While you figure out whether you want to watch the History Channel's all-day (and all-night) coverage of the Twin Towers falling, Keith Olbermann already determined how he wanted to usher in the day of mourning: by slamming the McCain campaign's supposed exploitation of 9/11. "This is supposed to be a day of remembrance," Olbermann said last night. "Remembrance of the attack, remembrance of the national unity which followed it. Most important of all, remembrance of the dead." Except then McCain went and exploited it! We've got Olbermann's entire delivery below, but as you watch, imagine not Olbermann saying these words, but Barack Obama. The Countdown anchor has become the Democratic nominee's mouthpiece in all attack matters, and while Olbermann may have spoken these words all on his own — whether Obama was in the picture or not — it's becoming harder to separate official campaign talking points from Olbermann's own rhetoric. Much the same way it's always been hard to distinguish the Bush administration's agenda from Bill O'Reilly's.
The television networks were told that the Convention would pause, early in the evening, when children could still be watching, for a 9/11 Tribute, and they were encouraged to broadcast it.
What we got was not a tribute to the dead of 9/11, nor even a tribute to the responders, or the singularity of purpose we all felt. The Republicans gave us sociological pornography, a virtual snuff film.
Years ago, responsible television networks, to the applause of the nation, and the relief of its mental health authorities, voluntarily stopped showing the most graphic of the images of the World Trade Center, except with the strongest of warnings.
And yet, the Republicans, at their convention, having virtually seized control of the cable news operations, showed the worst of it.
This is all anyone with a conscience can show you of what the Republicans showed you. The actual collapse of the smoking towers.
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This was a 9/11 Tribute. Not to the dead, nor to the unity. But a tribute to how valuable 9/11 has been as a political tool for the Republican Party. 9/11… (TM.)
Sen. McCain, you had promised us a clean campaign. You could be Snow-White the rest of the way, Sir, yet that manipulative videotape from your convention should tar you always in the minds of decent Americans.
And still, as this seventh 9/11 (TM) approaches that, Sir, is not the worst of your contributions to the utter politicizing of a day that should be sacrosanct to all of us.
Hard to believe, but the Senator has done worse with 9/11 and the evil behind it.
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So you don't agree with KO, here? Put your personal feelings for him aside. You think what he is saying is some sort of misleading spin?
There's a big difference between advancing "talking points" that are complete falsehoods and stating things that are plainly true, even if it supports one candidate over the other.
Like Stephen Colbert says, reality has a liberal bias.
I like Keith but there's something hypocritical about his comments when I have to wake up every single September 11th anniversary and watch as his network (MSNBC) broadcasts the original Today Show from that horrible day in real time.
McCain has a nerve to show up in NYC at all after all the railing his party does against "east coast, big city, liberal elite."
I'm surprised he didn't get an ear full of "fuggedaboutits."
"Like Stephen Colbert says, reality has a liberal bias."
And this will stay true as long as republican's continue to define as "liberal" every point of view that doesn't support their party's re-election to office.
John McCain is George W. Bush with a pot belly and bald head. He is a phony propagandist so obsessed with the American presidency that he will use the deranged and demented Carl Rove to engage the same sick and perverse tactics that he used to get the moron George W. into office by hook or by crook (mostly by crook.) To everyone who thought John McCain was a man of honor and integrity, all they have to do is listen to his current lies and distortios and watch him hide behind the skirts of Sarah "The Queen Of Pork" Palin, never mind if she wears lipstick or not.
This woman is not a conservative, she is a fanatical nut case and I feel sure she will be found out before the election and that the American people are not stupid enough to be duped again into allowing more of the destruction of our constitution and personal freedoms, more war, etc. perpetrated upon us by George W' lies and distortions. If we ever needed change in our history and our lives, it's now. And John McCain represents change??? Give me a break please!!!
I was unaware that Colbert was the end-all for considering what is reality & if you think he is then I feel sorry for you. How dare McCain (& Obama btw) show respect for the folks that passed on the day. Why the nerve of those guys! Keith-O's false outrage is showing here and it ain't pretty. I've got news for you, Keith-O' was not the only one to loose loved ones/friends that day & I'm sure that some of them have differing opinions than Keith-O'. We should all show respect every day for those that passed on September 11th by living our lives as best we can and do good as much good as we can. It is the least we can do for those folks that left us on that day surely cannot.
KO seems to be trying to cover up 9/11 so that hopefully we forget it.
I couldn't agree with him more. Remember the day for the tragedy that it is. Don't exploit for your own gain. To do so is lowest form of cynial political garbage. The republicans do it all the time. They either exploit it to tell people who great the GOP is, or they're exploiting it to make people cower in fear and vote republican. It's disgusting.
Score another point for Keith Olbermann!
this is a bit intense. I understand what he's getting at, but i too find it somewhat hypocritical that KO shows pictures of the scenes that he is angry at the republicans for showing. I always find his special comments lacking in nuance. he likes seize upon certain things and exaggerate them to the point of absurdity seemingly without fully considering the complexities in the other side of the argument. I find him more and more disturbingly partisan each day. Rachel Maddow ftw!
