Olbermann: "Marx is dead and was a lousy thinker."

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Friday August 13, 2010 · 6:58 PM PDT

2010/08/13 · 18:58

So on tonight's show, in a segment on tea party opposition to net neutrality, Keith Olbermann, in response to his guest's assertion that Glenn Beck talks about net neutrality as some sort of Marxist plot, tosses out the impromptu line: "To the Marxists: Marx is dead and was a lousy thinker."

My first thought: where the hell did that come from? My second thought: is Mr. Olbermann fully cognizant of what he's saying or is he just being a glib, knee-jerk anti-communist? Anti-communists have accused Marx of being many things--an evil fanatic, a dangerous utopian, a tyrannical partisan--but rarely has he been described as a "lousy thinker."

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Friday February 20, 2009 · 8:27 PM PST

2009/02/20 · 20:27

I'm sorry if this has already been posted. I looked but didn't find anything.

Obama backs Bush stance on Bagram prisoners
3 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says U.S. detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights, the same position the Bush administration took.

In a two-sentence court filing Friday, the Justice Department says it stands by its previous argument that detainees at Bagram Airfield cannot challenge their detention in U.S. courts.

The Supreme Court has ruled that detainees at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba have that right, but the court never said whether it extends to detainees being held in Afghanistan.

After Obama took office, a federal judge in Washington gave the new administration a month to decide whether it wanted to stand by Bush's legal argument. Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd says the filing speaks for itself.

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Thursday June 12, 2008 · 3:46 PM PDT

2008/06/12 · 15:46

And we're the Brownshirts. At least if you believe Larry Johnson.

I've seen a few things in my time, but never...never have I seen anything like this. Go take a look at Larry Johnson's "No Quarter" blog. Freerepublic.com is downright moderate in comparison to these folks. The most extreme anti-Obama rhetoric on the web is not coming from Republicans, but from putative Democrats.

Every single "diary" on that site is an anti-Barack Obama rant. Nothing about the issues. Nothing about McCain (except in praise of). These are the people that Obama was talking about when he made his "bitter" reference. But the religion they cling to is not Christianity. It's old fashioned Revanchism (complete with their very own "stabbed in the back" theory). This is not to say that their god is Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is an actual Democrat and supports the nominee of the party. Rather, their god is "Hillary 08", which refers less to Hillary Clinton than to their manufactured idea of Hillary Clinton.

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