Olbermann on threat letter, reply to NY Post: MSNBC transcript and video

[DeepModem Mom]

Olbermann: Threatening letter no joke
“Countdown” host Keith Olbermann received a suspicious letter filled with white powder, and the New York Post reported the incident despite the FBI’s request to keep it quiet. Olbermann responds.

COMMENTARY
By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, 'Countdown'
MSNBC
Sept 27, 2006

The Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper, The New York Post, may have just impeded an FBI investigation into terroristic threats.

I know this because I was a recipient.

The Bureau asked us not to report any of the details so that the person or persons responsible would not know any of the threats had been received by any of the targets -- and we of course complied.

I still cannot confirm many of the specifics -- again in order to make the jobs of the FBI and the New York Police Department a little easier. But I find it necessary to respond to the genuinely shocking tone with which Murdoch's paper reported the event, and the string of factual errors they made either through negligence or a premeditated disregard for the truth.

“Powder Puff Spooks Keith," reads the headline. The article then gives the details of the event which we were asked not to divulge....

TRANSCRIPT AND VIDEO AT LINK: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15036633/

[brettdale]

1. keep kicked

kick

[Rowdyboy]

2. It was a masterpiece....Please help put this on the "Greatest Page"

[chill_wind]

5. Happy to oblige. K&R. nt

[uppityperson]

3. This is quite a story, way to go NYP! Get a clue! kick

[watrwefitinfor]

29. Please excuse my rudeness of jumping in like this, but this MUST be asked:

(Just felt compelled to get this question where it would be seen.)

If people are told to help the investigation by not telling anyone when something like this happens, HOW MANY HAVE BEEN TARGETED and never said anything about it? How do we know this has not happened repeatedly? Could it be anonymous letters with powder that helps keep so many pundits (and maybe politicians) in line?

Wat

[kelliebrat]

35. Good question

it sounded like Keith wasnt the only one to get one of these threats. I am curious to find out who else has gotten them, and would bet my ass that Billow and Limbaugh aint on the list.

[Thoreau-Ly]

41. And, Clearly on the Last Point.

The timing of the letters received by Daschle and Leahy, if one performs a modicum of research, is at the very least quite suspicious.

[John Gauger]

49. What had the two said before they got attacked?

I don't remember anything about them at the time.

[mopinko]

50. they said they were going to stop the patriot act nt

[Thoreau-Ly]

55. Found a Relevant Reputable Excerpt

It happens like clockwork these days: A significant piece of legislation comes before Congress that was ostensibly drafted to help defend the nation against terrorism. Line items within the legislation do away with previously sacrosanct personal freedoms outlined within the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Should said legislation pass, the power of the federal government to arrest and detain citizens without trial or access to attorney, to search private homes without warrant or notice, to tap telephone and computer communications, and to keep vital information secreted away from the eyes of the public, would be greatly enhanced.

In the days leading up to the mandated Congressional debate regarding said legislation, terror warnings suddenly bloom like nightshade. The White House or the FBI or the CIA, or all three in concert, ratchet up the national tension level with forecasts of doom and death and fire from unknown quarters. Said legislation passes without so much as leaving a wake in its path, nothing explodes, and everyone goes on with their lives in the belief that they just narrowly dodged a bullet. At the conclusion of the process, the foundations of American freedom have been redacted, edited, clipped and round-filed.

The PATRIOT Act was passed in such a fashion. When that bill came up, the entire country was collecting its mail with oven mitts on to avoid exposure to anthrax, despite the fact that Democratic Senators like Patrick Leahy and Tom Daschle were the intended targets of this assassination attempt. The media got its dose of the poison, ensuring that all publicly aired conversation regarding the legislation would be coated with a veneer of hysteria. All of us were going to get 'thraxed, and so let us pass this ruinously contra-constitutional legislation without even reading it. I'd bet some serious folding green that many of the Senators who voted the thing into existence a year ago still haven't read it.

You know Pitt. He can lead to you more research, but also gives questions and suppositions great force with his writing.

http://www.alternet.org/story/14576/

[OnyxCollie]

91. Daschle refused bushco's wishes for ultimate power.

Less than three weeks later, he was sent anthrax.

