Quote of the day
posted at 10:34 pm on October 7, 2009 by Allahpundit
“This, ultimately, is about death.
About preventing it. About fighting it. About resisting it. About grabbing hold of anything and everything to forestall it and postpone it, even though we know that the force will overcome us all – always will, always has. Health care is, at its core, about improving the odds of life in its struggle against death. Of extending that game which we will all lose, each and every one of us unto eternity, extending it another year or month or second…
It is your skin. Literally. And it is in the hands of people, insurance companies, who can still make money by betting against your good health. There is only one comfort here and it is cold indeed. Profit while you can, insurers. Sickness and death wait not just for your customer. They also wait for you. And they are double-parked. The doctor who treats you and the pharmacist who makes you pay through your nose are not your enemies in this. It proves they are as much victims as you and I are. And the time has come to realign the battle here, so that it is not just us versus the entire medical and health care establishment, it is us, and the doctors, and the nurses, and the pharmacists, and maybe even some of the hospitals, against the real enemy: The insurance companies… the Insurance companies who are right now at war against America!…
Death is the issue! How can we not be unified against death?”
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There are now three certainties in life: Death, Taxes and the lameness of Keith Olbermann.
Hellrider on October 7, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Oh, and Keith Olbermann obviously has no clue what he’s talking about. The majority of the health care industry has nothing to do with death.
I have shoulder and back problems, I have vitamin D deficiency, I have a dislocated jaw. These are more or less common health problems. Which of them have to do with death? None.
Most of what Olbermann says in this special comment, is therefore, wrong. Death has very little to do with this debate on health care reform.
With that said, the United States needs a public insurance option for those who cannot get private insurance, for whatever reason. Everyone needs to have a safety net to fall back on, without having to pay thousands of dollars out of pocket if something were to happen to them.
Private health insurance should and needs to continue to be available, anything else would be against the American spirit. A healthy co-existence of a public and private insurance systems is the only fair and valid solution.
Seixon on October 7, 2009 at 11:07 PM
This video,should be a Public Service Announcement ad,
warning about the use of KOOL-AID,and the incoherent
ramblings and speech slurring that accompanies such use!
(Sarc).
canopfor on October 7, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Thorazine, stat!
Laura on October 7, 2009 at 11:08 PM
One word:
Pulitzer.
billy on October 7, 2009 at 11:09 PM
The Jews are at war with Germany! The Jews are at war with Germany!
- Herr Adolf Olbermann Senior
MB4 on October 7, 2009 at 11:10 PM
THIS is what the left considers intellectual???
(Aside: Couldnt help noticing that MSNBC is now using Obama Blue and the Obama font for their graphics)
American Elephant on October 7, 2009 at 11:10 PM
LOL! But no one heard me. So you can’t prove that I did. You just have to take my word for it.
Geochelone on October 7, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Olbermann, feel free to preach to me at length about fighting against death after you renounce the slaughter of the unborn … but until then, shut your damned piehole.
HeckOnWheels on October 7, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Hey Allah! Can we add Olbertool as an option to the Levi/Jon Gosselin douche poll?
Pasalubong on October 7, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Well, until we bump into budget constraints. Then the old and infirm have a duty to get out of the way.
ddrintn on October 7, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Thank you! Thank you! I’ll be here all week. Be sure to tip your waitresses!
CPL 310 on October 7, 2009 at 11:13 PM
The fight against shame.
LibTired on October 7, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Olbermann supports the party of death so WTF is he jabbering about?
BottomLine5 on October 7, 2009 at 11:13 PM
FIFY
infidel4life on October 7, 2009 at 11:13 PM
It has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with death. And if it did, Democrats have ALWAYS been on the side of death. What is has to do with is who has ultimate control over your LIFE, you or the government. Democrats, as always, choose government.
American Elephant on October 7, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Ranting against the insurance industries, as if they are the enemies of health care, is like ranting against the grocery store, as if it is the enemy of nutrition. “They make profits by withholding Pop-Tarts from those who can’t pay!”
joe_doufu on October 7, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Commentary is to Olbermann like pus is to a boil.
Danny on October 7, 2009 at 11:14 PM
He’s like a cheesy soap actor.
LtE126 on October 7, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Keith, I can’t go along with you here, because I’m too indifferent about your longevity.
BuckeyeSam on October 7, 2009 at 11:16 PM
What a pitiful man.
Mason on October 7, 2009 at 11:16 PM
I’ve been asking that same question about the “pro-choice” movement for years…
mcplumbercuda on October 7, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Would have been a better show if he’d shoved a .38 in his mouth at the end and pulled the trigger. Keefums, as usual, no guts.
