…I would love to talk to him.

Who the hell does Shirley think she is…a bankster?

ABC’s Nightline did a piece on Brietbart that was very sympathetic. They portrayed him as a “celebrity” therefore a person of great import to be taken seriously. With very few exceptions the corporate media is a disgrace.

Gee, WH spokesman sez they made decisions without knowing the actual events. Offers apology. Move along. Nothing to see here.

While signing the finreg, O promises us a pony, or is it a unicorn?

I expect Obama to offer a WH beer summit with Brietbart and Sherrod.

Poifect…

It’s the least he can do, don’t you think?

I think Barry should apologize to Breitbart.

“I can’t say that the president is fully behind me,” Sherrod told ABC’s “Good Morning America” Thursday morning.

Oh, he’s behind you alright. Brace yourself.

Vilsuck is the one who should be fired. Oh yawn. Think I’ll take a nap while waiting for that.

Vilsac will be fired right after Ken Salazar. Enjoy the nap Rip.

I saw comments yesterday that suggested the MSM was covering the story but not mentioning Breitbart, but KO and Rachel both did, and this morning NPR did also, albeit calling him a “conservative activist” — well, I guess given it was NPR they couldn’t have called him all of the adjectives Keith used…

They’ll get promoted.

Jesse Jackson is blaming “blogger” for the whole incident: democracynow. Agenda there? (rhetorical q)

BHO has been shamefully eager to throw anything and everything that smacks of his progressive past under the bus. Who has he become? Offshore drilling. Extrajudicial assassination of American citizens. Torture. Renditions. Catfood commission. Slaughter of 92-year-olds in Afghanistan. Yet more contracts to Blackwater Xe. Why did I contribute to this guy’s campaign?

If Petraeus is willing to run, I’m switching parties. At a minimum, a Petraeus candidacy would force BHO to the left.

Maybe that was part of the plan.

Sherrod on AM Joe now…

1. BO is who he always was. Read the Paul Street book.
2. Betrayus will move BO to the right. He’ll be eager to bomb everyone everywhere (not that he isn’t now).

What cheek!

My top hypothesis is that Breitbart is an O false flag operative but, having posted that comment skeenteen times, I thought I wouldn’t repeat it this morning. You provoke me. *g*

Didn’t someone suggest that BHO was the CIA’s stealth candidate?

Read your previous comments and I’m with you. It all seemed a little too tightly orchestrated.

His (and Emanuel’s) tactic is to stay just to the left of the opposition. “Leave no daylight between them and us.”

Petraeus would pick up a lot of moderate Republicans who have been alienated by the nuttiness of the far right. BHO would have to compensate by kissing some liberal asses. It would have to been good to get my vote.

Mornin’, BT, pups

Dreyfus? Too bad the majority of Muricans don’t have a clue as to what that was all about. History started on 9/ll, don’tcha know.

Nice blast of an incompetent administration, Keith.

Who, with 2 brain cells, could possibly give anything Breitbart does, any credence at this late date? Yet Sherrod is fired on Breitbart’s sayso within hours? Ahem…

What’s the word on Cahnstance?

I’ve always felt that he was more of Robert Rubin’s and Pete Peterson’s stealth candidate. He and Bernanke have loaned two trillion dollars to the banks at near-zero interest and then borrowed it back from them at standard interest rates. Talk about welfare!

O is not to the left of anyone, except maybe Attila the Hun. He just makes an occasional placating speech. However, that would change if Petreaus were the candidate. Running against a war hero general, O would feel compelled to make militant speeches.

Had a chilling experience tinkering with iMovie.

We played the CNN interview of Breibart in slow motion and then some footage of Hitler giving a speech in slow motion…

Chilling.

FWIW, I don’t think the Right will allow Obama to “win” — no matter how that is defined — in Afghanistan. I haven’t quite figured out how Betrayus will stick the knife in Obama’s back, but he will.

Yup. BHO is going after the cracker vote.

His background and connections make it hard for me to believe that.