From the WP:

Power We Didn't Grant
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/22/AR2005122201101.html

On the evening of Sept. 12, 2001, the White House proposed that Congress authorize the use of military force to "deter and pre-empt any future acts of terrorism or aggression against the United States." Believing the scope of this language was too broad and ill defined, Congress chose instead, on Sept. 14, to authorize "all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations or persons determines planned, authorized, committed or aided" the attacks of Sept. 11. With this language, Congress denied the president the more expansive authority he sought and insisted that his authority be used specifically against Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.

Just before the Senate acted on this compromise resolution, the White House sought one last change. Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words "in the United States and" after "appropriate force" in the agreed-upon text. This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas -- where we all understood he wanted authority to act -- but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens. I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for additional authority. I refused.

I'm sure it's only a coincidence.:sarcasm:

Odd, bushco seems to have forgotten the anthrax when they say, "There have been no attacks since 9/11."

[Bandit]

53. At the very least indeed especially considering just a week

or so before such letters were received the entire Whitehouse was given the antidote for Anthrax and never again. Only on that time was the Whitehouse given Cipro and low and behold a week later Congress was attacked by Anthrax. What a coincidence don't you think? The Whitehouse has never again wanted to give anyone an antidote for Anthrax. Only a week before the attack..

[Jawja]

57. Of course.

Remember whose offices got the Anthrax? Dan Rather and Tom Brokow. The media was definitely targeted and apparently blackmailed into submission.

[SmokingJacket]

76. Many, many people are certainly ACTING like they've been

threatened. It would explain a lot.

[dchill]

4. kickin' for Keith...

(kick)

[Richard D]

6. How did the NYP get the details?

[bklyncowgirl]

18. Probably some wingnut working at the hospital tipped them off.

It does sound like Keith's not the first to get these letters and that this is an ongoing investigation. Nice work there New York Post.

[City Lights]

19. My guess is some freeper sent it and gave the NYPost a heads up. eom

[Texifornia]

7. Why?

Does Rupert Murdoch hate America?

New meme: Pro-Terrorism NY Post

[jwirr]

58. That is what I wanted to know. Not only is his media empire

pro-terrorist but it is also a total right wing shill. And he is not even a citizen of the US. He reminds me of Herod who played footsy with the roman empire in order to keep his power base in Israel.

[BuyingThyme]

8. kcik

[Erika]

9. The New York Post leaked confidential info

and laughed at Keith. Since they are a right wing group, they will face no fines or sanctions. Our government, under W, only protects the right wingers. The rest of us are chopped liver.

[K8-EEE]

10. NY Post Forgot About The Anthrax Terrorist?

Well why not, BushCo did!

[exlrrp]

38. No, they RECEIVED one of the Anthrax letters

How could they "forget" that?
They did this deliberately after receving a genuine anthrax letter.
(I think the RW yahoo who sent it mixed them up with the NY Times)

[K8-EEE]

64. But if they remembered...

why would they go out of their way to make fun of K.O., who didn't even go public with this? Nobody should receive this kind of scare in the mail....they're sick.

[bobbieinok]

82. don't think NYPost got an anthrax letter

in addition to recipients mentioned earlier, a grocery store tabloid that printed some negative info about Bush twins also got anthrax letter.....I think someone who worked there may have died

[Missy Vixen]

86. The National Enquirer got an anthrax letter

Their photo editor died as a result.

Julie

[chill_wind]

11. And this sentence summarizes it all:

"Endorsement of terroristic threats from the Radical Right.."

Their position couldn't have been plainer.

That, and what he suggested about how quickly they arrived upon the story themselves and reported the incident, almost as if there was some foreknowledge.

I imagine there's a little less drunken snark tonite and a quite a bit more sober consulting with the paper's legal department right about now...

[mom cat]

28. How they knew and when they knew is a major question. Sounds

like October is starting early this year!

[quiet.american]

12. He's an amazing man.

That is all.

[Erika]

13. The New York Post should be contacted at their laughter

at Olbermann, the FBI, and our police services. Evidently since they are owned by Faux/Murdoch, they think they are above the law and backed by the Bushco regime.

