is no different than murder.” – Albert Einstein”
We defeated the Nazis by killing under the cloak of war. Good men went into German strongholds, all to deliver the oppressed. Some of my ancestors left their families and traveled to Europe, all to give their lives while defending the Jewish people and every other person Hitler sought to destroy. How dare anyone tarnish the memories of the Greatest Generation. British. Russians. French. Americans. Every other nation that lost great heroes during that time are forever in debt. We are forever in repayment of thanks for what they did for us. Calling the heroes of the Greatest Generation ‘murderers’ is low, Claire. Real low. How ironic that you used that quote by a man whose people were saved by a group of multinational ‘murderers’, or as what normal people call them, The Heroes of World War II.
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2:04 am
//No, no. Claire boorishly threw Einstein’s quote out there, as if it were some golden, inarguable edict. The fact is that Einstein had to flee to America because there was genocide in Europe. A brutal monster named Hitler was trying to kill the Jewish people and even resorted to allying with the Nazis to cripple America.//
And again, you’re in favor of killing Jews, because you believe they committed an atrocity and deserve to die. Not only that, but your boyfriend Stevie throws out bible quotes that are irrelevant to the subject matter, but it doesn’t matter because you both play the same game, right?
//We defeated the Nazis by killing under the cloak of war. Good men went into German strongholds, all to deliver the oppressed. Some of my ancestors left their families and traveled to Europe, all to give their lives while defending the Jewish people and every other person Hitler sought to destroy.//
And yet you feel compelled to ram as many Jewish people as you can with pitchforks because you feel as if their sin of killing Jesus was too great. Funny how that is, isn’t it?
//How dare anyone tarnish the memories of the Greatest Generation. British. Russians. French. Americans. Every other nation that lost great heroes during that time are forever in debt.//
Yet America is the only country worth a damn, right? Fuck the rest, they’re just a bunch of sinners, right?
//We are forever in repayment of thanks for what they did for us. Calling the heroes of the Greatest Generation ‘murderers’ is low, Claire. Real low. How ironic that you used that quote by a man whose people were saved by a group of multinational ‘murderers’, or as what normal people call them, The Heroes of World War II.//
Yet you feel the need to completely avoid the subject of being all for the murder of what ended up being an innocent man, just so you can have oil. You went on this entire tangent just so you could avoid having to answer the question that was related to Saddam. YOU brought up Hitler because YOU had no other option to turn to. YOU follow Hitler’s example, YOU lie, and you avoid having to answer the question and give the truth. You’re nothing but a coward who hides behind the idea that you have some sense of ‘honor’ when you’re nothing but a cold-blooded coward.
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2:11 am
Did you just call Saddam Hussein innocent. You are a delusional little bigot.
If I were to give this message of yours to anyone who had to live under Saddam, they would burn you until your little miserable soul singed in the deepest pits of Hell. Your words are beyond contempt.
Then, what is with your opening.
“And again, you’re in favor of killing Jews, because you believe they committed an atrocity and deserve to die. Not only that, but your boyfriend Stevie throws out bible quotes that are irrelevant to the subject matter, but it doesn’t matter because you both play the same game, right”
I have never said such things. I have never said Jews deserve to die. You like and you deceive, then have the audacity to call Saddam Hussein innocent. May the blood of his victims haunt your dreams.
“//How dare anyone tarnish the memories of the Greatest Generation. British. Russians. French. Americans. Every other nation that lost great heroes during that time are forever in debt.//
Yet America is the only country worth a damn, right? Fuck the rest, they’re just a bunch of sinners, right?”
The words are right in front of you, yet you still lie. I gave my respects to multiple countries and you failed to read, because you were blinded by the smoke of lies rising from your fingers as you really tried to defense Saddam Hussein as an innocent man.
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2:48 am
//Did you just call Saddam Hussein innocent. You are a delusional little bigot.//
He was tried for crimes he did not commit. If he was tried for the ones he did, he would be guilty. If a man murders another man, yet is put on trail for stealing from a bank, is he not innocent of the stated crime? Same thing with Saddam. A terrible man who committed crimes, but was tried for crimes he did not commit.
