Keith Olbermann Terrorized and Gov Tries to Hide it
Keith Olbermann is hitting home run after home run, taking on the Bush Cheney led right wing, immoral lie machine, pummelling them unmercifully with truth after truth. He is the strongest voice the left has in the mainstream media. Unlike Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, other strong voices, he does not couch his hard hitting messages in comedy. Last night, he did it again, presenting a chronology of Bush administration failures to do much of anything to respond to the clear warnings he documents that the Clinton administration left for the Bush administration. Now, in spirit, we won't call Condi Rice a liar, but she has her facts wrong. (Here's the video of last night's kick-ass report on the Bush Admin failure to do anything pre-9/11) (Here's the video of last night's kick-ass report on the Bush Admin failure to do anything pre-9/11)
We have serious reason to worry about Olbermann's safety. Last night, he reported that he'd been threatened, apparently with some anthrax-like substance that required him to be subjected to 10 hours of detention in a hospital. He was discharged with a prescription for Cipro.
Worse, he and his network were told to keep this off the air. He discussed it last night in the context of the NY Post violating the government's request to keep this quiet, describing how MSNBC had respected the Murdock owned Fox News request that the media keep a low profile in covering the two kidnapped Journalists in Palestine, and how Murdock-owned NY Post had not respected the government request for a low profile on the investigation of the threat that endangered Olbermann.
Several leading news organizations in recent years have summoned "HazMat" teams and sent employees to the hospital after receiving letters with white powder at their offices. The Post itself received a so-called "anthrax letter" in the fall of 2001, infecting three staffers, who all recovered.
Here is the Post item, which appeared under the headline, "Powder Puff Spooks Keith." On his MSNBC program Wednesday, Olbermann detailed the incident, pointing out numerous errors, including the fact that it took 14 hours for the substance to be cleared as absolutely safe. He spent 10 hours at the hospital, he said. Far from a lollipop, he noted, he was given a prescription for Cipro at the end, not a lollipop.
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MSNBC loudmouth Keith Olbermann flipped out when he opened his home mail yesterday. The acerbic host of "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" was terrified when he opened a suspicious-looking letter with a California postmark and a batch of white powder poured out. A note inside warned Olbermann, who's a frequent critic of President Bush's policies, that it was payback for some of his on-air shtick.
The caustic commentator panicked and frantically called 911 at about 12:30 a.m., sources told The Post's Philip Messing. An NYPD HazMat unit rushed to Olbermann's pad on Central Park South, but preliminary tests indicated the substance was harmless soap powder. However, that wasn't enough to satisfy Olbermann, who insisted on a checkup. He asked to be taken to St. Luke's Hospital, where doctors looked him over and sent him home. Whether they gave him a lollipop on the way out isn't known. Olbermann had no comment.
Well, Olbermann commented last night. And he added that if Fox News has another situation, like the one where it's journalists were kidnapped, he and MSNBC would, in light of the way Murdoch's NY Post handled him... do exactly what the did the first time-- in spite of the way the Murdoch paper handled him.
We know the corrupt Bush appointees routinely use the power of their offices to take care of their own. It is not far fetched to speculate that Olbermann is being subjected to a horrendous abuse of power. The idea that he could be abused and placed in hospital detention for 10 hours, then told to keep quiet about it, for purposes of national security, possibly by the FBI, is outrageous and frightening.
Ever since his first of what are now many tough monologues attacking Bush and company, I have feared for the viability of his show. Now, with this latest development I fear for his safety and his life. The stakes are very high here.
Olbermann's message, if it gets out to the voters, could be devastating to the Republicans in November. They've already declared to their base that they are pulling out all the stops, going for broke. It is not unreasonable to assume that these politicians, who have already proved how low, how corrupt they can go, will pull out all the stops when it comes to corrupt, illegal moves as well as legal ones.
