Olbermann on Beck: "'Oligarhy'? Did Obama steal the letter 'C'? "
August 31, 2009 11:53 pm ET
From the August 31 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:


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I'm challengin' you to a dool!!
Keith just absolutely destroyed this sniveling, pathetic, conservative fraud.
By the way, I recall Glenn saying all the presidents for a long time have had czars, just not the sheer number that Obama has. Where is your research Olbermann? Purposeful or not, the best you can do is criticize someone... over a spelling error?
Try doing your own research and quit listening to this high school dropout, "self-educated" COMEDIAN. He's LYING to you and LAUGHING his butt off at you for believing his lies. You are being played.
That's all Beck does! It is his true calling. I'm sure that, as a young girl, Glenda engaged in these kinds of activities and was re-assured by both of his mothers that this is the correct way to conduct yourself. Growing up and later attending no university, he honed his ability to engage in one-sided conversations and un-settling diatribes. Congrats, Glenn. Rude and crude is your forte.
I wouldn't be surprised if Beck believed that he literally said "walk softly and carry a big stick" and believed that Roosevelt's diplomatic philosophy was to sneak up on other countries and invade. Which would be the only possible interpretation of "walk softly and carry a big stick."
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Reagan had more than 1. Carter had more than 1. Nixon had only 1. Clinton had a bunch as well.
This is nothing new and exciting.
Which ones are communists (WTF, are we back in the 50's over here?), and which ones are the so called "revolutionaries"?
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What, you were expecting it to be related to Beck in some way?
Why don't you read more and learn more about how our government works ON YOUR OWN instead of listening to a highly paid Entertainer? Beck calls himself a "rodeo clown," which I personally find offensive. Rodeo clowns have courage and strength. Beck is just a petty little liar who loves to rile up uninformed, intellectually incurious folks who think he is part of the NEWS media.
After all, you can spell "czar" as "tsar" sometimes.
So sometimes it's OLIGARCHY and sometimes it's OLIGARTHY.
What special adviser or "Czar" do you think doens't have our best interests at heart? You guys keep complaining about the so called Czars, yet provide no information as to what they've done, or what they're advising on that you're so violently against. Please provide specific examples of why you have a problem with them. And remember, they don't make laws, they don't write laws, they advise the President, just like lots of other people.
He proposed not a tax, but a small increase in the licensing fees to help pay for public radio (which is not liberal as everyone would like to believe). Guess what? It's not going to shut down any stations if they continue to make the profits that they claim to make, and also, he stated that he'd like to get the funding out of Congress, ie, having the taxpayers pay for it. I would assume that this would be something that conservatives would LOVE.
Radio does not constitute free speech. It is regulated and licensed speech. The government has made no laws abridging free speech.
Read it for yourself, but it details how the President and Secretary of Commerce will establish panels for SECURITY of Internet, not control. Basically, it sounds to me that they are developing a police force for securing the Internet for illegal actions. As much as it might kill you to think that there will be a police force on-line, this bill sounds like it would be required to keep federal sites secure and protection for small-to-medium businesses.
The "100% tax" on "all radio":
Sounds to me like he's trying to level the playing field, isn't he? Since this is just a proposal, there's nothing here saying this is a law yet, but I'll admit I am not 100% educated on this, nor am I believing this is a tax on ALL radio.
Your claim that we are all against free speech:
BASELESS. I for one am glad we have free speech, and I for one won't stand in the way of crazy talk being said. I just will not agree with it, nor will I stand out of the way if such speech violates my own freedom. I will not stand for my identity to be branded as "a sheep".
In other words, I'll stand by your right to call us "sheep", but I will protest to my dying breath against you that I fit YOUR label.
In all honesty, I have a difficult opinion on the Patriot Act. I understand its uses and advantages, but I also understand the abuses that have been committed through it. That being said, I believe the government enough to ask for the Cybersecurity Act to do its job and not commit any abuses that have been claimed for the Patriot Act. Yes, it sounds hypocritical, but I'm willing to take the chances with a government I voted for.
As far as opposing views go, I try to trust opinions in conversations more than in media. If someone has an opposing view and has the time and citation to back up their views, I tend to appreciate their opinions more. If they merely pop off their opinions without providing proof or some sort of way to back up their words, I tend to half-heartedly listen. I won't tell people to stop making their claims if they are baseless, but I guess the scientist in me dies a little when I hear them.
Of course, if those opposing views are directed at my lifestyle, like I said, I'll defend myself to the teeth.
I'm glad to heat that you want to keep abortion legal, allow gay marriage, support the ALCU... (let's see anything, else?) Oh yeah: stop teacher-led prayer in public schools.
My point is that the Republicans love to talk of gov't interference, but they're only concerned when it affects CORPORATIONS. They have no problem at all interfering in the lives of it's CITIZENS, despite thier hypocritical rhetoric.
Glenn, rehearse!! If you practice what you are going to say before the crowd and don't go off topic, you might actually get an even bigger television audience!
And you might actually be respectable.