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Keith Olbermann's "Special Comment" on Bank Bailout

    Keith Olbermann presents a special comment on the bank bailouts and the excesses of the CEOs of bailed-out mega multinational corporations.

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Take that and double it for

 Sat, 03/21/2009 - 00:11 — Anonymous (not verified)
Take that and double it for the health care insurance industry! ENOUGH!!!!!

One better word you used

 Sat, 03/21/2009 - 01:57 — Anonymous (not verified)
One better word you used "raped" because this is what really happened! Raped by Wall Street!

Pull Their Charters. These

 Sat, 03/21/2009 - 14:58 — Anonymous (not verified)
Pull Their Charters. These rapacious corporations, any corporation, exists ONLY because of the charter granted it. The public can pull the charter which is in effect capital punishment for the charter and legally dissolves it. THIS is the only chatter that could possibly make the actual persons who run these incorporeal entities sit up, take notice and reform. PULL THEIR CHARTERS should be the chant in the streets at the next Wall Street demonstration.

Enough! Don't do business

 Sat, 03/21/2009 - 15:34 — Anonymous (not verified)
Enough! Don't do business with these bandits! Do your banking and finance at your local bank. I made the mistake of buying a variable annuity from AIG because it was so big it couldn't fail :-(. It is in the toilet and I expect that my retirement funds are pretty much toast. I will never do business with these crooks again and I suggest that no one else do business with them, City Bank or any other financial institution getting TARP money. Its the only way we can get these monkeys off our backs. The fed just keeps giving them our money.

Be careful what you wish

 Sat, 03/21/2009 - 16:26 — Sprocket Man (not verified)
Be careful what you wish for. Look who's watching in the wings. No one is talking about the critical role unregulated, offshore U.K. banking centers played in the build-out of the securities-based financial system now bankrupting U.S. banks. Think American history. Same as it ever was. We might better seize Buckingham Palace before Citigroup.

Our government wrote the

 Sat, 03/21/2009 - 16:34 — Anonymous (not verified)
Our government wrote the laws these bandits followed. Therefore Congress must share equal blame, the prostitutes that they are.

Okay, I'll say it... Now is

 Sat, 03/21/2009 - 16:37 — Emtu (not verified)
Okay, I'll say it... Now is the time for all good people to rail against the corporate machine... take back our sovereign nations from the clutches of the vulture capitalists - those predatory and cannibalistic scavengers who lurk behind their gilded facades to pick clean the bones of our decimated citizenry, even devouring themselves - as we struggle to pursue our dreams and yet endure their constant assaults against our dignity, our security, our morale. It is the moneyed plutocrats throughout the world who bear blame for the global travesties of pollution, malnutrition, disease and climate change. Their ruthless quests for such obscene excesses of wealth and power are the aggregate bur that constantly grinds and galls - abrading everything into utter ruin.

Congress makes the laws in

 Sat, 03/21/2009 - 16:48 — Larry Milton (not verified)
Congress makes the laws in our country. Congrss repealed the very good and necessary rules for banks. Congress gave our money to those failing banks to bail them out instead of letting them go bancrupt, with no oversight. Congress is crying wolf now, just like they did after 9/11. The only crisis is that we have a hard time believing that we can't keep having more and more of everything. Maybe we are a nation of selfish and greedy people.

What we need to do is

 Sat, 03/21/2009 - 16:50 — Carole Lutness (not verified)
What we need to do is overturn the myth of CORPORATE PERSONHOOD. (see Unequal Protection by Thom Hartman and http://www.thealliancefordemocracy.org/) The ONLY way to get our democracy back is by returning our country to the vision of Jefferson & o/ founding fathers who saw the dangers of corporations, didn't even want them and then agreed to have them but under very restricted circumstance. Corporations ARE NOT people and ARE NOT entitled to 14th, 5th, etc Amendment rights. We the People cannot compete with corporate giants who never die, can accumulate massive wealth and control our government and manipulate our laws to their advantage. Look where this myth had brought us (again).

