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countdown with keith olbermann - occupy oakland: adam gabbatt on second us veteran injured by oakland police
Bookmarked 749 weeks ago quotcountdownquot guest host david shuster and adam gabbatt reporter and blogger with the guardian discuss the latest casualty from the clash on nov 2 between occupy protesters and the oakland police: us veteran kayvan sabehgi who after walking away from the protest suffered a lacerated spleen from a police beating the veteran was held by police for 18 hours and is in intensive care and awaiting surgery for a ruptured spleen tune in weeknights at 8:007:00c on current tvgo to countdown with keith olbermann on current tv for more:http:wwwcurrentcomshowscountdown |
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24 hour nazi party people - the daily show with jon stewart - 012411 - video clip comedy central
Bookmarked 789 weeks ago megyn kelly watches fox news all the time yet she has not seen anyone making nazi comparisons airdate - 012411 |
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anthony weiner039s twitter rant abc: 5-31-2011
Bookmarked 771 weeks ago subscribe for news updates every 10 minutes likedislike favorite comment embed on blog facebook share and tweet this video get the word out on this videoget an email once a dayhttp:tinyurlcomnewsemailupdateslike on facebook to get updateshttp:tinyurlcomnewsfacebookfollow on twitter to get updateshttp:tinyurlcomnewstwitter-tuesday may 31 2011 10:40 pmhttp:enwikipediaorgwikianthony_weineranthony david weiner pronounced nni win born september 4 1964 is the u s representative for new york039s 9th congressional district serving since 1999 he is a member of the democratic party the district includes parts of southern brooklyn and south and central queens in queens it includes the neighborhoods of forest hills maspeth fresh meadows glendale howard beach kew gardens kew gardens hills middle village ozone park rego park rockaway beach and woodhaven in brooklyn it includes the neighborhoods gerritsen beach marine park midwood mill basin and sheepshead bay in the 1998 u s house election weiner ran against republican louis telano for the seat being vacated by charles schumer who was running for the senate seat held by al d039amato weiner defeated telano by a margin of 66--23 he was re-elected in 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 and 2010 never receiving less than 59 of the vote in the house he is a member of the committee on energy and commerce he was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of new york city in the 2005 mayoral election a graduate of state university of new york at plattsburgh suny weiner was an aide to then-u s representative schumer 1985--91 he was a member of the new york city council 1992--98 weiner was born in brooklyn new york to mort a neighborhood lawyer and fran a mathematics teacher at midwood high school one of three children he has two brothers seth d 2000 and jason the family lived for a time in the park slope neighborhood of brooklyn raised jewish weiner identifies strongly with his jewish roots he told moment magazine in 2011 039we weren039t a very religious household but we had a very strong sense of our judaism039weiner took the specialized high schools admissions test shsat and entered brooklyn technical high school he originally had failed the admission test for stuyvesant high school by one point after graduating 1981 he attended the state university of new york at plattsburgh where he played hockey he originally sought to become a television weatherman but his interests soon turned towards politics and he became active in student government weiner and jon stewart of the daily show with jon stewart were roommates after college stewart has contributed to weiner039s election campaigns and has hosted weiner on his show after graduating with a bachelor of arts degree weiner worked on the staff of then-congressman and current senator chuck schumer 1985--91 first working in schumer039s office in washington d c he was sent to the district office in brooklyn in 1988 when schumer encouraged him to become involved in local politics in 1991 after a three-way primary and a four-way general election weiner was elected to the new york city council at 27 he was the youngest person to serve on the council to that date over the next seven years on the city council weiner initiated programs to tackle quality of life concerns he started a program to put at-risk and troubled teens to work cleaning up graffiti he spearheaded development plans for historic sheepshead bay that led to a revival of the area and when supermarkets started leaving the neighborhood weiner worked to reverse the trend as chairman of the subcommittee on public housing he fought to increase federal funding to ban dangerous dogs and to add more police officers to the beat his investigation into the cause of sudden fatal stairwell fires made headlines he exposed dangerous practices that eventually led the city to replace the paint in developments citywide in 1998 congressman chuck schumer opted to try to unseat senator d039amato in the democratic primary election schumer won the right to face d039amato whom he defeated in the general election and weiner won the democratic nomination to succeed schumer which was tantamount to election in the heavily democratic 9th district he is only the fifth person to represent the dist |
