Keith Olbermann Destroys Michael Bloomberg With An Epic Special Comment

By: Sarah JonesNov. 16th, 2011more from Sarah Jones

This is not safe for work due to it being an epic Keith Olbermann rant involving several rather satisfying curse words directed towards Mayor Bloomberg for his raid on Occupy Wall Street.

Keith takes Bloomberg down for his hypocrisy. Getting all riled up about the (god*amn) Batman movie shot in New York that Bloomberg was all too happy to shut the 59th St bridge down for while handing out huge tax breaks to the producers, Keith points out that Bloomberg wouldn’t let the people use the Brooklyn bridge.

Keith summed it up with calling for Bloomberg’s resignation. “Michael Bloomberg, you have now indeed become a symbol of the Occupy movement. You are ready to take your historic place with Mayor Daley and Governor Wallace and Sen McCarthy and Prime Minister Grenville and every other idiot who has made the fateful and fatal mistake of thinking that just because he has power and money, that this is nation in which everything has a price tag on it.We need you Mayor Bloomberg, to keep making these mistakes….Your nation needs you! Occupy needs you! Bloomberg now, Bloomberg tomorrow, Bloomberg forever!”

And by the way, Mayor Bloomberg’s arguments about “health and safety” trumping free speech aren’t looking so hot. The Guardian reports:

Constitutional lawyers said health and safety was unlikely to trump the first amendment. Darius Charney, attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), said the right of people to assemble peacefully in political protest was one of the most fundamental rights under the first amendment.

“In my view, the health and safety issues are rather minimal in comparison to the first amendment issue,” he said.

All speech is protected under US law, but political speech has the greatest legal protection.

This is still America. Solidarity, Occupiers. The world is watching.

Keith Olbermann Destroys Michael Bloomberg With An Epic Special Comment was written by Sarah Jones for PoliticusUSA.

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45 Responses to Keith Olbermann Destroys Michael Bloomberg With An Epic Special Comment

Reynardine

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 12:08 am

Yep
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- Fr. John R. Kimble
  
  Nov. 16th, 2011 at 4:00 pm
  
  Now I know once again why I missed Keith on MSNBS…Thank you for reminding me of all the good work you did while on MSNBS…especially for “Free Health Care”. Pax, Fr. K.
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Shiva (Moderator)

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 12:15 am

OMG that was both hilarious and deadly accurate. I have never heard him go off like that!

4 term bloomberg!
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amazonfeet

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 12:27 am

I love a man who has the balls to call it what it is….Keith Olberman, you have my eternal respect….on behalf of the most helpless and vulnerable of the 99%, those of us who are unable to fight back, thank you…NOTHING TRUMPS THE FIRST AMENDMENT….
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dt

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 6:47 am

Awesome.
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Anne

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 7:37 am

I’ve so missed Keith’s rants with a purpose. Would like to share with everyone I know. Keep on keeping on, Keith!
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JEB

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 7:50 am

Keith Olbermann, my hero!! Tell it like it is man.
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troy

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 7:51 am

Damn I wish Keith would run for President. I would vote for him in a heartbeat.He is dead on about everything.
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Coolred38

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 7:53 am

Goosebumps all the way.
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Sally

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 7:54 am

Keith says it all…again.
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secretsquirrel

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 8:01 am

Freaking awesome!! Olbermann for president! I do believe the 1% is scared to death of the 99%. They should be, especially now. The hope of real freedom is in the air. Shame on all you mayors who are stifling the 1st amendment. Some of you would never have gotten where you are without it. Seriously, maybe its time to retire, especially you Bloomberg. You don’t need the bucks and could hang with your corporate security thugs all day, gleefully reflecting upon your abuse of power and citizen harm.
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DH

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 8:15 am

So…. How much money does Keith Olbermann have? A Quick Google search indicates he has a net worth of $35 million, earning over $750,000 a year. And he’s slamming ‘rich people’? $35 million sounds pretty rich to me. What if he took some of his millions and handed it out to the occupiers? Isn’t that what they want? People who have more than they do to give them handouts and pay their tution and bills because it isn’t ‘fair’ that someone else has more than they do?
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- Shiva (Moderator)
  
