Keith Olbermann Special Comment on His Father and Death Panels

This should be shown to every person who ever used the word ‘death panel’ with a straight face.
Keith is the most courageous man in news, not only for his decisions with his father, but to make it so public.
Glen Beck gets teary-eyed for menial crap. Keith runs the risk of losing his father and keeps amazingly dry eyes.

Just got word on the deaths of Keith Olbermann’s father. Peace to your father and strength to Keith in your time of loss. He could have turned his back on the rest of us comforted by the fact that his position and his money would insulate him from this criminal health care system.
He did the right thing by speaking the truth in the face of snarling bare fanged racist and flat out insane people. Be strong Keith I wait to once again fight by your side for health care.

wacuna you’re angry about something. Please.. if you need a friend just talk to me, I’ll be your
friend. You can tell me what’s really troubling you.

Now that his father is dead he can go back to hating George Bush and Sarah Palin

It was large corporations that created the current employers based insurance system. After WWII when all the returning veterans asked for increased wages because of growing families, the corporations offered health insurance for the family instead of increased pay. If you want to blame somebody look to large employers not the government. The corporations believed health insurance would be less costly than increased wages.

UnitedHealth subsidiary in Colorado denied coverage to Peggy Robertson, mother of two, because she wasnt sterilized after her caesarian-section delivery procedure, according to a letter made public. Almost 1/3 of all deliveries are done by c-sectionmeaning that in Colorado and likely elsewhere, fertile women are regularly denied coverage unless they agree to sterilize their wombs. This comes after reports that a health insurance company considered rape to also be a pre-existing condition.

RIP Mr. Olbermann

u wrote: strict constitutionalists are rigidly dogmatic. Thats pretty clever lawyering. Wrong & fradulent but yet still clever.

Its not rigidly dogmatic to stop at a stop sign. Thats what the constutitions function is, to stop unamerican slow ruses toward social fascism.

Trashing the founders constitutional stop signs because some inperfect of them owned slaves is a silly diversion.

Just be honest & say you want unconstututional socalism and don’t care what founders u smear to get it.

Whats inhuman is people like you forcing your ideas on others. Universal healthcare is not worth my freedom. Health care also has not been a business since the government made every doctor go through the insurance system. There was a timewe could just go to our doctor for treatment but people like you made the mistake on trusting men in suits telling you that universal is worth wild. Fuck you and your collective thinking. America is supposed to be free, now its just a corporate slave state!

this is a great man.

Geez, people can get real nasty on these comment forums. I can only assume that they are lucky enough that they or their family hasn’t experienced serious illness – yet.

Whatever you think of Olbermann, or the political parties, or anyone else, the bottom line on the facts: The US is the richest country in the world, but the only developed country without universal health care. That just plain ain’t right.

Poor guy went through hell,why make someone who is clearly in pain suffer,first time in my life i agree with Olbermann.

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But that’s all besides the point. I was arguing that strict constitutionalists are as rigidly dogmatic and as blinded by misplaced faith as extreme religious fundamentalists. I think my point was proven when you took exception to the fact that I dared to challenge the relevance of 16th century political theory on contemporary society, or that the interests of the slave owning aristocracy of the time should be our guiding principles today.

So your response to me saying that the Constitution is an antiquated and deeply flawed document is essentially “They didn’t know any better”?

BTW, they weren’t saints even by the standards of their own time. Madison himself declared that the purpose of the Constitution was to protect the “property rights of the opulent from the tyranny of the masses.” The exact antithesis of the “democracy” they claimed to want so badly.

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@corysoulier,

I’ll consider ‘em. Thanks.

The Republicans deserved to get their butts kicked in the 2008 election b/c of their negligence overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan. You and I can both agree the Iraq war was a terrible mistake both economically, fiscally, and it obviously has made us less safe. Don’t assume that because I am a Republican that I support the blank check given to the Pentagon. If you want to hear a true conservative who isn’t a pompous ass, I strongly encourage to look into and consider the ideas of Ron Paul

As a die hard free market conservative, I don’t oppose all taxes because obviously, police officers, lawmakers and such need to get paid some how. As a conservative I am right there with you. Giving the Pentagon a blank check is liberal on so many levels and not the least bit conservative. Who pays for that? You and I. True conservatives oppose the welfare system in addition to opposing our current nation building foreign policy. I encourage you to study economic ideas of Ron Paul.

@corysoulier,

I get tired of hearing overfuse of the word “tax.” I was with a bunch of hard core modertes (!) in Washington on Tuesday. THEY were bringing up that if the right is going to complain about taxes, they’ll be the first ones to whine when the library is closed, but don’t have the brains/sense to complain when the Pentagon gets a blank check for whatever it wants.

So think your “tax” stand through or it’s just another rant.

@wacuna21,

I’ll see you in hell, you perverted degenerate.

@SlaughterWings,

No, SW, what he does is expose the violence-endorsing lunatics who brutally attack anyone who’s not one of their disciples, e.g., Glennie the Pooh Beck, Limbaugh and o’lielly.

Have a heart. Olbermann actually cares about your healthcare. If you’re wanting what the Republicans want for insurance, you’re better off with Antartica’s insurance plan. (For the tards – NONE)

@jezmundberserker
Olbermann was a nut years before his father got sick. I’m talking about a long pattern of strange behavior, including getting fired several times from ESPN and MSNBC and for stalking porn-stars and prostitutes. He’s a fucking psycho.

damn this clown is still on the air

Boy are you one lovely piece of humanity.

Lets hope you never get seriously ill and lack insurance.

I have had Cancer, I really want you to anwser something for me. How can you say that about someone’s dad. How we gone down that far in the gutter in this country? Who are you to pass judgement, I am shocked at how you sleep at night. May God have mercy on your soul, and I hope you never get a bad disease. You are mean.