Tag: olbermann
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selection ’08: botox, weathermen, prisoners & powder
joe the plumber? more like joe the keating family operativefrom crooks & liars: I guess it’s no wonder John McCain was so happy to use “Joe the Plumber” as a debate prop last night – he’s a partisan Republican who also happens to be a member of McCain’s old friends, the Keating family. From Martin…
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9/11 + 7: playing politics
rnc features ominous 9/11 ‘tribute’from raw replay: The three-minute video, which featured graphic, disturbing images of a plane flying into the World Trade Center and the Twin Towers’ collapse, attempts to conflate all of America’s struggles in the Middle East into a singular crusade against a uniform enemy. “The first attack occurred in Iran,” the…
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olbermann: bush creating ‘embryonic police state’
from raw replay: The Justice Department wants to revise the federal government’s rules for intelligence-gathering by state and local police making it easier to share anything they find about U.S. citizens with the federal government and then letting them retain that information for a decade. This video is from MSNBC’s Countdown, broadcast August 18, 2008.…
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indie rap group makes waves with o’reilly death threats
from raw replay: A provocative new song from a little-known hip hop group is making waves for advocating the murder of two well known conservative icons. The East Coast Avengers, a Boston-based threesome, last week leaked to the Internet a copy of their new song “Kill Bill O’Reilly.” The song’s profane, sometimes crass lyrics don’t…
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another false flag op exposed: dress up navy seals like iranians & shoot at ’em
but they would never do something like 9/11… from thinkprogress: Speaking at the Campus Progress journalism conference earlier this month, Seymour Hersh — a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The New Yorker — revealed that Bush administration officials held a meeting recently in the Vice President’s office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran.…
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Hillaray, RFK, What else do i have to say?
another blatant example of the assassination meme… hillary cites rfk assassination as reason to continuefrom raw replay: Sen. Hillary Clinton, in defending her decision to continue running for the Democratic nomination that almost certainly will go to rival Sen. Barack Obama, reportedly invoked the shooting death of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. “My husband…
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olbermann anti-war rant against cfr member
from raw replay: “On Tuesday, Max Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, insisted that the surge has worked and civilian deaths were down in Iraq. However, he wrote an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal the day before claiming the jump in American fatalities could be a ’sign of things…
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mccain, coulter, hillary, rush & obama: so happy together
obama pushes bill that would mandate global taxfrom paul joseph watson: Presidential frontrunner Barack Obama is pushing a bill that will lead to the implementation of a UN global tax, costing the U.S. at least $845 billion dollars over thirteen years in the name of fighting worldwide poverty, as well as banning “small arms and…
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olbermann, goodman & dobbs: when blowhards collide
olbermann names dobbs ‘worst person in the world’ from radar: On last night’s Countdown, Keith Olbermann connected the dots between faux-populist wind-bag Lou Dobbs and illegal immigrants. The logic goes like this: When she’s not sucking Facebook, Dobbs’s daughter is into the elite sport of horse jumping, a pastime that’s propped up on the backs…
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whistleblower: nsa monitors all web traffic
from raw story: A former technician at AT&T, who alleges that the telecom forwards virtually all of its internet traffic into a “secret room” to facilitate government spying, says the whole operation reminds him of something out of Orwell’s 1984. Appearing on MSNBC’s Countdown program, whistleblower Mark Klein told Keith Olbermann that a copy of…
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War Games Show Bush Wrong On Iraq Pullout
from raw story: Supporters of the war in Iraq – including President George W. Bush – claim that a withdrawal of US forces would lead to an al Qaeda takeover of Iraq. Yet according to Pentagon war games, this scenario is highly unlikely. On Wednesday’s Countdown Keith Olbermann interviewed Washington Post correspondent Thomas Ricks who…
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senate committee passes habeas bill
from thinkprogress: “Today the Senate Judiciary Committee passed an important bill to restore habeas corpus, the sacrosanct Constitutional right to challenge government detention in court, by a vote of eleven to eight.” Watch this new ad by the Alliance for Justice on defending habeas: UPDATE: Reuters article is HERE. update: olbermann: habeas corpus to be…
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bill maher discusses bush’s 9/11 non-reaction
from blacklisted news/prison planet: Bill Maher is asked if there is one question he would put to Bush, what would it be? Maher says he would confront Bush on why he completely failed to immediately react after he was told America was under attack on 9/11.
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olbermann: recalling bush’s iraq ‘missteps so far’
from raw story: In this clip, Keith Olbermann reviews various Bush Administration plans and slogans that have failed to secure Iraq. “Before Mr. Bush was elected, he said he was no nation-builder, nation-building was ‘wrong for America.’ Now, he says, it is ‘vital’ for America,” Olbermann says. He adds, “[Bush] said he would never have…