Olbermann & Daily Kos Founder Agree: Republicans Saw 3,000 Deaths on 9/11 as ‘Political Opportunity’
- Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:14pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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During a recent segment on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas launched into Republicans and President George W. Bush when he asserted that 9/11 was a “political opportunity,” not a tragedy for Republicans.
The reason, according to Moulitsas, is “because they were able to take that and use it to stifle their domestic critics, push through a radical agenda, try to silence anybody who opposed him [Bush].”
“It essentially won him another term in 2004 based on 9/11 because he wasn’t popular on any other matter. So, for Republicans, even today, 9/11 is the gift that keeps on giving. The fact that 3,000 people died is incidental to them. They don’t care about that. What was there was a political opportunity and he took it.”
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Comments (253)
amerbur
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:42pmI learned a long time ago Olberman and friends are not worth watching, hearing or seeing.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 8:55pm.
Report Post »Two commies agreeing on hating democracy?
Yeah, that’s balance.
Good job.
TSUNAMI-22
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 9:03pmOk, Keith, I see what you mean – welfare for democrats and liberals is ok, but welfare for conservatives is not? For democrats and liberals welfare is the gift that keeps on giving, isn’t, Keith?
Report Post »SpeckChaser
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 9:08pmI think these guys are valuable. Want to know the truth quickly, just go with the exact opposit of what they say. Much like gore, the proof that global warming is not true is gore says it is.
Report Post »SpeckChaser
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 9:13pmOn second thought, Bush did say “never let a crisis go to waste”…oh wait a minute, never mind.
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 9:17pmWow.. even for Olbermann thats jumping the shark …
Report Post »I’m embarrassed for him.
Hobbs57
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 9:56pmHmmmm… wasn’t it the Debbie Gifford shooting that the daily kos used to spring into the media ?? Both these people are freaks, pure freaks
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 10:08pmThat’s Funny
Because Olberdork and PMSNBC and The Daily KOOKS didn’t see anything unusual on 9/11
Report Post »michael48
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 10:11pmwho and who…or what and what…next
Report Post »Berealalready
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 10:44pmUtterly sickening. This type of rhetoric is so beyond the pale that it may actually damage his credibility with some of the loons that watch his drivel.
Report Post »MsUnderestimated
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 11:45pmBoth of these sub-humans are despicable and not worthy of sharing the air the rest of us breathe. I’m really biting my tongue to try and not get booted by the mods, so I will just leave it at that. Both are sick, sad, sorry losers.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 12:04amDID ALAN GRAYSON invade OLBYDORK’s body?
Seriously,these people should be EXAMINED immediately
Report Post »Sick Sick Sick.
banjarmon
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 12:13amThey are DUMB an DUMBER to the 10th power
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 12:47amWhat an absolutely foul and vulgar thing to say, Olberman.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 2:12am. . . and for them (and other arcane left-wingers), Blaze publication is a gift that keeps on giving.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 2:36amThey don’t even flinch as they suggest another American should not have a chance to have his say. They are living hypocrisy.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 5:24amUsed 9/11 to get us into Iraq war~indisputable.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 7:04amIf you want to know what a liberal is doing, listen to what he bitches about. That’s how they work, they think the we little people are to stupid to figure it out.
Report Post »Obama_Sham
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 7:21am“tifosa
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 5:24am
Used 9/11 to get us into Iraq war~indisputable.”
Agreed… Both Republicans and DEMOCRATS voted in favor of the invasion of Iraq…
Report Post »txbigfoot
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 7:29amWho are these guys? What channel?
Report Post »Obviously one I dont watch and I dont care.
They can eat a a turd sandwich.
Sleazy Hippo
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 9:26amThey are just upset because the neo con way took over our Government for several years.
Wasn’t it Rahm Emmanuel who said, “never let a disaster go to waste?”
Wasn’t it Barack Obama who said, “elections have consequences?”
Whiners!
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 10:13amYet … Olbermann doesn’t speak about the ground zero mosque, called Park 51, which has applied for a $5 million grant of federal funds from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
Report Post »Therese
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 11:06amREMEMBER EVERYONE YOU CAN VOTE ABSENTEE EARLY FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. IN
Report Post »2008 THE LINE AROUND THE ELECTION BOARD IN MY STATE WAS AROUND THE BUILDING DAY AFTER DAY AFTER DAY AFTER DAY…… guess who they were voting for..