Which charter would be the

 Sat, 03/21/2009 - 17:13 — Jade Queen (not verified)
Which charter would be the low-hanging fruit for pulling? It might not be a bank because they haven't done the most graphic harm, though some in Appalachia have wanted to get after banks that funded mountaintop-removal. The horrific, poisonous slides from the coal industry resemble the horror flicks our population seems to eat up. It's time to recruit an army of Eric Brockaviches to get after these guys for reparations. There would be nothing like watching Paul Stamets and his mushroom-remediation brigade rolling into town to fix massive pollution in the low-income South. The video of fungi winning a remediation contest is the teaser preview already. It would be a long ride from Seattle to the hollers and gulches of Deliverance, but what a movie it would make! Who can make this happen? I want to be on the team.

At the insistence of the

 Sat, 03/21/2009 - 17:29 — jstuv (not verified)
At the insistence of the financial institutions, the Bush/Cheney Administration appointed incompetents to administer the SEC, the FCC, the FDA, the Attorney General, etc. Oversight and Regulation enforcement was practically non-existent, despite its FDR mandate. Put a child in a Candy Store without oversight and he/she will get a tummy-ache. Bankers are no different. Once strong, willful, energetic, competent prosecutors head governmental agencies, Consumer Confidence will be restored and our economic calamity will diminish.

Pull their charters, for

 Sat, 03/21/2009 - 17:39 — Bob Walters (not verified)
Pull their charters, for openers! Then pass legislation revoking "personhood" of corporations, imposed by a Supreme Court CLERK, a shill for corporations, who inserted that designation in a headnote to the account of a case. The corporations thus achieved by subterfuge what they could not achieve openly. It is in mute testament to the corruption wrought on our democratic republic by such monstrous entities, that from then on, the "Supreme Court" UPHELD the shill's headnote, as though it was a genuine legal finding! ENOUGH, is indeed ENOUGH!!

we've been raped by the

 Sat, 03/21/2009 - 18:49 — Anonymous (not verified)
we've been raped by the invisible hand of the free market

People just keep talking but

 Sat, 03/21/2009 - 19:17 — Anonymous (not verified)
People just keep talking but actions speak louder than words. Until people vote all of the crooks out and I mean all, each and every one of them, no one is innocent or to be forgiven, ALL of THEM, until that happens in fact, then all of this is nothing but words, the blah, blah, blah kind of in one ear and out the other. ENOUGH of the "outrage". Get out in the streets and DO SOMETHING about it!

I would like to add to Bob

 Sat, 03/21/2009 - 19:24 — Gary Epstein (not verified)
I would like to add to Bob Walter's (17:39) comment about corporation rights traced back to an 1886 Supreme Court ruling. A source for this is UNEQUAL PROTECTION by Thom Hartmann (2002). When I took high school civics or U.S. history we were taught that corporations got the same rights as human beings in that case which used the 14th Amendment in a case coming out of California concerning taxation of fences along railroad tracks. Hartmann blames the court reporter for falsifying the outcome of that case in the headline of his report. Recently, I checked out U.S. history textbooks being used today and there is nothing.

The Greed and Corruption

 Sat, 03/21/2009 - 19:57 — Arminius Aurelius (not verified)
The Greed and Corruption of Wall Street and the Banksters have destroyed the good name of capitalism just as the Greed and Corruption of the Auto Industry Unions have bankrupted the auto industry thru threats and intimidation .

Could Class War be going

 Sat, 03/21/2009 - 20:17 — Babygoat (not verified)
Could Class War be going down the same road as the Civil War?...Wait and see....ENOUGH! THANK YOU KEITH. WE NEED YOU!

Redux: Okay, I'll say it...

