Olbermann Offers "Special Comment" On Joe Wilson: You've "Embarrassed The Nation" (VIDEO)

On "Countdown" tonight host Keith Olbermann offered a "Special Comment" about Republican Congressman Joe Wilson yelling out "you lie" during President Obama's speech last night to a joint session of Congress. Olbermann concludes that the only thing more offensive and embarrassing than the lack of civility Wilson displayed in "shouting at the President like he was a referee at a ball game and you were a drunk in the stands," is that Wilson was glaringly wrong in a comment that has "embarrassed the nation."

Olbermann digs deeper to uncover Wilson's sometimes tumultuous relationship with the truth.

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[deeds2001]

Racial bigotry would have long been pushed into a small corner where it belongs if politicians would just leave it alone. Both sides continue to use it as a political weapon bringing new life to racism each and every day. A lot of people genuinely feel Barack and other politicians are whittling away freedom and choice on a daily basis and couldn't care less if it's coming from a black man, an angry white woman, or a fish for that matter. It does not matter who is doing it, they just want it to stop. But when J. C. (two Carter) publicly reminds the world that there once were people in white sheets flinging hate, it becomes new again. It's not always a race issue but now both sides seem hell-bent on making us believe that is the only issue.

[Rolanda Ridley]

Keith Olbermann is a genius. He always tells it like it is. Love Keith Olbermann.

[deeds2001]

KO left out the part that specifically forbids the "medical community" from requiring, or even asking for proof of citizenship when admitting a patient. That and other loopholes negates the FACT that the bill says no payment for those here illegally. Couple that with the push to grant amnesty and all illegals will be covered...they just won't be illegal anymore. As for claims that a "bi-racial" president is being accused of hating half his ancestry...read obama's book. He says he wrote it himself where he refused to accept his mothers race. Mr. Olberman is a great commentator but he needs to temper his facts with facts so they cannot be de-constructed by Mr. Beck or others. And enough with the race-card and the "Kool-aid" rants...from both sides. The only reason people are so bent out of shape is because they've learned to "read the bill" on loc.gov...something a lot of paid representatives are unable or unwilling to do (youtube.c­om/conyers­.) It's time to break the cycle of politics as usual and demand congress do what the job requires or step out of the way because the american people ARE reading these bills and forming their own opinions without Keith, or Rush, or even Beck.

[americanalien]

One of the greatest Special Comments of all time. Keith Olbermann ROCKS!!!

[scrzbill]

You know what I like about Keith the most? He goes off on these tirades of what he believes, he lets you draw you own conclusions. His views have one side, but you don't have to listen to paranoid conspiracy theories. Have you ever noticed how funny he can be? Best part? He doesn't need a chalkboard to talk to his listeners. He knows his viewers have enough brains to listen to what he has to say with out diagraming his thoughts on a chalkboard. Some people need chalkboards to understand a thought process, that is why there is faux. Every one likes to scream about ratings on faux. I can only say there are fewer intelligent people in the statistical measurement. BTW This is a blog. I will write in any form I choose. If you cannot understand what I ma saying, go back to redstate.

[Craig Orrell]

You assume that he actually believes what he say's-I think you assume too much!

[Limeheart]

Keith, I am in love with you - I love brilliant men - and then you come along and are handsome, too! You said it for the nation of those that have a brain! Thank you.

[GirlOutWest]

You know, there is one really great thing about all the "righties" coming to this site. I can go through the pages so much faster as they never have anything of value to say. They pretty much call Dems names and then cheer each other on. "OMG" is junior high all over again. Have fun "righties" you finally have shown me you have purpose.

[scrzbill]

**********­F&F*******­******

[Cycadeoidea]

Occasionally there's a thoughtful, challenging conservative poster here, but more often than not they're just as you describe.

[GirlOutWest]

You're right of course, but sometimes they do say the dumbest stuff that just amazes me.

[katemail00]

w00t for Keith.

[cassandra63200]

Get used to it.......... The President will be in office for 2 terms. .........., Then it will be The First Lady Turn.

[pmipIP]

That's what I am talking about...love your post...anyone's that follows in a negative way are bitter people who cannot get over their loss and can secede

[scrzbill]

Then the kids SNARK SNARK

[TazoWolf]

I think FLOTUS would be a wonderful pres! Right on!