GarandFan on October 7, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Good lord, this is like a very bad Greek Tragedy.
Hubris, anyone?
darkpixel on October 7, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Psych Ward? well maybe, but a public funded-psych ward!!1!
To defeat death!!1!eleventy!!
billy on October 7, 2009 at 11:18 PM
What a Drama Queen!
ronsfi on October 7, 2009 at 11:18 PM
I think he sounds more like some creepy throwback to the Soviets. Iowahawk anticipated him in his satire:
We know what these clowns are going to say before they even think it.
ddrintn on October 7, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Did Edward R Murrow ever cry on air?
Rocks on October 7, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Keith Olbermann = Beta R Murrow
Rocks on October 7, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Does Michelle end up being Barack’s father?
18-1 on October 7, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Might as well put our tax dollars to good use.
infidel4life on October 7, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Are we supposed to be watching him for some reason?
Diane on October 7, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Olbermann is a pro-lifer?
John the Libertarian on October 7, 2009 at 11:23 PM
his compassion and hatred of death go to eleven. Unfortunately, healthcare reform requires more cowbell.
God save us Keith, you’re our only hope!
/
slackmac on October 7, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Ranting against the insurance industries, as if they are the enemies of health care, is like ranting against the grocery store, as if it is the enemy of nutrition. “They make profits by withholding Pop-Tarts from those who can’t pay!”
joe_doufu on October 7, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Hey dude, you try finding enough pocket change to pay for a pay of fritoes when you are
highreally hungry and spent your last few dollars onthat bag of weedhealth insurance. It is like a total, uh, drag./Barack 30 years ago.
18-1 on October 7, 2009 at 11:25 PM
Olby got one right here. The only reason we romanticize death is because we can’t do anything about it. But if we were starting from scratch, and someone proposed,
“Hey, how about we all experience steady declines in our mental and physical abilities, until such time as were drooling idiots who can be beaten up by 12 year any old, and then, to cap it all off, we each just pop out of existence!”
…we wouldn’t think it was a good idea. And mankind has devoted much art and philosophy and religion to evade or cover up or pretty up the stark fact and aging and death really, really sucks.
All hail the Great Olby for getting this one right.
BCrago66 on October 7, 2009 at 11:25 PM
Too many letters.
One word:
Putz
18-1 on October 7, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Special
CommentEducationApologetic California on October 7, 2009 at 11:29 PM
Yesssssssss, Obama is now setting up for another big speech. This time is on Gays. Yes I can’t wait to hear the socialist talk about the queers.
lavell12 on October 7, 2009 at 11:31 PM
I like Ben Affleck’s impression a lot better.
lavell12 on October 7, 2009 at 11:32 PM
No, just an O-bot.
Come on, lefties. Aren’t you embarrassed by Olbermann?
ddrintn on October 7, 2009 at 11:32 PM
A memo to Keith “I’m a God of the English Language” Olbermann: I’ve read more intelligent compositions from 2nd graders who ride the short bus.
Emily M. on October 7, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Gives Kool-Aid a bad name.
Dhuka on October 7, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Within 5 minutes of the close of his show, he’s probably online looking to see if the poll numbers have changed.
He so wants to be Glenn Beck.
Marcus on October 7, 2009 at 11:34 PM
I’m betting Charles Johnson was watching this live and clapping his little hands with joy as tears welled up in his eyes….
MrScribbler on October 7, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Free food for everyone, then. Eating is more basic than going to the doctor as far as survival’s concerned. Free food is a basic human right!
ddrintn on October 7, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Its a big building with patients in it, but that’s not important right now.
juanito on October 7, 2009 at 11:36 PM
Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out alive!
- Bugs Bunny
CPL 310 on October 7, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Hahahaha!
justltl on October 7, 2009 at 11:40 PM
KO reminds me of the Jane Lynch character in “Role Models.” The same sort of brainless, overwrought theatricality.
“You know what I used to have for breakfast? Cocaine. Know what I had for lunch? Cocaine.”
“Why don’t you lay out two lines of your selfishness, which is your blow, draw the shades, take the phone off the hook, grab a straw, and snort!“
Django on October 7, 2009 at 11:40 PM
Exactly how I feel about reading anything this fool has to say.
Lily on October 7, 2009 at 11:41 PM
When you advocate “death” panels, rationing care and punishing those who refuse to buy into your scam, how can you say you’re against death? When you routinely and ignorantly campaigning against technologies that would have prevented deaths from E. Coli why should anyone believe you’re against death.
jdkchem on October 7, 2009 at 11:43 PM
heh.
the_nile on October 7, 2009 at 11:43 PM
Patton on Death!
