Olbermann caught lying in Special Comment
posted at 6:54 pm on November 7, 2007 by Bryan
I busted on Keith Olbermann’s torture Special Comment on Tuesday. Now via Olbermann Watch, it looks like the central point of that long-winded tirade was, surprise, bogus. As in wrong. Made up.
Here’s what Olbermann said Levin concluded: “Waterboarding, he said, is torture. Legally it is torture. Practically it is torture. Ethically it is torture. And he wrote it down.” Then he got fired, naturally…
According to the ABC News report Olbermann cited, Levin did not decide that waterboarding by the U.S. is torture; he just thought we were doing it wrong. “Levin, who refused to comment for this story, concluded waterboarding could be illegal torture unless performed in a highly limited way and with close supervision,” wrote ABC News’s Jan Crawford Greenburg and Ariane de Vogue (emphasis added). “And, sources told ABC News, he believed the Bush Administration had failed to offer clear guidelines for its use.” In other words, the man whom Olbermann believes “should have a statue in his honor in Washington right now” for making a liar of Bush about torture apparently thinks that, in principle, waterboarding is perfectly legal.
Here’s video of the Comment, if you can stand it.
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amerpundit on November 7, 2007 at 8:37 PM
Keith Olbermann lying? Na couldnt be, Bryan must not have picked up on the nuance of Keith’s statement……
doriangrey on November 7, 2007 at 8:39 PM
Nope, I can only take so much stupid in a day.
Kensington on November 7, 2007 at 8:45 PM
I have never been able to watch this man–he is a petulant adolescent perpetually on the verge of a tantrum. I tried to watch a different clip of him, in which he yammered on and on about “study after study” showing torture doesn’t work, and all I could wonder was, “What gullible nitwits believe this man?” There are no “studies” of torture, because no researcher can ethically perform such studies. There is only anecdotal evidence, which certainly supports the counterargument that torture can be very effective at gathering information. Anyone who fails to recognize this truth needs to read the books of former POWs, such as Admiral Stockdale’s In Love and War.
I’m so tired of the intellectual dishonestly of the left, I can’t stand it.
DrMagnolias on November 7, 2007 at 8:47 PM
Pants on fire? More like soul on fire…assuming he has one and assuming there’s a Hell, of course.
SouthernGent on November 7, 2007 at 8:48 PM
This Keith guy sure seems angry. I wonder what he is like when his anger is based on truth?
thule on November 7, 2007 at 8:48 PM
The KKK has more moral authority than this hate monger
tomas on November 7, 2007 at 8:49 PM
Tell a lie and repeat it a million times and it becomes the truth. Orwell was only a little off with his dates.
Remember how it was hammered into us day and night that Halliburton was EVIL. That all stopped the day that Soros bought up a huge part of the company and moved its HQ to Dubai.
Blackwater? Expect the vilification to end just as soon as Soros gets part of the Prince Group. Probably will get a good buy right about now too.
Waterboarding will be OK right after Hillary is elected, after all she has to find out if Bill’s up to his old tricks.
Buzzy on November 7, 2007 at 8:56 PM
Sorry . . Can’t stand the guy. Won’t watch.
Texyank on November 7, 2007 at 8:58 PM
Maybe Olby should be strapped down and made to listen to the Cuban alternative musicians for about 96 hours straight…
Wind Rider on November 7, 2007 at 8:58 PM
I hadn’t watched any of his screeds in awhile. I’d forgotten how exquisitely bad–and long–they are. I wonder how anyone, even someone on the far left, could watch that without laughing. It’s beyond parody.
juliesa on November 7, 2007 at 9:05 PM
Olberwho? Nevah heard of da guy.
DannoJyd on November 7, 2007 at 9:19 PM
Now there’s a “Dog Bites Man” story–I mean, his lips were moving, right? Given that intellectual dishonesty is the default position for leftists–if it wasn’t, they couldn’t be liberals–I just assume that he’s lying unless proven otherwise. Which rarely happens.
ReubenJCogburn on November 7, 2007 at 9:24 PM
SHOCKA:
ronsfi on November 7, 2007 at 9:31 PM
Buzzy…, Way to make excellent points and insert hilarious humor… That cracked me up, WHILE intriguing me… OK, so I’m easy to impress, sometimes.
Olbermann is an embarrassment to his country (wherever THAT is), his family (those poor unfotunate souls), and himself (whoever or WHATever he is)… What’s he going to do with his already pathetic life when Bush is gone and the next Republican is elected…? I wonder if he thinks he can simply replace the name Bush with Giuliani, Thompson, Gingrich etc… What a loser…!
Rugged Individual on November 7, 2007 at 9:38 PM
Petty pompous putz
greggish on November 7, 2007 at 9:43 PM
Lies, Damn lies, and Keith Olbermann.
deadbackpacker on November 7, 2007 at 9:51 PM
No Way!
In other news… the moon is not, I repeat, NOT made of green cheese.