  Nov. 16th, 2011 at 9:22 am
  
  Obviously you’re missing the entire point. As I would suspect. He is not slamming rich people, he is slamming rich people who go against what’s right, the Constitution, and common sense. You listened to his entire rant and you totally missed the point?
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- Ernie T
  
  Nov. 16th, 2011 at 10:45 am
  
  Only a mental midget can over simplify Olbermann’s message. He is talking about the abuse of power by those, because of their position in government and financial status. The Occupiers could not give two cents about the rich, except when they get rich off the backs of the middle class and poor. They are standing for what is right and most people agree with them. The rich and corporations are the people who got us in the economic situation we are in. Lets also call the politicians who cater to the rich and corporations to the carpet too. They all feed off each other. Tax cuts and subsidies to entities that don’t need them. You are totally off the mark. I got it, you too are clueless because you are a 1%’er.
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- Adele Azar-Rucquoi
  
  Nov. 16th, 2011 at 7:51 pm
  
  Sorry, but you shattered, or tried to, the messenger rather than the message. Listen more carefully the next time.
  Adele
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goddess

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 8:34 am

GO, KEITH!! OCCUPY!!
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SoulHonky

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 8:45 am

“In my view, the health and safety issues are rather minimal in comparison to the first amendment issue.”
I thought it has been pretty clearly set that this isn’t true; the old “You can’t yell ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater” example. Now you can argue about the imminent threat of Occupy but to say that the first amendment trumps everything is a wild overstatement.
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- Carrie
  
  Nov. 16th, 2011 at 11:11 am
  
  Si you know mire than a constitutional lawyer? What are your credentials for claiming this?
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- Cassandra Vert
  
  Nov. 16th, 2011 at 11:58 am
  
  Yelling “fire” in a crowded theater is not protected political speech. Political speech is distinguished from other speech and given the highest deference.
  
  If inciting actions that endanger the health and safety of the public were that easy to prosecute, FOX news would have been the first to go.
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That Guy Who Is Always Right

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 9:09 am

I like Keith Olbermann. But I also like Batman.

I’m very torn, now.
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- JAFE
  
  Nov. 16th, 2011 at 6:35 pm
  
  LOL!
  On a total side note, though the Batman movie did shut down the upper level of the bridge (not the whole bridge) for the weekend, most of the movie was shot in Pittsburg and LA because NYC refused to let them shut down large parts of the city to traffic for extended periods. And the NY Tax Credit more than pays for itself and brings jobs and tax revenues to our city in difficult economic times, even though shoots are a pain in the butt sometimes.
  
  But Keith’s point is well taken. =)
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G.W. Buck

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 9:38 am

OK, we get it, kieth does not like batman, get over yourself. This is why you were kicked off MSNBC.
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- Shiva (Moderator)
  
  Nov. 16th, 2011 at 9:50 am
  
  doesn’t sound to me like you get anything. Keith had been negotiating for over a year to get out of his contract at MSNBC. He was not fired or kicked off
  
  Are we to assume you are against everything that you said?
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  - ASC
    
    Nov. 16th, 2011 at 10:10 am
    
    @Shiva: Do you work at NBC because you are wrong.
    
    Did anyone watch the Bloomberg video immediately following Olbermann’s rant? The occupiers are free and welcome to go back to their protest. Cleaning up two months worth of mess and making it safe to protest seems pretty reasonable. If someone died in the park during the protest, Olbermann would be ranting about the lack of protection for the people. I am opposed to modern day robber barons and government idiocracy and believe OWS should have their time. But Olbermann is a prime candidate to lead the few and the inept in their march for idiocracy. The problem with Olbermann is that he has always had the unique ability to “destroy” any hint of a valid argument.
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    - Shiva (Moderator)
      
      Nov. 16th, 2011 at 10:42 am
      
      I am not sure what I am wrong about here. He had been negotiating to get out of this contract for over a year. He was not fired.
      