===============
The General paused and looked over the crowd. “You are not all going to die,” he said slowly. “Only two percent of you right here today would die in a major battle. Death must not be feared. Death, in time, comes to all men.
http://www.pattonhq.com/speech.html
canopfor on October 7, 2009 at 11:44 PM
I don’t want my neighbor to live, he plays his music too loud all the time, so right there ‘ol Keith is wrong.
SuperManGreenLantern on October 7, 2009 at 11:45 PM
Ah, liberalism. Land of the cost-free subsidy.
Why can’t the government subsidize everything?!
JohnJ on October 7, 2009 at 11:46 PM
Still LOL at that.
Oedipus is in too classy a genre for that bunch, however.
Think more along the lines of Chewbacca ending up being Jar Jar Bink’s father.
justltl on October 7, 2009 at 11:49 PM
No, just a co-pilot to a scoundrel
TheVer on October 7, 2009 at 11:51 PM
Because if America is destroyed — utterly, irretrievably destroyed — the insurance companies win.
??
notropis on October 7, 2009 at 11:51 PM
Jesus, liberals are childish.
Keith Olbermann= A dorky high schooler who never got over being stuffed into lockers and thus never matured mentally.
therightwinger on October 7, 2009 at 11:52 PM
Olbermann is right.
I am British and, as many of you know, we have had a national health service since the 1940′s.
Because of this, no British people ever die. Despite the lengthy queues for operations and the unavailability of essential new medicines, the NHS just keeps us living in perpetual youth.
As Keith will tell you, this immortality is well worth the mandatory tax pay to fund it and it’s well worth private medicine being a fringe luxury that only executives can afford. Anyway, being on private medical plans, they’ll eventually die, so ha ha ha.
uptight on October 7, 2009 at 11:52 PM
Yes! Free Cheesecake Factory on your birthday to you and one of your
Obamacratintellectual family members. Libs understand nothing about human nature. But, then again, we haven’t tried it in America yet. /pukeMarkABinVA on October 7, 2009 at 11:54 PM
This is why we are headed for civil war. The libs have no interest in anything but total control over your life and the destruction of capitalism/profit. They must be stopped by any means necessary. Liberals hate freedom and individualism…I say again…THEY MUST BE STOPPED!
jwp1964 on October 7, 2009 at 11:54 PM
You were wrong on the ozone hole.
You are wrong on genetically modified foods.
You are wrong on irradiating foods to kill bacteria.
You are wrong on global warming.
A broken clock is right twice and you and the cretins you associate with cannot manage that.
When you start supporting irradiating foods to eliminate things like E Coli let me know. Until then crawl back under your rock have a hot steaming crap sandwich and STFU
jdkchem on October 7, 2009 at 11:55 PM
Now we know why GE is looking to sell NBC Universal…
d1carter on October 7, 2009 at 11:58 PM
Yep. It’s impossible to live with libs. Conservatives give states the rights to decide if they want socialized health care, how the state population wants to approach social issues. We allow libs to try and form their utopian nightmares in states. We let them do the stupid sh!t they want to do, adn they have. That is freedom. But libs never want to allow any alternatives to their ideas of how we should each lead our lives. Liberals demand that everything come from a national government (since the states they got their wishes in have all gone dramatically belly-up) and dictates to everyone. With liberals, it’s forced conversion to their political religion. No dissent will be tolerated, since libs aren’t good debaters, and their ideas are impossible to justify in any logical manner.
progressoverpeace on October 8, 2009 at 12:01 AM
Keef’s take on this would be surprising, if not for the fact he’s always been a fatuous twit.
Patton on October 8, 2009 at 12:01 AM
That’s a fact.
It’s a shame that, politically at least, the country’s fate rests on the shoulders of imbeciles in the middle third of voters whose opinions drift with the wind.
Lead prices will soon be rising as fast as that of gold.
justltl on October 8, 2009 at 12:03 AM
Wrong? Well, maybe yes.
But not wrong-wrong.
billy on October 8, 2009 at 12:05 AM
When you think about it, who better to talk about death than a man whose been getting killed in the ratings for the past six years.
jon1979 on October 8, 2009 at 12:07 AM
Why is it no matter what expression Olberdouche has in a caption, his face always looks like an ass?
NathanG on October 8, 2009 at 12:15 AM
Fixed it.
NathanG on October 8, 2009 at 12:16 AM
What the hell? The basic premise he makes about betting is completely backwards.
