Keith Olbermann's Katrina Commentary

[extreme67]

And so began Keith Olbermann's supposed "journey" into what many of his followers call "Murrow territory." Criticizing the government and bringing the show from hard news to full fledge commentary. Anyone who thinks this guy is anywhere close to the radio/TV news greats of the 50s and 60s needs to get their heads examined. None of those guys would ever think of doing mistakes like donating to Democratic campaigns, but go on the air saying "I'm independent"

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

Bring back Keith Olbermann!!!

[Abridgedfan134]

I remember a line from Supernews! about the Bush's response

"Either you can play your lyre while Rome burns or you can look like a leader who cares"

[edenjustin]

I am sooo sorry this happend. This was the Governments natural disaster holocaust to get rid as many people as they could. Watch when the levies broke. An for Bush to call himself a Christian is embarrassing. How he can sleep at night. Is as Christian as the KKK... I love Keith

[yesmar99]

i'm a fourth generation creole w/ family/friends in nola and mobile al. anybody who wants to get up here and defend bushco should know that you're makin it personal with people like me. statements like "they should have just left, but they chose to stay," reflect only upon your sorry ignorant asses. god forbid you would ever find out what it's like to be poor & black. talk shit all u want here, but keep your ignorance to yourself in public or u just might regret it.

[Vesta20]

When the people fear the goverment there is tyranny, when the goverment fears the people there is LIBERTY!

Thomas Jefferson

do you want to return to our constitution and our rights GOOGLE RON PAUL ON YOUTUBE the only persidential candidate that supports our constitution and our rights.

ronpaul2008DOTcom

Wake up america this is our country

[Lightren]

good quote and very true. i didnt vote ron paul because he was always silenced buy the GOP party. but after watching him in a debate i really wish i did

[zaneman1]

Yeah, that's why he voted in favor of Bush's unconstituional FISA Bill. Some care Paul shows....

[edenjustin]

I am a Democrat that happens to really like Ron Paul.. He should have been Pres. Thanx for this comment.

[globalgringo]

Keith Olbermann is an appeaser of the lowest order.

It's amazing that guys like this are allowed to spew their anti American vitriol and all they've ever done with their life is read things off of a tele prompter.

[eatcrap33]

I guess your an O'Reilly fan.

I'm also guessin your really smart and people should listen to you rather than a truthful man like KO.

I thought people had already evolved from the state our minds were in O'Reilly

[globalgringo]

O'Reilly is a Fag, extremely annoying and condescending.

I thought KO kicked ass when he was on Sportscenter but has become a nakedly biased "progressive" that spends every newscast thinking of ways to make America look bad.

He hates George Bush more than he loves his country!

And that is what is wrong with most liberals, wait, I mean "progressives".

[yesmar99]

as a dr. of voodoo medicine, i am diagnosing u with what is called a fecal anuryism. that is when a piece of shit is dislogded from your lower g.i tract and travels via ur blood stream to your brain, rendering you incapable of talking anything other than "shit." u should seek the expertise of a qualified lobotomist to relieve symptoms asap.

[TINBENDER53]

republican fed govt trying to wrest power from a democrat state govt, hang all politicians,public servants my ASS

[bigboonie07]

Well, Here's the deal folks, I live here in Slidell, We were hammered by the storm. and i can tell you 2 years after the storm there are still people in great distress. with out homes or possesions. Mean while the goverment has allowed the insurance companies to screw us to the breaking point. Way to go Bush. Thanx

[centerM87]

Back in the 90"s A comedian named Rhonda Shear (USA UP ALL NIGHT) lamented that something needed to be done to protect her city NEW ORLEANS. I guess it was common knowledge since then that N.O. would be devastated in a major storm. It's criminal that authorities didn't do anything about it.

[Evangeline8888]

Day after the flood, the way was dry and clear right to the Convention Center, via the River Road or the Westbank Expy. So why did no one come to help? And why doesn't anyone discuss that fact? Bush left Americans to die. Oh. I forgot. Black Americans don't count.