It is sounding suspiciously like the forged Bush National Guard papers with Brietbart allegedly getting just the edited video with whoever brought it to him knowing this would be the likely result. Like the Bush papers, it made the President look bad, but not nearly as bad as the alternative. Better one or two news cycles on a low level administration employee getting fired, then many news cycles with Obama forced to reform (or to publicly object to reform) of the military-intelligence/corporate apparatus.

But Breitbart is a “celebrity” and being a celebrity in the U.S. of A. is all the cache one needs.

He must practice in front of the mirror like uncle Adolf did.

Richard Dreyfus knows exactly who he was….and so do I.

In other news, my internet access has been very tenuous since last weekend and they can’t get out here till tomorrow. If I drop off the screen, you’ll know what’s happened.

It’s worth noting just how good the right-wing slime machine is. Their smear of this excellent woman took almost everyone in at first. It’s heartening to see the whole sleazy process laid bare.

The Right in America have been practising constantly since the Clinton years. They are the Michelangelos and Leonardo da Vincis of character assassination. I’m for smacking them upside the head every time they open their mouths. We should be suing wingers constantly.

“…the whole of the cowering media, this network included…”

Go Keith! Guy’s got balls and a conscience.

Morning BT, Firepups.

Yep. I have very little doubt that he has an armband and probably a lot of fake medals he never earned.

She probably has pancreatitis. That’s the only test that came out high (on lipase, 270 vs. normal high of 195; however, severe cases in dogs give reading in the thousands; cats, as usual, more variable). More sensitive test results today or tomorrow. She got her second feelgood cocktail yesterday (rehydration, vitamin B, electrolytes, antibiotic, etc), and has started eating again. I think she’s on the mend. Will be treated with antibiotics aggressively if new test results show it is warranted. Don’t know how she would have picked it up.

Thanks for asking.

Oh, shit, I didn’t even think about him. I gave up after “Close Encounters.”

They’re related.

“FWIW, I don’t think the Right will allow Obama to ‘win’ — no matter how that is defined — in Afghanistan. I haven’t quite figured out how Betrayus will stick the knife in Obama’s back, but he will.”

Simple – he does exactly what Obama orders him to and acts like a model military officer. I think it’s the Afghani population who decides who wins, not people here.

MSNBC: First-time jobless claims jump to 464,000, reversing sharp decline

While Obama is ultimately responsible for everything his administration does, he’s not always the author of everything his administration does. I don’t believe that he had anything to do with her firing. That’s not to say that he might not have done the same thing, he is a political coward. Saying he’s going after the “cracker vote” sounds a little harsh.

Amy Goodman’s in Lost Wages (Las Vegas) and will cover NN in coming shows.

Funny that I haven’t seen any excitement here about NN. Usually lots of chatter. This year, crickets. Bound to be some fireworks if Jane’s there.

That’s because Republicans (plus Nelson and Lieberman), filibustered a decent jobs bill into oblivion. They WANT the economy to fail in order to make political gains. So who do you want to vote for? The heartless weasels who did it or the spineless jellyfish who allowed it? Some choice…

I’m surprised anyone’s going to NN given how Obamabot Kos is.

That thing has turned into a veal pen cheering convention. Party on Markos…while the rest of us scratch for our next meal.

That’s about as surprising as: “Sun Rises in East, Sets in West! And this just in: The Sky is Blue! Morning Joe Noise Machine, brought to you by Starbucks…” (And for the full effect, try to imagine the nerve-racking, generic, sonic pollution fading up in the background for a couple minutes before handing it off to the sponsors, with their own brand of sonic pollution…)

Idiots.

They oughtta call it Obama Lovefest 2010.

Forgive my ignorance: “NN?”

That’s because Republicans (plus Nelson and Lieberman), filibustered a decent jobs bill into oblivion.

I’m even more contemptuous of Nelson and Lieberman than I am of the Repugnants – if that’s possible.

Well, thankfully, we have our FDL crew there and some other solid blogs able to balance the narrative.

Netroots Nation. Blogger convention. Used to be quite informative until Obama was elected.

I’d go just to fuck with the Obamabots.

Natch. Thanks much.

I think the narrative will be that Afghanistan was lost before Petraeus was called in. That’s already the meme on the right.

Maybe that’s why there isn’t the excitement this year. And I suspect the economy is keeping lots of people at home.

