Keith Olbermann Special Comment: Real America

Excuse Me, But Didn't McCain and Palin Just Say That the Victims of 9/11 Weren't 'Real Americans'?
Some questions about a colleague's work came up yesterday during a business call. We couldn't ask her about them, though. Why? Because she was somewhere between the 95th and 99th tower of the World Trade Center's North Tower on the morning of September 11, 2001.

Sarah Palin says that the 'real America' is in small towns and formerly red states. She says the people in the cities and in the North aren't 'pro-American.' Yet most of the people who lost their lives at the World Trade Center lived in the cities and suburbs.

Not real Americans? The firefighters who sacrificed their lives by going back into a burning building to save lives? Not real Americans? The friends and colleagues who died in pitch black crowded stairwells in some Boschean vision of hell? Or broke a window and jumped from the 101st floor rather than continue to feel their skin grow hotter and hotter?

Not real Americans? The wives and husbands who continue to grieve, the parents who lost sons and daughters, the children whose healing is yet to come?

They're saying that Northern Virginia isn't the real America, either. Joe McCain says it's "communist." Another McCain spokesperson says it's not even the real South.

Nothern Virginia. You know - where the Pentagon is
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/excuse-me-but-didnt-mccai_b_136498.html

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[DJsama21]

@deNNyTheWiseMAN1 did he say anything wrong about this "real America anti-America" crap?

[deNNyTheWiseMAN1]

and you wonder why this guy isn't on the air anymore, liberal communist scum

[Imhornydadcomeinside]

@Rayle75 the left has always favored fair play, however the right has gone out of control in america, it is so right that it is downright hurting american development, democrats had to be more stubborn to take the constant mudthrowing from the right, democrats are being portrayed as nazis, communists, the satanic spawn on fox news and the rest of the republicans view them as almost just as bad.

Democrats just can't play the "tolerant unbiased pussy" when the right is constantly lying.

[Rayle75]

@Arcturistheballer You do have a point. Olbermann is about as reliable a source of news as Fox or O'reily. Both are biased, like taking sound bytes out of context and snipping at each other endlessly. The real tragedy is that, in this never ending tug of war between left and right, fact (not truth, because truth is subjective) is the first casualty.

However, after watching both fox and msnbc, i have to say the the left looks more favorably towards fair play and open dialogue than the right.

[Arcturistheballer]

@Neosaigo Its clear you watch him and not fox because you associate fox with "far right extremists". If you didn't watch the even more biased msnbc you would know that is not the case.

[Neosaigo]

@Arcturistheballer

Actually plenty of people watch this guy when they want to see what hypocrisy or lies we have missed on FOX "news" or made by far right extremists.

[Arcturistheballer]

No wonder NO ONE watches this guy lmao

[skydome29]

This is one of the best jobs done by Keith.

[Allamericom]

A failed corrupt Government is all around us.

Want Health care? Bring home our troops DemoRepublican war mongers are one of the same

End the Fed and the inside 911 war ploys will end with them

Be a responsible free American not mongers accountable for Bigger Governmental lobby laws.

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Wake up America Bring home our troops Oh Ya YOU CANT ANYMORE

[pucpimp]

Preach the gospel Keith