[Kurovski]

14. Short, polite, and damning.

And they called Reagan the great communicator. Certainly a misnomer by comparison.

[pa28]

15. The RW enables terrorism for a living.

I doubt there will be accountability but one can always hope.

[truthisfreedom]

16. and uses the same technique... fear.

[The Backlash Cometh]

17. There go the right-wingers again. Impeding another investigation.

I say you put the NY Post top on the list of suspects.

[Swamp Rat]

20. Rupert Murdoch supports terrorists

:kick:

[madokie]

21. kick

[SalmonChantedEvening]

22. Their reasons for hating KO are simple.

He is a better man.

He is a better journalist.

He is a better American.

And most of all, these RW sickos hate and fear KO because he tells the truth.


May we all take pride in having their hatred and pettiness thrown our way.

[B Calm]

23. I wouldn't be surprised if the letter come from someone in this

administration.. Rove maybe?

[SalmonChantedEvening]

26. Nah, more than likely just a true devotee of Der Chimperor

Prototypical freeper fanatic, knuckles scarred from the sidewalk and all.

[cboy4]

24. His writing is just genius. So subtle, yet forceful. Murdoch should be

ashamed of himself after everyone teamed together to help protect his FOX employee who was being held hostage.

[alteredstate]

25. Kicked

and recommended!

[alteredstate]

27. Here's what they had to say at the "Olbermann Watch" site

"Oddball preceded another episode of Attack the Media. It was time to slam the "Rupert Murdoch owned" New York Post. This was all about the scare that was reported today, and the "shocking" way the paper wrote it up. KO gave a self-aggrandizing version of the events, disputing the paper's claim that he insisted a check-up at the hospital. He asserts it was all the doing of the police officers, and he wanted to leave the hospital but they wouldn't let him. Then, in a classic bit of OlbySpin, he slammed the Post for:

...its endorsement of terroristic threats from the radical right.
So KO knows who sent him the suspicious package? He knows it came from the "radical right"? Why doesn't he have the guy arrested? In the Anthrax attacks, despite messages that appeared to emanate from radical Islamists, investigators have been looking elsewhere, because it is not uncommon for such messages to be red herrings. But Swami Olbermann Knows All and Sees All. Maybe he should name the sender as "worst person".

Then Keith "Man on Fan" Olbermann was off on another tear. The paper sides with terrorists, not the FBI. No newspaper should have printed this, despite Murdoch's "radical agenda". Mr Humility wrapped this unbilled "special comment" with:

At this end anyway we are still human beings and Americans. And we would never have any problem choosing whether to support the terrorists or the FBI.
Yeah, Olby always supports law enforcement over the terrorists (NSA surveillance, Patriot Act, sneering at "purported" plots...). Gag. Moving along: Terrell Owens, Anna Nicole Smith, Steve Irwin. #1: The sex tapes of D-list celebrities."

http://www.olbermannwatch.com/archives/2006/09/countdown_with_128.html#more

[City Lights]

30. LOL!

He knows it came from the "radical right"? Why doesn't he have the guy arrested? The radical right is comprised of one guy? :crazy: What a moran!

[LTR]

42. And then there's THIS asshole

http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2006/09/keith-olbermann-msnbc-ksco-santa-cruz.html

...we'd never put it past Olbermann and his lefty friends to try and score partisan points over such a story.

Of course, Brian Baloney wants people to elicit more sympathy over his failed radio career (he claimed KIRO in Seattle fired him from his Sunday afternoon gig two years ago for badmouthing Dan Rather, but they actually dropped him for Seahawks football) than for a terrorist attack.

Fuck him and the horse he rode in on.

[annabanana]

45. (way more text than I needed from that terrorist site). . . . n/t

[kerstin]

71. What the execrable "olbermannwatch" fails to mention:

The Anthrax sent to Daschle, etc., in the wake of 9/11 was traced to an American military facility.

[me b zola]

95. Holy Shit! McCarthy is reaching out from the grave!

Olbermann watch?! :rofl:

Yes, maroons, by all means monitor one of the best & brightest journalists to have lived in the last 100 years--you may learn something (then again, prolly not)

We all know how dangerous you creatins believe facts are. BOO!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

31. K&R read tonight

Thanx for the vid link. Had time to watch it, amazing our Keith is.
off to work.