If you cannot make the Nov. Election Day, VOTE ABSENTEE…………
MONICNE
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 11:14amDo NOT Get Me started. These fools never mentioned the is a planned 13-story Muslim community center to be located two blocks from the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan.
Even though it’s not on topic, I believe NYC intramural basketball is too big an issue to leave out.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 11:48amNo the policy of never letting a crisis go to waste is a Democratic one. The democrats have shown themselves to be nothing but political opportunist in every sense of the word. They not only accept support by those who would see the Constitution,the free market and the American dream destroyed they also support the ideologies of those groups.
Report Post »The Democratic party as a whole are a cancer to free society.
ACLUHater
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 12:06pmAnyone watching and buying Olberman‘s filth is a disgusting moron who’s opinion ain’t worth a darn.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 12:42pmLike Republican’s saw 9/11 coming?? Does anyone ever see any sense coming out of the lefts mouths ever??? I am beginning to think these people were abducted by aliens and had their brains rewired?? How do they come up with the stupid rhetoric they do??? Its obvious they have no common sense whatsoever, that they are easily manipulated? May God help us!
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 2:09pmAbby,
Report Post »The Democrats have been projecting thier true moarlity,values,and image on Republicans for years.
Case in point they call the Reuplicans uneducated racist. The fact that the KKK was established by Deomcrats,Jim Crow was established by Democrats,a Democratic President resegrated the military after the civil war,democrats fought the civil rights movement down to the last filabuster,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1rIDmDWSms,lbj also said that if they supported the Civils rights act n**gers would voting Democratic for 200 years.
More recently 2006 the Democrats claimed that Bush was spending way too much and saddling future generations with massive debt, And now they’re supporting O spending at three times the rate of Bush.
Ita sad old tactic that will soon be useless as American are becoming more and more informed on the actual facts.
jonnydoe
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:25pmI hate to admit it, but I agree with Olbermann for once. Much like Rahm Emmanuel’s comment “Never let a good crisis go to waste”, the Bush administration used this opportunity to go into Iraq, pass the Patriot Act, rob us of our liberties in the name of safety, etc.
They’re all in the same boat. Anything to bloat the government, increase the military industrial complex, pass massive social spending bills, bailout (foreign) banks…whatever they can get away with. Why should we be surprised?
Report Post »ff-up
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:42pmThese are some sick SOB’s. I can’t understand their bitterness and angst! They’re living good on the advantages of living in the United States of America. If they want something different – move there. Let us get out country going again.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 8:33pmThey are the ones using 9/11 victims for personal reasons. Conservatives want to remember the dead with prayers and NYC won‘t’ let them.
TEA!
Report Post »AMERICA4EVER
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 10:55pmThey even look bad! Where does MSNBSleeze get these guys?
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:41pmIt is so sad the liberals would stoop this low to hang onto the POS president we now have. They are just a little ticked off Obama has no major tradegy like 9/11, but if we did have it under his command I would pity our very souls. Everything Obama has been through has been a political opportunity but unlike Bush, whom handled it well, Obama has not. I would trust our country and lives to Bush many times over Obama.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:54pmso did the NWO liberals it was planned many years ago
Report Post »research 911 on 20 dollar bill or microsoft word
http://www.conspiracies.net/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4ZpArROVhY
SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:56pmWho cares what two angry gay men have to say?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 8:01pmAgree. All of the Obama/ Democrats posturing about “the death of Bin Laden”( like he had anything to do with the actual event other than to vote “present” to the plan!) and his photo ops at the return of the Navy Seals killed in that helicopter crash. Not to mention the “tough slog” bit last week-end! Talk about using “opportunities! Just more of the usual hypocrisy…
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 8:12pmIf you’ll notice, liberals are well known for projecting…meaning what they are guilty of, they project onto their enemies. So anything they accuse us of doing, you‘ll know they’re guilty of it. So, just like the little weasle Rahm, said, Never let a good crisis go to waste. Like they don’t take advantage of every little crisis that comes up to further their agenda?
Report Post »nptden
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:40pmI think it’s time for American retired vets to start mobilizing and refute these commie bastards. Time they get a taste of their own medicine. Any vets who would like to play the commie game and have non-violent demonstrations in the Commie bastions like NYT, CNN, NBC and have sit-downs like their commie brothers. Then if it gets bad, break a few heads.
