Keith Olbermann writes: "The ham-handed self-serving greediness playing out in the background of Governor Scott Walker's attempt to make Wisconsin into the central battle zone in the Koch Brothers' attempt to end collective bargaining in this country, roared to the forefront Sunday night when the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported that the supposedly financially imperiled state had enough money to hire State Senator Randy Hopper's mistress."
Keith Olbermann. (photo: orlandoshaped/Photobucket)
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Carol Reese, would like to hear from you.
This is where we will return if such as the Koch brothers have their way.
Maybe it's time for a nation wide strike to remind the politicians who is boss!
If corporations are granted the rights of Free Speech it would indicate that corporations fall under the category of “Expressive Associations”. Expressive associations are groups that engage in activities protected by the First Amendment—speec h, assembly, press, petitioning government for a redress of grievances, and the free exercise of religion. Unions would also fall within that category would they not? I would think it would be hard (if not impossible)for the Supreme Court not to agree that a Union would share the same freedom of speech that a corporation would have and that the law in Wisconsin cannot stand because it violates the First Amendment. I haven't heard anybody even mentioning this.
I have tried to contact lawyers including Jonathan Turley and the ACLU on this...but get nothing. Maybe someone here can answer this question?
IN FACT IT'S THE GOP's PROPAGANDA MACHINE.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/150330/glenn_greenwald%3A_how_the_us_government_strikes_fear_in_its_own_citizens_and_people_around_the_world/,
It gives us a glimpse of what lengths Wealthy influences will go to to force the debate in their favor. The MSM is useless, they are captive collaborators in this war for information. Our nation is destroyed by WEALTH. And we are watching it erode from the inside.
That's easy....MainStreamMedia is owned by industries. Google 'em!
That's why on-line news is the first place to go so you can see plain and clear the lies...or omissio...or misinfo twists of facts, that goes for MSM News.
Everything is connected.
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/47530.php
POP QUIZ: Who owns NBC, ABC?
ANSWER:General Electric, Westinghouse
Extra credit: Both make nuclear reactors
Ask yourself this... Who owns the Main Stream Media?
That is probably true untill they get caught with their hands out for corpritocracy "donations" and their "special boy & girl" friends.
I've been calling them the "Selfservatives" or the "Repugnicans."
But "Insane Clown Posse" fits, too.
Rethugs works for me. Recycled thugs, most of them. a few idealists.. sadly they, too will be drowned out by the idealogues and the misinformed corporate shills that pass for legislators today.
They do have sex, except it is with minors, people of the same sex or out of wedlock
http://home.conservativebabylon.com/category/w-david-hager/
I just think Walker is trying to beat Palin across that bridge.
And the greatest constant upheaval of hypocrisy.
Just the other day I challenged a right wing GOP teabagger nut case I know regarding Newt the Sleazeball. Reminded him that while Newt was stalking Clinton he was banging a mistress--the lizard was still married. And, like all brain-washed GOP lemmings, the guy tries to clean the slate by belching "Well, I'm sure he had a good reason."
Yeah--he was and is a sleazebag, like most of your kind.
I'm sure the guy thought about it maybe a tenth of a second before sliming off to polish and load his gun or hunkering into the nearest house of worship and hatred.
Ouch!
If you are going to destroy your life and party at least pick a looker.
Oink oink...
Probably has another already
Republicans & sex?... They don't even know the meaning of the word. Their slogans are "kill for peace" and "thoughts & prayers"...
They're the peasants of the country!
It's also time to put forward programs that will take power from the corporate gangsters and place it in the hands of the people. My modest proposals are: (1) establish a state bank like North Dakota to run the finances and economic development for the state for the benefit of the people instead of letting the private gangsters gamble with our future; (2) amend the corporate charter law to strip from the corporations the authority to contribute so much as a dime to any politicians, political party or for political advertising, and confiscate the assets of any corporation that violates the ban; and (3) declare as a bribe any contribution beyond a minimal amount to any politicians or political party by anyone who then advocates the adoption or enactment of any public policy by the person to whom the contribution was made.
Putting those policies in place would go a long way toward stripping the corporate gangsters of their hold over public policies.
Good to hear from Keith Olbermann. I miss him a lot on MSNBC. They were stupid to replace him with O'Donnell.
O'Donnell is good: he's fearless and passionate. But he ain't Keith.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/150330/glenn_greenwald%3A_how_the_us_government_strikes_fear_in_its_own_citizens_and_people_around_the_world/
The exit door was locked, in order to prevent ‘Union Organizers’ from entering.