Olbermann's heroic-- and it is truly heroic reporting must be protected by the Democratic party and those on the left. I call upon Democratic legislators in congress to hold independent investigations into the terrorist threat upon Olbermann's life. Right wingers who think they can get away with intimidation of the press, the strongest voice standing up to the administration must see that they put themselves at risk, that they do not engage in their invidious acts with impunity.
We on the left must support MSNBC for the courage it is demonstrating by supporting the advertisers that are backing Olbermann's show.
This is a partial list of the advertisers whose commercials were on the show last night, with contact information for some supplied with the help of a reader.
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What makes him even more powerful is that, listening to him over the years, one has the impression he was never necessarily a liberal, just an impartial observer moved to express his outrage by what he's witnessed.
Recall too that when he started as a sports announcer on ESPN in its infancy, he helped define that station's wise guy tone. I could never have guessed he'd become the Edward R. Murrow of our times. We need K.O. safe and healthy!
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Russ Wellen (58 articles, 1029 quicklinks, 66 diaries, 335 comments)
on Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 8:45:10 AM
Maybe MSNBC learned something from the heat it took when it let Phil Donahue go around the time of the invasion of Iraq. Donahue hosted the most popular program that MSNBC was airing at the time, yet it feared the wrath of The Regime if it allowed Donahue to continue to question its ill advised exploits.
MSNBC has shown courage, thus far, at least, in allowing Olbermann to continue his commentary criticizing The Regime. An even more courageous step that MSNBC can take would be to publicly apologize to Donahue and reinstate his show, even if it had to pay him a higher salary.
Rob, you and OpEdNews have given a voice to many people on both sides of issues. It may be an imagination's figment, but it seems that the more truly open a news source is, the more it attracts progressives. This is the case with OpEdNews.com.
However, if Fox News wanted to model itself after a news/commentary source that is truly "fair and balanced", it would model itself after OpEdNews.
Michael Bonanno
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Michael Bonanno (60 articles, 14 quicklinks, 23 diaries, 105 comments)
on Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 9:48:46 AM
Rob the following comment really shows how partisan you and this site are.
QUOTE "I call upon Democratic legislators in congress to hold independent investigations into the terrorist threat upon Olbermann's life. Right wingers who think they can get away with intimidation of the press, the strongest voice standing up to the administration must see that they put themselves at risk, that they do not engage in their invidious acts with impunity. " unQUOTE
So either you are ignorant of similiar atacks against conservative journalists and likley ignore those against the far right. Or you are being a hypocrite and only yell fire when some anti-Bush guys starts whining about how he was attacked/treated/ridiculed.
BTW the times cited for ISOLATION due to a possible airborne contagion are not excessive. Nor is the request not to sensationalize the event. Since the perp, most likely a mental case, is only encouraged to do it again. But KO had to go screaming and playing the victim. Except Keith ain't dead or even injured unlike those poor unfortunate people in '01.
/As to the other commenterx's statement about this site being "fair and balanced"; only if you view is out there with World Worker's Party.
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Vulture (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 153 comments)
on Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 11:46:19 AM
Well, this site is progressive-- left leaning. But you'll find articles, plenty of them, criticizing Democrats as well as republicans. So I'll split hairs with you on your accusation. We are non-partisan, left leaning. I have voted for Republicans in the past. Currently, I haven't seen any I could support, but it's possible. Funny. Jerry Falwell said the same thing about Democrats the other day, then gave Joe Lieberman as an example.
A lot of sites wouldn't put up with the likes of you-- as long as you follow basic netiquette and don't engage in ad hominem personal attacks, gross lies, etc., I'll leave you on here, though I've had complaints about you and requests to block you. Hell, in nature, we need to face the reality that there are parts of nature we don't like that are necessary. Some even smell. So, keep on posting intelligent, cordial commentary-- and tough but cordial is fine too, and you'll be a welcome participant in the conversation. I have blood relatives who are conservative. We disagree but get along.
But your comment on right wing journalists being threatened is interesting. It would be more helpful if you provided links for it, so we can see what you are talking about.