Report Post »Spendstop
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:40pmCan you say twig boy, what a pile of crap
Report Post »INOGAWD
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:59pmOlbe’s chum Moulitass was in High School 9/11..
Report Post »GNite Keith, GNite Marko, AHWWWW !!!!
barber2
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:40pmLet’s see: “stifle their domestic critics, push through a radical agenda, try to silence anybody who opposed him.” Hmmmm. Moulitsas is of course describing the Obama Democrats and their treatment of the Tea Party, correct??
Report Post »vires montesque vincimus
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:39pmAre these two gay? Are they lovers? I didn’t think Keithy would ever cheat on Obama. Guess I was wrong. How many cats does Keith have living with him in his moms basement? 60, 70?
Report Post »spcdmb41
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:39pmi must say both of these guys are not worth anything pieces of **** the both of them
Report Post »sevrd1
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:38pmkeith uses up air that others can breathe.. please go away.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 9:21pmagree….. nothing but a used up has-been in Al Gore hell
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:36pmWho cares what these two think. Even discussing this story gives the internet show more coverage than it deserves.
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:41pmFor sure. But I guess we need to know what the evil enemy is up to. What a couple of sickos.
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:55pmOh yes Keith…the Republicans used 9/11 to keep Bush in for another term. The only thing that I liked about Bush was that even though he was a NWO guy..he didn’t try to disarm the American people, and he didn’t raise our taxes, and statistically, the train to the NWO slowed down on his watch. I heard a liberal tell Mike Huckabee after 9/11 , that it showed how far America had come to elect Barrack Hussein Obama to the Presidency of the United States. I‘d say that’s how far we got dooped. It’s no wonder muslims want to build a victory mosque there. They might as well, one of their own is running our country. Didn’t Obama say to the Muslim nations.. America could be called the greatest Islamic nation in the world.?
Report Post »10 parts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMLJJEDDDGc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeMZGGQ0ERk
SHOESHINEBOY
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:36pmThe “Daily Communist” is just that, a Communist web site, for Communist dealings, with one Communist Diktator..as those they worship, in Che, Castro, Mao, Chavez, Marx, etc…with the Diktator being “Markos ””maarx,che,mao,adolph,mao,castro,chavez“ Moulitsas” in charge as supreme Diktator and Ruler over all, with only what Diktator Marx-kos- MAO-ulitsas, freely dealing with those who do not fully agree with Marx-kos MAO-ulitsas, being made to agree in the most MAO-wonderful, Che-Beautifu, way…..
Report Post »SHOESHINEBOY
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:50pmMao Zedon his rule from 1949 to 1976 is believed to have caused the deaths of 40 to 70 million people political persecution during both the Anti-Rightist Movement and struggle sessions all resulted from these programs.the harsh methods he used to pursue them, including torture and executions, have been widely rebuked as being ruthless and self-defeating
just the type of leader Marx-kos MAO-litsas would love to be…
Report Post »barber2
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:52pmYes, these are the same idiot/anarchists who want to “destroy capitalism.” Can’t wait for their September-Octoberfests…. Getting those hoodies and ski masks ready…Ah, the International Anarchists of the World…
Report Post »SHOESHINEBOY
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 8:04pmThe real Guevara was a reckless bourgeois adrenaline-junkie seeking a place in history as a liberator of the oppressed. But this fanatic’s vehicle of “liberation” was Stalinism, named for Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, murderer of well over 20 million of his own people. As one of Castro’s top lieutenants, Che helped steer Cuba’s revolutionary regime in a radically repressive direction. Soon after overthrowing Batista, Guevara choreographed the executions of hundreds of Batista officials without any fair trials. He thought nothing of summarily executing even fellow guerrillas suspected of disloyalty and shot one himself with no due process.
Che was a purist political fanatic who saw everything in stark black and white. Therefore he vociferously opposed freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, protest, or any other rights not completely consistent with his North Korean-style communism. How many rock music-loving teens sporting Guevara t-shirts today know their hero supported Cuba’s 1960s’ repression of the genre? How many homosexual fans know he had gays jailed?
Did the Obama volunteers in that Texas campaign headquarters with Che’s poster on the wall know that Guevara fervently opposed any free elections? How “progressive” is that?
and to think.. MARX-kos MAO-litsas wants to be just like CHE…..
Report Post »DanWesson455
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:35pmObernazimann and daily hose me. Who cares. Two of the same mold being watched by 200 of the same mold. When is ALGORE TV going the way of Air America? That is into the trash bin of history.