The Republican governors of Wisconsin, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Oklahoma, Missouri, and New Mexico and of some other states, and Republicans in the House of Representatives , who intend to keep workers from organizing, are simply bullies who are self-interested. They serve the right-wing interests of the Koch brothers and the Chamber of Commerce who promise to take away the fundamental right of workers, in a democracy, to join together and bargain collectively.
They are no different than Muammar Gaddafi, and other dictators, who try to bully people, for their own greed and self-interests!
But, as most Republicans, they don’t know history and have not thought out the eventual conclusion. Their fundamentalist behavior lacks introspection and clear thinking.
It’s all in the History books.
The tables will turn in the 2014 election.
I agree. I really miss Keith and his whip smart analysis each day. He calls it like he sees it and always spoke truth to power with great passion.
Tell me: What do Randy Hopper or Scott Walker have to do until it becomes, in your eyes, malfeasance and criminal?
Another: Charlatans.
America as we know it is drowning in a cauldron of misinformation, hyperbole, and blind-ignorance.
Manson Family Media with their Fat Fascist in Florida taking the role of Charlie(not Sheen. If you really want to blow the lid off this Fiscal Scam the GOP engineered goto:
http://www.onedollardvdproject.com/Videos/CorporationNation/. Its revolution material.
Snyder is a STINKING TURD.
Now the GOP is hijacked by anti-intellectual, cynical demagogues like Palin or Bachmann or Gingrich or their clones, or old-school, fatuous windbags like McCain or McConnell or Boehner, ready, willing and able to exploit the flatline fears, ignorance and hard-wired bigotry of their prevailing dumbed down audiences around the country. They appeal to the worst angels of our nature, the slimey underbelly of American culture and political discourse.
What's even more depressing is the collusion of so-called mainstream, corporate-controlled media in the descent of most TV coverage, reporting and political punditry into the communal sewer of PR spin, unchallenged mendacity, factless propaganda and endless fearmongering, all for the sake of ratings, and the infinite need to stuff as many empty sound bytes and fake "news" as possible into the 24/7 broadcast cycle.
One does however wonder about selectivity. Living in a thoroughly Democratic state and having worked within various Commonwealth agencies over my career, please be assured that elected Massachusetts politicians always "make room" on state payrolls for their supporters, relatives, and love interests. In one department I worked all of my dozen reporting staffers had guaranteed jobs and they were openly referred to as "Governor X's" or "Governor Y's" or "Governor Z's" appointees. All of these "employees" were more or less incompentent and none could be fired.
So, to be fair about this story, Olbermann might have also dug into Democratic Party political appointments and spoken to the need to have all employment with the state subject to civil service rules. He would have done a real service instead of merely digging up some dirt and throwing it at a political opponent.
Lee Nason
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Ed Schultz is unabashedly pro-union & pro-labor, and THAT'S why, imho, his show was moved to 10 PM.
If I had my way, Mr. Schultz would swap MSNBC places with Chris Matthews because his show is more "hardball" than Matthews' show could ever be.
I miss Mr. Olbermann's presence, though!
Just a routine hiring decision? No payback here. Sure sounds like it.
You have the time to do an in depth review of Koch Industries- where and how the money came into the possession of these 2 thieves and which politicians they have bought with it.
Somebody needs to spell it all out and disseminate it to the public at alrge, and particularly to the media, who seem mystified by decades of theft and political maneuverings.
These guys have "Koch-suckered" us all
--and made billiobs in doing it
Lastly,
When does Current TV open up a Countdown equivalent? They do not even have a working phone number
TM Bennett MD
super rich contributors having their way with the American Dream is to change the way We do politics, campaigns and financing. We need a 6year-1 time in office, reform...From the Dog Catcher to the Office of President...All financing should be from a pool, with an allotment to each candidate...All television/Radio or other, for profit media, should be at NO Charge...(Their way of returning the
the value of the license given....With Our present system, across the nation slavery is inevitable...Civil unrest on the horizon...It's going to be Cairo in LA...
And Keith, please, please have a blog where we can post comments, like Rachel does, and is on Facebook.
Do you watch NCIS? If not ask around and someone will tell you that a "Gibbs", is a mild smack delivered to the back of the head of anyone who says or does something stupid. As an experiment try using the "Gibbs" on select individuals that you feel are capable of less stupidity. Please think very carefully before using this technique on the loudmouth schnook at the ball game.
jerk, "Randy Hopper".
What the old saying: "Keith told you so!"
Now those same voters in Wisconsin and elsewhere are paying through their nose for electing these corporate crooks in.
It serves the right!
I'll buy that! In the final analysis, it's all with the voters. They got what they voted for. Do your homework, dummies. Start with turning off the idiot box. You won't get any truth-sayers there.
Here's a slogan for our t-shirts:
"Turn off the TV,
Get your own personality."
I miss Keith as well.
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