Re: [cia-drugs] SOSEMERGENCY ACTION ALERTSOS

2006-09-20 Thread Arlene Johnson
Rosie needs to learn the truth. It's Judeo-Christians who are the problem and 
Christians who accept the lies that their churches tell them. See 
http://www.truedemocracy.net/td-17/09.html for proof.

Barbara Walters is in the CFR. No chance will she come clean. We just need to 
expose her and boycott her sponsors.

In terms of Muslims, al-Qa'eda was created by the CIA. Many people around the 
world know this fact.

Peace,

Arlene Johnson
Publisher/Author
http://www.truedemocracy.net
Click on the icon that says Magazine.
Password for 2006 editions: message

-Original Message-
From: MarshaMcClelland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sep 18, 2006 5:32 AM
To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [cia-drugs] SOSEMERGENCY ACTION ALERTSOS

SOSEMERGENCY ACTION ALERTSOS

This is urgent...If you care what happens to our children and future 
generations you'll take action on this one if you haven't yet...This 
evil plot was sent to the religious right...We need counter it for 
the sake of the entire world

See the lies and spin concerning the 911/WTC atrocity...The very lie 
that led to the unjust wars...It's all there in this enclosed 
article against Rosie O'Donnell for speaking out with truth on ABC's 
View

This is the link to that campaign against her where you can hear 
what she actually 
saidhttps://secure.afa.net/afa/activism/takeaction.asp?id=214

Remember the links we send are coming apart...If this happens just 
paste it into your browser and close the spaces before you 
click...Don't forget to forward this to like minds, too

You can go there and erase the propaganda against her and write in 
your own words...The article will be the last item here

The View is on at 11 am tomorrow Eastern time

You can go to this link and send your message to Rosie as well as 
Barbara Walters and the other two on the 
Viewhttp://abc.go.com/daytime/theview/ 

Tell ABC via thier website you're behind Rosie, too...It's 
easy...Bottom of page and click contactabc.com...takes just a 
minute

Here's the number at ABCPrimary Phone: 212-456-...I was put 
through twice but couldn't leave my comment for some reason...I was 
hoping to give you the number and we could flood the network with 
calls all morning, if you get this in time...

Afterwards will do, too...It's urgent we protect those brave enough 
to take a stance

Here's what I sent the view and abc

OMG...We The People salute Rosie...She stood up and told the 
truth...If more in the lime light would do that we could save 
America and the future for the children, for sure...We do hope no 
one gives her grief over this as is the buzz on the internet...We 
are behind her, in majority...At least the knowledgeable and 
thinking public are...So please treat her with the respect she 
deserves because We The Used To Be Peasants, are watching