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keith olbermann special comment: bailout bonuses - enough
Bookmarked 728 weeks ago finally tonight as promised a special comment on the latest atrocity from the banks the vast engorged gluttonous multi-national corporations whose sneezes can be fatal to our jobs whose mistakes can turn us into the homeless whose accounting errors can be so panoramic that they can make our economy tremble and force us to hand them billions after billions in a blackmail scheme that has come to be known as bailoutfive weeks ago vikram pandit the chief executive officer of citigroup went back to congress tail seemingly between his legs and with entreaty dripping from his voice announced i get the new reality and ill make sure citi gets it as wellwhat mr pandit got was a new 10 million executive suite for himself and his key associatessaid he would show his leadership by accepting compensation of 1 a year in fact he then accepted a total compensation package for 2008 of 38 millionenoughmr pandit youre probably just a good actor and a damned liar and a con mangod knows you guys have pulled off every other accounting trick every dreamt up by immoral man you sir and the other corporate pirates like you those who are saved from your obsessive spending and greed and self-aggrandizement by the taxpayer who then pretend to atone who then publicly promise good behavior and who then revert immediately to the rapaciousness that is your only skillyou sir all of you need to be firedenoughthe far right in this country without the slightest provocation screams socialism and the sheep who follow it who do not know what the word means and do not know it is only being used because communism now rings laughably hollow in this cry of fire in a crowded unemployment line there is outragebut there is also license they think this is socialism there is a million miles of reform to go before we hit socialism but if theyre going to call us names whether they apply or not lets give them real reformbreak up the banks regulate the financial industries to within an inch of their existences roll back corporate legal protections make liable the officers of corporations for their debts and for their deeds resurrect the rallying cry of a hundred years past: bust the trustsaig gives failure bonuses to the cretins whose dalliances in derivatives brought the company and part of the nation to her knees spin off that division whose traders are owed the 165 million in bonuses under fund it and cause it to go bankruptenoughhave the irs take these companies immediately to the tax courts to which the rest of us are liable and strip those ancient outdated laws of corporation so that the officers of the corporation are personally liable for their companies debts just as you or i would be and if the monopolies of radio or television rear up to support the corporate structure to say a contract is a contract even though that isnt true for a union these days only for an aig trader enoughto all of you in the corporate boardrooms: stop viewing the publics reaction to this naked unhindered robbery of the public coffers and your audacious immeasurable sense of proprietorship and entitlement stop viewing our anger as some kind of brief impediment some traffic delay that keeps you from your god-given corporate ballpark sponsorships and perpetually remodeled offices and the divine right of 38 million compensation packagesyou gentlemen and ladies and not the good and long-suffering average people of this country you are fomenting rage in this nation you are the losers in this equation and the people are the generous ones they have not assembled in the streets with pitch-forks and flaming torches you are the ones perceived understood in a visceral and even transcendent way as the committers of what is becoming class economic rapeand heed this one word before these people grow weary of forgiving you and instead decide to bring the good life which you have built on their backs crashing down on top of your heads when the next boardroom needs re-modeling or the next bonus paid or the next jet purchased remember that one word: enoughhttp:allthatnatterscom20090319transcript-keith-olbermann-gets-tough-with-bailed-out-banks-enough |
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keith pays tribute to the life of former 039football night in america039 colleague michele o039callaghan
Bookmarked 742 weeks ago keith bids farewell to makeup artist michele o039callaghan of quotthe late show with david lettermanquot and pays tribute to her courageous battle against the cancer that ultimately took her life he shares fond memories of her work on the set of quotfootball night in americaquottune in weeknights at 8:007:00c on current tvgo to countdown with keith olbermann on current tv for more:http:wwwcurrentcomshowscountdown |
