rawstory.com - 10/16/2009
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When MSNBC's Keith Olbermann welcomed three former members of Monty Python to Countdown on Wednesday, his biggest surprise was a question from Terry Gilliam, "How come that Colin Powell interview about the terror-industrial complex didn't become a bigger story?"
Olbermann was taken aback by the ...
mediaite.com - 10/20/2009
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On last night's edition of Countdown , Keith
Olbermann and Democratic strategist Chris Kofinis had themselves a...
good chuckle about the confrontation between John Ziegler and ACU chairman David Keene . Kofinis called the showdown a "good old ...
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Ziegler Offers Olbermann $100K To Debate After ‘Crush ...
powerlineblog.com - 10/16/2009
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A postscript on the Rush Limbaugh/St. Louis Rams
story, which I wrote about here : the conventional...
criticism of Limbaugh, by those not dumb enough to fall for the fake racist quotes, is that he is a "divisive" figure. That, for example, was the ...
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What's "Divisive"?
rawstory.com - 10/15/2009
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rawstory.com —
Steve Doocy of Fox News is really "steamed"
at MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, and he wants the world...
to know that Olbermann went "over the line" when he picked Doocy's 20 year old son Peter as his "Worst Person in the World." On May 5, Steve Doocy invited ...
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Fox host: Olbermann crossed line when he picked on my kid
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Powell Warned of ‘Terror Industrial Complex’
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From Countdown via Raw Story:
"What is the greatest threat facing us now?" Powell asked. "People will say it's terrorism. But are there any terrorists in the world who can change the American way of life or our political system? No. ... The only thing that can really destroy us is us. We shouldn't do it to ourselves, and we shouldn't use fear for political purposes-scaring people to death so they will vote for you, or scaring people to death so that we create a terror-industrial complex."
When Powell delivered a speech at the University of ...
Casual Observation
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... Fri Oct 16th, 2009 at 08:52:13 PM EST Who knows? Maybe I wrote about it at the time and have just forgotten. But I don't remember Colin Powell's remarks about the terrorism-industrial complex either . Seems like they should have received more play. Display: ...
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