Marsha McClelland
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
xxx xxx-

We The People United Movement
We are many Political and Patriot Groups joining together, to help 
right the wrongs in America...United We Will Stand
~~~
Here's that evil campaign we'll turn around
 
Donald E. Wildmon
Founder and Chairman 
   
September 14, 2006

Please help us get this information into the hands of as many people 
as possible by forwarding it to your entire email list of family and 
friends.

O'Donnell on ABC: 'Radical Christians' no different than murderous 
radical Muslims
Neither O'Donnell nor ABC has apologized

ABC's Rosie O'Donnell told a nationwide audience this week 
that radical Christians are the same as radical Muslims who 
piloted hijacked jetliners into New York's Twin Towers, who chop off 
the heads of individuals and who bomb innocent children in suicide 
attacks. O'Donnell made her comments as host of ABC's The View. 
 
Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a 
country like America where we have separation of church and state, 
O'Donnell said. She had been saying that America was attacked not 
by a nation. She continued: And as a result of the attack and the 
killing of 3,000 innocent people, we invaded two countries and 
killed innocent people. Even her liberal co-hosts were shocked by 
her comments. 
 
Co-host Joy Behar protested that Christians are not trying to impose 
mass murder on America. This group (radical Muslims) is threatening 
to kill us. Replied O'Donnell: No, but we are bombing innocent 
people in other countries. True or false? 
 
O'Donnell was saying there is no difference between the radical 
Muslims who kill in the name of Allah and Bible-believing Christians 
who follow the teachings of Jesus. 
Neither O'Donnell nor ABC apologized for the comments. Had she made 
similar comments about minorities or homosexuals, there would have 
been an apology, and she would have probably been fired. 
 
The message from ABC is that bashing Christians is acceptable, even 
comparing them with murderers who kill in the name of Allah. 
 
Take Actionhttps://secure.afa.net/afa/activism/takeaction.asp?

[cia-drugs] GEORGE H.W. POPPY BUSH and HIS CHEMTRAILS

2006-09-20 Thread Tim White


 Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:46:19 -0700 (PDT)
 From: Tim White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject:A MEETING-Clifford Carnicom and a military
inside source--copied from WWW.CARNICOM.COM
 
 A MEETING
 Clifford E Carnicom
 Jul 26 2003
 Edited Aug 17 2003
 
 A meeting has taken place recently between an
 investigative researcher and a well placed military
 source. The identity of both parties is to be
 protected. The source has intimate knowledge of at
 least one aspect of the aerosol operations, and
 asserts the following:
 
 1. The operation is a joint project between the
 Pentagon and the pharmaceutical industry.
 
 2. The Pentagon wishes to test biological diseases
 for
 war purposes on unsuspecting populations. It was
 stated that SARS is a failure as the expected rate
 of
 mortality was intended to be 80%.
 
 3. The pharmaceutical industry is making trillions
 on
 medications designed to treat both fatal and
 non-fatal
 diseases given to populations.
 
 4. The bacteria and viruses are freeze-dried and
 then
 placed on fine filaments for release.
 
 5. The metals released along with the diseases heat
 up
 from the sun, creating a perfect environment for the
 bacteria and viruses to thrive in the air supply.
 
 6. Most countries being sprayed are unaware of the
 activities and they have not consented to the
 activities. He states that commercial aircraft
 flying
 are one of the delivery systems.
 
 7. Most of the players are old friends and
 business
 partners of the senior Bush.
 
 8. The ultimate goal is the control of all
 populations
 through directed and accurate spraying of drugs,
 diseases, etc.
 
 9. People who have tried to reveal the truth have
 been
 imprisoned and killed.
 
 10. This is the most dangerous and dark time that I
 have experienced in all of my years of serving this
 country.
 
 
 This information is relayed without qualification,
 as
 I am knowledgeable in the level of integrity of the
 researcher that has made this information available
 to
 the public. There is both risk and restraint that
 has
 been exercised in the preparation of this statement.
 
 
 Clifford E Carnicom
 Jul 26 2003
 
 
 


 
 
 Additional Notes Aug 17 2003:
 
 The following personal and observations have been
 relayed to me by the investigative researcher
 referred
 to above:
 
 I am the researcher that relayed information to
 Carnicom and I can tell you that the meeting
 occurred
 as stated. I see that my meeting opened up some
 dialogue. I have to ask: why are so many intelligent
 people debating the tail of the dog? Does it have
 fleas, long or short hair, or no tail at all. Look
 at
 the DOG. See the big picture here. Do you question
 that people are dying in record numbers from the
 aerosol operations? It is a fact that an increase in
 particulate matter increases mortality.
 
 A top respiratory doctor has just written a book
 about
 the breathing crisis. On the Today Show, not in
 some
 secret meeting place, he tells us that respiratory
 disease has gone from eighth to fourth place as a
 leading cause of death, soon to be third, in only
 FIVE
 years. The doctor says the increase in respiratory
 death is because of smoking. Now that seems a little
 off, since many people have stopped smoking, and yet
 in FIVE years dying from breathing is the major
 cause
 of death behind heart failure and cancer. It is also
 a
 fact that when oxygen is reduced, cardiac arrest
 goes
 up. He also advises not to exercise outdoors. What
 does exercising outdoors have to do with smoking?
 Any
 chance that breathing heavy metals could be the
 cause
 of not only increasing death from respiratory
 disease,
 but also contributes to cardiac arrest and cancer?
 Go
 back to the DOG. Look at the bigger picture of
 what's
 going on with our health; stop debating the
 biological
 contents of an already deadly, efficient operation.
