in a rapid reversal of medical and social progress driven by insurance companies. He's right, but he isn't quite going far enough. It isn't just insurance corporations that are driving this country's economy to its knees and stripping away our jobs. They're just the tip of the iceberg.

of Keith Olbermann's special comment on health care reform.

Olbermann points out that our overlords are parasites.

"Death Panels? We have them now. They're called Wellpoint, and Cigna, and United Healthcare, and all the rest ... ask not for whom the insurance company's cash-register bell tolls. It tolls for thee."

Olbermann wraps up the story of his personal journey through the nightmares of our health care system.

He suggests we send a wake-up call to Washington.

I can't stand the sound of his voice, let alone see his sanctimonious face without blowing lunch or dunner.

And isn't he a day late and a dollar short?

Oh, wait! Not if you think Obama's Health Insurance Reform Plan is actually Health Care Reform (which it is not).

1. put not ye faith in media celebrities, for they shall always stick their feet into their mouths and embarrass you later on some issue that matters.

2. i'm glad the SCLM junkies have the option of watching stuff like this, for all it won't likely unglue their asses from their couches and get them to actually do something to change things.

I stopped listening at at 7:15 of Part 1 when Olbermann said "Just as 'global warming' is 'bad [nomenclature for] climate change' the 'public option' is in broad essence 'Medicare for everybody.'

Were that that was true. The versions of the "public option," being shaped in Congress are far from "Medicare for everybody" and, as Lambert has pointed out, none of these proposed options are slated to be available to anyone until after the 2012 elections.

Given half a chance, our elected DINOs, Progressive MSM heroes, and A-list bloggers will manage to damage the Medicare brand, itself, before they're done delivering on their vision for health insurance reform.

and it's a very good "special comment".

However, it's a shame Olbermann has made such a buffoon of himself previously, that I give him no credit for anything such as "responsible journalism".

He has turned off so many people in the last 12 months or so I doubt anyone will give him any credence.

Hell, I can't even watch the intro or half-time report on Sunday Night Football because he's on it and spoils it for me.

Of his Special Comments. To fill his hour he stuck an awful lot of hyperbole in and left a lot of wedge material. Anyone not already firmly on his side won't see anything useful in this, and it had several sloppy transitions where those against him can easily slip in and use them to distract from what he was trying to accomplish.
If he had done the usual 10 minutes he could've hammered the personal agony side, hit the pimps angle, replayed the bought-and-sold issue, and then ended with a call to action.
IMO, this just drug along and never built into a crescendo, nor had much heft to it.

Look! Up in the sky!

It's a bird!

It's a plane!

It's OLBERMANN!!!

Thank heavens I taped that program! That was a keeper and-a-half!

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Tom Degan
Goshen, NY