[truth2power]

32. From the transcript...

"It's interesting too that Murdoch's paper was able to get a jump on this story so quickly -- nearly as quickly, as if they'd known it was coming."

I would say that's a safe bet.

[SammyWinstonJack]

33. !

:bounce:

[dogday]

34. Keith just shines above the rest

The rest just make me want to :puke:

[Arger68]

36. kick

[CoffeeCat]

37. The reason that "they" don't want this leaked...

...is because it makes Republicans look bad.

This is an election year. Many people are losing faith in Republicans
and in the pResident. Junior's snarky, powermongering, petulant attitude
is wearing thin on people.

Everyone smells the corruption and lies. The GOP is a hair's breath away
from imploding. We at DU know the truth, and there is a significant percentage
that suspects it. News like this would solidify and reinforce the TRUTH about
this evil administration.

They must keep their crimes under wraps. Cover at all costs.

[Buzz Clik]

43. [e-mail]

Yep. That's the email address of the man with the byline.

I'm not suggesting you email him. Nope. Not at all. Don't do it.

[e-mail]

POWDER PUFF SPOOKS KEITH



September 27, 2006 -- MSNBC loudmouth Keith Olbermann flipped out when he opened his home mail yesterday. The acerbic host of "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" was terrified when he opened a suspicious-looking letter with a California postmark and a batch of white powder poured out. A note inside warned Olbermann, who's a frequent critic of President Bush's policies, that it was payback for some of his on-air shtick. The caustic commentator panicked and frantically called 911 at about 12:30 a.m., sources told The Post's Philip Messing. An NYPD HazMat unit rushed to Olbermann's pad on Central Park South, but preliminary tests indicated the substance was harmless soap powder. However, that wasn't enough to satisfy Olbermann, who insisted on a checkup. He asked to be taken to St. Luke's Hospital, where doctors looked him over and sent him home. Whether they gave him a lollipop on the way out isn't known. Olbermann had no comment.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09272006/gossip/pagesix/powder_puff_spooks_keith_pagesix_.htm

Please don't email:

[e-mail]
or
[e-mail]
or
[e-mail]

They are too busy.

[Buzz Clik]

51. email delivery blocked. How do you spell "chicken shit"?

I emailed Richard Johnson a rational, reasonable but critical message. Delivery was blocked.

So much for accountability.

[jwirr]

59. Mine was not so rational but I think it got through. I e-mailed all.

[Castleman]

63. This was what I wrote to the buffoon

I tittled my e-mail "Nice Expose"

"Of the craven, cowardly and treasonous policies endorsed by your paper.
This time though, you picked on the wrong guy.
That's right, you took a potshot at Keith Olbermann.
Did you think he'd just take it?
You thought wrong. He's not afraid to tell Americans the truth about Bush and his criminal cronies. If he doesn't back down from real criminals and thugs like Cheney, Bush, etc, he's not going to back down from the likes of you.
So your attempt to slam him for some cowardly pile of garbage trying to scare or threaten him only makes you look stupider yet. The FBI says to keep it quiet, so you blab your obviously made up story about Keith panicking (Yeah, right, Mr. Cool is NEVER going to panic.), and interfere with an FBI investigation to try and score some cheap political points by dissing a true American?
I mean, wow, INTERFERING WITH AN FBI INVESTIGATION INTO A POSSIBLE TERRORIST THREAT? Isn't that, well, UN-American?
That's it in a nutshell.
Your second rate little scandal sheet shows their true colors, and that they are indeed, a fraudulent pathetic shill for the criminals in charge of this nation.
As for yourself, sir, maybe just a wee bit envious of Keith's success, popularity, talent, etc?
Loudmouth?
No.
Patriot.
Journalist.
Integrity.
Class.
THOSE are the words used to describe Olbermann.
They'll never be used to describe you.
Have a splendid day!"

These weasels get sleazier, and slimier every day....but it's just the last ditch efforts to prevent the true Americans from reclaiming our country in November...