//If I were to give this message of yours to anyone who had to live under Saddam, they would burn you until your little miserable soul singed in the deepest pits of Hell. Your words are beyond contempt.//
Yet you want them to die under nuclear fire. I merely said Saddam was innocent in a trail which had him under false criminal activity. Again, funny how things work, don’t they?
//Then, what is with your opening.
“And again, you’re in favor of killing Jews, because you believe they committed an atrocity and deserve to die. Not only that, but your boyfriend Stevie throws out bible quotes that are irrelevant to the subject matter, but it doesn’t matter because you both play the same game, right”
I have never said such things. I have never said Jews deserve to die. You like and you deceive, then have the audacity to call Saddam Hussein innocent. May the blood of his victims haunt your dreams.//
Bullshit you’ve never said that. You’ve stated so many times that everyone who isn’t Christian isn’t worth shit, and you’ve shown your disregard for human life when it concerns other countries, including the ones involving practitioners of the Jewish religion.
//The words are right in front of you, yet you still lie. I gave my respects to multiple countries and you failed to read, because you were blinded by the smoke of lies rising from your fingers as you really tried to defense Saddam Hussein as an innocent man.//
You’re nothing but a terrible liar. There’s countless times where you’ve said that some other country was inferior and needed to be nuked. How many times have you declared that the Russians needed to be burned? How many times have you tried to make America look like the savior of the world in WW2 and assumed that no other country did anything during that time period? How many times do you lie just to avoid having to answer the truth?
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12:08 am
Saddam did nothing to instigate the war that just occurred. He may have been treating his people poorly, but he treated BOTH sides poorly. Essentially, the rage that the religious had ended up being directed at him, since even the followers of the side he was on hated him; he prevented total decay of a country. He did it with an iron fist, yes, but ever since he left things have been getting worse over there, and it doesn’t help that we didn’t give two shits about them and just wanted their oil. Bush used “he might be hiding terrorists” as an excuse to steal their oil, even after the amount of people finding out that Saddam actually HATES Al Queda and would never hide them anyway. Even after finding no evidence of weapons of mass destruction, we still hunted him down and tried him for war crimes he didn’t commit at that time.
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3:09 am
Are you really that dense, Adam? No one said that Saddam Hussein was “innocent”. We did, however, state that the lives killed during and “following” the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were innocent. CIVILIAN lives. Children, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, infants, the elderly, people who DID NOT NEED TO DIE. And yet, they were killed, and women and girls were raped. Not by their own people, but by OURS.
“In May 2009, we learned that photos of U.S. troops abusing prisoners in Iraq showed an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner, a male translator raping a male prisoner, and sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire, and a phosphorescent tube.
Numerous reports have surfaced of U.S. soldiers raping Iraqi women outside of prison as well. While not all accusations are true, such incidents are not always reported, and those reported to the military are not always made public or prosecuted. Crimes by U.S. mercenaries, including crimes against their own employees, have gone unpunished, since they have operated outside any rule of law. Sometimes we learn aft er-the-fact that the military has investigated rape allegations and dropped the case. In March 2005, the Guardian reported:
Soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Brigade…were under investigation last year for raping Iraqi women, U.S. Army documents reveal. Four soldiers were alleged to have raped two women while on guard duty in a Baghdad shopping precinct. A U.S. Army investigator interviewed several soldiers from the military unit, the 1-15th battalion of the 3rd Infantry Brigade, but did not locate or interview the Iraqi women involved before shutting down the inquiry for lack of evidence.
Then there was the gang rape participated in by Paul Cortez, mentioned in chapter five. The victim’s name was Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi, age 14. According to a sworn statement by one of the accused,
The soldiers noticed her at a checkpoint. They stalked her aft er one or more of them expressed his intention to rape her. On March 12, after playing cards while slugging whisky mixed with a high-energy drink and practicing their golf swings, they changed into black civvies and burst into Abeer’s home in Mahmoudiya, a town 50 miles south of Baghdad. They killed her mother Fikhriya, father Qassim, and five- year-old sister Hadeel with bullets to the forehead, and ‘took turns’ raping Abeer. Finally, they murdered her, drenched the bodies with kerosene, and lit them on fire to destroy the evidence. Then the GIs grilled chicken wings.