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Rob Kall (694 articles, 3700 quicklinks, 292 diaries, 1359 comments)
on Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 12:17:10 PM
Well you can google anthrax hoax letter journalists
But I hope the name Judith Miller rings a bell. And then there was Thompson of the Washington Post. And yes Rush got a letter also. Remember since these are hoaxes most conservatives don't make such a big deal of it. Why because what KO did only encourages more incidents from the crazies.
And as for letting me stay around, I guess you have zero interest/reason toward convincing someone not of the same of the value of your position. Like all too many here, your just trying to be the loudest voice in the choir.
As I stated in other commments, if you can't convince me that you have a valid point, how do you expect half of America to side with you? And we are the half presently in power and armed (mentioned for all the ranters here who support some fantasical populist uprising to unseat the GWB admin).
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Vulture (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 153 comments)
on Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 2:02:14 PM
Nah. The right wing is already decomposing in its own stew of corruption and betrayal of constituents. Of course crooked regimes can go pretty far before they fall.
Regarding convincing-- I've come to believe that it's a combination of information and readiness to "wake up." Eventually, people hear their last lie that they accept or ignore. Then perceptions and attitudes change. Some people just drink the koolaid, like the folks in Jonestown. Some wake up and run as fast as they can once they realize what they've been supporting. BTW, I have a rifle too.
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Rob Kall (694 articles, 3700 quicklinks, 292 diaries, 1359 comments)
on Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 4:43:38 PM
Rob said "A lot of sites wouldn't put up with the likes of you".
Yet you put up with spammers out for personal gain like
Reader11722 (0 articles, 11 comments) [all of them pushing his POS book since July] NOTE the POS comment is by people who have read it.
And Reader ain't the whole one pushing for material gain around here in the guise of "progressive awareness".
So give me a friggin' break, at least I have a clue.
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Vulture (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 153 comments)
on Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 5:49:41 PM
Vulturetx is not upset at all that the NY Post did something the FBI and other authorities asked the press not to do. I wonder if the threat had been to Billy O or Rush Limberger Cheeze Ball and if the Washington Post made fun of them in an editorial while ignoring the FBI request to keep the case silent, I wonder if Vulturetx would be as silent about the Washington Post breaking the requested code of silence as he is with the NY Post.
Rob, is it not ironic that the right wing talks so much against the "evil insiders" breaking so called secret documents while they care not one wit about the NY Post doing what they have done as they conveniently overlook the outing of Valerie Plame? AND Vulturetx has the guts to call you a hypocrite! Talk about hypocrisy! Wow! That takes gonads, even if the gonads are hydro cells.
Rob, two things any one writes about right now are for sure going to draw major fire from the reactionary right for they cannot allow the light to come into their dark closet of lies. Clinton and Countdown are too fresh and they hurt too much:
1. an honest defense of Clinton's setting the record straight on Fox News.
2. an honest defense of "Countdown" with Keith O.
The radical right wing reactionaries just hate it when some one simply lists out the facts as they really happened while destroying their spin. Man, do they dread the coming first Tuesday in November. They are so afraid that the Democrats are going to do to the Bush Cheney Chain Gang what the Newt boys did to Clinton: Whitewater, Filegate, and Spermgate. Was it 80 million bucks spent on Whitewater and another 80 million bucks spent on the sperm impeachment? I lost count.
Here it comes, Vulturetx! SUBPOENA POWER in at least one House of Congress. JANUARY 2007. I will probably get fired watching so much C-Span.
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pratliff94 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 907 comments)
on Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 1:55:26 PM
Prat- Are you trolling on this thread just to be annoying.
It appears you have no idea who I am or what Rob and I have publicly stated in the past.
I am on record as saying the DEMs will take control of Congress come November. I am personally amused that you put so much stock in congressional subpoena power. Since this admin has already shown that they can not be forced to disclose by claiming exec privilege and national security waivers.
And I don't have to defend anyone else's actions. What you and yours have to do is convince me and the others who hold some nominal power of stability in this society that we should go along with your wishes.
