Howard Dean on tonight's Countdown with Keith Olbermann!

[NYCGirl]

What a great team!

From the Countdown newsletter:

Tonight, Howard Dean joins Keith to respond to this:

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday the world faces "a new type of fascism" and warned against repeating the pre-World War II mistake of appeasement. Rumsfeld alluded to critics of the Bush administration's war policies in terms associated with the failure to stop Nazism in the 1930s, "a time when a certain amount of cynicism and moral confusion set in among the Western democracies." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083000704.html

Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann broadcasts LIVE at 8 pm et, and the count is never complete without you. Join us.

[Kurovski]

1. How can one say that "a new type of fascism" that we face

is coming from wirhin our own country, and say it politely? :shrug:

[NewJeffCT]

13. It's projection

You know, like Jimmy Swaggart railing against the evils of sex, and then being caught with a hooker.

Don Rumsfeld talks about fascism elsewhere while Team Bush is implementing it at home.

[Kurovski]

20. Kieth did it! Not only "politely", but with passion and great clarity.

An absolutely historic broadcast!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2016805

[patrice]

2. Thanks! n/t

[NYCGirl]

3. AND A NEW UPDATE:

Things have changed since we sent out today's newsletter... worth noting.

Keith will have a commentary on Donald Rumsfeld's "fascism" remarks.

It's a must-see edition of Countdown.


--cf

[madfloridian]

5. Wonder what changed? Dean's appearance still up at the DNC blog.

Those emails came in right together from Countdown. Strange.

[NYCGirl]

6. They didn't say that Howard wouldn't be there, but that there's now a

special segment from Keith, in addition to it.

[Staph]

10. Fire up the Tivo!

Tonight's Countdown is going to be another one of those memorable, quotable, tell-the-grandchildren-you-were-there kind of moments. There's a sneak peek of Keith's remarks on his Bloggerman blog (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12131617/), and I suspect (and hope) that the complete remarks will be posted later. Here's a taste:

It demands the deep analysis—and the sober contemplation—of every American.

For it did not merely serve to impugn the morality or intelligence—indeed, the loyalty—of the majority of Americans who oppose the transient occupants of the highest offices in the land;

Worse, still, it credits those same transient occupants—our employees—with a total omniscience; a total omniscience which neither common sense, nor this administration’s track record at home or abroad, suggests they deserve.

Dissent and disagreement with government is the life’s blood of human freedom; And not merely because it is the first roadblock against the kind of tyranny the men Mr. Rumsfeld likes to think of as “his” troops still fight, this very evening, in Iraq.

It is also essential. Because just every once in awhile… it is right—and the power to which it speaks, is wrong.

[gkhouston]

8. oh, my

I was wondering if KO was going to have one of his little editorial segments a la "The City of Louisiana" about the fascism remark. Looks like he will... and you know he's always loaded for bear after he's been away for a while... :popcorn:

[NYCGirl]

4. KICK.

[Cha]

7. rummy and his Fascist gang are appeasing

osama bin laden and really should just get a handle on their own Appeasement before he starts casting appeasment stones.

That should be interesting what Keith and Dean have to say about it.

[Kurovski]

9. Kick!(nt)

[Janice325]

11. Hoo boy!!

Sounds like Keefe is gonna kick some ass tonight!
k&r

[me b zola]

16. Ha!

You remember the Keef thread :rofl: That was one of my favorite belly-roll threads of all time :rofl:

[texpatriot2004]

12. Wonderful. Love them both. nm

[NewJeffCT]

14. it's Team Bush that is appeasing terrorists - for example -

1) We were told that one of the reasons Al Qaeda/Osama attacked the WTC on 9/11 was their anger over US soldiers being in the Muslim holy land of Arabia. Not long after 9/11, the White House announces they are withdrawing troops from there.

2) For 60 years - since the end of World War 2 - North Korea has wanted US troops out of South Korea. Every president, from Truman through Clinton, including Nixon & Reagan, have maintained a strong US troop presence in South Korea. When * becomes president, the looney that leads North Korea starts rattling his saber about having nuclear weapons. Not long after, Team Bush announces that they are "redeploying" our troops in South Korea. If a Democrat had done that, it would be labeled "cut & run".

3) In the last year of the Clinton presidency, the anti-terror folks in the Clinton Administration were putting together a huge plan to disrupt terrorist financing, and dirty money in general, all around the world. The plan was not completed when they left office, but this plan was promptly torpedoed when Bushco took office. (thanks to Will Pitt & Truthout for that one)

[Cha]

17. Exactly! And now abc is going

to air "The Path to 9/11" that lays the blame at Clinton's door? Give me a break!

[Catchawave]

15. KO's going to make a commentary on Rummy

and I don't think it's going to be pretty ... GO KEITH :toast:

[Cha]

18. What did Keith say?

Has it happened yet?

[Catchawave]

19. Up next ...

[NYCGirl]

21. Here's the film:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/08/30/keith-olbermann-delivers-one-hell-of-a-commentary-on-rumsfeld/