Olbermann SPECIAL COMMENT: 'If the Tea Party Wins, America Loses' MSNBC LINK & TRANSCRIPT

[Hissyspit]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/#39880604

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39875964

Olbermann: If the Tea Party wins, America loses
The laws of the country will revert backwards because of its new government

By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, 'Countdown'
msnbc.com
updated 14 minutes ago

SPECIAL COMMENT

Now as promised a Special Comment on the madness of the Tea Party and the elections of next Tuesday.

It is as if a group of moderately talented performers has walked on stage at a comedy club on Improv night. Each hears a shout from the audience, consisting of a bizarre but just barely plausible fear or hatred or neurosis or prejudice.

And the entertainment of the evening is for each to take their thin, absurd premise, and build upon it a campaign for governor or congressman or senator. The problem is, of course, when it turns out there is no audience shouting out gags, just a cabal of corporations and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and political insider bloodsuckers like Karl Rove and Dick Armey and the Chicken Little Chorus of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

And the instructions are not to improvise a comedy sketch, but to elect a group of unqualified, unstable individuals who will do what they are told, in exchange for money and power, and march this nation as far backward as they can get, backward to Jim Crow, or backward to the breadlines of the '30s, or backward** to hanging union organizers, or backward to the Trusts and the Robber Barons.

Result: the Tea Party. Vote backward, vote Tea Party. And if you are somehow indifferent to what is planned for next Tuesday, it is nothing short of an attempt to use Democracy to end this Democracy, to buy America wholesale and pave over the freedoms and the care we take of one another, which have combined to keep us the envy of the world.

You do not think your freedom is at stake next Tuesday?

The Tea Party-and-Republican candidate for senator from Nevada, Sharron Angle, compared rape to, quoting, "a lemon situation in lemonade." She would deny an abortion even to a teenaged girl who had been raped by her own father.

COMPLETE TRANSCRIPT AT LINK

[Bobbieo]

1. Olbermann is correct!

[Warpy]

2. That was one scary commentary

and I hope people who aren't in the choir were watching that.

[Tx4obama]

3. K&R. EVERYONE should send the video link to EVERYONE they know. n/t

[mstinamotorcity]

4. Did just that

And made sure I got the link highlighted. It was a very good comment.

[DearAbby]

5. KeithOlberman tweeted about a half hour ago

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We are getting reports of outages during Countdown Special Comment on DirecTV - anybody outside of Los Angeles with this issue?

[Waiting For Everyman]

6. Keith's best ever. Thank you, Hissyspit.

I got online specifically to find that video AND transcript, and it's so cool that you posted both right here. I'm putting the vid on FB right now.

K&R, obviously.

I'm so glad, at times like these, that Keith's on the air (among a notable few others). He hit this one out of the park imo. I want to keep a written copy because I think it summarizes this moment in time perfectly.