This site has articles calling for:
EU armed intervention
Attacking the POTUS
supporting a Coup De Etat
A seriously farfetched LEO action to arrest Bush and Cheney.
Many wishful calls for impeachment that neither the DNC nor any lawyer familiar with presidential history would ever attempt. Ramsey Clark excepted; but only the left takes him seriously anyway and I hope they are humoring the wacko.
So based on these examples I fail to see anything but a "progressive" site that abhors having any of its fantasies challenged. As noted by the many and not very varied attacks on me and the few others who dare challeged the status quo around here. And to even dare to state that this site is "balanced" vs. U.S. Political Ideology/Reality just makes the charge hypocrite more apropos. You have a few moderates but that is it.
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Vulture (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 153 comments)
on Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 4:49:10 PM
Vulturetx, I really do not care who you are. And I really do not care about your thread with Rob. Your comment is placed in the open forum for all to read and respond.If I am not mistaken right below your senseless attack on Rob is a couple words which offers "REPLY TO THIS COMMENT." I replied. If you wished it to be a private conversation then right at the end of his article is his private email address. I have contacted him personally many times about things on which he and I disagree. I would advise you to do the same. Rob and I still need to have a thorough discussion about evangelism and historical Christianity in culture.
I still come to the same conclusion that it really appears that you and the right wing are very upset that the Democrats will most likely do to Bush what the Republicans did to Clinton; and I think many on the right know what is going to happen to Bush and Cheney when we learn what happened to the ninety billion dollars which disappeared in Iraq with Haliburton. When that comes to light with the five hundred million which has disappeared in New Orleans there will be a Day of Reckoning with the American people. This is just not a private sexual affair with sperm on a dress and whether or not a President lied about questions which should never have been asked him. This is as serious as bankrupted United States, three thousand United States troops dead, and around almost two hundred thousand Iraqis.
We are really interested in finding out about the connections Bush/Cheney has and had with Halliburton. We are interested in what really happened in the Ohio elections. We are really interested in what happened and when it happened with Joe Wilson's report from Niger. What did it say? Was it trustworthy? Who saw it? When did they see it? What was the result? We are really interested in whether Wilson is lying or Dick Cheney is lying. We are really interested in issuing subpoenas to Richard Clarke, Condolessa Rice, Wolfowitz, Powell and the whole herd about dozens of subjects. People must be very careful about telling the truth or lying under oath as Clinton found out and the Republicans will find out if the Democrats get control of either the Senate or the House. There needs to be an airing out of the barn to see who is really full of manure and who is really who they say they are. We need to do this as relentlessly as Helms, Thurman, Hatch, Gingrich, and Delay did with Whitewater, Filegate, and the Monica affair.
We need to do this so that the Republican know if they tie up the next Democrat President for the whole eight years as they tied Clinton up with those silly so called scandals and one witch hunt after another silly witch hunt, it is going to happen to the Republicans the same way every time. The Republican need to learn that comity is not something the Democrats should practice by themselves. I can hardly wait for the wails and crocodile tears coming from the right side of the aisle when they get a ten thousand page bill just one hour before the vote while the Democrats have had days to look at it in fine detail. This is basically what has happened for twelve years in the House the Democrats. It is revenge time not for the silly sake of revenge, but to teach a lesson to the Republicans that the minority is not to be shut off from all political intercourse. Who knows maybe with enough real pain the so called compassionate conservatives can learn a little compassion.
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pratliff94 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 907 comments)
on Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 10:03:14 PM
For you to equeate Clinton's perjury in front of a grand jury with partisan congressional grilling on the GWB admin just says so much about your real motivations. And it looks like effective govt is not going be available in 2007 if he DEMs take your lead.
/An Congresional inquisition will get no one significant out of the GWB admin. So keep dreaming,some minor staffers may be hung out to dry, but really can't you at least study the history of the GWB admin itself. NAtional security and executive priviliege will be invoked repeatedly and the DEMs will end up looking stupid if they took your advice.
// Why does this sound more and more like rabid leftists' fantasies. As opposed to the DEMS taking Congress and becoming a balance to the GWB Whitehouse?