Report Post »Yaaaaaaa!
LowerSlowerDelaware
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:34pmYou just keep up your stupidity, Keith, that‘s what you’re good at.
Report Post »normbal
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:33pmKeith Olbermann is still alive?
Report Post »INOGAWD
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:40pmYEA, Now he is Gore’s butt buddy..these two deserve each other..
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 8:47pmYeah…unfortunately.
Report Post »Too bad they didn’t take olbermann out ten years ago.
He wouldn’t be missed.
AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:32pmThis should come as no surprise. Two a**holes are likely to have the same opinion.
Report Post »lonewolf57
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:32pmWhat a hateful, sick,disgusting individual.It takes all kinds.But its to be expected from Al Gores ‘network’.
Report Post »Liberalismsamentaldisorder
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:31pmSpoken by experts on “never letting a tragedy go by without using it as an opportunity to accomplish things you never thought you could” as ole Rhambo once spoke. Libs have no shame. They’re forever self-righteously accusing others of exactly what they do incessantly. Liberal=Hypocrite
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:30pmI had a relative at the house right after Reagan passed away who made the comment;
“I wonder how they (the republicans) will use this”.
It made me feel the same as this cold, inhuman statement does….
Like throttleing the youngster who has no conception of morality.
Report Post »MGB-CPA
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:42pmThat man (Keith O) is sick. 9/11 is not a political issue, right or left. Hate mongers like him need to be taken (or pushed) off the air. I don’t dignify people like him by watching their shows or the stations that run those type shows (NBC, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS) or buy from companies who advertise on those channels. That is my own personal commitment to honesty and integrity. I wish more people could make that commitment.
Report Post »momsense
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:28pmAnd Democrats see them as something to be ignored or explained away with some left wing poropganda !
Report Post »Mrs. maggot
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:28pmbitten dog alwayys hollas….
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:27pmSaul Alinsky, why would the Republicans need a political opportunity 9 months after taking office? I think that these people (I use that term loosely) are truly despicable and show us every day that obama is going to loose.
They have NOTHING left.
Their souls will burn in hell.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:47pmWell, old Saul dedicated his book to Lucifer, whom he celebrated as the “first real radical!” A match made in heaven (?) Ah, those crazy Lefty radicals….
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 8:03pmIt’s one thing to talk about Satan
Report Post »and another to be stuck with him for a while.
Saul A. I guarantee is not amused right now.
Mr. Pitchfork isn’t near as seemly as Saul expected. I believe.
KickinBack
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:27pmI looked at the listings once for Current TV. There was nothing but Countdown reruns and uncle gore’s movie. Not very current.
Report Post »Sicboy
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:27pmThese people have no shame. bush wasn’t smart enough to make 9/11 an opportunity for the hapless repubs. Will a REAL Conservative please step forward? http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/08/28/3319523/perry-became-a-millionaire-while.html
Report Post »barber2
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:44pmYes, you are aptly named. Sounds like you are also an arrogant elitist who has run away from the NYT. Say “hi” to old Jason Levin, too!
Report Post »MGB-CPA
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:52pmSarah Palin is coming to the rescue soon. For me, I’m tired of the lies, the good o boys, the political smurfs and the want a be’s. Palin is the only one who truly LOVES this country and doesn’t tell lies. She is 1000 times better and smarter than Obama. And she will drill baby drill.
Report Post »MarkstoneUSA
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 10:09pmFor Heavens sake… it’s almost 8pm… get out of your PJ’s, get out of the basement and breath some fresh air!!! It will do you some good… or not…
Report Post »kreese
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 12:05amNow we know the one that watches MSNBC.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 5:12am@sicboy, right, but Cheney was, smart and unfettered by conscience, truth, justice…
Report Post »Bill Wallace
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:26pmWould this be the same agenda that Obama campaigned against, and later asked to be extended?
Would it be like the Medicare drug plan, that Obama criticizes as expensive, while promoting Obamacare?
Was that political opportunity like calling for a border fence that was then ignored, and continues to be ignored by Obama?
Would it be like Obama trying to silence the people from mentioning that it was a group of muslims that blew up the WTC…because calling it like it is would mean maybe we don’t have muslims as our friends. Et tu, Brute?
Report Post »KeenIncite
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:21pmProjection on parade. It must be horrible to be that mentally ill and not realize it…
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