      At the time of the Olbermann rant no one was free to go back to the protest.
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dr. ernesto pablo

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 11:08 am

Why R some idiots even permitted 2 have brains????? Keith only wants these Ultra-Rich cogsuckers 2 pay their fair share just like we do!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Non Violence

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 1:01 pm

Thank You for promoting violence.
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aronious

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 1:58 pm

I was with him until he started yelling about the Batman, not cool.
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- Jay
  
  Nov. 16th, 2011 at 6:14 pm
  
  Nice to see you have your priorities in order, because that’s what he was talking about.
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Phyllis

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 4:42 pm

Well worth watching. Keith Oberman is telling it like it is. Great job Mr. Obermann, maybe you should run for office. We need people like you running this city\country. Thanks for sharing the truth to us, the people, who hardly ever have someone stick up for us. Thank you, thank you, thank you
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Dave

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 4:46 pm

Uh….Hey Keith. There is a difference between people without a permit occupying a bridge, adding nothing to the economy, and a movie production paying for a permit, employing local film workers, and adding to the local economy buy purchasing and renting equipment, food, and wardrobe from local businesses. Traffic gets messed up on any location shoot. Again, Keith has no idea what he is talking about here.
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- Shiva (Moderator)
  
  Nov. 16th, 2011 at 4:48 pm
  
  I think its you who have no idea. You know nothing about whop the people are protesting and you know nothing about how Bloomberg handled the situation. Hurry up, its recess time
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CeeCee

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 5:16 pm

Mr. Olbermann, will you marry me?! :))) (Nuff Said!)
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Frank

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 5:45 pm

Commissar Bloomberg did what every dictator has done in the past century… muzzle the Press. You can support the Occupiers or dis them… but you have to ask yourself “what does The Commassar have to hide?” The fact that members of the Press were denied access to the site and that they were actually assaulted by “New York’s Finest” makes me VERY concerned about our future. If the Commissar can get away with it under the guise “protecting the media”.. who will be next?
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Fr. Kurt Messick

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 8:02 pm

Video is gone. :-( Does anyone know where one can see Keith when one doesn’t have the channel on cable?
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- Sarah Jones
  
  Nov. 16th, 2011 at 8:54 pm
  
  We’re going to replacement in a few minutes.
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Marilyn

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 9:43 pm

When Bloomberg gave those lazy butts a portable potty I lost it. I work my butt off to have a pot to piss in. I work many jobs, I work many hours for the pot I piss in. In fact if I didn’t work or have my own pot to piss in I would have to spend money to piss in someone else’s pot. If those men and women lazing it off at Zuccotti Park worked, they could piss and poop in the restroom provided by their employer, AND be contributing memebers of society.
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- Shiva (Moderator)
  
  Nov. 16th, 2011 at 9:53 pm
  
  LOL. Little do you know they are protesting for YOU
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  - Tony Krebill
    
    Nov. 25th, 2011 at 2:22 pm
    
    Really by costing small business money by blocking people from getting in. Blocking a bridge so people can’t get to work. That’s how idiotic this is you acctually think the 1% drive to work they live in Manhattan. You aren’t working for anyone but yourselves. Get a job like everyone else or work 2 you don’t start at the top you work your way up like everyone else. I know OWS r babies by the way Kieth puts these people on that got pepper sprayed and they r going to have long lasting effects. The police officer’s get sprayed or tazed b fore they can use it and military you have to go into a gas chamber for 1 min without a mask and it is worse than pepper spray i know because i went throught it. So OWS needs to grow a pair and grow up!!!
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Joe Befumo

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 10:50 pm

Bloomberg: a man who bought his way into office, serving the interests of other rich, greedy, corrupt $cumbags. Where’s the surprise?
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Joe Befumo

Nov. 16th, 2011 at 10:51 pm

For another perspective:
www.kickthemout.org/2011/...
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Mark

Nov. 17th, 2011 at 1:04 am

Once a blowhard ,allways a blowhard !!!! No wonder he has been fired from every job he ever had. He is in good company with the other blowhard Al Gore !!!!
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ROCKER

Nov. 17th, 2011 at 1:49 am

Where I live, ppl lose their jobs if they dont work. I think the entire GOP in congress & senate should be fired. ATTA boy Keith!!! GIVE EM HELL. tHEY SAID THAT 47% OF POLITICIAN
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Steve

Nov. 17th, 2011 at 8:58 am

Thanks Keith. Keep up the excellent work.
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elliot B

Nov. 22nd, 2011 at 5:47 am

Yes, brilliant!
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