[Bretttido]

70. Great Letter!

[I Have A Dream]

83. Yeah!

:applause:

[PegDAC]

87. Castleman shoots, Castleman scores!!

Your letter is sheer masterpiece!

:toast: :thumbsup: :headbang: :yourock:

[mntleo2]

96. Sent This To Froelich Yesterday

On purpose btw, I spelled "liars" as "liers", meaning something that stays "horizonal" or "to have sexual intercourse" according to the Webster-Marriam dictionary.

Subject: Can Email Contain Antrax?

Paula:

I guess you thought it was a real yuk-em-up situation that a journalist would recieve a possible anthrax infested piece of snail mail, like this email could never be. I find it interesting how wingnut rag writers don't seem to be very afraid of anthrax infestation. They all think it is a big joke. Huh, odd isn't it? A lot of people think this is VERY odd, don't you? I mean, why wouldn't you be afraid ~ unless you know who is doing it and that you could never be a target ...hmmmm, interesting thought, isn't it?

We all know the truth about people like you, don't we Paula? "Journalists" like you get paid for unbuttoning the truth, stripping your integrity while suggestively licking your words about the masochistic, sick liers and torturers in this administration. I hope you get paid well for tongue-kissing the assets of those wingnut rich people, while supporting greedy warmongers who are unzipping their files and watching you willingly get down on all fours for treasonous war profiteers' erect bank accounts. All this while taking every inch of it all in to the hilt in order to keep people from the truth. I am sure you moan with fake pleasure as they release their skank into your ignorant little mind.

Really Paula, admit it, you are jealous of Olbermann, after all he is a REAL journalist with REAL integrity who is not afraid to tell the truth. So, if I were you, I wouldn't worry too much about getting in trouble for killing innocent people with anthrax like your friends ~ oops I mean your "contacts" do. We know you get paid to lie to the American people and perpetuate it. Must feel real good to be a team player for rags like the one you work for who are responsible for the murder of millions in wars made over lies and the like, huh?

In short, you have to live up to your REAL self by laughing at the anthrax you will certainly never have to worry about, huh? This is because you are so special. We The People however, would rather have people of high journalistic intregrity who don't have to fake or lie about the news, which you could never come close: There is a pet name we like to use for those like you, many of us who are made physically ill by your "humor": It begins with "Wh" and rhymes with a big "bore".

Disgustedly,

Cat In Seattle

CC'd all over the Internet yuk, yuk, yuk!

[Beetwasher]

39. Amazing

I can't even begin to imagine the depravity of some people.

[ladym55]

40. Rupert and his Snarkies strike again

I heard Olbermann last night discussing what happened. I'm sure that if THIS had happened to someone at the Post or to Limpballs or O'Lielly there would have been hysteria, screaming, and janitorial staff busily cleaning up the excrement the heros left behind when they first opened the envelope.

The venom from the right keeps kicking it up just another notch--more hate, more sneering, more snark. How despicable. And of course the patriots at the Post care more about spreading hatred than support a terrorist investigation.

And it does make it look suspicious that the Post knew SO many details ....

[BlueEyedSon]

44. k&r

[Dinger]

46. KIck (nt)

[Bitwit1234]

47. THIS HAS GOT TO STOP

This newspaper can't report any of the vital news and the Iraq War but they can go out of their way to do something like this.

No wonder Murdoch's children are trying to have him certified as incompetent. And It is about time the rest of the country started writing letters and overwhelming these people with our opinions of their trashing actions.

[Ian David]

48. Olbermann is a bigger man than me. I would have been less kind. n/t

[redqueen]

52. Kick

:kick:

[Homer Wells]

54. K&R n/t

[Buzz Clik]

56. Email address for the editor in charge of the column:

[e-mail]

Apparently, the author of the article is not accepting email at this time. (Bummer -- a banker in Nigeria has been trying to contact him about a $15,000,000 opportunity.)

[trekbiker]

65. kick'n for KO

[civildisoBDence]

66. Is that [e-mail]?

What a scuzzbag. They'll probably have to change the address now...