[smRN70]

Okay the point that KO was trying to make was, the big picture with what is wrong with this country goes beyond incivility during Pres. Obama's speech, what's wrong is that those who have a problem with our president will go above and beyond was what at one time in our country considered being civil, they will spread their unintelligent spew to whomever they can get to listen to it. They will tell what ever lies they think the hateful people in this country want to hear. They will use their newfound power to brainwash the hateful to new levels. If this goes unchecked, the damage done will be far more than whatever damage was done by our previous president and his cronies.

[movingforward52]

I love how most of the negative comments aren't about the content of KO's rant, but about KO himself. Let's not address the argument, but denigrate the mouthpiece. The lack of argument about the content itself is as telling as the inability to argue against health reform on it's own merits. Barney Frank said it best on Maddow Wed night when he said, and I paraphrase "Their need to make up untruths about the bill to defeat it politically validates how good of a bill it actually is. They can't beat it on it's own merits."

[kbkw54]

Chris Dodd bought and paid for by the healthcare industry.

http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2009/06/sen_chris_dodds_wife_serves_on.html

[scrzbill]

off topic

[foxfan]

But worth a look.

[kbkw54]

Baucus bought and paid for by the healthcare industry.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/20/AR2009072003363.html

[scrzbill]

off topic

[foxfan]

But worth a look.

[coco51]

Two wrongs don't give you the health insurance benefits you, your immediate and extended family members deserve. Is politics gonna cover you, your wife, children, parents, grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews should any of you suffer from a life-threatening illness or someone in the next generation i.e. your grandchild or great-grandchild is born with a cancer or birth defect? Mind you, Wilson, Baucus and the rest of them are padding their nests eggs and we taxpayers provide them with the best government healthcare in the world.

[scrzbill]

still off

[sjanus11]

Why was it OK for House Dems to BOO Bush during 2005 State speech? You guys always talk out of both sides of your face. Link to video here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBxmEGG71PM&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fironicsurrealism.blogivists.com%2F&feature=player_embedded

You can't have it both ways.....if you want decorum....you must practice it also

[dac253]

Around the 9:50 mark, Keith defended Wilson's right to incivility, but I doubt you watched that much of it.

Anything else?

[scrzbill]

There were boos last night. It is not the boos that are in the discussion. If you want to talk about lies, Lets talk.

[coco51]

Seems to me that Republicans would be the ones to show class then. How does Wednesday's behavior make things better? Next they'll come to blows, shoes, paper as they did in the far east or Russia? Is that the way of America? So much for our superiority.

Wednesday night we became the laughing stock of the world, we showed our hypocrisy, we showed our ignorance and in so we cannot be insulted and angered because someone in a foreign country throw a shoe, two or more at our President in the future. Remember there will be a Republican President, it's all going downhill from here on.

[Twillied]

Did you even watch the clip you posted? It's a stretch to call it booing - more like grumbling and moaning. Doesn't compare to the idiotic outburst that we had to endure during the address. Your post is a shining example of the overall problem with the right - an unconscionable inability to discern right from wrong or good from bad. Sad really - 'it's hard out here for a lib'.

[scrzbill]

I am going to embed that video on my computer and when ever I want to feel good, I will watch it.

[JakeMontero]

Is KO still on?

[pmipIP]

Every night...7 pm HST. (That's Hawaii)...come on over and watch with me? Wait one...your genes won't make it through the package check

[Solja]

We watch it every night here in Iowa. Do you know how important Iowa is to politicians?

[republicrat1]

What about Sen. Harry Reid calling President G.W. Bush a Liar,
and then when confronted on Meet The Press by Tim Russett about what he said...Reid said he stood by his words, and would not, and never did apologize.
What about Sen. Harry Reid calling President G.W. Bush a Liar,
and then when confronted on Meet The Press by Tim Russett about what he said...Reid said he stood by his words, and would not, and never did apologize.

[republicrat1]

nor will he apologize for emboldening our enemy when he cowardly said "the war is lost"

[funhouse70]

But Bush WAS a liar.

[republicrat1]

Obama IS

[pmipIP]

Mission Accomplished...oh wait...sorry conservatives...my bad

[foxfan]

In time we might say the same about Obama.

[IWantTofu]

What about Sen. Reid calling President W. a liar.

One differenece, President W. was a Liar. The facts have since proved it.
The second, he didn't yell it out during President W.'s speech.
And third, he didn't break house rules when he did so.

A false equivalency.

[foxfan]

Well, you got two out of three.

[jejove]

Harry Reid did not call Bush a liar when he was addressing the congress.

[Limeheart]

Cause it was true? (and had been proven since then over and over)