Keith Olbermann Quotes
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Your anger will cool into hardened passionate insight if you wait a day. Most of the things that make me angry I let them sit. The heat that remains will be sufficient. The stuff that evaporates is the stuff that would have simply offended or made it histrionic.
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Matt Millen, you draft a wide receiver every year. HOW DARE YOU SIR, HOW DARE YOU!
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Attorney General Ashcroft and FBI director Mueller warned that intelligence from multiple sources.
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A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.
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Two days later, FBI director Mueller declares that another terrorist attack is 'inevitable.'
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Selling his new book about this phony baloney war on Christmas, John revealed a very ugly side to himself. He is one of those people who think all religions but his are mistaken. You know, the way a lot of these religious nut bag terrorists think.
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I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.
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Which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? The White House by the script.
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I don't think there are huge divergences between my personality and what they see on TV. And I think that's why I have been gainfully employed doing this. I'll always deliver what an employer wants.
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On so many levels [S.E. Cupp]’s a perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does.
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Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen.
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If he does not sue, he is a drug user, a repeat steroid user, a knowing steroid user. He has to sue for everything that the next 50 years of merchandising is worth.
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The strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it is the only defense the ordinary citizen has.
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The key to terror, the key to terrorism, is not the act - but the fear of the act. That is why bin Laden and his deputies and his imitators are forever putting together videotaped statements and releasing virtual infomercials with dire threats and heart-stopping warnings. But why is the Republican Party imitating them? Bin Laden puts out what amounts to a commercial of fear; The Republicans put out what is unmistakable as a commercial of fear. The Republicans are paying to have the messages of bin Laden and the others broadcast into your home.
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You risk becoming a parody of yourself by not innovating.
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If racism is not the whole of the Tea Party, it is in its heart, along with blind hatred, a total disinterest in the welfare of others, and a full-flowered self-rationalizing refusal to accept the outcomes of elections, or the reality of democracy, or the narrowness of their minds and the equal narrowness of their public support.
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Just a threat of a boycott has got the Russians spinning.
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As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.
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'I do know without fear of contradiction what the definition of life is and it is 12 words long. 'Life is defined by how much you improve the lives of others.' '
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All the things that people like me supposedly don't do, I do.
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Like watching the Jesse Ventura show. It's too bad you couldn't get the White House Press Corps to work from a script like that. Dana Milbank of the Washington Post will be along presently to try to figure out who thought that was a good idea. But first, wait, there's more from the fog of war, playing three acts, to White House Press Room unscripted. The first topic there was, guess what, whether or not the whole deal with the soldiers had been rehearsed. Once again, you are there.
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Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals.
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Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda - worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.
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It's very tough to get yourself around the idea that there could be a mechanism being used or abused to restrict and alter the society in which we live.