Or did the Captain end the debate first here on Newsbloggers?

This will be the fourth time I've blogged about Homeless Vets this week, it's been a silly narrative O'Reilly has been broadcasting, if I give up following it now, I will be doing you all a disservice. You would think an adult with a salary of $9 Million could think of more to do with the valuable airtime he posses to address the real issues. Is he the type of journalist young Americans should listen too? (My lovely girlfriend gave me the O'Reilly children's book recently, as a joke, I found it scary.)

Olbermann references a bridge in New Orleans. Take a look.

Well, I have enough AOL experience to know that this comment section will likely descend into chaos. Many will complain that I am too liberal and many will cry foul because the enclosed video was from Bill's greatest rival, Keith Olbermann. The complaints are always the same, some AOLers will apparently keep complaining until I turn myself into a Neo-Con.

This complaint mess all started after Powerline informed the AOL community I was posting liberal propaganda. This was during my first couple weeks on the job. If they sound familiar, these are also the guys who brought down Dan Rather. Rather was a legend, taking down liberal blogger Jeff Hoard proved to be a piece of cake for them. Here I was, first days at AOL, an idiot, thinking each writer on Newsbloggers were all working together towards a common goal of creating a digital blog about current events and these guys are bashing me daily in front of the hundreds and thousands of potential new readers.

Powerline eventually left AOL, but the Neo-Con mentality remains, muddy every argument - a tie equals a win. I don't mind chaos and flamewars in comment threads, as long as AOLers are happy, I've come to terms with the fact that this blog has been a healthy anger outlet for many. Myself, I have a young mind and it generally only works when inebriated. For the first time I fear my mental health because I spend my days reading endless Neo-Con hate mail.

This is my 500th post here on AOL and I hope to continue with 500 more in the future, It's time this blog either turns a corner or ends its run. This month I am mobilizing a campaign to restore the integrity of this blog here on Newsbloggers, to learn more details about how I plan on making this blog a little bit more peaceful, Email me.

Thanks to Democratic Senator Russ Feingold - For a more lengthy explanation, Olberamann offered a special comment about FISA Thursday night.

via videosift.com

Ten minutes worth of footage from MSNBC's State of the Union footage. Barack Obama shares his opinions about the Bush Administration, talks about his ideas and also touches on the Kennedy endorsement. For the Fox News fans of the blog (bless your lost soul,) Barack spoke to them too (although Chuck Norris might interest you more.)

Barack has also uploaded an official response where he notes. "I do not believe history will judge his administration kindly." this one is for his fans, sans cable news guys.


Good times for Barack Obama.
- Crushes the Clinton's in South Carolina.
- Gets endorsed by the Kennedy's.

Nice little blog here about Keith Olbermann from thinkprogress.org. Included is a clip of Keith Olbermann speaking on CNN to Howard Kurtz about his success during the Bush Presidency and why he makes fun of Bill O'Reilly so much.

Olbermann has a segment during his program where he lists off random Bush scandals that Americans have already forgotten about. Below are 20 clips of that particular segment, do the math, 60 Scandals below. Rate them in order of importance with your friends here on Newsbloggers.

You can view and search all the lies here at The Center for Public Integrity. ======
- Hoard's Mind Blowing Propeller Submissions

Over the past few years on the Internet I have witnessed the worst from this media giant and I have prayed to Jesus hoping that the average American television consumer would one day turn off this channel. Over the past few years unfolding in our living rooms has been a Newsman slow descent towards insanity. Bill O'Reilly is still the highest rated "Journalist" (yes, he calls himself a journalist) he is on the highest rated "News" network (yes, Fox News is still considered a news network) and on a daily basis he makes a mockery of Journalism, yet so many people believe in what he says. I am baffled.

Bill has spent some time recently attacking John Edwards, a Democrat fighting for the poor, Bill makes Millions of dollars, he is happy with the status quo. John Edwards recently brought up the statistic that merely points out the fact that 200,000 American army veterans are homeless. While commenting on this fact Bill O'Reilly created some new enemies. Veterans.

Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films add another video to his "Fox Attacks" collection.

I remember a long time ago Bill O'Reilly said that if you 'don't supoort the troops, you should shut up.' Let's hope he soon takes his own advice. But, let's not hold our breath, O'Reilly is going to be around for the duration of this campaign, wait until he learns Barack's middle name is Hussein, oh boy. If you really have to watch news at 8pm, The alternative is Keith Olbermann. From my point of view he is entertaining, he is honest and he treats his audience and guests with respect, all important broadcast journalism traits.