Newsprism

[nomatrix]

60. Sen. Mark Dayton closed offices 10/04

http://summeroftruth.org/oct_12_2004_sen.html

"WASHINGTON - A Democratic senator said Tuesday he has closed his Washington office because a top-secret intelligence report made him fear for his staff's safety. Federal law enforcement officials insisted there is no new intelligence indicating the Capitol complex is a target.
Sen. Mark Dayton (news, bio, voting record), D-Minn., said his office in the Russell Senate Office Building across the street from the Capitol will be closed while Congress is in recess through Election Day, with his staff working out of his Minnesota office and in Senate space off Capitol Hill.
"I take this step out of extreme, but necessary, precaution to protect the lives and safety of my Senate staff and my Minnesota constituents, who might otherwise be visiting my Senate office in the next three weeks," he said.
Dayton said he could not give details of the intelligence report, which he said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., presented to senators at a briefing two weeks ago.
Frist told reporters later that he didn't know of any other senator who had closed their Capitol Hill office.
"There has been no new information over the last five to six weeks," he said, referring to intelligence.
Brian Roehrkasse, a Homeland Security Department spokesman, said the department had no intelligence indicating al-Qaida intends to target any specific U.S. locations.
FBI (news - web sites) officials said while there still is concern al-Qaida wants to disrupt the upcoming election, there is no new information indicating the Capitol or any other location is a target.
Added Capitol police spokesman Michael Lauer: "There's been no specific threats against the Capitol complex. We continue to be on guard now, all the way up to the election and all the way through the inauguration."
Nonetheless, Dayton said he would advise people from his home state to avoid Capitol Hill until after the Nov. 2 election.

"I would not bring my two sons to the Capitol between now and the election," he added."

[nomatrix]

62. Suspicious letter a NYT (AP)date July 14, 2006

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/14/national/main1807018.shtml

"A suspicious powdery substance found Friday in an envelope in the mailroom at The New York Times likely is cornstarch, the newspaper said.

Police were called to the newspaper's West 43rd Street offices around 12:30 p.m. after an employee in the mailroom opened a business-sized envelope containing a suspicious-looking beige powder.

The Department of Environmental Protection, through field tests, preliminarily identified the substance as cornstarch, said Catherine Mathis, a Times spokeswoman.

The envelope also contained an editorial about reports on secret government anti-terrorism programs with a red "X" through it."

[PegDAC]

88. Remember Paul Wellstone! n/t

[GeorgeGist]

61. I suspect Murdoch's ...

minions are responsible for the threat.

[The Count]

90. Or in the very least, the senser called them&told them what he did

Instead of warning KO, they just snickered like fratboys aboyt a prank...Who does this remind me of?

[Debi]

67. I don't understand this

According to O'Liely nobody watches KO!!! Why would they right care what happended to him??? :shrug:

[LTR]

68. There was another scare the other day

The owners of KSCO, a conservative station in Santa Cruz, got an envelope in the mail with white powder.

http://www.register-pajaronian.com/main.php?story_id=4775&page=1
http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_270192143.html
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2006/September/26/local/stories/01local.htm

Of course, the owners of the station DID make quite a big stink about it, going so far as to put quite a few updates on their website:

http://www.ksco.com/dspNR.cfm?nrid=7603
http://www.ksco.com/dspNR.cfm?nrid=7604
http://www.ksco.com/dspNR.cfm?nrid=7605
http://www.ksco.com/dspNR.cfm?nrid=7606
http://www.ksco.com/dspNR.cfm?nrid=7614
http://www.ksco.com/dspNR.cfm?nrid=7623
http://www.ksco.com/dspNR.cfm?nrid=7624

[Johnny Noshoes]

69. The more I watch KO on youtube

the more I think I should actually start watching the whole show. As for the Post: I don't buy it, don't even take one when they're given away, and wouldn't use it to line a bird cage because I might end up insulting the bird's intelligence.

"And most chillingly of all, this is the Law and Order and Terror government.
It promised protection against all threats: conventional, radiological, or biological.
It has just proved that it can't save its citizens from standing water."
-- Keith Olbermann

[Gregorian]

72. They're all a bunch of vandals.

They are right wing vandals. And as such, they love stealing elections, assassinating characters, destroying the years of hard earned civil rights, etc.

We build. They tear down.