The insurance companies (Health and Life) are betting against sickness and death (respectively). They win when we pay premiums that they never have to pay out on. The insured “win” when we get sick or die, and get to collect money.
The sicker we get, the more the insurance companies lose.
Stupid POS.
connertown on October 8, 2009 at 12:18 AM
Oh, yeah. There’s that, too….
notropis on October 8, 2009 at 12:20 AM
Here is how I envision a civil war beginning.
1.A destructive health care bill, Cap and Trade and a version of the Fairness Doctrine pass.
2.The Democrats retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections, with suspicion of significant voter fraud.
3.The economy continues to deteriorate, and unemployment continues to rise.
4.A protest is put down violently.
justltl on October 8, 2009 at 12:20 AM
If it’s all about death, certainly there will be “death panels”
J_Crater on October 8, 2009 at 12:22 AM
Open your wallet, show me your insurance cards and I’ll tell ya who you hang out with.
‘Nuff said.
ProudPalinFan on October 8, 2009 at 12:24 AM
Sooooooooooooooooooooooo Obamacare now means……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. immortality?
DSchoen on October 8, 2009 at 12:26 AM
seriously, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is up with those glasses?
thebrokenrattle on October 8, 2009 at 12:27 AM
I can’t tell you how much I appreciate Allahpundit watching Olbermann so I don’t have to. How can you thank someone for such selfless service?
To think I might have missed this… THANKS ALLAHPUNDIT!
Danzo on October 8, 2009 at 12:30 AM
For the love of God, I’m so sick of hearing about this douchebag’s PARENTS all the time. He’s laughable.
Papa_P on October 8, 2009 at 12:31 AM
When people tell you that they can increase demand and lower costs for services tell them to go to msnbc.
Wingnut on October 8, 2009 at 12:34 AM
http://twitpic.com/k5kiw
Rusty Shackleford on October 8, 2009 at 12:37 AM
Libs would flock to the states with socialized medicine and drive them into bankruptcy. We in the free states would have our taxes raised to pay for them. EITHER WAY WE’RE TOTALLY SCREWED. Outside of secession from the Union WE WILL PAY.
Mojave Mark on October 8, 2009 at 12:38 AM
Keef has had the finest education an agricultural college can provide. What happened?
It appears the mule that kicked him in the head during his sophomore year did more damage then first believed.
Somebody get Keef his binky!!!!!!!!!!
DeweyWins on October 8, 2009 at 12:38 AM
I seem to recall someone else raving about grabbing, fighting, and resisting Death at all costs before Olbermann. Oh, yeah, it was Lord Voldemort.
Doctor Zero on October 8, 2009 at 12:39 AM
Ya, because without food, health care is a non sequitur.
Johan Klaus on October 8, 2009 at 12:55 AM
Can I get eggs with that steaming slab of ham, please?
Ripley on October 8, 2009 at 12:59 AM
Are these the same evil insurance companies from which the government is going to force young people and illegal aliens to buy insurance.
Johan Klaus on October 8, 2009 at 1:02 AM
They have been for almost a year.
Johan Klaus on October 8, 2009 at 1:07 AM
And trusting the government is a better idea? Hell no.
If our health care insurance is so horrible lets do away with all insurance, tell the government to take a hike and get everybody out from between you and your Dr.
Prices will come down and service quality will rise.
Speakup on October 8, 2009 at 1:09 AM
Will I be seeing Keith at the Right to Life rally next year?
EscapeVelocity on October 8, 2009 at 1:09 AM
If Obamacare passes, you might be arrested by the food police for that statement.
Johan Klaus on October 8, 2009 at 1:10 AM
Will we be seeing Keith at the Right to Life march on Washington next year?
EscapeVelocity on October 8, 2009 at 1:11 AM
Kay-o doesn’t understand health insurance. Insurance companies are betting that you will stay healthy, not sick. If you buy health insurance, then you are the one betting against your own good health. You don’t collect on your bet unless you get sick or injured.
SteakRules on October 8, 2009 at 1:11 AM
Another troll.
And how will private insurance compete with government subsidized health insurance?
Don’t even try here. HotAir posters will pick you apart.
You can’t just come in here day 1 after accepting your job with Axelrod and write cr*p like that.
This is a thinking man’s site and that goes for trolls too.
Sapwolf on October 8, 2009 at 1:16 AM
Ask your neighbor if he knows how to play “Over the Hill and Very Far Away”.
Johan Klaus on October 8, 2009 at 1:16 AM
God yes, I could beat him senseless in front of 300,000 and get cheers for it.
I’d let him live since I’m pro-life.
Sapwolf on October 8, 2009 at 1:17 AM
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