Female U.S. soldiers are even in serious danger of rape by their male comrades, and of retribution by their “superiors” if they report assaults. While rape is more common during a hot war, it’s a regular occurrence during cold occupations as well. If the U.S. soldiers never leave Iraq, their rapes never will either. U.S. soldiers rape, on average, two Japanese women per month as part of our ongoing occupation of Japan, begun at the end of “the good war.”"
- From http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22860
“Now is a good time to reflect and consider the Islamic viewpoint on rape, which would argue that if you really cared about those women, you would punish the perpetrators adequately. Under Shariah laws, rape is an act of war against society; those men would have been executed in public. This is why rape is rare in any Islamic society that is governed by the Shariah laws and Islamic values.”
- From http://arabnews.com/opinion/letters/article233588.ece?comments=all
“A recent investigation by The Gazette in Colorado Springs uncovered four disturbing cases of Fort Carson soldiers charged with criminal behavior — ranging from harassment, menacing with a weapon, attempted rape and child abuse — who went to war rather than answer for those allegations. … But dangerous criminals deployed into war zones have the potential to hurt the reputation of all American soldiers and our efforts overseas. In the midst of two nation-building enterprises, each soldier becomes a diplomat, and sending potential violent criminals to foreign countries has the chance to undermine the trust we’re trying to build.”
- From http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_17099847
And then you have rape of women WITHIN the military itself. The AMERICAN military, which you so praise:
“Those familiar with the issue contend the problem has grown more prevalent with the share of women in the ranks. Women now constitute 15 percent of the armed forces, including up to 20 percent of new recruits, according to Pentagon statistics.
Women in the military are twice as likely to be victims of sexual assault as their civilian counterparts, studies show, while sexual abuse is the leading cause of post-traumatic stress disorder among female soldiers.”
- From http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/01/03/tsongas_pushes_legislation_targeting_military_sex_assaults/
Now, it should be noted that I have no PROBLEM with the military. My cousin, who I wrestled with as a young child, was a member of the Marines for a good portion of my life. He is now married to a wonderful woman and has a baby girl of his own, whom he dotes upon. I have known veterans of several branches of the military, and individuals in the ROTC right now are among my friends here at my university. I don’t want to hear you calling me “anti-military”, because that would be a LIE.
I do not, however, promote warmongering. We had no REASON to invade Iraq or Afghanistan. We had no concrete evidence of “Osama bin Laden” hiding in Afghanistan, or of “Weapons of Mass Destruction” in Iraq. We have TORN those countries apart, and cannot leave now, for fear that the fragile systems of government we’ve put in place will collapse and leave these nations in chaos. But we cannot have an eternal occupation, either.
Lives are being lost on both sides, innocent people injured and killed by the effects of war, war that you promote as being “good”. YOU are the one who brought out the “Hitler” argument. None of us did. We promote the protection of innocent lives. Clearly, you do not.
Clearly, you are no Christian, if I as an agnostic lesbian have more respect for life and humanity than you do. That is obvious.
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5:49 am
So when that 14-year-old Arab rape victim was murdered last week, that was the glory of Shariah Law? Get a clue. Muslims rape and pillage, then hide the evidence and try to play innocent. Then they kill the innocent.
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Are you really that dense, Adam? No one said that Saddam Hussein was “innocent”. We did, however, state that the lives killed during and “following” the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were innocent. CIVILIAN lives. Children, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, infants, the elderly, people who DID NOT NEED TO DIE. And yet, they were killed, and women and girls were raped. Not by their own people, but by OURS.
“In May 2009, we learned that photos of U.S. troops abusing prisoners in Iraq showed an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner, a male translator raping a male prisoner, and sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire, and a phosphorescent tube.
