Keith Olberman on debt deal.

[eric922]

I saw this posted on another forum and I thought I'd share it with you. It's Keith Olberman on Countdown talking about the debt deal. He seems very angry with government and calls for strikes and protests. I know a lot of people don't like him, but I have to give him credit for not trying to defend Obama like Ed Schutz always seems to do. Anyway here is the link: http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/08/olbermann-on-debt-deal-youve-got-to-get-mad/

Here is a quote from his show:

“The betrayal of what this nation was supposed to be about did not begin with this deal and it surely will not end with this deal,” Olbermann continued. “There is a tide pushing back the rights of each of us and it has been artificially induced by union bashing and the sowing of hatreds and fears and now this evermore institutionalized economic battering of the average American. It will continue and it will crush us because those that created it are organized, and unified, and hell-bent. And the only response is to be organized, and unified and hell-bent in return.”


“We must find again the energy and the purpose of the 1960s and the 1970s, and we must protest this deal and all the goddamn deals to come in the streets. We must rise, nonviolently, but insistently. General strikes, boycotts, protests, sit-ins, non-cooperation, takeovers. But modern versions of that resistance, facilitated and amplified by a weapon our predecessors did not have: the glory that is instantaneous communication.”

[Sensible Socialist]

To me, Olberman is someone who can smell bullshit more often than not. He isn't clueless like most of the people who ramble continuously on MSNBC, like Schultz or Chris Matthews. He may not be "down with the struggle," in the sense of getting rid of capitalism, but he's for universal healthcare and I wouldn't be suprised if he has closet socialist views.

[eric922]

To me, Olberman is someone who can smell bullshit more often than not. He isn't clueless like most of the people who ramble continuously on MSNBC, like Schultz or Chris Matthews. He may not be "down with the struggle," in the sense of getting rid of capitalism, but he's for universal healthcare and I wouldn't be suprised if he has closet socialist views.
I can't stand watching Schultz or Matthews they are nothing but apologists for Obama. Olberman seems to have gotten more radical since he got left MSNBC. I wouldn't be surprised if they were censoring him to some degree.

[GPDP]

Olbermann has always been my favorite mainstream commentator. He's not a socialist (at least, not yet), but some of the things he said here got damn close to calling for all-out class-struggle. More than I can say for the rest of the liberal establishment.

[RGacky3]

I can't stand watching Schultz or Matthews they are nothing but apologists for Obama. Olberman seems to have gotten more radical since he got left MSNBC. I wouldn't be surprised if they were censoring him to some degree.

And O'Donnell, I mean the guy calls himself a socialist but he's a joke, he's an Obama apologist and 100% establishment, MSNBC is going downhill and downhill fast, Maddow is really the only one I respect there.

Olberman is a regular progressive, not radical, but he does say it they way it is, and he at least is principled.