Keith Olbermann Special Comment: President Obama must prosecute Bush and Cheney for torture

[klrdotorg]

This smug, pretentious, pompous douche bag is gone. RIP

[darkwarriorkane]

@klrdotorg no he isn't and RIP implies he's dead that's just bad taste mate.

[klrdotorg]

@darkwarriorkane

Bad taste? Every show this guy does is in bad taste. Now, nobody watches him ... so who the hell cares?

I'll name one wrong fact. A minute & half into this screed of bullshit, KO claims we didn't get "anything from him (KSM) until we buddied up to him". That's a crock of shit.

The fact that you think he's a truth teller is hilarious. Nobody twists facts and spins like this guy. You obviously like your news as biased as possible. Too bad. RIP KO.

[darkwarriorkane]

@klrdotorg What did we get from KSO before we stopped the torture? Bin Laden, a real plot, or anything? Did Bush just sit on that info for a couple years? By the way his rating now match Bill-O who is Fox's biggest guy so I'd say both sides of the news are about equal.

[klrdotorg]

@darkwarriorkane

Wrong ... we got info from the guy -- and it wasn't from buddying up to him. You asked for an example of "wrong fact" ... and I gave you one in the first 2 minutes.

His ratings now match Bill-O's? Who's ass did you pull that bullshit factoid from? He has less than 1/10th the viewers. Where the hell do you get your info from pal? Oh yeah, Olby. He's a liar. You should be more discriminating with your news sources.

[darkwarriorkane]

@klrdotorg I got my info from the ratings board unless they are wrong in which case I'm sorry Personally I watch CNN unless I'm on youtube so Olby isn't my news source most of the time. He's a little bracing for my taste. Again I was wrong and I'm sorry for that

[undeadpresident]

Bush did 9/11 and conned us into war, and out of all that you choose to prosecute for torture? That's like charging a man who robbed a convenience store with jaywalking cause he didn't use a crosswalk.

Gatekeeper.

[thesupremeper]

Yes Yes Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keith woke up on the right side of the bed that morning.

[ub30f]

Obama should be tortured for his stupidity - lol

[vjacq88]

And yet still nothing has been done.....damn what a waste.

[Futbolclassic]

bush should be tried and prosecuted and bush sr. investigated

[ehunter2]

Listening to Olberman is like listening to Beavis and Butthead do a book report

in the 10th grade.

What a low grade moron..and the libs lap it up

[darkwarriorkane]

@ehunter2 name me one wrong fact here? Just one.

[jtizz711]

you only admit to something during torture to make the pain stop....whether you actually did it or not. most likely not

[dude3332]

This guy is douchebag.he's one of the people who said intel agencies didn't do enough to protect us.

[1961arnie]

When did two wrong ever make a right it i remember right it doesn't

[pleased9]

Meanwhile, schools are closing, and social programs are being scrapped. Billions are spent for the war in Iraq.

Obama will only protect the Bushies. They own his balls.

[Etimos]

@pleased9 Bush and Obama are both financed by the same people, simple as that. If people think they're ever gonna get real change by voting for one of the two 'candidates' the establishment has pre-approved for them, they're deluding themselves.

[addyr100]

yes but you cant blame some one for creating terrorists, that would be like saying that it was ted bundies dads fault for letting him stay with his grandpa and be exposed to porn and violence. it is their own fault for being a terrorist and that is that.

[SouthP17CD]

So let me get this straight, he is going to bitch about getting information from terrorists WHO TRY TO KILL US, but reading Miranda rights to terrorists WHO TRY TO KILL US is okay? What a fucking left-wing loon

[IP0Monsturd]

More people have died in Teddy Kennedy's car than have died from waterboarding at Gitmo.

[PeskyPanda]

How do you know how many people have been killed at Gitmo? As if they published everything that went on there in a weekly gazette. Please don't be that naive.

[IP0Monsturd]

Who gives a crap? All I know as fact is Teddy Kennedy was a coward who could swim while drunk.

[PeskyPanda]

In what world do you think its ok to torture people?

These "terrorists" wouldn't exist if it weren't for the Bush dynasty arming these people and then pissing them off to the point of violent acts.

"left wing loon?" Please, you obviously have no life experience or you wouldn't make comments like that. Please think about what you say before you write it down. How can we aspire to be a beacon of freedom and all that is right if we can't follow the rules we set forth?

Torture is never ok.