///And the silence about Dean's and Pelosi's nonsupportive stance for impeachment is becoming evem more telling in the articles here. Or should I say delusional wishful denial.
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Vulture (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 153 comments)
on Friday, September 29, 2006 at 10:32:39 AM
And you call this administration effective government?
Have you heard of Iraq, FEMA, International Debt, National Debt, No Child Left Behind, crime rising to new heights? Is there anything working for this Administration but more new tax breaks for the filthy rich and the right to torture human beings as the WW II Gestapo did?
You should go into art. You have an unbelievable imagination. You would do great as a fictional writer. As far as delusional thinking, what is it now? Less than forty days until the table is set, but the real run on the table will begin around February 5. We will know by then whether it is delusion or reality. Even Bobbie Woodward who knows he was a major instrument in the run up to the invasion and then helped try to kill the Plame scandal investigation is now pulling in his pieces so he will not be completely shut out of the Democrat circles. I will not buy his new book. He is pure mercenary.
Since you take Vulturetx as your handle, you know the media crowd is like a heard of vultures. When they sense the dying, they begin circling the wounded. It looks like the sky is becoming dark with vultures circling the Republican camp. They sense the carnage. MSNBC began the cross over about six to eight months ago and it appears that CNN is joining the feast with GWB as the main dish.
I wished Bush and the reactionary right wing Congress had been fair. Lord knows they had ample opportunity, but the radical religious right of Pat Robertson, Jerry Foulwell (I really hate he is a Southern Baptist. I wished he had stayed with the Independent Fightin' Fundies where he belonged. He is trashing up my denomination) would not allow anything but "harem" in the Old Testament sense of the word. The Republicans must be taught a lesson or we will eventually lose this nation to a Bush-like dictator.
Just think, the first great document of this wonderful country begins, "We hold these truths to be self evident THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL and are endowed with their Creator with certain inalienable rights." It says nothing about American citizenship. Deny those inalienable rights to them today; they will be denied to us tomorrow-- right to fair trial, right to see the evidence, right to converse with families, right of habeas corpus. I realize it places us at a disadvantage, but I trust the Lord will bless us with victory when we do what is right. He never blesses wrong. As for myself, I had rather be dead than lose my liberty. It is not for sale at any price, especially for my security.
OBHG
Phil.
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pratliff94 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 907 comments)
on Friday, September 29, 2006 at 8:18:49 PM
First silly leftists revenge and now a Godwin.
Prat said "and the right to torture human beings as the WW II Gestapo did?"
Yeah preatleff let's call the military intelligence guys at Gitmo and elsewhere Goose Stepping Gestapo. Sorry when you go off the deep end and Godwin, there is no hope for dialogue , just ridicule.
/And yes I can call a Godwin , I knew Mike back we got people together for the EFF here in Austin.
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Vulture (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 153 comments)
on Friday, September 29, 2006 at 9:00:24 PM
Venturetx, since you like to make a play on names, would it not be interesting to be as juvenile and change the "e" in your handle to "d"? I will leave that to others. I notice you never answer argument with argument, but with...?
Phil.
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pratliff94 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 907 comments)
on Saturday, September 30, 2006 at 9:43:52 AM
excuse me prat but you already did mess up my name so between that and your content , I already assume you are juvenile in your views. It's not like you show any historical perspective on the subect at had.
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Vulture (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 153 comments)
on Saturday, September 30, 2006 at 1:58:46 PM
It would be unseemly for Pelosi to push for impeachment, since she would become president if Bush and Cheney are impeached. (Clean up your vomit and keep reading, vulturex)
Our polling has shown that impeachment does NOT resonate with voters, particularly independents. But investigations DO. So expect investigations, and then, look out as the maggots pour out of the republican personae.
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Rob Kall (694 articles, 3700 quicklinks, 292 diaries, 1359 comments)
on Friday, September 29, 2006 at 10:21:16 PM
"impeachment does not resonate with the voters" - Wow Rob you are some spin doctor. Last I checked the american public did not think that the GWB admin had done anything impeachable.