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worst: failed carjacker george allen and matthew thornton iii
Bookmarked 742 weeks ago find out why an unnamed golden colorado carjacker is worse former sen george allen r-va is worser and matthew thornton iii senior vice president for us operations at fedex is the worst person in the world for dec 22 2011tune in weeknights at 8:007:00c on current tvgo to countdown with keith olbermann on current tv for more:http:wwwcurrentcomshowscountdown |
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countdown: worst person039s and response to o039reilly comments
Bookmarked 739 weeks ago on his nightly msnbc program quotcountdownquot host keith olbermann did his quotworst person039s in the worldquot segment and also responded to some remarks fox news host bill o039reilly made about msnbc |
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markos moulitsas on sopa pipa and the battle for control of the internet
Bookmarked 738 weeks ago quotcountdownquot contributor and daily kos founder markos moulitsas reveals why the daily kos joined the roster of sites protesting the stop online piracy act sopa in the house and its senate companion the protect ip act pipa moulitsas salutes sen ron wyden d-ore for being quotthe first person in congress basically to stand up against this and fight pipa and sopa the way he hasquot and explains how the bills would threaten the future of the internettune in weeknights at 8:007:00c on current tv |
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smart alec: why are corporations writing state law
Bookmarked 763 weeks ago why are corporations writing state lawtune in weeknights at 8:007:00c on current tv |
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worst persons: rick scott chris christie and william adams
Bookmarked 749 weeks ago find out why gov rick scott of florida is worse gov chris christie of new jersey is worser and judge william adams of the aransas county court-at-law texas is the worst person in the world for nov 3 2011tune in weeknights at 8:007:00c on current tvgo to countdown with keith olbermann on current tv for more:http:wwwcurrentcomshowscountdown |
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countdown with keith olbermann - occupy together: dottie guy on veterans039 contributions to the movement
Bookmarked 749 weeks ago quotcountdownquot guest host david shuster and dottie guy an iraq veteran representing iraq veterans against the war comment on the latest us veteran injured by oakland police and discuss the active ties between veteran groups and the occupy movement guy who encourages more veterans to participate notes that the issues of the 99 percent such as rising unemployment are just as serious for veterans: quotthey signed away their life to defend their country and they039re going to come home and not be able to do anythingquottune in weeknights at 8:007:00c on current tvgo to countdown with keith olbermann on current tv for more:http:wwwcurrentcomshowscountdown |
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occupy oakland: keith shannon on injured iraq veteran scott olsen
Bookmarked 750 weeks ago keith shannon the roommate of injured occupy oakland protester scott olsen and a fellow iraq war veteran shares what happened tuesday night when the oakland police department fired upon the crowd with rubber bullets bean bags and tear-gas canisters one of which gave olsen a skull fracture and trip to the emergency room tune in weeknights at 8:007:00c on current tvgo to countdown with keith olbermann on current tv for more:http:wwwcurrentcomshowscountdown |
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david shuster on anti-intellectualism in the gop
Bookmarked 755 weeks ago quotcountdownquot guest host david shuster decries the proud anti-intellectualism of popular republican presidential candidates rick perry and michelle bachmann former president george w bush and gop rabble-rouser sarah palinwatch quotcountdown with keith olbermannquot live each weeknight at 87c on current tvgo to countdown with keith olbermann on current tv for more:http:wwwcurrentcomshowscountdown |
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rep dennis kucinich on the obama deficit plan
Bookmarked 755 weeks ago quotcountdownquot guest host david shuster and rep dennis kucinich review president obamas plan to reduce the nations long-term debt by raising taxes on the wealthy among other things kucinich agrees that this is a good start but also states that quotpeople at the bottom are hurtingquot and that obama needs to protect entitlement programs quotsocial security should have never been on the tablequot kucinich stateswatch quotcountdown with keith olbermannquot live each weeknight at 87c on current tvgo to countdown with keith olbermann on current tv for more:http:wwwcurrentcomshowscountdown |