[SouthP17CD]

Obviously, we have different ideas of what torture is so no point in debating that. Second, "terrorists" have been around way before George Bush was even in the White House. Third, Olbermann IS a loon - a complete left wing liberal - if it wasn't for conservatives or George Bush, he wouldn't even have a show.

[PeskyPanda]

Thank you for not being the typical "youtuber" and respond with nonsense and profanity. I suppose you're right on our differing views on torture.

But when I said "these terrorists" I meant these specifically. I know terrorists have existed for a long time, but these particularly were created by the first and second Bush administrations. Their foreign policy spat on too many people and I honestly can't blame them for being pissed off, I can blame them for killing innocent people though.

[IP0Monsturd]

You are right. Instead of waterboarding, we should force terrorists at Gitmo to watch Rachel Maddow and Rosie O'Donnell get naked and have sex with each other. After the terrorists stop vomiting I am sure they will answer all our questions.

[trmahoney01]

thank goodness olbermann isn't actually in politics. I love how he thinks Obama is listening to him.

olbermann is missing the point. this terrorist helped kill people. that is the most inhumane crime anyone could commit. tortue may be severe, but this terrorist took human life away.

olbermann, you are a joke. enjoy your subpar ratings.

[believerornot]

@trmahoney01

Torture never provides good intel and puts the torturer on a level of morality lower than the terrorists.

I hope you get tortured some day soon. You deserve it for sanctioning such barbarity!

[trmahoney01]

oh cool. so killing thousands of people means that we should treat him the same as everyone else.

makes TOTAL sense.

[believerornot]

@trmahoney01

It means we should treat him as a criminal, but in order to not become criminals our selves we should never stoop to the use of torture, which is well documented as a useless (therefore pointless) strategy anyway.

[mommar33]

they water boarded KSM less than 10 times and he sang like a bird.and it prevented an attack on LA.The next city could be yours or mine.CIA call me.I'll be glad to pay the water bill

[darmokandgalad]

They waterboarded him 183 times, not 10 times. And it's very convenient of Republicans to argue that they prevented other terrorist attacks and use that as a selling point. It's like saying "Yeah, I crashed the car into a tree. But then I didn't get into another accident the whole ride home. So therefore I did a good job at not getting into accidents."

[mommar33]

this from the same guy who thinks paul mccartney died in 1966

[darmokandgalad]

I was joking.

[darmokandgalad]

And I forgot to point out that he didn't sing like a bird. But what do you care, facts aren't relevant to your worldview. Or maybe you're just a fucking liar. Probably the last one.

[savalegions]

sounds like you are just trying to cause trouble olberwomann.

[reddfactory]

That was brilliant! God bless you Keith! Obama and his administration owe it to future generations if nothing else. When I hear Barack tell us that "We are a nation of laws", I just want to gag! I have no respect for the conservative party's leadership if they won't even allow an honest debate. That is Anti-American!

[logansGT]

Shouldn't MSLSD's Keith Dobermann Show be classified as torture, too?

[Scardy]

heh.

[logansGT]

Uh, ScardyCat.....try to make your comments a little shorter next time (*_~)

[emmthreejonny]

Yeah don't torture terrorists just shot them right away.

[tomitstube]

i sure hope you're right!

a godless america with no guns??? hmmm. you mean an america governing issues based in science, intelligence, reason, and democracy for all.

and not what we have now?

wow! that would be awesome.

[tomitstube]

does America torture captured combatants?

[ninjanerd8]

They tie them down and pour water down their throats until they pass out / throw up. They did it to KSM over 180 times in one month. Sounds like torture to me.

[Polar515]

not anymore, thank god..

[tomitstube]

i understand your sentiment, and agree with it. altho being an atheist, and the bush administration being staunch eve-and-gelatin's, i'm not giving any "creator", credit for ending torture.

bush believes he wuz elected by god, so this god would have been behind the whole thing. seems kinda silly don't you think?

[Polar515]

o, well i meant it as a figure of speech, because i'm a sort of agnostic. because i have many problems with the church and its diluted ideologies.

[tomitstube]

i hear ya.

[Turbo291]

I care more about the millions of innocent people we killed, maimed and destroyed in Iraq and Afghanistan then the 3 we tortured in Cuba.

[alhaquin]

we the pple elected an idiot in 2000, and his name is George W. Bush, worst president in my lifetime, and hopefully the last one. I say Investigate thoroughly, investigate and prosecute, point out the start of the problem.