AS for your revenge via hearings, I guess whatever makes you happy. The left after being unable to take down Bush-Cheney-Rove-Rice proceeded to reenact the inquisiton and destroy some mid level GOP buraucrats in the name of victory in 2007. This will then loudly be propagandized as a victory over the evil right wing and all who supported them.
That is what I am hearing here, Rob KAll. And frankly it sounds way too similiar to the arab warriors after they won a minor battle but lost the war (again).
/But at least the Leftist(excuse me progressive) inquisition will spend the energy of the Dems for at least two years. Ensuring that nothing much gets done in Congress. And that is admittedly a good thing given the coming situation.
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Vulture (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 153 comments)
on Saturday, September 30, 2006 at 2:10:11 PM
Of course the content of the site is biased. If you do not like what you are reading then just go somewhere else. Go listen to your precious Rush Limbaugh on the radio or something.
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Charlie Hogue (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4 comments)
on Friday, September 29, 2006 at 7:33:27 AM
Keith Olbermann was sent a message. The US gov't silences critics all the time. The gov't cages peaceful protestors, bans books like "America Deceived" from Amazon and fires 21-year tenured, BYU physics professor Stephen Jones because he proved that explosives, thermite, in particular, brought down the WTC buildings. Olbermann will probably have a car 'accident' soon. Or maybe the gov't will burn him alive like it did to the people at WACO.
Final link (before Google Books caves to pressure and drops the title):
click here
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Lorring II (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 85 comments)
on Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 4:33:48 PM
I am waiting to see how low they will go before the elections. will they go low enough to trigger another "event?" If so, they do indeed belong in jail. Wonder why we don't have more with the courage of Olbermann.
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Devon Greene (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 5 comments)
on Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 6:52:22 PM
Having read all the comments here, then having clicked on the link provided to the video, all I can say is I would love to see vulturetx refute the video and all of the information therein.
Sure, you can slam Mr. Olbermann all you want, and in classic Neo-con style, change the subject, but you can't refute any of what was said in that video, nor have you even tried. Instead, you attempted to throw spin around, call names, and generally act like what I would expect a Neo-con who has drank of the Kool-Aide to do, make everyone out who doesn't think like you to be a bad guy in some form or fashion.
I also found it rather interesting that vulturetx has a huge number of comments, but not one single article to his credit. Why is that? Have you tried to post one? Or do you do better by slamming the opinions of others than you do by posting an article of you own and having it slammed?
Rob, would you post an article written by vulturetx if it had merit? If so, then I challenge vulturetx to give it a go. I am sure you could find lots of things to write about.
Just watch Fox News. They are frought with lots of Neo-con drivel. I am sure you could find something to rant about. Of course, you'd leave yourself open to the kind of garbage you throw at others, but you seem to think you are man enough to take it. So prove it!
Why don't you take just one of the things covered in the report link and refute it? That might be fun! Or maybe you could cheerlead for a congress that allows torture to be the law of the land, and tell us all how wonderful torture is as a tool of information extraction. There's two ideas right there! I helped you along, so get writing, Bubba!
Well?
Blessed be!
Pappy
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Pappy (61 articles, 0 quicklinks, 9 diaries, 830 comments)
on Friday, September 29, 2006 at 3:42:47 AM
First off, I should tell you that I agree with your assessment that Keith Olbermann is doing an excellent job with his television show. I also agree that some of the sponsors that advertise during his show should be rewarded for their support. HOWEVER, it is important to realize that many of these corporations that you listed routinely contribute heavily to republican candidates. Many of these corporations contribute either exclusively to republican candidates, or disproportionally (at best) in favor of repuglican candidates. I suggest that you refer to the information available at www.buyblue.com for an accurate portrayal of corporate political donations.
Sincerely,
Charlie Hogue
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Charlie Hogue (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4 comments)
on Friday, September 29, 2006 at 7:27:29 AM
