Keith Olbermann Returns to the Air and Gives His First Special Comment
Keith Olbermann returned to the airways tonight on Current TV and gave his first but brief Special Comment on what he intends to be doing with his new show now that he's free of any potential corporate censorship from his former employer, MSNBC.
OLBERMANN: It is fitting at this point I think to tell you in the briefest of Special Comments tonight, what we intend to be doing here. This is to be a newscast of contextualization, that is to be presented with a viewpoint, that the weakest citizen of this country is more important than the strongest corporation. That the nation is losing its independence through the maleficence of one political party and the timidity of another.
And that even though you and I should not have to be the last line of defense, apparently we are, so we damned well better start being it.
The words of another are suited to this moment, this is from, All Things, Harriet Beecher Stowe's magazine profile of Abraham Lincoln, written in 1863. It pertained to the actual Civil War then. It pertains to the silent Civil War being waged against us now.
She wrote:
The revolution through which the American nation is passing is not a mere local convulsion. It is a war for a principle which concerns all mankind. It is the war for the rights of the working classes of mankind, as against the usurpation of privileged aristocracies. You can make nothing else out of it. That is the reason why, like a shaft of light in the judgment-day, it has gone through all nations, dividing to the right and the left the multitudes. For us and our cause, all the common working classes of Europe – all that toil and sweat and are oppressed. Against us, all privileged classes, nobles, princes, bankers, and great manufacturers, and all who live at ease.
A silent instinct, piercing to the dividing of soul and spirit, joints and marrow, has gone through the earth, and sent every soul with instinctive certainty where it belongs. No sophistries could blind or deceive them; they knew that our cause was their cause, and they have suffered their part heroically, as if fighting by our side, because they knew that our victory was to be their victory. On the other side, all aristocrats and holders of exclusive privileges have felt the instinct of opposition, and the sympathy with a struggling aristocracy, for they, too, feel that our victory will be their doom.
I've been waiting for your return, I didn't think you could stay clear of this mess. I hope this will be available as a poscast so I can listen in my car going to work.
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Good to have you back, Keith!
I am an idiot troll, easily PWND by the mod.
It's great to have you back.
Speaking of special - aren't you missing Beck's show?
Re: Barack Must Go
Nicely PWNed, moderator! Return to your rock under the bridge, odoriferous troll. Begone and never darken our doorways again.
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with what marx and engels published in 1848, quite impressive. now harriet beecher stowe's quote? excellent. if i may be permitted to post a quote from one of my favorite Americans.
"Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
sounds to me like the man had it figured out.
"a mans wealth can be measured in the amount of land that he can set aside for nature"
Henry David Thoreau.
'Talk to the hand'
Two minor points: 1) At the risk of sounding geeky, the uncompressed and unprocessed audio sounded oddly hollow, and the commercial breaks seem to be at three times the decibel level of the show. I couldn't press the remote control mute button fast enough for commercial breaks.
2) I wish the re-run time slot was pushed back an hour to ten o'clock (EST). I can't tolerate Ed Schultz, for a number of reasons, and Keith would be a very welcome alternative. As it stands, I'll probably record Keith's show and continue to watch Lawrence O'Donnell
(For the record, I like Lawrence and Rachel's shows quite a bit. I wish MSNBC would give Cenk greater control over his show. I suspect he doesn't like moderating hollering-head panel discussions any more then I enjoy watching them. His Young Turks broadcast is far more entertaining and enlightening then the MSNBC formatted screamfests).
I had the same volume issues but I assume that it is one of those glitches that will be fixed soon. At least I didn't see that smiley assed commercial telling me that natural gas it our savior and "fracking" is the means to the next 100 years of energy.
...is the cable provider or sat provider boosting volume to sell stuff. I get that all the time on other channels and it annoys the crap out of my wife. I'm partially deaf so it takes awhile for me to hear it.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
Welcome back Keith.
You were missed.
And more so, you were needed.
Grab a helmet and enter the fray. :)
Jack
it was good to see keith back
but, for me, the most alarming bomb-drop was markos' mentioning that msnbc gives joe scarborough total veto power over all guests on msnbc... if true, wow... i mean wow...
that msnbc is desperate to keep joe is not surprising--not because of his views or intelligence or wit or looks or charisma or topics, etc. but simply because he is a former GOP pol, and his awful show helps msnbc defend against the charge that it is the democratic-news-network.
but to give scabby veto power?
balanced than by keeping a former murder suspect on the payroll?
Ready TV streams the show live, with the new episode at 5 p.m. Pacific time and then rerun at 8 and 11 PT.
http://ready-tv.com/?p=109
I also noticed that the commercials were louder than the program, but that's a small complaint. SteveM, please just consider this free training in hand-eye-ear coordination ... it's good for your brain ...
And it's a joy to make an end-run around @#$%^^ Comcast, which doesn't carry Current on its basic cable, which is all that I can afford. My 5 p.m.'s were so dreary, with nothing to look forward to except LawrenceO'D, who has been getting more and more irritating, or old reruns of Law & Order.
thanks for the link
second tier on dish.......screw them poor and fixed income democrats!!!!!!!!!!.....rove said they wanted a 'one party country..',,,,,they're on their way to getting it.
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
"it riles them to believe that you perceive the web they weave"
The Moody Blues
'Talk to the hand'
I don't have cable. I looked on iTunes and didn't find anything yet.
You can get the show live online at:
http://ready-tv.com/?p=109
Current TV is only going to put excerpts online, but at Ready TV you can see the whole program -- 8 p.m. Eastern time, with reruns later on.
Hope they put the full video on podcast soon.
So glad to have Keith back. Will watch faithfully.
Oh yeah, he's back. Suck on it bitches!
Two finger salute sign off!
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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