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Foreign Terrorists Deserve Representation; but the Cheneys are Nonpersons: Meltdown with(out) Keith Olbermann Part 38

March 10, 2010 at 12:25 pm

Under Stalin—and the Soviet system in general—someone who fell into disfavor by the ruling Party could become a "nonperson." They weren't just thrown out of power or persecuted, it was as though they did not exist.

While MSNBC hosts pay a lot of attention to Dick Cheney, making him a nonperson is their goal. Once, while teasing an upcoming segment concerning CHEE-ney as Chris Matthews always sneeringly pronounces it, he muttered "What's this guy doing still around, anyway?" Somehow, that didn't make MSNBC's transcript of the show.

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Opponents of Government Health Care are "Sub-human" and "Ghouls"—Meltdown with Keith Olbermann Part 37

March 1, 2010 at 2:04 pm

Coming soon to a Tea Party near you?

A week ago Keith Olbermann slandered the Founders by falsely claiming…

OLBERMANN: Not very many of the founding fathers were evolved enough to believe that black people were actually people.

But this week, Olbermann denied the humanity of people who dare to disagree with him on nationalizing the health care system.

OLBERMANN: … the protests of these sub- humans who get paid by the insurance companies…

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Democrat Plan to Jail Interrogators for Being Mean to Terrorists Stopped by Hoekstra

February 27, 2010 at 3:47 pm

Baghdad Jim's attack on the CIA was smacked down by Pete Hoekstra yesterday.

While most of the politically aware public, and all of the news organizations, were focused on the Obama/Republican Health Care Summit, radicals in the House of Representatives tried to pushan amendment that banned such "degrading" procedures as "threatening" a terrorist detainee, or, causing a detainee's to "blaspheme" (not kidding) in an interrogation.

Congressman Pete Hoekstra, despite the huge disadvantage his party holds in Congress was able to embarrass the Democrats into stopping the vote with stinging arguments like these:

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Some of My Best Guests are Black: Meltdown with Keith Olbermann, Part 36

February 26, 2010 at 12:23 pm

Just here to make you feel better about yourself, Keith.

Last week, Keith Olbermann stepped in it with a race-baiting rant that accused the Tea Parties of being racist because they are supposedly white people "surrounded by people who look exactly like you."

When various conservative bloggers, including me, called him on the fact that MSNBC's anchor lineup would fit that description, Keith gave a non-response to each of us.

OLBERMANN "My response to this is: Where are the people of color at the tea parties?

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review of Intellectuals and Society

February 25, 2010  •  FrontPageMagazine.com

George Orwell famously said some things are so foolish that only an intellectual could believe them, for no ordinary man could be such a fool.

Thomas Sowell has made a career out of debunking those very things—most famously elite assumptions about racism and economics in classic books likeEthnic America, Race and Culture, Knowledge and Decisions, and The Vision of the Annointed.

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