Keith Obermann

“The fuel tax thing impacted the wrong way,” Keith Olbermann said when commenting on Senator Hilary Clinton’s strategy of proposing a fuel tax relief–effectively short term relief. Senator Obama seemingly chose correctly when he chose otherwise. At least this is Olbermann’s point of view. We might be able to say that the “demand for such a tax savings is in short supply.” (see definition below). Yet, why not choose perfectly good alternatives: influenced, swayed negatively, affected adversely...Read Full Story

I feel true sympathy for the few thousand people in this country who actually depend on Keith Olbermann for their news, or even on MSNBC for that matter. For obvious reasons, that pity is derived from the fact that those people will now be deprived of their beloved bloviator. For peripheral reasons, it is because they have been so misinformed over the course of his career. Olbermann has been suspended without pay indefinitely from the floundering cable network for violations of the...Read Full Story

Congressman Nunes? You should resign. You have no business opening a door for a man like John Lewis, let alone serving alongside him. And if you shouldn't resign for your endorsement, your encouragement, of the most vile, the most reprehensible, and the most outdated spewings of the lizard-brain of this country, you should resign because of your total disconnect from reality. There have been no "totalitarian tactics," Congressman. People, these few, sad, people, have begun to act crazy...Read Full Story

By Keith Olbermann Anchor, ‘Countdown’ msnbc.com msnbc.com updated 1/8/2011 10:13:25 PM ET 2011-01-09T03:13:25 SPECIAL COMMENT Finally tonight, as promised, a Special Comment on the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona. We need to put the guns down. Just as importantly we need to put the gun metaphors away and permanently. Left, right, middle [...]Read Full Story

Never did I expect to be so moved by Keith Olbermann's Special Comment segment on prop 8 last night. With no personal investment in it for himself, Keith Olbermann stated to the world what many of us have felt in our hearts, but perhaps just couldn't articulate, about the passing of Proposition 8. With amazing passion and trembling voice, he states, "...this isn't about yelling, and this isn'tRead Full Story