Numerous reports have surfaced of U.S. soldiers raping Iraqi women outside of prison as well. While not all accusations are true, such incidents are not always reported, and those reported to the military are not always made public or prosecuted. Crimes by U.S. mercenaries, including crimes against their own employees, have gone unpunished, since they have operated outside any rule of law. Sometimes we learn aft er-the-fact that the military has investigated rape allegations and dropped the case. In March 2005, the Guardian reported:
Soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Brigade…were under investigation last year for raping Iraqi women, U.S. Army documents reveal. Four soldiers were alleged to have raped two women while on guard duty in a Baghdad shopping precinct. A U.S. Army investigator interviewed several soldiers from the military unit, the 1-15th battalion of the 3rd Infantry Brigade, but did not locate or interview the Iraqi women involved before shutting down the inquiry for lack of evidence.
Then there was the gang rape participated in by Paul Cortez, mentioned in chapter five. The victim’s name was Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi, age 14. According to a sworn statement by one of the accused,
The soldiers noticed her at a checkpoint. They stalked her aft er one or more of them expressed his intention to rape her. On March 12, after playing cards while slugging whisky mixed with a high-energy drink and practicing their golf swings, they changed into black civvies and burst into Abeer’s home in Mahmoudiya, a town 50 miles south of Baghdad. They killed her mother Fikhriya, father Qassim, and five- year-old sister Hadeel with bullets to the forehead, and ‘took turns’ raping Abeer. Finally, they murdered her, drenched the bodies with kerosene, and lit them on fire to destroy the evidence. Then the GIs grilled chicken wings.
Female U.S. soldiers are even in serious danger of rape by their male comrades, and of retribution by their “superiors” if they report assaults. While rape is more common during a hot war, it’s a regular occurrence during cold occupations as well. If the U.S. soldiers never leave Iraq, their rapes never will either. U.S. soldiers rape, on average, two Japanese women per month as part of our ongoing occupation of Japan, begun at the end of “the good war.””
- From http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22860
“Now is a good time to reflect and consider the Islamic viewpoint on rape, which would argue that if you really cared about those women, you would punish the perpetrators adequately. Under Shariah laws, rape is an act of war against society; those men would have been executed in public. This is why rape is rare in any Islamic society that is governed by the Shariah laws and Islamic values.”
- From http://arabnews.com/opinion/letters/article233588.ece?comments=all
“A recent investigation by The Gazette in Colorado Springs uncovered four disturbing cases of Fort Carson soldiers charged with criminal behavior — ranging from harassment, menacing with a weapon, attempted rape and child abuse — who went to war rather than answer for those allegations. … But dangerous criminals deployed into war zones have the potential to hurt the reputation of all American soldiers and our efforts overseas. In the midst of two nation-building enterprises, each soldier becomes a diplomat, and sending potential violent criminals to foreign countries has the chance to undermine the trust we’re trying to build.”
- From http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_17099847
And then you have rape of women WITHIN the military itself. The AMERICAN military, which you so praise:
“Those familiar with the issue contend the problem has grown more prevalent with the share of women in the ranks. Women now constitute 15 percent of the armed forces, including up to 20 percent of new recruits, according to Pentagon statistics.
Women in the military are twice as likely to be victims of sexual assault as their civilian counterparts, studies show, while sexual abuse is the leading cause of post-traumatic stress disorder among female soldiers.”
- From http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/01/03/tsongas_pushes_legislation_targeting_military_sex_assaults/
Now, it should be noted that I have no PROBLEM with the military. My cousin, who I wrestled with as a young child, was a member of the Marines for a good portion of my life. He is now married to a wonderful woman and has a baby girl of his own, whom he dotes upon. I have known veterans of several branches of the military, and individuals in the ROTC right now are among my friends here at my university. I don’t want to hear you calling me “anti-military”, because that would be a LIE.
I do not, however, promote warmongering. We had no REASON to invade Iraq or Afghanistan. We had no concrete evidence of “Osama bin Laden” hiding in Afghanistan, or of “Weapons of Mass Destruction” in Iraq. We have TORN those countries apart, and cannot leave now, for fear that the fragile systems of government we’ve put in place will collapse and leave these nations in chaos. But we cannot have an eternal occupation, either.
Lives are being lost on both sides, innocent people injured and killed by the effects of war, war that you promote as being “good”. YOU are the one who brought out the “Hitler” argument. None of us did. We promote the protection of innocent lives. Clearly, you do not.
Clearly, you are no Christian, if I as an agnostic lesbian have more respect for life and humanity than you do. That is obvious.
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