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Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo was a guest Friday night & had this to say.

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I had a very long dream sequence last night, but the one memorable thing was kissing Keith Olbermann full on the mouth. Wow.

& that was after he saved septuplets in the womb.

Tim Wise on CNN to discuss "Dr" Laura's racist rant and more (UPDATED w/Transcript) (DailyKos)

Olbermann Blasts Dr. Laura: 'Genuine, Blind Ignorant Racism' (VIDEO)

Limbaugh on Holocaust museum shooter: "This guy is a leftist if anything" -- Olbermann pointed this out, calling Rush "insane".

MSNBC says Olbermann, Matthews won't anchor -- The folks at MSNBC are timid. Matthews and Olbermann have been their chief political anchors for over a year, for the entirety of the Democratic primary season as well as the Republican one. Sad.

Tom Brokaw has been fielding Meet the Press much as Russert would have--that is, as though he did not share an office with Keith Olbermann.

The questions he asked of the Obama campaign to Sen. Kerry (this is playing right now on NBC and will rerun on MSNBC later) are coming from the perspective of someone who is right-wing or conservative, not neutral. The bias is embedded in the question: "Didn't Obama mean, by saying he wasn't like others on the dollar bills, that 'they're picking on me because I'm black'?"

Also, Brokaw said that McCain's campaign "immediately" responded to Obama's phrasing, even though Obama first started saying something similar (and, as Keith pointed out twice this week, much stronger) six weeks ago.

I shut my TV off. I can't listen to that right now--cognitive dissonance too much.

Clinton refers to RFK assassination on trail: Says it's a reason why she should continue her uphill campaign battle

Keith is excoriating her. He will also feature a special comment.

Update: Reading Keith's DailyKos diary, I came across this: The Emotional Life of Nations. You must read it. Believe me.

Ben Stein: "science leads you to killing people" (thanks, sttatus_quo)

Edit: Olbermann included Stein in his roundup of Worst Persons this evening (Friday).

Countdown reports that Obama's passport data was compromised at the State Department. The State Department has confirmed that it fired two contract employees and disciplined a third employee at the Office of Consular Affairs.

The Obama campaign apparently was just notified about this breach today, but the State Department has known since January.

Ah, Condi's State Department. Surely everything is on the up and up there.

Last night, Olbermann flatly compared Bush to Beavis.

The similarity? Their laugh.

He was referencing Bush's remark about civil liberties during yesterday's press conference.

Here's an example of Bushspeak (our version of Doublespeak--at least Eric Blair's language still conformed to the rules of syntax):

Q But the political context --

THE PRESIDENT: You're trying to get me to be the pundit again. Look, you all figure that out. I mean, we've -- what I'm dealing with is the situation at hand, and I appreciate that -- both Democrats and Republicans in the United States Congress and Senate for getting this bill done very quickly. And it's a substantial piece of legislation, and it's a good sign that we can figure out how to cooperate with each other at times.

And so we'll see the effects of this pro-growth package. I know there's a lot of -- here in Washington, people are trying to -- stimulus package two and all that stuff. Why don't we let stimulus package one, which seemed like a good idea at the time, have a chance to kick in?

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This was the money quote:

Q You can get the Congress to protect telecom companies from lawsuits, but then there's no recourse for Americans who feel that they've been caught up in this. I know it's not intended to spy on Americans, but in the collection process, information about everybody gets swept up and then it gets sorted. So if Americans don't have any recourse, are you just telling them, when it comes to their privacy, to suck it up?

THE PRESIDENT: I wouldn't put it that way, if I were you, in public. Well, you've been long been long enough to -- anyway, yes, I -- look, there's -- people who analyze the program fully understand that America's civil liberties are well protected. There is a constant check to make sure that our civil liberties of our citizens aren't -- you know, are treated with respect. And that's what I want, and that's what most -- all Americans want.

The transcript doesn't reflect it, but there was a snicker between "yes" and "look". (Laughter, presumably general, is reflected elsewhere.) Edit: Here is the Countdown excerpt.

( And speaking of money )