[nourbutwatmi]

Not only is "Obermouth" a phony, he has "Clutch Cargo's" mouth!!!

[phoenixshade3]

And he's still a thousand times better (at least) than O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, and the rest of the people over at Fox "News."

[therightscoop]

Olbermann tortures people every night. Can we prosecute him?

[PISSMUTHA]

and also hannity. o'reilly and your point is???

[Flynn1926]

Overbite is not even worth my comment. Garbage, Garbage!

[chuckerchucker]

If Obama proceeds with this investigation then it will absolutely rip the country apart. No doubt about it. If he is all for uniting America (which he isn't, that was just campaign propaganda) he will dismiss any investigation or commission on Bush. If he wants to put the issue behind him then he will DEFINE what is torture and proceed forward enforcing the definition. End of story.

[Ian7570]

I think the definition of torture is based on international law. You can't just make up what is torture and what is not, I don't think the US would be too happy if their soldiers were tortured by foreign countries.

[nourbutwatmi]

lan7570: You remark that: "I don't think the US would be happy if their soldiers were tortured by foreign countries?" What planet are you from? When Americans are taken prisoner they're not only tortured, but after the torture they are beheaded. What the C.I.A. did was mere child's play in comparison. The mental anguish we put them though was far less than they deserved...their treatment of us makes your argument concerning what is and isn't torture bogus, because they are going to anyway.

[Ian7570]

So your argument is "If they do it to us, we can do it to them?"

I acknowledge that Al Qaeda are bad people. Yes, they have tortured and beheaded your soldiers. Did it do them any good whatsoever? Do you think it helped them gather any intel, or did they just use it for false confession and false assertions that the West is bad? Do you seriously want to go to their level?

[nourbutwatmi]

"Happy?" What planet are you from? The only country that treats prisoners better than they get treated at home is the U.S.. When our servicemen are taken prisoner they get beheaded. So who the fk are you trying to shit about being happy?

[Ian7570]

You weren't too happy when the Japanese did it to you were you? And WTF good did it do for AlQaeda to torture and behead your soldiers? If you're point is that their bad people and you can do whatever you want to them fine. Just don't bitch when other countries (ie not AlQuada since it is not representative of a country) do the same thing to your servicemen.

[LordJohn73]

You torture us with your propaganda, you leftist scum. Too bad the terrorists didn't pilot a plane into the PMSNBC studios. Keith Overbite should be water boarded.

[twopopsforsure]

No YOU torture people every time you get on the air.

What a turd you are

[Dewdaahman]

"..hear, hear.."

[dmdcreations]

I believe what makes The USA so great is the same thing that tears it apart. FREEDOM. Its difficult to defend and hard to maintain because too many 'insiders' have the freedom to chip away at its foundation. When will you traitors learn what real treason is. Please, stop acting like scorned children who rebel against their parents everytime they can't have their way.

[im4wur]

Good news! Two more high ranking former officals (Thomas Pickering and William Sessions) speak out about the critical importance of proceeding with an investigation of TORTURE by the Bush administration.

"Bushed for 03-25-09 (Torture, Iraq and Gitmo Jr. Gates" ) - ( watch?v=t-mvXYGsrbA )

Their article: "Moving Forward by Looking Back - Why a Presidential Commission on Torture Is Critical to America's Security" - was published in the Washington Post on March 23rd.

[im4wur]

Also informative. google: "Bush's Torture Rationale Debunked"

"Abu Zubaida was the alpha and omega of the Bush administration's argument for torture. That's why Sunday's front-page Washington Post story by Peter Finn and Joby Warrick is such a blow to the last remaining torture apologists." (cont.)

[im4wur]

(cont.) "Finn and Warrick reported that "not a single significant plot was foiled" as a result of Zubaida's brutal treatment -- and that, quite to the contrary, his false confessions "triggered a series of alerts and sent hundreds of CIA and FBI investigators scurrying in pursuit of phantoms." (cont.)

[im4wur]

(cont.) "Zubaida was the first detainee to be tortured at the direct instruction of the White House. Then he was President George W. Bush's Exhibit A in defense of the "enhanced interrogation" procedures that constituted torture. And he continues to be held up as a justification for torture by its most ardent defenders." (cont.)

[im4wur]

(cont.) "But as author Ron Suskind reported almost three years ago -- and as The Post now confirms -- almost all the key assertions the Bush administration made about Zubaida were wrong."

