by Keith Olbermann MSNBC Countdown
Monday, 03 August 2009
Full text re-print from MSNBC websit of Keith Olbermann Healthcare Special Comment
Finally tonight, as promised, a Special Comment on Health Care Reform in this country, and in particular, the “public insurance option.” In March of 1911, after a wave of minor factory fires in New York City, the [...]

By Denis Campbell
Gary McKinnon lost both legs of his appeal this morning in UK Crown Court. A holdover from the Bush era, McKinnon faces up to 70-years in prison for hacking into Pentagon computers in search of UFO information. He suffers from Aspergers syndrome and the last hope for delaying his extradition may indeed now [...]

Reprise from 14 June 2008: When Tim russert passed away during the height of the campaign, this was our tribute.
“I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – you know that only the good die young.” – Billy Joel.
As I sat for hours searching for yet more words to express the magnitude [...]

by Denis Campbell
It was a dream match-up prime-time television listing for this past Tuesday night. Whilst it competed with an NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) rerun and gripping baseball, NBA and NHL playoff games, even the WWE’s (World Wrestling Entertainment) CEO Vince McMahon was filled with respect. “I tried for weeks to make this bout [...]

Reprise: On 8 July we published an homage to the Left’s Rottweiller Keith Olbermann, the right went apoplectic as the article had 300,000 hits in 4 hours.
Keith is my kind of guy. Creative, completely unmanageable, he says what he feels in the moment and wears his outrage like his very large heart on his 6’ [...]

Farewell to a dumb idea kept alive by FIX Noise.

You did well. Keith eulogizes his late mother, who passed away on Saturday. Marie Olbermann, a diehard baseball fan, became a media sensation when Yankee Chuck Knoblauch threw a ball at her head…

The taxpayers would have preferred drawn and quartered then placed in one of those old fashioned stocks, standing with his head and hands exposed outside the HQ building so we could throw rotten fruit at him. At least we’d feel better. Why such seeming post-partisan enmity in the new change era? 
Let’s begin on page 43 of [...]

by Charley James
As a progressive, one of the things that I appreciate about MSNBC’s evening line-up is that although its people have a liberal point-of-view, they stick to actual facts rather than slide down into the slimy half-truths and outright lies that Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and the other on Fox’s right wing mouthpiece network [...]

By Denis Campbell
It was a great election (duh-dum) wasn’t it? A new Democratic President (duh-dum), bigger majorities in the House and Senate (duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh… duhdadeeee) and nothing can go wrong… AEEIIIIIII!!!!! Apologies to John Williams, Peter Benchley and the cast of Jaws, what the heck is going on in the Senate?!?
OK, it was cute that both [...]