 Sat, 03/21/2009 - 21:25 — Emtu (not verified)
Redux: Okay, I'll say it... Now is the time for all good people to rail against the corporate machine... take back our sovereign nations from the clutches of the vulture capitalists - those predatory and cannibalistic scavengers who lurk behind their gilded facades to pick clean the bones of our decimated citizenry, even devouring themselves - as we struggle to pursue our dreams and yet endure their constant assaults against our dignity, our security, our morale. It is the moneyed plutocrats throughout the world who bear blame for the global travesties of pollution, malnutrition, disease and climate change. Their ruthless quests for such obscene excesses of wealth and power are the aggregate bur that constantly grinds and galls - abrading everything into utter ruin.

America, listen up. Let's

 Sat, 03/21/2009 - 22:46 — Americonned (not verified)
America, listen up. Let's all quit going to the man to straighten out the man. What we should do is investigate every stock and bond we invest in. And do not allow your investment managers to tell you you can't do this. Disinvest every dollar that goes to these corrupt organizations. Until we all take personal responsibility, no one else will.

People really need to get

 Sat, 03/21/2009 - 23:47 — omallj (not verified)
People really need to get more upset over what is going on in the United States and start to organize protest rallys and demonstrations. By being docile the Fat Cats Corporations and politicians are not going to change anything that is going on. Obama really needs to start changing laws in this country so the rape of America does not occur again. Americans need to unite and start marching on Washington, and cities they live in to publically protest the terrible things that are going on to them and their neighbors.

Piling on with Americonned,

 Sun, 03/22/2009 - 00:12 — Jade Queen (not verified)
Piling on with Americonned, look out for what you buy, even in the health section. If your favorite yogurt just got bought by a multi-national still using rBgh, don't buy it any more. It's the only way to con them back. Find a local brand not yet absorbed by the Borg. I know it's hard to tell, but if you can find a good coop, somebody there may be on top of this, able to help sort it out. Every buck you spend is a vote.

A nice followup to this is

 Sun, 03/22/2009 - 04:37 — David Brookbank (not verified)
A nice followup to this is the Rolling Stone article "The Big Takeover -- The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution" by Matt Taibbi at http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover/print

For Gary Epstein of Sat,

 Sun, 03/22/2009 - 05:26 — Anonymous (not verified)
For Gary Epstein of Sat, 03/21/2009 - and anyone else interested in the person hood of corporations http://www.ratical.org/corporations/SCvSPR1886.html

There is something a little

 Sun, 03/22/2009 - 05:30 — altlic (not verified)
There is something a little nauseating about watching Olbermann preach when he himself is a $4 million a year 'suit', when he is more demagogue than activist. Why doesn't he take a voluntary pay-cut? Say 50%? It would probably enhance his popularity. But I'm not holding my breath. Am I missing something here?

There is a vast difference,

 Mon, 03/23/2009 - 03:33 — Antonia Myss (not verified)
There is a vast difference, Altlic, between someone like Keith Olbermann who is paid extremely well because he is good at what he does and has a huge "watchership" which generates revenue for MSNBC (i.e. he generates profit for his company) and whose salary is not paid by taxpayer dollars and the banking and financial execs and corporate pirates who pay themselves millions when in fact they have failed miserably, decimated shareholder equity, AND accepted taxpayer "bailout" dollars. P.S. Pssst...I think KO is already sufficiently popular.

One way to make greed and

 Mon, 03/23/2009 - 18:55 — sfrider (not verified)
One way to make greed and corruption less attractive would be to put the top marginal tax rate back where it was under Truman and Eisenhower -- at 90+% -- for all compensation over $1 million per year. Then, perhaps, we could also begin to pay down the national debt -- which has ballooned during the past 30 years in the wake of the Reagan/Bush II tax cuts -- as we did for the WWII debt during the 1950s. And, has anyone noticed that these tax cuts that have been touted by supply-siders as good for our economy have not actually increased the average rate of economic growth?

