"Drilling for oil in the USA doesn't mean it is OUR oil... it goes to oil companies in the world market and we have to buy it like everyone else."

So now you want it for free?

Get a clue: the more oil there is in the market THE CHEAPER IT BECOMES.

Hello? I don't think Bin Laden is RIGHT. I am telling you that there are reasons WHY he led this attack, not just because they hate our freedom and lifestyles. But that's the simplistic explanation we GET.

Iraq: read about the Downing Street Memo.

Drilling for oil in the USA doesn't mean it is OUR oil... it goes to oil companies in the world market and we have to buy it like everyone else.

"The reasons that 9/11 happened were due to us having a military presence in the Middle East."

Really? The Saudis, kuwaitis etc INVITED us there - as much as couldn't give two sh*ts for the arab world, you want us to take BIN LADENS perfernces over the Arab govts.

"Bush wants us to believe it was because the militant Islamics "hate our freedom." It's more complex than that, and that is what Democrats want to explain; "

"explain" the fact that islam has been at war with the Judeo-Christian world for 13 centuries.

"But why Iraq? "

Because EVERYONE in BOTH parties thought Sadaam was a danger:

http://www.bercasio.com/movies/dems-wmd-before-iraq.wmv

"Why not Saudi Arabia, since most of the hijackers were from there?"

Because the green left won't let us drill for our own oil (hint, petroleum is used to make the computer you use and to deliver the food you eat, not just for the evil SUVs...).

nice i found what you are referring to. his ratings beat him for a one week period in june for the first time ever. the catch? o'reilly was on vacation and wasn't hosting his show that week. big time win for olbermann!

i never said billy boy was correct. in fact i think he's an idiot 3/4 of the time. but i think olbermann is an idiot 9/10 of the time.

ma bell - that was May 08, and in June Olbermann topped Bill-o;

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/10/olbermanns-ratings-top-oreillys/

But even if Bill-o has more ratings it doesn't make him correct. The things he says are quite insane and easily disproved with facts. How can he be consistently wrong yet have so many viewers? It's a sad statement on our citizens. I am proud of the people who see and seek out the truth.

www.sweetjesusihatebilloreilly...

Robingee -- it is evident that most voters are too dumb to follow the complex reasoning you present.

"MSNBC and Barack Hussein Obama all think we got what we deserved on 9/11."

That's not true.

The reasons that 9/11 happened were due to us having a military presence in the Middle East. Bush wants us to believe it was because the militant Islamics "hate our freedom." It's more complex than that, and that is what Democrats want to explain; not just say "hate our freedom" - but explain all of the reasons and how we can resolve the problems. We went into Afghanistan, which is what we should have done. But why Iraq? Why not Saudi Arabia, since most of the hijackers were from there?

yeah you keep trying too, buddy

MSNBC and Barack Hussein Obama all think we got what we deserved on 9/11.

The rest of us voting for McCain / Palin don't.

Think of those guys at the top of NBC with their black S.U.V.s and hunting lodges in Jackson Hole. They are part of that conservative cabal that controls Big Media and while they toyed with the idea of an upstart ratings grabber like Olberman breathing new life into a cable outlet that has underperformed for so long that everyone has wondered when GE's "Number One or Number Two in its category or it's dropped" policy would kick in, these bastards have fallen back to the predictable NBC habit of eating their young. At least McCain is happier.

yes i apologize. i meant demoted. again, you don't get demoted unless the powers feel that you don't get the ratings...which he doesn't. you must have another read on this, cause nielson says o'reilly trounces olbermann...no competition.

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/05/09/oreilly-vs-olbermann-through-thursday-may-8/3693

maybe next time buddy...keep trying

His show is still on and has higher ratings than O'Reilley.

It does? I have heard Olbermann has higher numbers in the 18 to 30 demographic but that's all. He beat O'Reilly a few times in late spring when he had certain guests on his show like Scott McClellan. Do you have a source?

i think they're on to something here with their niftily post modern blurring of the lines between states of "war" and "peace" - who needs that kind of crispness in their lives anyway? let's just acknowledge the best we can do is a hazy general state of panic and violence, and let's call it "weace".

that way we can be more specific when we invade countries and stuff like that -like "we are the americans, and we come to bring you weace!"

... Olbermann's "I'm sorry you had to see that" response struck me as way over-the-top and smarmy.

I was there, I witnessed the attack on the World Trade Center, and I am really sick of people trying to exploit it. Had I been in Olbermann's place I would have said exactly the same thing, with absolute sincerity.

Olbermann wasn't fired, ma bell. He will just be a correspondent at the elections now, and not an anchor. Read a little. His show is still on and has higher ratings than O'Reilley.

as jeffk said the real story is that they are tying 9/11 to the 1970 IRANIAN hostage crisis...so that americans will support miltary action by the US or israel against IRAN

It's one thing to pay tribute to tragedy and its victims; it's another to shamelessly exploit it as nationalistic propaganda.

what a load of crap. olbermann was fired cause nobody watched him. those with good ratings do not get fired no matter what their opinions are. o'reilly has said some pretty whacky stuff himself but since he draws a huge audience, he stays. olbermann simply was not a big enough draw.

and you bash the repubs for showing a tribute to 9/11? what? i mean seriously? what? you can't come up with something better then bashing them for showing a tribute to 9/11 and saying that it will never happen again? seriously? come on people. your grasping at straws. stick to the bush bashing. at least that makes sense.

i always wonder what the rest of the country thinks about the fact that the two places the attacks directly affected are overwhelmingly blue states. and that nyc kinda hated/hates guiliani.

it was pretty sickening to watch the republicans cheer after showing 9/11 footage at the RNC.