TRANSCRIPT: Keith Olbermann's 1/30 Special Comment "Fact-checking The President On Terrorism"

[Hissyspit]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16893899/

Bush shoots for ‘Jaws,’ delivers ‘Jaws 2’
President claimed to stop four terror plots, but where is the evidence?

SPECIAL COMMENT
By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, 'Countdown'
MSNBC

- snip -

“We cannot know the full extent of the attacks that we and our allies have prevented,” Mr. Bush noted, “but here is some of what we do know: We stopped an al-Qaida plot to fly a hijacked airplane into the tallest building on the West Coast.”

This would, of course, sir, be the purported plot to knock down the 73-story building in Los Angeles, the one once known as the Library Tower — the one you personally revealed so breathlessly a year ago next month.

It was embarrassing enough that you mistakenly referred to the structure as the “Liberty Tower.”

But within hours it was also revealed that authorities in Los Angeles had had no idea you were going to make any of the details — whether serious or fanciful — public.

Who terrorized Southern California that day, Mr. Bush?

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And you continued with a second dubious claim of counter-terror success. “We broke up a Southeast Asian terror cell grooming operatives for attacks inside the United States,” you said.

Well, sir, you’ve apparently stumped the intelligence community completely with this one.

COMPLETE TRANSCRIPT AT LINK

[WiseButAngrySara]

1. Listening to him now! thanks for posting and KNR! ....n/r

[Cabcere]

2. Thank you!

:) Appreciate you posting this here for those of us who didn't catch it on TV. :kick:

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. I'll catch the repeat!

:bounce:

[capi888]

4. KO is blowing the Accomplishments of Bush....security..

OUT OF THE WATER....!!!

[Hissyspit]

5. "Mr. President, you have succeeded in giving Spartacus his Piper Cub."

LOL

[Awsi Dooger]

6. I wish Keith would lose the juvenile crap

Like "Fox Noise Channel" or Bill Orally.

Keith is at his best when he point by point destroys the claims by Bush and the right. He loses me partially when he stoops to their level with word plays, or even the tone of his recent special comments, including tonight. In the early ones he was much more even handed and devastating. Lately he's overly emotional and sarcastic in them and the informative nature becomes almost secondary as a result.

[Berry Cool]

9. Your opinion, which you have a right to.

But completely unshared by me.

There's always been a little bit of "juvenile" in Keith. It's part of who he is. To have him cut it off would be like asking him to cut off a finger.

Overly emotional? Sarcastic? No, that's just Keith.

[JTG of the PRB]

7. BAM!!!

Another dynamite Special Comment for Keith!

I'd be more excited about it, but actually THINKING about all this shit the Commander-in-Chimp is doing (AND GETTING AWAY WITH!!!) fills me with dread, foreboding, and a terror that doth not speak its name.

[democrank]

11. Welcome to DU, jtg33.

Every time Keith does a Special Comment, he sets the bar a little higher. Who knows? Eventually it might catch on and truth might start breaking out all over the place.

[Hissyspit]

16. Welcome to DU!

:patriot:

:toast:

[dflprincess]

8. How ironic that right after Keith signed off we go to Scarborough

announcing that Bushco claims that Iran planned the ambush of the U.S. soldiers.

[Bobbie Jo]

13. Exactly....

It almost seemed like the punchline to a joke....that is, if it weren't so tragic.

[badgerpup]

10. K & R...

and a :hug: and :toast: to those who post the links for all of us who can't catch KO :loveya: on TV for whatever reason.
:yourock:





:kick:

[Supersedeas]

12. b/c the other 'news' programs don't bother to fact check the President

[Jacklyn75]

14. Another GREAT special comment from Keith! He is amazing! n/t

[brer cat]

15. Thanks, Hissyspit!

K&R

[w8liftinglady]

17. I'm SO glad he chose this

I remember us calling "bullshit" during the sotu.Thanks.Keith.for finding the facts to validate our gut feeling.

[Hissyspit]

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