MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann – Friend of Progressives – Enemy of the President
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Until the break these are my comments and thoughts:
The so-called progressives are attacking their leader. They are carrying on with a passion unheard of since the death of Jesus. They are blaming the president for not doing enough on health care, financial reform, global warming, oil in the Gulf, and of course the weather.
Now the screamers can’t really tell you how things could have been done better, and if they do they are just speculating, because in most, [but] not all cases, they are grossly uninformed and lack intellectual balance.
The fact is they expected Harry Potter, and when they didn’t get him they became allies of the Dark Lord. If they continue on their misdirected path they just may well succeed in helping the Republicans win in 2012. When that happens they will whine, weep and wail. They will put up “countdown clocks” but never assume responsibility for their own actions. The “progressives” and their allies, a la Keith Olbermann will become their own worst enemy and then America will weep for [once again] they will be enslaved by the Radical Right.
Here is the latest story and video from our friends at Newser:
George W. Bush is officially off the hook. Since February 2006, Keith Olbermann has taken a shot at the former president at the end of nearly every show, using the same Iraq-themed line: “That’s Countdown, for this, the 2,576th day since the previous president declared “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq. I’m Keith Olbermann. Good night and good luck.” But that signoff was retired as of Monday, in favor of “for this, the 34th day since the Deep Water Horizon oil spill disaster began,” notes Newsbusters. The new line “is much less clearly a direct shot at President Obama as the previous one—Bush was actually in the script,” notes Steve Krakauer for Mediaite. “But the severity of the oil spill and the inaction in cleaning it up, whoever you want to blame, has forced a noted shift in the preeminent liberal cable news show.”
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Good stuff.
I used to like KO until a good friend told me what he is like off camera. He is a prima donna of the worst kind. He bullies his staff and threatens his bosses. Not only that he betrays the leader of the party that put him where he is. in a word or two I could say what I think but Mike the Mad just did (finally) a comment policy so I wont say fornicate him in the vernacular.
The progressives were all over FDR in the 1930s to get more done, the Republicans were all over him to get less done, just like they are with Obama right now. I’m sorry to be repeating myself, but when The Social Security Act was passed in 1935, only half of white men were eligible, minorities and women were virtually excluded, but FDR believed it would be improved and he was right. He kicked the door in and we’ve have made it untouchable since.
SS ACT 1935
Health Care for all will happen, maybe not for 50-plus year-olds but for your kids and grandkids. We live in a world, where if you don’t compromise, you get very little.
Hi Holte, I agree to an extent and hope that you’re right.
Where I have my reservations (which is why Indians were here first,we had reservations) is the change in the electorate. We had strong unions from the 40’s till the 80’s as well as a more liberal democratic party. Plus taxes were high which kept the Republicans from outspending Democrats. With the onset, maybe I should say Onslaught of Reagan things changed and the pendulum swung towards the conservative side. Due to the Dems Triangulation policy (moving to the right to get corporate $) plus the entrenchment of lobbyists I don’t see the pendulum swinging back to the left and thus don’t visualize gradual change happening. But that’s just me and I’m a cynic.
Mike,
I condemned the wars under Bush, I condemn them under Obama.I condemn Wall St bailouts under Bush, I condemn them under Obama. Had Bush bailed out the health insurance industry and got little in return as Obama has done I’d have condemned that too.
I read the fine print, I research the issues. I knew single payer was out of the question as was a public option.A basic affordable package WAS doable and we didn’t even get that. The exact language insurance companies use to routinely deny care due to pre-existing conditions is included in the plan, as is wording to nullify caps.
Financial reform has been gutted.I have detailed this with links to the exact amendments but nobody bothers to read my stuff.
Had Obama changed policy direction I’d support him. He hasn’t, and I don’t.
Mike just one more note on this, Lumping any or every one into that scenario is just plain wrong. I’d like to think that even President Obama would himself would welcome criticism as long as it was constructive. If that means telling him to grow a pair,so be it.
On the Olberman thingy, Keith would be no better than anyone on Fox if he just went along with whatever the President said or did. Remember Bush could do no wrong and revisionist history is still the Norm there. When I tune in to Keith or Rachael I know I’m going to get their perspective, Not Their bosses. So on this we won’t agree, I think were talking of degrees of dissent.
PS Thank you for your service..
I tried to comment earlier in the day… I guess I wasn’t logged in. I’m just going to “ditto” Tim.
I think we all have to follow our own personal drummer. As long as we are honest with ourselves and one another, even if we disagree, our personal integrity is intact… kindness counts. I think that counts more.
Like Oso, I’m disappointed in the President. I certainly don’t desert him, I expect more of him. Like the luncheon where he finally spoke up and kicked Republican butt…. after all those silent months of xenophobic vitriol that we endured during the Health Care debating. While Keith Olbermann championed President Obama. I personally love KO. I think his commentary is usually excellent and Maddow is bomb. She breaks important facts that go by most of the other MSM… I don’t always agree with Olbermann, but usually I do.
Night, folks. 🙂
@Mad Mike,
I’m careful about what I say because the establishment-supporting hacks (read: suckers) that vote Republican on reflex and watch Fox News as though it were information or some variant of actual news will just use it as ammunitiona against a President they oppose thoughtlessly and absolutely.
However, expecting what I voted for, and isnisting on it is the only way I see necessary, and overdue change coming about.
Do you really think any of the Gays shouting at his recent appearances weren’t going to vote for Barack Obama again?
I know what you mean about some of the rhetoric on the Left, and by Progressives, but let’s be honest with ourselves, if we settle for less, we will get less, every damn time.
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’s” forthcoming repeal is a result of a lot of bitching and moaning.
Like FDR famously remarked to the Progressives of his own era who repeatedly squawked that their organizing and support got him elected: You got me elected on all these platforms and promises, now make me do them…
President Obama will not be able to do all these things without a vocal public. Make no mistake, despite all the Tea Bag shouting, at the end of the day, the Obama Administration (Who wanted to give up on healthcare down the line except for the President himself) and the Senate looked at the numbers and saw that those ignorant jackasses at those town halls, (expansive misreprenting media coverage notwithstanding), remain a tiny minority across the nation.
Following the leader blindly = No vision.
This bp thing is a huge fuck up. Our President needs to lead the charge in calling for the arrest of these transnational vandals and crooks.
-SJ
I don’t for a minute think we should follow the leader blindly Sandy, however I also have little patience with those on the left who are so ready to abandon their president. Some of the vitriol being spewed is as black as the oil that is gushing from that broken well-head. Perhaps it is my military/law enforcement upbringing but I believe in loyalty to the boss unless he/she does something unlawful.
A little dramatic,Harry Potter… But you were trying to make a point. Because people (Progressive’s) criticize the President doesn’t mean we won’t vote for him. In fact I’ll hopefully be campaigning for him. The thing is unlike Republicans who are just lemmings for their Republican President, We feel somewhat entitled to speak up for what we believe, after all we did work our ass off getting him in the White House. Another President,FDR once said if you want me to go forward and do things, you have to make me. This is what Progressive’s are doing now, sure we’ll criticize him, be Mad at him, send letters of what we would like to see, that’s fine…Just let a Republican try it and we’ll be all over their shit. We elected him, he’s ours and just like family we’ll stick with him.
I basically repeated your point about FDR below
-unintentional plagiarism…
I am concerned Tim, about the anti-Obama sentiment that I see from many progressives, including friends of mine. They are somehow of the idea that the president is omnipotent and when he doesn’t immediately solve all the problems of the world they immediately leap to the unsupported conclusion that he somehow doesn’t care. It is depressing because it feeds into the agenda of the Right.