Ironically enough, it was NN ’08 when I got my second piece of confirming evidence of what a shithead O is. First was his vote for domestic spying. At the time of NN ’08 he was the D candidate for prez, so I went to his booth to complain & was told by his snot nosed kid reps that I had no choice but to vote for him.

SD,

What’s up? Are you doing okay?

Yep but you’ll never hear a word against them from the Senate leadership or Orahma. It’s like them going to bat for the total failure and guaranteed to lose the general Blanche Lincoln (D? Wal-Mart) Stupid politics and bad for the country.

I thought I remembered lots of chatter about it last year, but maybe it was two years ago. I continue to be amazed at stories of commenters being “warned” or “banned” over at Orange just for criticizing Obama or other rather mild comments. I don’t go there, any more than I knowingly go to Politico.

We be fine. Just tryin’ to keep me head above water. At least I’ve got a job. Thanks for askin’.

Good. You worried me when you commented that you wanted to go to NN for meaningless sex with Obamabots!

That just did not sound like you!

so I went to his booth to complain & was told by his snot nosed kid reps that I had no choice but to vote for him.

Ah yes, the Rahm Emanuel strategy to make friends and influence people. Kinda makes you want to vote for a Republican just as an Eff You, does it not?

DFHs have a long-standing reputation to maintain for having meaningless sex with whoever. Not to worry. *g*

LOL I’m famous at work for fuckin’ with idiots. Here I have to content myself with fuckin’ with trolls and what a meaningless exercise that is.

You have no idea the burn that remark caused for me. Or maybe you do, as I have remembered it for these years and repeat it often.

The top headline at MSNBC.com is “First time jobless claims jump 464,000, reversing sharp decline” and then down in the financial section “Stock futures point to rebound at open”. One hardly has to have an economics degree to see how much Wall Street cares about ordinary people….

You have no idea the burn that remark caused for me.

Oh yes I do. Trust me.

Lower employment leads to higher profits (well, in the short run anyhow), which leads to higher stock prices. Until it doesn’t.

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

US KIA Irak: 4,413

US KIA Afghanistan: 1,198

Iraki and Afghan casualties: estimates vary to over 1.5M

What If You Knew

US MBS 2010: 25,048 and counting

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

Yep. For the last ten years or so it seems like everybody in corporate America has ditched sustainability in favor of quarterly profits. It’s like trying to go just as fast as you can just for the sake of speed, KNOWING that eventually you’ll lose control and crash.

When the crash comes, the taxpayer’s on the hook, so why should Wall St. worry.

First claims for unemployment largest increase since February (NPR headlines).

Average of 3 US troops KIA each day in July (NPR headlines).

New post up top…

Don’t you mean the NEXT crash? I’m still out of work due to the last one.

Keith nails it.

But when he says allow “Obama to be Obama” Did folks ever follow Obama in the Senate. Safe, calculated, finger in the wind, never took any really tough stands. Allow “Obama to be Obama” could easily be a one term President unless he takes some tough stands. The base is crumbling

Yep, that’s one of Keith’s delusions: that the campaign Obama is somehow the real Obama, while the Obama of record is somehow being mishandled by others.

Obama couldn’t stand up to a stiff breeze. he’s so worried about being perceived as racist toward white men that I’m sure it was a kneejerk to try to get rid of this fine womon who, if you will note, is black.

At least now we know which channel of the TEEVEE the WH is tuned to 24/7

The generic crash, whichever one it is.

Like the “boot thru the door” crash?

That’s a shock….he was very rude/loud etc with Stephan. yesterday morning; I did not see it. In the part I saw George did not look patient at all….

The Blightfart/Sherrod Fiasco–Yellow Journalism 2.0

Shirley Sherrod, the latest victim of Fierce Advocacy…

Oh, he’ll be one term. but he’ll do some real damage before then and conveniently, the republcians won’t be blamed for killing Social Security…just as they aren’t blamed for NAFTA or Glass/Steagal.

Will the next republican prez call himself Khan or Czar or King or……Why beat around the bush any longer ( no pun intended)

I agree that Keith’s comment did a great job of explaining the reality of the atmosphere.

