Mo Rocca has appeared on a bunch of shows, including 'The Daily Show,' 'I Love the 80s,'...
Posted Dec 7th 2007 4:58PM by Jeff Hoard
Filed under: George Bush, Keith Olbermann, Iran
A US National Intelligence Estmate (NIE) -- issued by all 16 US spy agencies -- on Monday claimed that Tehran mothballed its atomic weapons programme four years ago and said that US charges about Tehran's nuclear ambitions have been overblown for at least two years...Read More...First, let's hear from Bush and what he has to say about the NIE earlier this week.
Now, let's enjoy Keith Olbermann rip it into the President. C&L has a transcript.
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Mo Rocca appears on a bunch of shows, including CBS News Sunday Morning (with the indescribably wonderful Charles Osgood), The Tonight Show on NBC, and NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! He's a sometime judge on Iron Chef and was featured on Telemundo's Amore Descarado. Last year he starred on Broadway in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His expose "All the President's Pets" was published by Crown in 2004.
Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 2)
1. It is all spelled out in the "Project For A New American Century." The plan calls for the invasion and occupation of Iran. The only 'truth' is that the neocons (an over- and mis-used term) are going to do it, no matter what.
My fear is that we are facing a, "Dr. Strangelove" situation. Even Bush & Cheney's top insiders are saying, "Wait a minute there, Dumbya. We're rats, but even we are jumping ship, on ya."
As the public and (belatedly) the press, catch on, the plot is being exposed. The agenda is clear. Put boots on the ground atop the oil fields of Iran and Iraq. Put boots on the ground to seize the pipeline routes through Afghanistan. And it looks like Pakistan is desirable real estate for the neocons as well.
The neocon plan is not a secret. Anyone but Okane can read it. There are no real surprises here.
The only question is how far Dick & Bush are willing to go to stay out of prison. The neocons have been exposed for what they are. They are fascist who seek world domination through military means.
Anyone with sufficient attention span really should watch, "The Story of Stuff," because it is those very neocons who are enabling us in our quest to consume ourselves into a huge "die off."
Captain Negative at 5:57PM on Dec 7th 2007
2. Go Keith, you are spot on about this administration and their lies.
Check out my new political blog: http://www.politidose.com/
Patrick at 6:55PM on Dec 7th 2007
3. Keith you are my hero!! Don't ever stop what you are doing!
Patty at 7:21PM on Dec 7th 2007
4. I cannot believe that anyone (even the idiotic Bible Belters) still support Bush!
Squeegis at 7:57PM on Dec 7th 2007
5. Did you know that in order to get any help from The Salvation Army, you have to declare yourself a Christian? Even then, the help is so little/I'd like to know where their money actually goes. Even the Jewish Organizations I know will help anyone regardless of religion.
I am so glad so many stores have kicked the Salvation Army to the curb!
Freezing in Minnesota at 8:01PM on Dec 7th 2007
6. In a more rational world people would be more concerned about Pakistan's nukes as well as the US's for that matter. It would be nice also if people were educated about the origins of our conflict with Iran by going to http://majormediabypass.com and scrolling down a bit to find the Bill Moyers' videos which are linked to from there. Part 1 is all that need be seen and it's but 11 or 12 minutes long. It won't bore you but it almost certainly will give you an entirely different view of the nation you live in and how you've been royally scammed to believe otherwise.
Dr. Kenneth J. Hildebrandt -
http://majormediabypass.com
Dr. Kenneth J. Hildebrandt at 9:22PM on Dec 7th 2007
7. 1} Keith O, just a tad over the top, but wow, right on!
What Keith had to say could have been just a bit more succinct, if only being an old scold at pointing out all of the 'inconvenient' truths could in fact alter even one segement of the agenda this juta has long plotted.
As we listened to Keith's over long and obviously angry dialogue, it was greatly uncomfortable, embarrassing and stressful to hear the leader of the free world so layed open to the raw facts of the matter. (Keith throughout this program seemed to be growing angrier by the segment).
ONE personal note: I was greatly embarrassed, uncomfortable and stressed from the time I learned that the SOB"S mother, (well that is right isn't it, 'w' is a real SOB-remember Bab's?) was being put forward and paid for by mommie dearest who had the dirt on all important players.
POST #1 by Capt. Negative:
Right on, but when mentioning the neo-CONssssss, be sure to include the MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX whose coffers will be substantially filled by their; (the far right FASCIST'S); warS for profit. We live in ever more danger!!!
Steven at 9:40PM on Dec 7th 2007
8. As usual Keith Olbermann has proven what all American CITIZENS should know by now, unless as criminally insane as the administration.
Just read Naomi Wolfs, 'Fascist America, in 10 easy steps'
1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
ie: Islamist terrorism
2. Create a gulag
Iraq, Afghanistan, GITMO. Secret CIA "black
site" prisons throughout the world.