*Update: Ok... I am receiving a lot of hate mail because of this posting, so I changed the title. It's good to know there are so many people out there who dislike me as passionately as I dislike Bill O'Reilly, nothing wrong with that, I assure you I am harmless, please center your rage towards something more productive...Like the homeless veterans problem. Also, I understand Keith Olbermann is the "the leftist" version of Bill O'Reilly, but if you at least watch the Olbermann segment I have included in this post, the amazing fact is revealed that only 2.6 Billion dollars is needed to solve the homeless vet problem, consider America's Iraq budget, 2.6 Billion is nothing. This is enough to provide housing for every homeless vet for a full year, that is plenty of time to help them get their life back on track. ======
- Hoard's Mind Blowing Propeller Submissions

*update - Canada has removed USA from the list.

I've blogged enough about torture to give off the impression that it's something I am concerned about, and today I've learnt Canada has added America and Guantanamo Bay to the Torture Watch List. My observations conclude, Americans are stuck in a debate between "Torture" and "advanced interrogation techniques." Truth of the matter is, if America simply went back to following the rules our World War fighting (grand)fathers left us there wouldn't be a debate.

Naturally your efforts of reading my post will be rewarded with a moving picture, here is one from the Keith Olbermann Archive.

Sean Hannity of Fox News is in New Hampshire covering the ongoing political saga that is the American Primaries. In this youtube video Hannity (who is not a fan of Paul) is spotted by a mob a Ron Paul supporters. Hilarity ensues. *Updated... Added Olbermann commentary.

Well I have landed safely in Ontario and now we are preparing for a heavy snowstorm...Great, glad I came home, turns out I get to shovel, just like old times.

Anyway, I found some time to post a video I think most of you NBers will be interested in, Keith Olbermann found some time to talk about his journalism on PBS, take 25 minutes and listen to the interview, especially if you are a critic, you might learn something about him you didn't know.

I don't get it, forgot David Levin already? In America the people say they are tired of the war and fed up with George Bush, yet he still sits in the White House. He is breaking International law and it's driving me nuts, when I grew up I was under the impression America was policing the world protecting us from the type of people who would torture us, or at least that is how the country was marketed to youth.

The good guys are suppose to be better than torture, use American super power brains, to fight the angry Arabs without resorting to pre-WWII tactics. Remember, our grand fathers didn't fight for that. Today with technology and science, we have an upper hand. We beat the friggen Nazi's, these islamofascists (or whatever you call 'em) should be a breeze, why are you bankrupting your country? You should be fighting for a world that people want to be apart of, not one that we are afraid of. How on earth did the great American democracy descend into such a dividing war.

Not long ago, Bill Clinton was President, but he was almost booted out of office because of a blowjob and/or a lie about a blowjob (he lied Under Oath! OMG.) Don't tell me America is going to roll over and let the douchebag George W Bush get away with this. A little birdy told me there was a man running for President trying to impeach the Bush, hmmm. Please enlighten me, by explaining to this Canuck why Clinton got impeached and Bush is still ruling the world?

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.

Keith Olbermann speaks with Arianna Huffington about comments Karl Rove made while on the Charlie Rose PBS program.

Here is the White House link Keith Olbermann mentions in the clip.

Keith Olbermann: Special Comment, Nov 5th 2007.

More video from Olbermann last night about the the subject of torture.
ABC News: Bush Administration Blocked Waterboarding Critic. Nov 2nd 07.

A senior Justice Department official, charged with reworking the administration's legal position on torture in 2004 became so concerned about the controversial interrogation technique of waterboarding that he decided to experience it firsthand, sources told ABC News...Read more on ABC...

Here is a mini-documentary from Current tv about Waterboarding, including demonstrations of the technique.

I've always been a big fan of George Carlin - the man is a legend. Out plugging his new DVD collection, he makes it onto the Keith Olbermann show. They discuss such news as the gay Harry Potter character, Stephen Colbert's election run, wiretapping and President Bush.

Continue on to view the most viewed Carlin video on Youtube.

Keith Olbermann - Special Comment - September 20th 2007.
Moveon.org General Petraeus advertisement.

Archive of Olbermann Special Comments.