SilverStar830 on November 7, 2007 at 9:52 PM
I can’t watch him. He makes me vomit.
pullingmyhairout on November 7, 2007 at 9:54 PM
I like O’Reilly when he ask Elise (spelling?) if her family was in danger would she use it. Personally if it meant saving 3000 plus US Citizens, whatever it takes. Period. All I can say is Thank God for Sheepdogs! Oble and all the rest can continue to be sheep and ignore the wolves, just keep the hell out of the way when the sheepdogs come patrolling.
Claimsratt on November 7, 2007 at 9:59 PM
It = waterboarding
Claimsratt on November 7, 2007 at 9:59 PM
Even he head choppers are laughing at this fool.
They are giddy with delight that they have another ally in our media.
TheSitRep on November 7, 2007 at 10:04 PM
Every time I hear someone say that torture doesn’t produce reliable information I ask them if they’ve done a double blind study comparing the results of coercive and non-coercive interrogation.
rokemronnie on November 7, 2007 at 10:10 PM
Forget waterboarding, it’s overrated.
I can HONESTLY say, that I lasted with 6:47 seconds left of his diatribe here.
STOP!!!! STOP!!!! I did it, I was involved in the conspiracty!!!
My “If a tree falls theory”
If Keith rants for 15 minutes about NOT torturing any prisonsers, AND the prisoners are forced to listen to him…
Is that torture???
HarryStar on November 7, 2007 at 10:16 PM
No, I believe that’s satire! Olby’s a comedian.
I ask them if they know anything about the history of civilization. Torture has been used to get information for thousands of years. You’d think if it really didn’t work, someone would have noticed long before now!
Note to the “deniers” -torture does work if you want information. It does not work well if you want a confession. The difference is that forced confessions may be wrong for obvious reasons (that will stop the torture). Lying about information that can and will be verified would historically lead to worse things happening.
taznar on November 7, 2007 at 10:29 PM
Good summary.
right2bright on November 7, 2007 at 10:33 PM
This guy’s out of control. I’m glad I don’t have cable tv and have to watch this crap all the time.
bigbeas on November 7, 2007 at 10:40 PM
He is the “worst person in the world”.
PoliticallyIncorrectSandy on November 7, 2007 at 10:43 PM
Well, some moonbat on another site was screaming, “Waterboarding is torture!”
He left no cite, or any information. He finally provided Daniel Levin’s name, claiming he made the above statement.
Thanks to you posting this, I now am certain where said moonbat got his info! Thanks!
JannyMae on November 7, 2007 at 10:45 PM
See, Olbermann read, “could be illegal torture…” and his mind just told him it said, “is illegal torture.”
Poor guy, he can’t help it.
Seixon on November 7, 2007 at 11:09 PM
Wake me up when , or IF , olberdouche ever tells the truth.
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Lies and KO(‘d) are just….. so normal.
shooter on November 7, 2007 at 11:12 PM
Someone please make this stool sample shut up!!!!
JNC1991 on November 7, 2007 at 11:14 PM
This a-hole lies every night. No surprises there.
D2Boston on November 7, 2007 at 11:18 PM
Ah. Quality I’ve come to expect here on HotAir.
Nonfactor on November 7, 2007 at 11:20 PM
Keith is a lying political hack
And is so rotten at things in the sack
The last woman he had named him “The Tack”!!
roninacreage on November 7, 2007 at 11:37 PM
Hey – when MSNBC puts Rosie on after him – HE WILL LOOK LIKE Murrow!
iam7545 on November 7, 2007 at 11:42 PM
Heh. Every time I see KO I think of his rumored dating…um…misadventures.
baldilocks on November 8, 2007 at 12:21 AM
Olberkind and Rosie being belittled – Schadenfreude ist auch eine Freude!
p.s. baldilocks, for you :)
Entelechy on November 8, 2007 at 12:47 AM
Who’s Olbermann?
When did MSNBC become a respectable news agency?
msipes on November 8, 2007 at 1:01 AM
Nothing is more pathetic than an adolescent with grey hair trying to make jokes about grown-ups
entagor on November 8, 2007 at 2:12 AM
Meltdown with Keith Olbermann
matd on November 8, 2007 at 8:17 AM
When does Keith Olbermann NOT lie on a nightly basis?
It would be a bigger storyline if it had read this:
Keith Olbermann makes it through episode without lying and looking like idiot!!!
Planet Boulder on November 8, 2007 at 9:15 AM
I can’t watch that guy. He makes me sick.
CP on November 8, 2007 at 9:59 AM
I want to know where are the lawyers? Why aren’t the liars and slanderers being sued? If I, Joe Public, decided to utter the type of venom against a local public official, that an asshat like Olby uses daily, I’d find my ass in court pretty quick.
Why are these slandering and deliberately maligning media pundits allowed to claim a free ride? Where’s that Fairness Doctrine when we need it?
notta_dhimmi on November 8, 2007 at 10:11 AM
If Levin was ‘courageous’ for letting himself be waterboarded, shouldn’t we all strive to be waterboarded?
ballz2wallz on November 8, 2007 at 10:24 AM
Olbermann is not worthy of comment, but I will say that Harrison Ford should play Daniel Levin in the movie.
Buckleyite on November 8, 2007 at 1:33 PM