[ciabones]

I'm glad we tortured KSM. He is responsible for the deaths

on 9-11. Isn't crashing planes into buildings where innocent

people are working torture ? How about when the people

who survived above the impact zone had to make the

decision to jump because they couldn't deal with the

intense inferno. Is that not torture ? KEITH OLBERMANN

ARE YOU HEARING THIS!!!!!!!!

[nozzghoull]

I'd rather be waterboarding, wooooo!

[kelli7767]

Bush, Cheney and many of their underlings are GUILTY OF TREASON AND WAR CRIMES..............BUSH JR IS GUILTY OF A LAW HIS FATHER MADE WHILE V.P. UNDER REGAN......WAKE UP PEOPLE

[DeityTheWize]

Obama is not going to prosecute his relatives

[dmdcreations]

So Captain Semantic is against torture. What is his stance on forced coercion? Where does he stand on the issue of beheading civilian contractors?

[makeitreal2008]

Why do you look to international terrorist to define your morality? When you become your own enemy. You invite death. - Good luck with that.

[MattBaumann777]

I'd like to also see where he stands on civilian casualties. Let's ask him.

[MountOlivet]

Obama should start with and investigation but he should leave it up to the Justice Department to carry out the investigation. There are more important things that Obama should be concentrating on such as turning the economy around, withdrawing troops from Iraq, and turning the tide of the war in Afghanistan, but he should start with an investigation.

[godlesscapitalist]

Keith Olbermann has retracted his lie about Rupert Murdoch's assertion that Fox News never "tolerated facts."

LMAO!!! Nobody with a brain would ever believe that Murdoch would say something like this.

When Olbermann made this misquote a few days ago, many of us realized that he was pushing something that he knew couldn't be true.

He also understood that more people would view his lie about Murdoch than his phony retraction.

Olbermann's games are catching up to him.

[godlesscapitalist]

Unfortunately, Obama is not as ignorant as Olbermann. The president realizes that prosecution is not merited here.

Get some perspective, Keith!

[jordinyc]

But that's why Keith is there.

He's there to help democrats get perspective so they understand what it is that Fox News fans get out of their rabid multitude of frothing pundits. It's a guilty pleasure.

He's also there to show the Fox fans how stupid their pundits look to us. Sadly this is lost on them. I have yet to see a Republican see or hear anyone they disagree with without describing them all the exact same way, as if Olberman, Madow, Cafferty, and Stewart were all the same person.

[PlayT0E]

Yes they need prosecuted, but the first task is getting the country headed in a sustainable honorable path.

Far too many bought the idea that torture works. It does not.

To find the truth, give a truth drug and hook them up to a lie detector.

To make them confess to crimes even if they are not guilty, just torture.

We know what happened.

Torture was used to acquire information about Iraq being a threat and having weapons of mass destruction as an excuse to invade.

There is no excuse.

[wiskawind]

Bush/Cheney and all their Republican henchmen must stand trial for WAR CRIMES and TREASON! I never gave them permission to torture people in my name and in my book that is TREASON!

Hang em all, and put it on cable! (smile)

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

Agreed. Bush, Cheney and many of their underlings are demonstrably guilty of treason.

[wiskawind]

Yes, and I never hear anyone use that word, they say just WAR CRIMES! But Bush betrayed this whole country, he committed treason; anyone else who had committed such crimes would be awaiting the hangman right now! If the law isnt the same for everyone, then there is no LAW!

I want to see them all hang, because that is what would happen to anyone else committing treason during war time!

[w0g4life]

"Good Night and Good luck" Ripoff Mr. Olbermann. Don't use it.

[librophile]

It is soooo refreshing to have Keith Olberman & Rachel Maddow tell the American public, the truth for a change.

FoxNews has lost so many viewers because FakeNews pundits lie too much and their lies & smear & fear propagabda for the Conservative RatpubliConmen, get repeatedly exposed by Keith & Rachel.

Long live MSNBC,

[ehunter2]

@librophile

Bwahaaha.. listening to this clown is like listening to

a book report by Beavis and Butthead...no wonder

Obama fooled you

[entertainmentbear]

This is never going to happen. That's what Obama and Bush's little meeting before Obama took office was about, no doubt. Obama is not going to investigate into the torture.

[upabittoolate]

keith is absolutely right.

[Creatorisintherain]

Where did Hitler get his ideas? Makes one wonder.....not me. This country needs to heal....but will it?