Olbermann's 9/11 Excoriation

Here is Keith Olbermann on MSNBC last night, excoriating the Republicans, in general, and John McCain, in particular for their gratuitous use of 9/11 footage at the Republican National Convention:



Personally, I think he may have gone a little over the top with the "Do you have personal knowledge of how to get Osama bin Laden?" bit. Otherwise, I thought it was a great rebuke.

Of course, he, like Bill 'Papa Bear' O'Reilly, is preaching mostly to the choir. Who knows, maybe some independents were watching and will start to realize exactly how much our politics has be dominated by fear-mongering for the last seven years.

One can hope.

Comments welcome,

Pat McGovern

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Obama - O'Reilly Part One

OK. Here is the first part of Bill O'Reilly's "interview" with Barack Obama. First, you will understand the "interview" being in quotation marks when I reference any person, Chris Wallace included, who works for FoxNews and talks to someone. I don't consider most of them journalists. My 'credentials' are nowhere near as good as theirs but I suspect that I may have more talent than most of these talking point regurgitators.

With that spew against FoxNews done, I have one other before the interview. It is utter nonsense that you can embed just about anything off of Fox's site but Bill O'Reilly. Apparently he is stupid and doesn't understand how the internet works. How allowing the embedding of your material can increase viewership. It is why I rarely embed anything from Fox. Comedy Central finally got this! You can't Bill?

Hopefully the video stays up. You can find it on your own at Fox's website. I won't provide any help on that one. They won't help themselves, they aren't getting it from me.

Now, you only have to stomach listening to Bill for about seven minutes here, I know it's hard but go ahead:



I thought that, so far Barack Obama has handled himself very well. He was close to ripping off Bill's leg and beating him with it at one point, but he held back nicely. I am glad this is getting split up. I really can't handle this guys voice for more than 5-10 minutes at a time.

I understand the "why" of this whole thing. I don't think that Barack Obama has much to gain with this interview other than the fact that they can't say he's afraid to come on after this. I suppose that is enough in itself. But wow, you have to sit down for that long with Bill O'Reilly to be President? I couldn't do it.

I will attempt to bring parts deux and trois to you as well after they air (next week)?

Comments welcome,

Pat McGovern

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Sarah Palin and the Gender Card

Watching the conventions, it can be difficult to watch Jon Stewart and other shows. Apparently, I missed this last night, I strongly encourage you to set aside the 5 and a half minutes to watch this. A masterful showing of the hypocritical double standards of the right and the McCain campaign in the last week:



If you just watched Karl Rove, Dick Morris, Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Pfotenhauer, and, of course, Sarah Palin than you too are saying, "Wow." If you didn't, well, OK, be the sheep the Republican Party thinks you are.

Comments welcome,

Pat McGovern

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