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Displaying more insanity than usual, on his 1/21 nightly show on MSNBC, Keith Olbermann went beserk on the air over the Supreme Court decision that gives corporations free speech rights in elections.

He declared that the Supreme Court murdered the remaining bit of democracy left in the country.

Wake up, Olbermann. The shredding of democracy in our republic has been committed by Obama and his band of extremists and the socialist democrats. Of course, he didn’t mention that fact.

Olbermann continued his rant about future Supreme Court decisions that will ban abortion, gay marriage, racial profiling, religious profiling, and separation of church and state.

Air America went bankrupt spewing garbage like this — MSNBC can’t be too far behind.  Keith Olbermann’s platform is crumbling and the poor man doesn’t even know it.

The British politician, Edmund Burke is quoted in Thomas Carlyle’s book “Heros and Hero Worship in History” as follows. “Burke said that there were three Estates in Parliament, but in the Reporters Gallery yonder, there sat a fourth Estate more important far than they all.”

Edmund Burke would be aghast at the power and influence of the fourth estate today. Political columns are written within hours after an event has taken place and then transmitted across continents and even around the world. Within just a few more hours they are printed, distributed, read and accepted either as gospel or biased opinion. Television and radio report information to hundreds of millions, perhaps a couple of billion, as it takes place. Commentators add their own spin within minutes and add improbable elements to that spin as the story is analyzed and dissected among themselves and with “experts” until it becomes as worn as a months old newspaper passed among greedy readers.

It is indeed true today that the fourth estate is far more important than our government. The media has more power than ever before to get people elected or removed permanently from public service. Interestingly enough, media today is generally owned by massive conglomerates with elements that might be dependent upon elected officials for income from government contracts. Our government officials and the media consequently operate in total complicity to assure the health of their mutual interests. In this incestuous relationship the fourth estate has become more important, more powerful, totally complicit with and integrated with the government. It influences legislation much more than it did in Burke’s day. That influence is clearly for reasons much less pure today than they were in the 1700’s.

PeacockWatch is especially concerned about the objectives and intentions of MSNBC. In a recent article PeacockWatch took MSNBC’s Chris Matthews to task when he said of Obama’s speech at West Point “he went to maybe the enemy camp tonight”. On November 30th, 2009 we have Keith Olbermann saying in an MSNBC article on Afghanistan that “the Pentagon is a bunch of perpetually 12-year old boys”. Matthews later offered an apology for his statement. However, that apology was thrown into disbelief by the context of his overall comments. His apology falls into the category of total fantasy given his associate Keith Olbermann’s insult to our military defenders.

The dislike these two men have for the military becomes easy to understand when one remembers that it is the military men and women who have fought so hard against socialism and Marxism in the last few major wars. And socialism and Marxism are what MSNBC is supporting so strongly today when they champion the present administration and its group of czars. If our military is strong, and continues to be the most respected of all government agencies, then socialism and Marxism will have a more difficult time in the rest of the world and not have the full support in the U.S. that Obama and his spokespeople at MSNBC desire.

Just as part of the agenda of MSNBC is to denigrate our highly respected and heroic military it is also focused on supporting the public option health plan (See PeacockWatch article “NBC’s Support for ‘Public Option’ at an All Time High”) which is the cornerstone of the move toward socialism in the U.S. and “The Big Lie of Global Warming” which is a supporting strategy.

It has been reported, though only very minimally on MSNBC, that the health care program means a takeover by the government of another 1/6th of the U.S. economy which would be the dream of any avowed socialist. It was also recently reported by the NY Times and CBS (with great publicity from MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann) that support for the health care public option according to a December 4th through 8th poll is now at 59% with only 29% opposed. On the contrary, a Bloomberg poll during the same period, and not mentioned at all by MSNBC, shows that 62% of Americans are mostly pessimistic about the benefit of a health care bill that Congress would pass. A Quinnipiac University poll as reported by the Washington Times shows 52% of voters oppose and 38% support the current Congressional health care reform bill. There are many other polls with varying results but MSNBC consistently reports only on those that support the current administration for which they are the primary media outlet and from which their parent organization receives great financial favor.

Edmund Burke was right about the importance of the “fourth Estate”. One wonders how corrupt the media was in the mid-1700’s and if elements of it were as strongly influenced by a particular party as MSNBC so clearly is today. Whatever the answer, it is clear that MSNBC and its commentators Olbermann and Matthews have it as key objectives to denigrate our military through subtle and not so subtle opinion commentary and to report only that information supporting the take over of health care by the federal government. Those two key MSNBC objectives support one overarching Obama administration goal of transforming the United States of America into a socialist empire as quickly as possible.

Keith Olbermann and MSNBC again showed on Thursday November 12, 2009 that they are simply the media arm of the Democratic Party. During the part of the program that focused on health care reform Olbermann showed that he, and the Democratic Party, have a non-negotiable position on the health care plan. This position is so solid that it became clear why the development of the House bill had to take place behind closed and locked doors even though Obama had declared a new era of openness. Without stating a position one way or the other on abortion PeacockWatch points out the following from Olbermann’s opinion hour. As Olbermann states:

“Right there on page 50 of the 2008 Democratic Party platform, the Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman‘s right to choose a safe and legal abortion, and regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken and undermine that right.”