3. Develop a thug caste
Blackwater
4. Set up an internal surveillance system
Paperless warrants used 3 1/2 years prior to
such a Bill. Emails and financial
transactions of US citizens ergo immunity
wanted for all com. co.'s involved. FISA.
5. Harass citizens' groups
Anti-war groups. ie:CODEPINK, UFJP
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release
No Fly Lists. Peace Activists-2 middle
aged women; Sen Edward Kennedy; member of
Venezuela's gov't. and thousands of
ordinary CITIZENS.
7. Target key individuals
Bush supporters in state Legislatures
pressured regents at state universities
to penalise or fire academics that were
critical of the admin.
8. Control the press
Josh Wolf(no relation), a blogger in
San Francisco has been put in jail
for a year for refusing to turn over
a video of an anti-war demonstration
Outed Valerie Plame.
9. Dissent equals treason
Bill Keller, NYT, ran Lichtblau/Risen
stories, Bush called times leaking of
classified info as "disgraceful", while Repugs
in congress called for keller to be chgd
w/treason, rightwing commentators and MSM outlets
kept up the "treason" drumbeat. Some commentators
as Conason noted, reminded readers smugly that
one penalty for violating the Espionage Act is
execution.
10. Suspend the rules of law
John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007
gave prez new powers over Nat. Guard
MY words now, thank you Naomi Wolf, #10 and the Warner Act will permit suspension of the Posse Comitatus Act, which means MARTIAL LAW. Pakistan was a dry run, Citizens.
Better wise up, we have gone through 9 of 10 of those steps, Reichstag or Mussolini, read, read and then read.
oh well at 10:34PM on Dec 7th 2007
9. wow,
everybody has posted such wonderful,
informative posts.
so um...errr...
go keith!
enoch at 12:49AM on Dec 8th 2007
10. Even the Bush haters should realize that Olbermann is a moron. Bush explained it, and even if bush was told more detailed information than he said in the video. It still should be logical to anyone with half a brain, that one would wait until the information is vetted and officially released to the President.
BTW. The NIE said it is believed Iran stopped working on their Nuke program in 2003. It should be noted that in 2002 Iran claimed they didn't have a Nuke program. Either way, enriching Iranian is a part of any nuke program. So, Olbermann is simply a useful idiot.
k4doyle at 12:35AM on Dec 8th 2007
11. KDOYLE - keep genuflecting at the altar of Bush..you will be OK...tough for you to admit that Bush screwed up, I know....
Go, Keith!
David S. at 3:03AM on Dec 8th 2007
12. Captian Bullshit-Olbermann once again has made a fool of himself by again taking bits of a report (not yet finished or released) and drawing stupid conclusions, in spite of known fatcs about Iran. Olbermann should know why his rating are way below Fox and CNN, and maybe he is still smarting from that the journalist he dispises, Glenn Beck, just got a 25 million radio deal, and Olbermann got zero.
Some items Olbermann omitted
1-NIE admits it has only moderate confidence that the 2003 suspension of Iran Nuclear Weapons Program
still continues today and says that there significent gaps still exist in our intelligence.
2-NIE also admits that the new information about the stopped program was a possible deception planted by the Iranian Govt.(1 & 2 Washington Post)
UN, Nato and EU still believe Iran is working on a weapons program and that sanctions stay in place till proven otherwise.
IAEA official stated "we are more skeptical , we do not buy the Americans analysis 100%" (NY Times)
The UN cannot accept Iran continuing its uranium enrichment program as demanded by the UN Council and the possibility of a hidden Weapons Program until inspection prove otherwise. Resolution 1737
Olbermann would be happy if USA did nothing with Iran, just as Clinton did nothing about other countries getting Nuclear Weapons. While Clinton was in office,he did nothing and India, Pakistan, (now Known) N.Korea, obtained Nuclear Weapons, Saddam was alive and well and still in pursuit for WMD and free from outside inspection, and that Iran was in the middle of its secret Nuclear development program. (Washington Post) Iran Nuclear Program discovered in 2002.
Captain Bullshit-I see you again wearing your Superman type tights with letters "BS" on the chest. I am surprised that the senior home in which you are interned allows you on the computer so much.
ROBERT OKANE at 4:09AM on Dec 8th 2007
13. k4doyle,
Indeed as criminally insane as bush/cheney/rice/rumsfeld, you keep watching FOX NOISE, believe all MSM, stay as conservative as you are and when you wind up in a black site(cell)don't piss and moan because Herr Bush can keep your a@@ there for 3, three, tres, toi, uc years because, get it, because...READ, READ, READ........
oh well at 4:08AM on Dec 8th 2007
14. OKANE, get your head out of your ass.
Captain Negative at 5:56AM on Dec 8th 2007
15. Hey Keith you need to do more Bush on the wors, worst, worser segment.
Just keep talking and getting the stories out. Even when you sock it to the Democrats you rock. Wish we had more like you on TV Land, News Papers, Radio.
Get with it America open your eyes and ears, we will get through this!! Come on 2009, we really need you!
Lilly at 2:30PM on Dec 8th 2007