Olbermann last night on the "slow bleed"

[underpants]

K.O. has been ruthless since he signed his new contract. :bounce:




OLBERMANN: Mere kids‘ play compared to the rhetoric being slung by the Republicans, where truth apparently is no longer part of the equation, one like of attack, attacking Jack Murtha‘s character, Fox Noise Channel‘s Brit Hume calling the decorated Marine veteran “an absolute fountain of naivete,” saying the Pennsylvania Democrat is “long past the day when he had anything but the foggiest awareness of what the heck is going on in the world,” the other line of attack, smearing Iraq war critics by changing the epithet applied to their legislative plan from “cut and run” to “a slow bleed strategy,” and also by falsely claiming that the Democrats came up with that misleading, inflammatory name themselves, the trouble beginning with the new blog called Politico.com, characterizing the Democratic plan as “a slow bleed strategy,” even though it was not a term used by any Democrats or antiwar supporters, the Republicans, despite a correction by the Web site, taking the term and abusing it, as readily as if it had been a fabricated quote from Abraham Lincoln.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIPS)

SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL ®: Democrats have been clear about the strategy behind this resolution. They described it as a slow bleed.

REP. JOHN BOEHNER ®, MINORITY LEADER: Let‘s get away from the slow bleed.

TONY SNOW, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Not with a slow bleed.

I think it‘s been referred to by some as a slow bleed.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... their so-called slow bleed approach...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A, quote, “slow bleed,” end quote...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... advancing a slow bleed strategy...

SEN. TRENT LOTT ®, MISSISSIPPI: And I think Congressman Murtha was very clear in indicating that this is just a part of the slow bleed threat strategy.

(END VIDEO CLIPS)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17240518/

Here is CNN carrying the RNC water with this talking point-Andrea Koppel (2:42)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esBR9dI8NgY

Here is 28 seconds from the Non Binding Resolution debate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Op2ONsgRHs

[Buzz Clik]

1. If the Republicans in Congress ever develop their brains...

... it will be a good day for both parties.

[oasis]

2. KO takes on the WH propaganda machine single handed. He's da man.

:yourock:

[90-percent]

3. KO

Nice to have this PROFESSIONAL JOURNALIST riding high on a freshly signed FOUR YEAR CONTRACT RENEWAL.

He is the Edward R. Murrow of our present time and we may find his heroism eventually EXCEEDING that of the great Murrow.

Keith is, in a word, AWESOME!

I'm thankful I taped last night!

-85% Jimmy

[Supersedeas]

4. Andrea Koppel carrying Repig water and their talking points...no way

/sarcasm off

[underpants]

5. ;-)

She is terrible. For all the complaints about the O'Donnells Koppel gets a complete pass here and on MediaMatters and all over the liberal web (as far as I have seen). She is just a wind up toy for the Republicans.

[otohara]

6. I'm So Glad We Have KO

along with Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert to expose the GOP & media-whores.