[doctorj2u]

Excellent commentary! I was without electricity from the storm when this aired and have not seen it before. He tells it like it is and like it continues to be. My Katrina will not be over until this administration is out of power.

[slappy1234567]

It was the Orleans Levee Board's responsibility to oversee the levees. I don't believe Bush sat on the Orleans Levee Board before Katrina hit, but plenty of wasteful Democrats were on the board, misspending critical funds that could've been used to repair and reinforce the levees. Facts are stubborn things.

Search for "Is the Orleans Levee Board doing its job?" for a great NBC News exposé of this subject.

[ZeeRatLady]

And here Slappy is again! Depending on the media for your information is like asking your neighbor for the weather forcast; he may be right, he may be wrong. Either way would you rely solely on him? Try levees dot org for links on how the national levee system works and the responsibilities of local Levee Boards. I'll give you a hint... NOLA isn't responsible for the repair & reinforcement of the levees, nor does it receieve the funds for such.

[Evangeline8888]

The Levees are in the control of the Army Corps of Engineers. That's the FACTS. It was the national government's job to secure NOLA.

[Smash255]

slappy. The board never got the funding they needed. They requested more funding. In fact the visited Capitol Hill on a few occasions between 03 and 05. bush and Republicans cut the funding.

[Gcolorina]

They could oversee the levees all they want. What do you do when the levees are broke intentionally by your own government. The board can't do anything! Thats why they took so long responding, maybe they wanted more to die than that did. Know your government or go to sleep. 9/11 was a staged too!!

[fudemm]

love this,the demmocrap party in louisiana wants a repulican,State Senator Walter Baosso to switch parties and run for the demmocraps.They are not even supporting their own Demmocrap Foster Cambell unless they have to.BTW thanks to demmocraps louisiana education is at the bottom also.

[ROBU51]

I'm a democrat who voted for Bush~ couldn't go for the liar that invented the Internet. (that would be Gore for the retard that thinks that I'm a millionaire. If you agree with everything this idiot says, you might want to be more careful when you use the word "retard."

[Smash255]

rob, the whole Al Gore invented the media was a right wing lie. He never said that, what he stated is he put funds in place which helped develop the internet and low and behold he donated large sums of money for r&d in the very early stages of the internet.

[Gcolorina]

You voted for BUSH!! O my goodness who's the retard?

[fujisama666]

im convinced anyone who supports bush now is either a millionare or a retard...

[whiutecloud24]

thats why everyone despises Keith dolberman. He dosen't have a solution. he can only critisize! very colorful and disgusting comentary Keith. Sec. Chertoff said it's a city largely underwater". and keithy proceeded to spew his twisted blame on everyone!

[WFerny]

New Orleans was like an unbabtized child. It needed a good cleanin'

[jbobbylew]

WFerny, I guess by saying "good cleaning" you mean fetid sewage water, people dying on the streets, and a coast riddled with debris from demolished houses.

and whiutecloud...the day you start depending on a news anchor for solutions to our countries problems is the day our government is officially inept. I guess that day has come.

[WFerny]

By good cleanin' I meant a good ol' washing. Some people don't know this, but you can clean the paint of your car with sand! Cleaning material takes all sorts of guises!

[jbobbylew]

you are a shit head.

[Chrome6stringer]

Nice video. My mother 64, lost her home and business c/o Katrina. Today, 3/17/07, She is $335,000 in debt to the SBA. She has not gotten payment from State Farm No money from FEMA. All of the Homeowners Grant money is being stolen by the State, my mom made the SBA loan, but now she has to sell the house she built with the SBA loan because she cant afford the $1400.00 note. I wish the rest of the world could know just how sad it is here.

[27fingermagee]

i dont tend to idolise anyone, and shan't now, i agree with olberman here it shouldnt take a week to get aid to a destroyed AMERICAN city. HEY BUSH! TRY WINNING HEARTS AND MINDS AT HOME!