Later in the program he goes on to comment:

“The Catholic bishops now say they can‘t support any health care plan that includes a provision for abortion.  Again, the alternative to that is: no provision, no plan, and another 44,000 Americans dying in the next year because of insufficient insurance and another 44,000 after that.

“How does that make sense in terms of, to use a phrase, ‘right to life’?”

The first comment makes it clear that any public health care option must contain “a woman’s right to a safe and legal abortion”. No compromise. No negotiation. No discussion at all. That partially explains the closed and locked door. It would be pointless to invite anyone to participate in the discussion who had a different opinion on that subject. Perhaps, in effect, that is also true about all major elements of the Democratic Party’s public option. So, perhaps the reason for the closed door was just to take the time to precisely wordsmith and strengthen the Democratic Party position without interference by anyone who might have had a differing opinion on any part of the plan.

Olbermann’s and the Democratic Party’s non-negotiable position is made undeniably clear when he says, “The Catholic bishops now say they can‘t support any health care plan that includes a provision for abortion.  Again, the alternative to that is: no provision, no plan . . ..” It is important to repeat the phrase by Olbermann which he makes on behalf of the Democratic Party “no provision, no plan”. Again, this is a crystal clear position by the MSNBC spokesperson for the Democratic Party. There is no alternative to a public option run by the federal government. No public option, no plan. No compromise. No negotiation. No discussion at all.

Did Olbermann fail every course in logic? What happened to the alternative that there does not have to be a public option? There are a variety of private options that could give people  abroad spectrum of choice of what to include and not include in a plan they would purchase from a wide variety of insurance companies. In fact, the Senate and the House today can make that choice from a broad spectrum of plans from health care companies from all across the country. And, every indication is that they intend to keep that choice while denying it to the rest of us!

As pointed out in the past by PeacockWatch the federal legislators made themselves privileged citizens when they passed McCarran-Ferguson act in 1945. This act restricts the access of citizens to health care provided only by a selected list of companies within their state but has given federal government employees almost unlimited access to any health care company in the entire country! Obama has even said in a televised interview that, at a minimum, he wants all Americans to have access to the kind of health care enjoyed by him and U.S. senators and representatives.

So, why doesn’t the government simply repeal the McCarran-Ferguson law and allow all Americans to select from the menu of all health care companies across the country just like Obama and our senators and representatives? Such a move would not require a thousand page health care bill, or a single-payer government-run health care system. It would also eliminate the need for a dogmatic position of “no provision, no plan”. It eliminates the contention over abortion. It also makes the federal legislators equal partners with the general population in the options they have available to them for health care. However, few seem to have noticed that Congress likes the public option plan they are trying to force on the public so little that they are working to exempt themselves from it and retain their privileged position under the McCarran-Ferguson law.

Repealing the McCarran-Ferguson law and putting all Americans on an equal footing with respect to health plans would eliminate months long negotiations, closed-door sessions and the take-over by a clearly brain-dead, corrupt government of one-sixth of our economy. The health plan could be a one-page bill that simply says all Americans can participate in the same health plan offered to Congress and the President. This broad spectrum of choice would change the dogmatic position of “no provision, no plan” to essentially “any provision, any plan”. That sounds like capitalism and freedom rather than government imposed restrictions and a corrupt and inept government’s take over of one-sixth of our economy.

On November 4, 2009 we saw and heard the following on Keith Olbermann’s  MSNBC hour of delusion.

MUSTO: She would be on that money grubbing lecture circuit even faster, and colliding with Levi Strauss? What is his name, Levi Stubbs? Levi Johnston, that’s it. I just can’t remember these D-List names anymore. But they would surely collide somewhere between Carrie Prejean’s breasts. Or on the “Hollywood Squares.”

O’DONNELL: Michael Musto, thank you for your dispassionate analysis of Sarah Palin’s speech making tonight. Michael Musto of the “Village Voice,” many thanks.

Then on November 5^th there was this.

OLBERMANN:  That‘s COUNTDOWN for this the 2,380^th day since the previous president declared mission accomplished in Iraq.  I‘m Keith Olbermann.  See you tomorrow night, I hope, with analysis of the self-destruction of Carrie Prejean.  Until then, good night and good luck.

On November 6^th Olbermann went on at length with extreme and sarcastic criticism of Carrie Prejean and what he called Carrie Prejean’s “sex tape”. There was no mention that this “sex tape” was a private communication between Prejean and her boyfriend when she was a young teenager. There was no mention that the tape was never intended for sale or public consumption at all. There was no mention of the betrayal of confidence committed by the boyfriend. Instead, it was a protracted period of gutter innuendo, sophomoric “humor”, and amazingly unprofessional conduct by a national newscaster. It was difficult to believe that MSNBC would permit this to continue for another evening. But there was Olbermann again on Monday November 9^th spending an amazing amount of his “news” period repeatedly criticizing Sarah Palin in the extreme.

This is the same man who tears conservatives and republicans to shreds while accusing them of sexist and racist. This is the same man who criticizes Fox News for being the Republican Party’s news network.

The truth is that Olbermann is simply a stooge of the Democratic party and employee of General Electric which is essentially owned by the White House. He is paid to throw rocks at conservatives and republicans and in the process can’t resist tearing down strong women with conservative values.

PeacockWatch understands that he will keep throwing rocks as long as he is paid to do so by MSNBC  even though he acts like a man without stones.