But why haven't WE rose up

 Mon, 03/23/2009 - 21:58 — Thebes (not verified)
But why haven't WE rose up with pitchforks and torches in the streets. Are we too fat and complacent, perfectly happy so long as the system just MIGHT go back to the Visa sponsored Playstation Stripmalls of yore? Perhaps I am being cynical, but until the America people do rise up with pitchforks ,or whatever their modern equivalent, I really don't believe that there's been ENOUGH.

We have 2 choices: Take

 Mon, 03/23/2009 - 22:41 — Otis (not verified)
We have 2 choices: Take action against Corporate control or sit on the sofa watching pro wrestling & dancing. Guess which one most Americans will choose?

The reason we haven't gone

 Tue, 03/24/2009 - 03:11 — mosco (not verified)
The reason we haven't gone into the streets with pitchforks is because we have been dumbed down. Both mentally and physically. The spraying of toxic aerosols, otherwise known as "Chemtrails", has destroyed millions of immune systems. In the 10 years that they have started this secret program, respitory illnesses and alzeimher's disease have jumped 5 spots each, to the 4th and 5th leading causes of death. Plus we have the genitically modified food nightmare that has taken over the USA despite their being no trial experiments to make sure it doesn't harm us. Lastly we have the incredible amount of extra-low-frequency microwaves in the atmosphere thanks to cell phones. Put these 3 massive poisoning campaigns together, and you have the reason why so many are complacent.

Wow......this is the

 Wed, 03/25/2009 - 22:56 — WAKE UP AMERICA! (not verified)
Wow......this is the truth......and ya better listen up....cause what this person said IS THE TRUTH....PLEASE WAKE UP AMERICA.....HERE IT IS.....The reason we haven't gone into the streets with pitchforks is because we have been dumbed down. Both mentally and physically. The spraying of toxic aerosols, otherwise known as "Chemtrails", has destroyed millions of immune systems. In the 10 years that they have started this secret program, respitory illnesses and alzeimher's disease have jumped 5 spots each, to the 4th and 5th leading causes of death. Plus we have the genitically modified food nightmare that has taken over the USA despite their being no trial experiments to make sure it doesn't harm us. Lastly we have the incredible amount of extra-low-frequency microwaves in the atmosphere thanks to cell phones. Put these 3 massive poisoning campaigns together, and you have the reason why so many are complacent.

For a good voice for the

 Wed, 09/16/2009 - 16:29 — samosamo (not verified)
For a good voice for the people olbermann is a good one but this commentary is directed at congress to do something, like their job they were elected to do and a congress that is for the majority of its elected members,is bought and paid for. What this should have been is an attack commentary about those criminal lobbyists that bribe congress, the whole of the judiciary of this country from JOPs to the supreme court and pull the strings attached to the president, meaning unless we can get all those false people we elected out and start putting 3 party or keep the msm OUT of the electoral process and have very dedicated and serious examiners of those in office and those who want in office, all this rhetoric will just keep turning into hot air.

Mr. Olbermann is terrific.

 Tue, 10/20/2009 - 04:35 — Anonymous (not verified)
Mr. Olbermann is terrific. These banks are thieves and part of financial banking crime syndicate and own our government. Nothing will change unless we who hold our savings in Wall Street and remove it and place it in our local banks. If we did it, then Wall Street, Obama, and Congress would take notice. http://eye-on-washington.blogspot.com

Keith Olbermann for

 Wed, 10/21/2009 - 17:31 — Anonymous (not verified)
Keith Olbermann for President!!! I've said it numerous times after watching his commentaries and it becomes more real, more desperate, more fierce and much more angry each time I say it. We can call it the Truthout Party or whatever you want but this is the kind of man we need to lead us from the barricades into the boardrooms with thousands of handcuffs and orange jumpsuits to fill. I also suggest that KO's life insurance be set as the death of 10,000 CEO deaths by We the People for any attempt against his life.