[mjpincus]

We need regime change here in America, not Iraq.

[keahasissues]

WOW I didnt know LOUISIANA was a CITY!!! Boy do I feel safe with this MORON in charge!!! I guess thats the kind of ppl Bush has to get because smart ppl wont back him in his madness....

[firefly68]

It took less time to mobilize the National Guard last week to get HAY to CATTLE than it did to get food and water to dying humans after Katrina. Babies slowly dying right before our eyes and some of you are still defending the response and blaming the victims. Maybe it takes going through it yourselves to develop empathy? I wish I could arrange it.

[Nominay]

You're right, that is sick. Who gives a shit about cows. If the cows had died, we would've just made burgers out of them.

[bayouratt283]

After watching this video and reading the post I can only say sheesh, what a bunch of unimformed idiots. As a person that lives in the burbs to the north of New Orleans, an area that had the eye of the storm pass over it(I know, I was there), I know what happened and why things went down the way they did. But alas, there is not enough space here to explain it and most of you are too stupid to understand it.

[TheMyrkat]

Don't play omniscience games with us. If you don't voice your opinion it can't possibly be the right one. Once you actually state it I'll consider it.

[TheMyrkat]

As to why New Orleans wasn't evacuated in time, has anyone ever tried to leave New York City on a weekend? It takes hours to cross the George Washington Bridge. Now imagine hundreds of times that many people trying to leave a city.

[SmokeyC4]

please check out my video colums about this and bush at SmokeysC4 you will enjoy and please leave a comment even if you dont like what i say.

great video,thank you jonathan

[paulnadra]

This man is amazing how he cuts through the crap and gets to the crux of the matter. Keep it up Mr. Olbermann

[tvwatcher35]

Excellent commentary.

[highway234]

conservatives suck. they won't be happy until the whole country's trashed.

[FrankieO]

Crap he is hot.

[abgalid]

Try relocating FEMA HQ to New Orleans. Maybe then, they'll give the levees priority.

[Jnelson09]

They'd be happy to get jobs, but you and your friends outsourced everything they're good at, and they'd be better at someting, but they couldn't afford a good college education because their ancestors were treated like crap because America was racist. Listen, I got better things to do than get into an argument with someone I don't even know.

[Jnelson09]

You know why they didn't evacuate? Because you and your friends' master plan to make the rich richer and the poor poorer deprived them of any means to evacuate.

[gellman]

Yeah, that's it. Good theory dip-shit. Keep sending those insightful little gems my way.

[Jnelson09]

Yeah, more like, "Good point, smart guy. Boy am I a jerk!" Now read this very carefully: They. Don't. Have. Cars. There. was. no. way. for. them. to. get. out. of. New. Orleans. They. can't. afford. anything. not. even. a. train. ticket. Now. shove. off.

[gellman]

Well then perhaps they should get JOBS and not suck off the government tit. Government playing mommy to people creates this kind of problem. That's why democrats love entitlements; it creates a big dependent demographic of people who will always vote for them. Unfortunately, it also erases any sense of self-sufficiency for those same people. Katrina illustrated that perfectly. Now fuck off.

[solostash200]

listen, truth doesn't follow a political belief. Ever think that the right has been wrong just once? Like how the military still has homosexuality classified as a mental illness? or the illegal wire tapping program? or that swift's website had the story of the bank spying program posted and yet when the new York times reported the same thing it was NOW wrong and dangerous....but of course I'm just a leftwing loonie. go blow yourself, its the ONLY head your EVER gonna get

[hirohiro]

"truth doesn't follow a political belief."

very well put. <b>thank you</b>.

[gellman]

That would be a relevant statement if Keith ever told the truth.

