PLEASE go listen to KO"s plea to the intel agencies around the world. I am still crying.

[niyad]

[Lucinda]

1. KNR Thank you!

[nolabear]

2. Wow. I desperately wish this sounded hysterical. It doesn't.

He pretty much sums up what I'd say. I don't know if his reputation is such these days that anyone will listen but he's on point. Tragically on point.

[niyad]

3. tragically on point indeed. have you noticed that the orange madman has not gone after

him in a tweetstorm?

[nolabear]

5. I wonder if he even knows. I wish Keith was more in the limelight.

He's got the best and worst of it. Smart, astute, on point, and apparently suffering from being insufferable. Dammit.

[niyad]

6. unfortunately, given the state of our complicit media, he is not likely to get the wider

platform we need.

[frankieallen]

7. Even Drumpf isn't that stupid. That would triple Keith's audience overnight,

to about 12, unfortunately.

[niyad]

11. ummm, actually, there are about 1.3 million listeners to KO's pieces.

[frankieallen]

18. Really, where did you get that information from?

[volstork]

33. YouTube view counts

EPM

[csziggy]

44. The video in the OP has had 263,608 views

10,941 thumbs up.

A few more than 12 viewers.

[barbtries]

8. i watch him every chance i get

if i knew how to support his work i would do so. i would cancel the young turks and subscribe to Olbermann.

[niyad]

12. he is on twitter, and all his pieces are on youtube. plus, his book (a transcript of his gq pieces)

will be available soon

[barbtries]

16. yeah

youtube is where i watch him. i will follow on twitter and buy his book when it is available.

just bought it. won't get it at least until October...i hope i hadn't already bought it once, because Amazon just recently sent me an email about a book i bought that won't be available until later than thought...oh well, i'll make a gift of it if so, maybe to my republican brother? not really. lol

[niyad]

17. and I am asking my library to purchase copies as well.

[ismnotwasm]

4. K&R

[BSdetect]

9. Its all too clear but only to too few.

[steve2470]

10. tweeted this out

He's certainly emotional but I agree with his core message. We NEED the decent people in foreign governments and foreign intelligence units to help us.

[niyad]

14. we are all emotional. the future, and possibly even the continued existence, of this country,

is at stake.

[TeapotInATempest]

13. Thank you for this

It felt absolutely surreal watching this and knowing what he said is all true; I still can't believe this is where we are.

Some serious PsyOps has been perpetrated against the American people by the Trump cabal and I hope the civilized world will help us.

[niyad]

15. We have to hold on to that hope.

[Trial_By_Fire]

19. Thanks KO....

[niyad]

20. welcome to du

[Trial_By_Fire]

24. Thanks!

[smirkymonkey]

21. K&R! Thank you for posting!

Is this posted on Facebook? I don't really use it, but it would be a good way to get the message out there to people who normally wouldn't see this.

[niyad]

22. I know it is on his twitter account. I am not on social media, but please feel free to post this

everywhere you can.

here is the facebook link

https://www.facebook.com/gq/videos/10155177390143098/

[smirkymonkey]

23. I'm sort of a Facebook idiot. I don't know how to do it, but I will see if

I can get one of my more social media savvy friends to do it. Thanks again!

[leftieNanner]

27. To Share Keith on Facebook

You can google GQ Keith Olbermann and go to their page. If you click on #74 (which is this episode), it will have a "share" button. Click it and select FB. A window should open up which will allow you to add a comment. Then post it to FB.

I just did it. Hope this helps.

Resist.

Peace.

[smirkymonkey]

32. Thank you!

[Honeycombe8]

25. KO is the symbol for Coca-Cola stock.

I thought "Coca Cola? Why is Coca Cola pleading to intel agencies?"

[mtngirl47]

26. Watched it last night with tears.

I'm just so sad about the show out of the White House. I'm just so sad that nearly half of my fellow Americans think it's just okay.

I hope that some intelligence person will release something that will blow this all up.

[workinclasszero]

28. Trump, Putin and the Republican party are instituting a dictatorship in America

Trump is now above the law if republicans don't do anything about the firing of the director of the FBI.

As a matter of fact when Turtle said there would be no independent special prosecutor the rule of law died in this country. For our rulers anyway.

What happens when Trump totally cuts off all communication with the press? He will just rule by fiat and the republican party will protect him.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

35. Perfectly said. Mind if I steal it? With credit to you...

Or to "a DU member".

[workinclasszero]

40. Sure go ahead

Its what is actually happening to this country, people need to be aware of it. Trump and the republicans have exposed the fatal flaw in our system of government.

All parties were supportive of freedom and democracy till now. Now we have one of the major parties that will destroy those previous taken for granted values for raw political power.

The republicans are now taking off their false masks to reveal the fascist within. They control all 3 branches of government and they will never bring impeachment against their leader Trump. He has a free hand to break any law at any time and to make the US Constitution a door mat for his jackboots.

As long as he strips trillions of dollars from the poor and middle class and gives it to the rich, he is safe. We have one more chance to be free in this country. The elections in 2018.

If the republicans stay where they are now or gain, this country is dead. We will have a theocratic dictatorship for the foreseeable future, if not forever. Locked into fascist Russia and against Europe and all democracies.

[LaydeeBug]

29. "We have no rules either" You're g-d right. No more knives to a gunfight. nt

[NCTraveler]

30. K&R nt.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

31. K&R nt

[Cha]

34. KICK to Watch Later..

Mahalo for KO, niyad

[BlancheSplanchnik]

37. ...

❤️

[BlancheSplanchnik]

36. Saving to watch later.

❤️ niyad

[crosinski]

38. I beginning think this is the only hope we have now.

I hope our allies are planning something right now, because trump should have been taken down by now, unless the scope of the Russian hacking and all involved is many times larger than anyone can imagine. In any case, I think someone needs to drop a few pieces of incriminating evidence so we can impeach the orange jackass before he does even more damage.

[Shandris]

39. Is there actually anyone here who thinks that ANY 'intel agency'...

...is going to be swayed by the impassioned plea of...a television announcer? That they aren't so incredibly deep into their own cash and their own sealed off, bubbled world -- a world that neither borders nor intersects with our own -- that even IF they had ream after ream of data, they'd just release it to us to 'help us out'? Having seen the unified yawn to the genocide of Rwanda, do you REALLY think 'the world' will come to our aid?

I was taught conservatives were the 'religious' ones, but this requires more faith than literally anything I've ever heard in my life, and with less evidence than the Bible itself.

EDIT: It occurs to me that maybe I've become a bit more cynical in the time I've been watching the opposition. Ugh. My apologies for that, it's not entirely intended.

[niyad]

41. we understand. some days, it is incredibly hard to have the slightest bit of hope, or

optimism, or anything positive at all.

TIAD-trump-induced anxiety disorder

[Hekate]

42. I miss Keith. I'm sorry he burns his bridges behind him, but glad he's out there now. nt

[niyad]

43. I am glad as well. we need him, and all the others who speak fearless truth to power.