Obama loves Keith….. he will make him press Secretary when he becomes president in 2020
I can't listen to this idiot anymore. He's so filled with vile and hate it's hard to take him objectively, even reasonably or rationally. I don't think he's helping Obama at all with his disgust and hatred of the republican party and GW Bush. He can blame Giuliani with not being properly prepared for 9/11 but hey Keith, whatca going to do when they turn our own airlines against us? Keith is clearly not the sharpest pencil in the box.
Um…I believe he was talking about the "tribute" to 9/11 at the RNC and not about today. BTW, maybe you guys can explain to us why McCain doesn't go out and hunt down Osama bin Laden since he "knows how to get him."
Olbermann has turned into the craziest son of a bitch on the planet…….I hope someone crushes the back of his empty skull in with a rock!
Cracker, wow, how well thought out and civil of you …
Don't you people even get it yet. It's not Keith.Sure he's probably angry. There are millions of us out there that are. At least he can say it like it is where the rests of us can only vote. Hopefully, after Nov.4th we won't hear the names McCain, Bush and palin anymore. This country is in such bad shape give America a chance. That's of course you like what's going on. If so do you even recognize this country?
Gloria, from your mouth to God's ear. Let's hope the voters are smart enough not to go for four more years of Hell.
First of all, Cracker you indeed have some real anger issues, my, my such violence. As far as KO, I am for everything he has said. He makes people think because he tells lit like it is, he tells us the truth. McCain and his cohorts are so "out there" that it is to the point of obsurdity. McCain wants the Americans to continue to live in fear so that he can make promises in his campaign to help him elected. If he knows how to get Osama then what the hell is he waiting for? Hmm, I wonder. I am really embarrassed by all of you that believe in the republican party…they have taken us down, far, far down. What is wrong with you people??
Are some of you that crazy? While Bush has been in office, granted he's not been very good, the dem senate and congress is who you should be looking at, they are the ones who make the bills and have put this country in turmoil. No, don't go there, keith slobbermann is nothing but a hack moron. As for him telling the truth, that is the farthest thing from the truth. His information comes from left blog sites that are less than 1% correct. As in his recent remarks of how Palin sold the jet on ebay, she actually said that she PUT the jet on ebay for sale. These are the types of things that Keith misinforms people on, in otherwords LIES about. You people need to get your facts from all sides not just from the deplorable, ignorant, moronic keith slobberman
Woody you give to much credit to the American voter, the proof being eight years of George W. Bush
So why don't we just start a little countdown of our own and see how long it takes for Keith to air a Special Comment on his own network's explotation of 9/11 for commercial purposes.
KO continues to self-destruct on live tv.
He is a big fat mean bore. And not helping Obama.
I love Keith!!! He only speaks the truth that others don't have the guts to do. There is nothing he has said that is not verifiable truth.
KO is a bloated, blubbering, cowardly IDIOT.
This is a guy that was despised and hated by his ESPN colleagues — mind you, people who actually went public about how glad they were that he was finally gone — and now he's equally despised and hated at NBC/MSNBC. Trust me, I know. I have friends who work there and they'll be the first to tell you that behind the scenes KO is universally reviled as a bully and people will (once again) celebrate when he's gone.
As for his mock indignation over 9/11 — gee, funny thing, he loves to go after McCain yet KO just had Obama on his show and never asked any hard questions as to what he would do to get Bin Laden. In fact, I've yet to hear ANY words of brilliance from Obama how he intends to get Bin Laden other than the usual political lip service. But did KO — for all the angst and emotional turmoil he supposedly feels — feel the need to ask Obama what his solution was? No.
It's takes a sorry dope like KO to put on such a ridiculous act. Then again, this is the guy who was too much of a chicken to go to the Republican Convention, which was covered up by NBC when they said he had to go to NYC instead to anchor Hurricane Gustav coverage — which gee, last time I checked Guastav hit the Lousiana region as well.
Which means Olbermann was too chicken s**t to put his fat bloated ass on the line for either story he was supposedly covering. What an utter waste of space this blowhard is.
Hey Big Dumb Ape….regardless of whether Obama has not yet said how he will get Osama bin Laden, the fact is, is that since 9/11 George, Dick or John (who said that he will and can get him) never captured that evil man. He's still out there! How Come?
Thank you, Keith.
OBAMA/OLBERMANN 2012…Stop hating on Keith because he's actually reporting the facts about those 2 puppets McCain and Palin.The rest of you "journalist" should man up and do your damn jobs!
Obermann's a blowhard with no moral compass. Hence his Dirtbag of the Day designation here: http://piedmontpost.blogspot.c.....f-day.html
I love the sentence remarking on the McCain campaign's "supposed" exploitation of 9/11. There isn't anything "supposed" about it. I have been increasingly less apt to read Jossip in recent months since less relevant/humorous/witty posts have made their way onto the blog. If I wanted a daily dose of dim-witted monologues on how the "liberal" media is ruining America, I'd watch Fox & Friends. Ugh - Jossip has become the blog equivalent of a bad, too-early-in-the-morning-for-this-crap Steve Doocy quip.