[solostash200]

GELLMAN IS RIGHT! because Katrina was really just a left wing conspiracy made up by the lefty (Gay/taxes for the rich/send troops home now/big government/pro abortion/anti war/insert buss word here) groups right? fuck I'd even go so far as to say THE WHOLE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN IS WORKING FOR THE LEFT! its all a lie! and since some people couldn't get jobs...they all deserved to die. i believe that was gellmans point. well said...

[hirohiro]

jesus. first the mainstream US media, now... the atlantic ocean?

what's next?

[tvwatcher35]

Solostash and Gellman, you are both idiots!! This tragedy was just the government showing its incompetance. Your ignorance makes me ashamed of being an american.

[solostash200]

....satire...

my comments were a stern reminder of what some assholes actually believe. sorry to confuse some of my less...inferentially adept readers

[tvwatcher35]

I don't mind satire, people dying is nothing to joke about.

[gellman]

Your "satire" sucks but you are definitely an asshole.

[solostash200]

hahaha, right right, "Here's an idea, when you're told to evacuate a city--evacuate it!!!" i guess what you were impling was that the people who died were all just too stupid to know when to leave. that was what i was so pissed about. gellman some people couldn't leave because they were too old or too poor to get out or didn't have cars. you may not be an asshole but your complete lack of a grip on reality hides that possiblity up quite well.

[slothafur]

THE KIKES AND RUSKIS TOO!!!

[meatmarket]

Fox News presents both sides? That's a laugh. I guess gellman can't take the fact that he's wrong and instead has to rely on name-calling and perverted "jokes" to get his point across.

[gellman]

FoxNews does present both sides. If you state otherwise you're a filthy liar just like Olber-loon.

[meatmarket]

Ooh, a little testy aren't we? I wouldn't be surprised that you do watch Faux News. You can't debate anything without name-calling. I guess that means all your political observations are invalid then.

[gellman]

Oh, how clever of you, "Faux News" hardy-har-har. I've only heard that from ten thousand other leftwing loonies. You left-of-center folks are just too clever by half. So, apparently you'd prefer only liberal news with no balance eh? Well, sorry chum, it was that way for decades but once Fox arrived the entire landscape changed. Good for me, bad for you!

[sven1986]

Faux News, Faux News, Faux News, Faux News, Faux News, Faux News, Faux News, lol

[palahniukfan]

Wait...did you just say that Fox News is balanced? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...ok I think I'm good...HAHAHAHHAAHA. Oh man, they'll be a balanced network as soon as Bush learns the English language.

[Emper0rr]

Unless of course Bush gets impeached, and how he's been doing lately I wouldn't be surprised. When the democrats take over the congress, senate and presidency you'll be crying with Fox News about how your blind right-wing ignorance is no longer fooling Americans.

[gellman]

Impeached? How long have you loonies been crying for impeachment? Sorry, ain't gonna happen idiot. You must be one of those Michael Moore drones. Too bad you didn't slit your wrists after Bush got reelected. You still can you know!

Oh and Fox-News at least presents both sides of issues. Does Keith ever do that? Nope. You're the ignorant one and a fool to boot.

[Emper0rr]

Gellman, face it, the response to a natural disaster was un-excusably slow under the Bush administration... even conservatives/republicans have aknowledged that. The fact that you're defending this administration's response shows how ignorant, shallow and un-patriotic you truly are. People like you are the reason that the vast majority of polls show Americans are going to be voting Democratic in the next elections... so actually... in Keith's own words... Keep it up!

[Emper0rr]

Uh oh, gellman is insulting the way Keith looks because he can't find any solid argument against Keith's katrina commentary! Hey gellman, did you know that President Bush took the blame for the slow response to hurricane Katrina? Are you going to argue with Bush's own words?

[gellman]

Here's an idea, when you're told to evacuate a city--evacuate it!!! I guess that concept is too complicated for liberal eggheads like Olby-loon to grasp. I wonder if Keith blames President Bush for his hideous eyebrows or that fake orange tan he sports?

[sitongia]

Perfect historical evaluation of this president. I hope future leaders watch this video for hundreds of years to come.