KO Goes All the Way: It's Nightly Special Comments Until Election Day!!

[Berry Cool]

When I wrote the first Special Comment more than two years ago, I had no idea if there'd be a second one, let alone an irregular series. Flatly, I didn't know if I'd still have a job the next day - or even a country.

But as the premise evolved (and my bosses asked, shyly), I was adamant that they would never become a regularly scheduled feature.

And tonight, with Bill Hurt's line in Body Heat fresh in my mind ("Sometimes (it) comes down so heavy I feel like I should wear a hat"), I may have to break that self-imposed limitation.

If they're going to pile it on for the next two weeks, I'm going to have to throw it back.

Barring the pleasantly unforseen outbreak of common sense and restraint, the Special Comment will briefly become a nightly feature.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/20/181911/95#178

Tonight's preview:

First it was Sarah Palin and her "Pro-America" pockets.
Then it was Michele Bachmann and "Anti-America" Congressmen and Senators.
Even after that, Nancy Pfotenhauer and her redrawing of the map to include Virginia and "Real" Virginia.
And today it's Rush Limbaugh trashing Colin Powell as a reverse racist.
Its hatred is re-packaged as "The Real America," and I've had enough of it...

GO KO!!!! :bounce:

[babylonsister]

1. YES! Our secret weapon is stepping up to the plate! Go, Keith! nt

[90-percent]

2. naming

I hope this catches the label "Swiftkeithing" in all of American political discourse in all forms of media for all Republicans everywhere!

-90% Jimmy

[greenmutha]

3. I hope he talks about this crap I sent him last night:

Over.The.Line:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7527665

[Awsi Dooger]

4. Thanks, I'll know to turn him off

The special comments became a self-parody more than a year ago. Initially they were awesome.

[Berry Cool]

5. Too bad you don't enjoy them. As for me, I'll be glued to my TV

instead of superciliously sneering. To me, they just get better and better.

[lse7581011]

6. Are They Available

on the internet? My cable company put MSNBC on pay per view last month!

[Berry Cool]

9. Yep. Check msnbc.msn.com.

Each show is also available as a free dowloadable podcast on iTunes.

[redstate_democrat]

7. KO sends a tingle up my leg.

:evilgrin:

[Overseas]

8. Thank goodness we'll have an erudite antidote to the buckets of right wing trash

heaped upon us by 80% of the TV commentators.

So glad to have Keith's intelligence and passion to make a lot of the comments I'd like to share with the country.

I put up with all the apologists trying to pretend that anything about the disgusting hateful McShame campaign and incompetent reckless Bush administration makes sense, so it is a great relief to have a couple of journalists who acknowledge reality.

[Overseas]

10. Our progressive broadcasters preserve my sanity-- Did I hear that right?

They get me through treacherous moments-- when reality is so divergent from our country's core ideals and I do a double-take, so do they. When I'm stricken with shock during these Bush ages, I check in and they let me know that alas, Yes, you did hear that. Yes, Overseas, the Republicans are actually trying to quibble about the definition of terror. And yes, Republican speakers are actually pretending Colin Powell supports Obama due to race, when they and we heard him say that he has decided, after the weeks of national financial crisis, Obama passes the CIC test. Too impressive so we must dismiss it with race.

Thank goodness Zbig spoke so definitively to Joe Scar this morning. Declared that Powell had singularly put an end to any doubts on Obama's readiness. Zbig said simply and clearly that Powell had endorsed his capability to serve as president. Zbig did so one year ago already.

So glad Keith is here to also highlight the-- wait a sec -- am I seeing a McCarthyite flashback? Are those snarling crowds at a Wallace rally? Who is the real American? -- similarities between now and then.

So glad Keith is there to report accurately on the disappointing moves of the Bush-Cheney administration and suggest strongly that we resist signing on for more of the depths of dumbed-down Theocratic Rule. To help us resist falling sway to the Republican dream prescription-- Us and Them. Good v. Evil. Hide out in your homes by the TV. Then go to the hospital to die. The simple and violent Republican way.

No thanks. Republicans R Not Us. They're the real un-American Country Club Elites and the 95% of us, a.k.a. The Rest, would like to work up different ways to approach our future. In a world of dwindling natural resources, we'd like to push aggressively on domestic development of alternative energy democratically distributed. We want that domestic energy saving car and high speed mass transit as a national defense priority-- to free us from hogging so much oil in the world and incurring others' resentment.

So whew, so thrilled to have dear Keith and Rachel, both a bit more conservative than I am, but such courteous word smiths that it is a delight to follow the news with them.