Keith Olbermann
POSTED BY: Niki2
UPDATED: Monday, December 2, 2024 18:33
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I know, hackles are rising all over the place just at the mention. I'm bracing myself... But I wanted to say something to all those who diss him and MSNBC and prefer FauxNews as the "better" choice.
I'd like to know what, if anything, FoxNoise has done for anyone besides themselves? Any cause they're supporting, pushing, that isn't Tea Party related or otherwise politically motivated? Haiti doesn't count; EVERYONE's doing that.
In contrast, there's the Sioux River Tribe hard hit by this Winter's storms which he brought to the public's attention:Quote:
A national commentator's rant about federal inaction on the storm-ravaged Cheyenne River reservation has turned into a fundraising bonanza for the tribe in north-central South Dakota.
As of Tuesday afternoon, an online fund established through the South Dakota Community Foundation had raised about $8,000 for the reservation, which had been paralyzed by a late January ice storm and blizzard that knocked out power and water to thousands.
That was before MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann got on his soapbox Tuesday evening.
In what amounted to a 30-second editorial, Olbermann chided the Senate Indian Affairs Committee for not helping to facilitate assistance to the tribe, then offered the South Dakota Community Foundation's Web site as a way for viewers to help.
The effect was immediate, Community Foundation president Bob Sutton said Thursday.
He was attending a function in Sioux Falls on Tuesday evening, he said. His Blackberry was set up to buzz him with an e-mail every time someone made an online donation to the Cheyenne River effort.
"Within the first 20 minutes, I had hundreds of e-mails on my Blackberry," he said. "It was unbelievable. I had to go out in the lobby and check it; I thought something was wrong because it just kept buzzing."
At the start of the day Thursday, the fund had grown to $220,000. By Thursday night, it was more than $250,000. In the 15 minutes he spent talking to a reporter, Sutton said 16 contributions came in, ranging from $10 to $500, from all over the country.
"We haven't done online fundraising here, so this is relatively new to us, a test case for us," Sutton said. "The result has been absolutely amazing."
His organization had been asked by the St. Paul-based Bush Foundation to help raise money for the Cheyenne River tribe. In turn, another Minnesota nonprofit, Native Americans in Philanthropy, offered to help the South Dakota foundation set up an online fundraising presence.
The Bush Foundation said it would match up to $25,000 raised, and the Northwest Area Foundation offered matching money up to $10,000. That means the Cheyenne River effort easily should clear $300,000, Sutton said.
The money is a godsend, Cheyenne River Chairman Joseph Brings Plenty said. More than 2,500 utility poles were felled by the Jan. 22 ice storm, putting 14,000 residents in the dark with no power, heat, gasoline or running water.
Though electricity has been restored to 95 percent of the reservation, the donated money is very much needed, Brings Plenty said. Many homes were damaged when old and decrepit water lines broke, ruining carpet and damaging floors and walls.
Donated money will go to fix those, the chairman said. It also will pay for permanent generators in shelters, for mobile trailers to be used as emergency command centers, and for blankets and pillows.
"It's definitely been a roller coaster ride. We're still in recovery at this point," Brings Plenty said. "But I really appreciate all the people who have stepped in. It's amazing. It actually started coming before any federal relief came in."
Brings Plenty said his tribe hopes it can persuade Congress to update an old and crumbling water system because, "without the proper water infrastructure, we can't build new houses and new businesses. This is something we sorely need."
The South Dakota Community Foundation collection will go to the end of the month, Sutton said. The check will be cut and presented
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And don't forget his healthcare free clinics that he tossed out as almost a throwaway idea, which then became a reality, offering FREE healthcare to thousands of people, the overwhelming majority of whom are working full-time, who just don't have any health coverage at all.
So yeah, he's partisan, and he's a shill for his own agenda, but he's consistently put his own money where his mouth is, and that gets him credit in my book. And I can still remember sitting there, wide-eyed and mouth agape, when he was the first pundit on any network I saw to take that "Cronkite moment" and declare the Iraq war a sham and a lie. I couldn't believe that someone was actually being allowed to say on the air what many of us already knew and were being vilified for saying out loud.
Mike
Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde
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Those Healthcare clinics I think make as much a statement, if not more than the " townhall " meetings that were hijacked by special interest groups.
Sad really, and in the coverage of those clinics we met people with serious conditions, undiagnosed, and would have been preventable if they had of been able to seek preventative help sooner...
very sad, makes me appreciate my healthcare system dispite its faults
Either you Are with the terrorists, or ... you Are with the terrorists 
Life is like a jar of Jalapeño peppers.
What you do today, might Burn Your Ass Tomorrow"
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Kropotkin > Darwin.
You understand ?
-F
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At least MSNBCGE is owned by the homicidal US Military Industrial Complex.
Fox News is owned by Communist China and Australia.
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Hey Mike, unfair; half my post was dedicated to the health care clinics! 
No, Frem, I don't understand. Pardon my ignorance?
PN, take your checking-counter rags elsewhere, thank you. Go play with your fantasies by yourself.
I don't see anyone piping up to list all the things ClusterFox has done...?
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Kropotkin: Humans are naturally cooperative, and in lieu of any outside influence will as a general rule come together in a peaceful fashion in a group based on mutually aiding one other.
Darwin: Humans are naturally competitive, and in lieu of any outside influence will as a general rule attack and destroy competitors till only the strongest remain.
Darwin's argument is the "logic" behind the need for us to be "controlled" by Governments "for our own good", but it fails because civilization predates Government, so if that is true, where did civilization come from ?
And of course, those offering to do said controlling are always the ones advancing the argument, of course.
Kropotkin's argument is a further refinement of Rosseau's, that humans are basically decent sorts, and it takes an inhuman structure like religion or government to put them in destructive competition with each other.
Without giving that much thought to it, Olberman threw a couple chips down and bet on Kropotkins philosophy over Darwins, although I don't think he fully realized that was what he was doing in advance.
Swept the table too, didn't he ?
Just food for thought.
-F
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Sorry, Niki - I only scanned the top part about the Sioux and their troubles, and assumed (there's the culprit!) that the post was all about that issue. My bad.
Frem: Yes. Kropotkin is the fitter of the two. :)
Mike
Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde
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Quote:
Originally posted by piratenews:
..MSNBC-GE is owned by the homicidal US Military Industrial Complex.
And not just that. They have boils on their butts too.
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Quote:Oh no no no Niki. Olbermann just proves his anti-American-ism by taking the side of non-whites and poor people.
Originally posted by Niki2:
So, ClusterFox, what have you done lately? Just askin'...
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Sad thing is, I bet some folks will make an argument that isn't far from that in substance...
That's awesome though. Thanks for posting this. I have no TV so I had completely missed the story. It's good to know Keith is up to new tricks. I'd kind of given up on him the past few years, since he tends to take things out of context and overdo it.
Kwicko: I remember the days when any criticism of the war in Iraq got folks telling you to leave the country. *shudders* It really was bad. I also took joy in Keith over the same thing: thank goodness someone finally disagreed with the president!
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