The area he needed to expand was to explain what the end goal of Mudoch’s “make the lie the truth” happens to be and how he will personally benefit and what motivates Murdoch towards this end goal of dividing the country and make the lie the truth.

I think all countries need to not allow foreign owners of any news sources for the sake of national security.

Murdoch is wagging war on our country. We need to wake up and boycott his holdings and his advertisers.

We need to tune out any of his news holdings and financially squeeze them.

(Now set your clock to see how long it takes for the trolls to attack this thread.)

Q: What’s the difference between a Keith Olbermann “special comment” and Keith Olbermann in a straight-jacket in a padded room screaming at the walls?

A: There is no difference.

Oh boy, I am on the floor laughing.

Leen it’s clockwork.

Couldn’t agree more, but the whole country’s been sold out from under US so….. and now, with Citizens United V FEC Multinational corporations will own our government so why not the propaganda as well?

I swear, people still don’t think it’s real unless they see it on the TEEVEE.
IO had a direct experience of that with a friend here recently.It was horrifying

Running against a war hero general, O would feel compelled to make militant speeches.

BHO could not compete successfully for that segment of the vote. The best he could do would be to get good turnout among his base.

Meant to say I did not see all of it…

Well even Olbermann knows by now he’s a voice crying in the wilderness. At least he tries every once in a while.

I deal with this by getting the actually documents of evidence and show it to my friends who are like that.

It’s hand holding. It takes time but it is like watching someone come out of detox. It is worth every effort to bring enlightenment to those believing the lie.

It have had nothing but success. (Oh, and do not feed.)

I didn’t recognize the trollism. Must be because I’m tired this morning

But they keep yelling when I get close to one of their beloved talking points. I hate that!

Keep calm. Calm them down. Ask them to be willing to discuss the matter and use, “Remember how we were taught as kids that we need to listen to both sides?”

Part of “telling the lie” has been the social modeling of emotions around the subjects (yelling or crying) which perpetuate the lie. It has been clever in the psych ops sense. (Think Beck tears or Breibart anger. It’s pushing the hotbutton as part of programming the lie.)

Again, you are detox. Keep your cool. Remined them how important they are to you and that you value them and hope they would hold the same level of respect in return.

Keeping your cool in a meaningful fashion is important. Being genuine and holding a serious calm and standing up to their emotionalism with calm strength is disarming. Totally disarming. And if the discussion is public, people will come up to you to talk to you about the evidence you have in hand.

(Again, set the clock.)

Remember talking points are just that. Talk. Not evidence.

What’s the difference between a reichwing troll and a pile of steaming shit?

There is no difference.

SD,

Come on, don’t start with the meaningless sex again!

Keith’s commentary last night was less than cogent. The Dreyfus comparison was laughable.

Actually,

“Telling the lie” portion addressing motives was spot on.

The last guy who started yelling I calmly told to “shut up” and, remarkably, he did.
I’ve been working with alkies for years so I know what you’re talking about V detox
But, I also know the games we play and here lately I’m getting sick of being NICE.
Tough love sometimes works as well but the calm is the key,you’re right about that.

Everybody’s a critic!

Of course, there is that part about being held in solitary confinement on Devil’s Island for several years. And, the matter not being rectified for over 12 years.

I hear you. Just remember you can be calm and steel at the same time. Note some of my language. You get interventions. I used intervention language in my comment.

Think about the best Mom you know. The one who embodies tough love of setting limits but lets you know you are loved unconditionally and takes the time to walk you through what choices are good for the soul and what choices are bad and why.

Calm. Steel. Logic. Evidence.

Southern Dragon, are you paying attention to this?

You’re way out of your league, homeboy. Why don’t you just pack it up and crawl back down into whatever hole you climbed out of?

Yeah, I guess I am out of my league. I’m just not a hostile, angry hatemonger.

Have a good day, everyone.

Yeah, I guess I am out of my league. I’m just not a hostile, angry hatemonger.

Read your #89 again. And if you want me to start fishing around for more of your remarks, I can do that to.

Like I said, you’re way out of your league. Pack it up, homeboy.