Keith is a sophisticated man. Unlike the money grubbers who taunt him. Shame on them. I fear for this country if these people continue to vandalize us.

[Warren DeMontague]

74. The correct word, imho, is "brownshirt".

And you're right.

[Warren DeMontague]

73. but... but... but... THAT'S NOT "REAL" TERRORISM!

THIS is!:

[YOY]

75. Way to hit back Keith

at the bunch of hypocritical bastards.

[warrens]

77. Somebody at the NYP needs a massage...

...with a Garden Weasel.

[intaglio]

78. k & r

[Joe Chi Minh]

79. I wonder if it would be possible for Olberman to sue Murdoch or

one of his minions responsible for defamation (heavy punitive damages). Or for the FBI to do so on some ground or other.

[Bjorn Against]

81. Probably not defamation, but he may be able to sue for something else

By joking about him receiving death threats and revealing information that impedes a terrorism investigation there could be potential lawsuits on two fronts. By joking about death threats they could potentially be putting Keith Olbermann's life in danger and they would be encouraging more threats against him. If you got a death threat and a major publication were to joke about it I am positive you could sue, being Keith Olbermann is a public figure it is a bit more of an uphill battle although I am sure he could bring a strong case forward and very likely win.

[Joe Chi Minh]

97. Yes. Bush's crowd have been getting hysterical about a film

based on the theme of Bush being assassinated. Which I thought was typically cowardly.

All those Democratic giants assassinated (Roosevelt's murder apparently only thwarted thanks to the honourable soldier, General Smedley-Butler), that other giant among progressives in the eyes of the world, Martin Luther King, and so many others. And they've been screaming about this film! Not to speak of the constant stream of "jokes" and actual threats receivied by Bush's rare critics in the media.

Didn't Michelle Malkin make some such remark? And Olbermann, as you mentioned, received a suspicious parcel the FBi considered might have been anthrax? And the previous REAL anthrax sent through the post... they sourced it to a government laboratory and I don't believe the people were even interrogated. Certainly, nothing came of the investigation, nor any excuse given.

Anyway, You probably couldn't FIND an assassin who was a Democrat!

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80. Keith savages the repuke LIARS once again. Thank you, KO & MSNBC!

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84. I hope they catch the fuckers that sent that to KO....

...and they rot in hell.

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85. Ann Coulter

I'm surprised Ann Coulter didn't take responsibility for this. Remember a couple of months ago she "jokingly" took credit for a fake anthrax letter sent to the New York Times? I wouldn't put it past that freak of nature to do something like this for publicity.

[VeggieTart]

94. And we know how much Coultergeist loves...

...to make death threats against people she doesn't like. Olbermann has mentioned four. I remember Hugo Chavez and Lincoln Chafee, but there are others, aren't there?

[Laurab]

89. Wonder how the writer would have acted if it was in HIS mailbox

my guess is he would have been more than a little "spooked" himself. What a fucking scumbag - he and his boss. Anthrax, or the threat of anthrax, isn't a real funny thing, as a few people could probably tell him from experience.

Keith Olbermann is obviously a man of tremendous courage, and integrity. He is also obviously aware of what this administration is capable of. I wouldn't have blamed him if he HAD acted like the scumbag writer said he acted, but I believe him when he says he didn't.

Really, the writer is making fun of both Keith AND anyone who may be, or has been threatened in this way. It's NOT a funny little prank - people HAVE died. The article disgusts me - there is nothing fucking funny about the threat of anthrax. Keith's comments also make me wonder who else is getting these little "jokes", if anyone.

It's a sad, sad state of affairs when one has to worry about anyone who speaks truth to power to this administration, but I do worry. I worry about Keith, I worry about Stewart and Colbert, I worry about the people who write the books I read.....and it's just not funny.

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92. terrorists strike on Chimpy's watch

SNIP: ... host Keith Olbermann received a suspicious letter filled with white powder ...

Looks like the terrorists have struck on Chimpy's watch. So much for preventing another terrorist attack.

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93. Rupert Murdock is simply despicable.....no debate!

I can only shake my head in disbelief at this unbelievable piece of "news"!

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98. NYPost helpin terrorists

now thats a headline