I agree with eCHAN’s skeenteen comments that there’s something very orchestrated about this whole fiasco. It’s just weird. I also find it chilling that Breitbart continues to be treated with some kind of respect by the rest of the corporate-owned media, AS IF Breitbart is some kind of reliable and reputable source. I have not see ONE mention in the corporate media (absent KO), which even mentions Breitbart’s numerous lies, deceptions and similar editing of allegedly “truthful” videos. Not one.

Yet the BHO Admin and Vilsack knee-jerked immediately to fire Sherrod on the spot. WTF??

Rahm calls us “f**cking retards,” when we tell the truth. But Rahmbama jumps three times through hoops of fire when Breitbart snaps his fingers????!!! WTF???

THIS is the bigger story, folks. WTF is going on? And yet today, in the Sacramento Bee there *happen* to be 2 letters to the editor from conservatives whining about Van Jones & Anita Dunn and vetching about how incredibly “liberal” BHO is.

Again: WTF?????

Agree with eCAHN… there’s some kind of orchestration going on here. Whether it’s by BHO… or by someone “bigger” than him… this is just too obvious and weird. Yeah, right: BHO is such an effen liberal. Pull the other one.

“I’m just not not just a hostile, angry hatemonger.”

Fixed it for you.

After seeing Sherrod refer to “Their own kind” etc. and then seeing her hate filled screed against Fox, I think she really has a problem–despite the baloney of “redemption.”

No question that if you saw a white administrator talking with the attitude she had, even though talking about an old incident, they’d be scalped with no apology. And, you saw the audience, before they knew the punchline of her story, being very approving of her not helping the farmer. They didn’t know the story ended with redemption.

So, there is still something quite wrong in the video–whether complete or cut down. Confirmed by her hate filled statement.

Folks do not feed.

Marked as fave….even if we don’t have that here ;^)

I agree that Keith’s comment did a great job of explaining the reality of the atmosphere.

I am no fan of Olberman but I agree his essay did do a good job of describing the frenetic atmosphere around the GOP in and out of office and the Tea Bag crowd..

I think Rachel Maddow did a much better job on her programs Tues and Wed.

What is generating this atmosphere and what can we do about ti? I feel helpless as an individual.

Good advice for when we do encounter these folks face to face or in blogs.. But I have the gut feeling that while staying cool and respectful we must develop rhetoric and tactics that will elucidate and confront head on the inhumane consequences of what they advocate.

I can do that too.

Haste makes waste.

Blue Texan,

Sheppard Smith of Faux has it right on this one. He comes out looking squeaky clean because he had the presence of mind and the force of intellect not to play the video and run away with his head cut off on this story like the other righties did. He is thus able to open a new line of attack on the White House by asking the critical question: How can the White House (Obama) lead and govern when what they are worried about is what happens on a network in which they claim does not matter? Well, apparently what happens on Glenn Beck’s prgoram and Faux by extension does matter to Obama. Clearly it matters………….

Karl Rove did it. Breitbart is an operative of Rove’s.

Explore Rove’s role in creation of this noise.

Keith Keith , please please brevity Sir.

Another one nailed, perfect.

One hardly has to have an economics degree to see how much Wall Street cares about ordinary people….

There’s a comic strip that has been right on the money the last couple of days: Non Sequitur

See the 7/22 strip, followed by 7/21 (it makes mores sense to me in that order).

allow “Obama to be Obama”

What we are seeing IS Obama being Obama — it was Candidate Obama who was the poseur.

I hope the President takes Keith’s advice and views that entire final new briefing from “The American President”. Maybe he should take a few weeks and view the entirity of “The West Wing” as well.

Maybe it would help — probably not.

BEER SUMMIT TIME.

hmmmmm, thanks. Well, I did say that this STINKS, so I should’ve immediately thought of Rove, who’s the stinkiest of them all.

So, R U saying that BHO dances to Rove’s tunes? Sure wouldn’t surprise me.

A unicorn. They’re mythical, you know.

Yup.

I believe the strategies and funding are coming from Rove.

http://www.plungerspeaks.blogspot.com/

Our nation is starting to resemble the movie “Brazil”.