 Incidentally, culling was never mentioned in my
 report. 
 
 Give Carnicom some credit for his integrity in
 presenting this material. I risked my safety and the
 safety of others to get this information. I wanted
 the
 information for myself; I didn't get it for Carnicom
 or his site, but I did want to share it with others
 as
 a confirmation, not as a revelation, of what is
 going
 on. Many of you saw this and I appreciate your
 intelligence and wisdom. My thanks, also, to those
 of
 you who have followed up with some good research.
 
 Posted Aug 17 2003
 
 
 


 An interview that discusses the contents of this
 statement in greater detail is available at the
 following web address:
 
 9th JEFF RENSE INTERVIEW JUL 27 03
 MEDIA PLAYER - REAL PLAYER
 
 
 
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Olbermann navigates tightrope minus a net

2006-09-20 Thread RoadsEnd


Begin forwarded message:From: "Alamaine, IVe" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 20, 2006 8:19:35 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] Olbermann navigates tightrope minus a netReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=televisionNewsstoryID=2006-09-19T075408Z_01_N19319823_RTRIDST_0_TELEVISION-OLBERMANN-DC.XMLOlbermann navigates tightrope minus a netTue Sep 19, 2006 3:53 AM ETBy Ray RichmondLOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Keith Olbermann sometimes feels as if he's out there by himself on the high wire, a lone (or nearly lone) voice of reason in a world gone mad. Emboldened by the left as the right man in the right place at the right time, dismissed by the right as a Bush-bashing tool of liberal propagandists, the host-anchor of MSNBC's nightly "Countdown" newsmagazine has long been a zealous polarizing force as a journalist who wears his heart in plain sight.But while using his platform in part to protect what he sees as truth, justice and the American way and its ongoing assault from the Bush administration, Olbermann has suddenly evolved into more than merely Bill O'Reilly's sardonic whipping post. He's morphed before our eyes into the second coming of Howard Beale.Surely you remember Howard. He was the character (played with Oscar-winning brilliance by Peter Finch) who took on the establishment with his televised "mad as hell" rants in the seminal and prescient film "Network," which this fall marks 30 years since its release.While Olbermann has fully embodied the Beale zeitgeist more than ever, he has done so with decidedly more clear-eyed focus than the manic rage practiced by that particular fictitious icon. Over the past three weeks, he has crafted and delivered a pair of impassioned, acerbic essays that first slammed defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld (on August 30) and then, on September 11, one skewering President Bush for his politicizing the events of five years before.An excerpt: "How dare you, Mr. President, after taking cynical advantage of the unanimity and love, and transmuting it into fraudulent war and needless death, after monstrously transforming it into fear and suspicion and turning that fear into the campaign slogan of three elections?"It was a devastating and lengthy commentary that last week became an immediate sensation in the video download universe (earning nearly 300,000 page views on YouTube alone). Coincidentally or no, Olbermann's household numbers are up 73% in the first two weeks of September from August.While there is no argument that Olbermann can at times be self-indulgent, somewhat arrogant, over the top and stridently passionate, he is also the most compelling news personality of his generation. Love him or hate him, he is a charismatic, righteously indignant force of nature who is inspiring fervent cheers and detesting jeers in equal measure."No voice came to me and told me to do this," Olbermann says. "It's simply the eruption of the need to say something. If this country was founded on anything, it's the fight to the death to protect the right of someone to say that which you disagree with. I just think maybe I'm first in voicing skepticism of the administration that's been irrationally muted."Unlike Beale, Olbermann maintains that he is not going nuts and has simply been inspired by his senses of history and right and wrong to take to the air with both lungs breathing fire. While he has increasingly become an enemy of the state, the support he's received from his network bosses has been complete. In fact, MSNBC reran his September 11 "Countdown" commentary on Friday night and featured him as a guest on the "Today" show that same morning, which the host obviously appreciates."Yet at the same time I actually don't feel I've changed what I'm saying much at all," he maintains. "I believe it's this administration's continued move away from reality and toward rewriting our history that has made what I'm saying finally seem more relevant. That's the truth."Reuters/Hollywood Reporter© Reuters 2006. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by caching, framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world.Close This WindowAlamaine, IVeGrand Forks, ND, US of A~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)Don't ask about caste or riches but instead ask about conduct. Look at the flames of a fire. Where do they come from? From a piece of wood"and it doesn't matter what wood. In the same way, a wise person can come from wood of any sort. It is through firmness and restraint and a sense of truth that one becomes noble, not through caste. -Sutta Nipata~~~In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without 

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [A Time 4 Hemp] FW: Marijuana arrests reach all-time high

2006-09-20 Thread james Karl



I'm really sorry to have to send such bad news to you all, but everyone must know the status of cannabis in the USA now. We really have a great deal to do.Note: forwarded message attached.

End the oppression of cannabis and its consumers.Self defense is always correct, andit is never illegal. b_jb2001 
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Newest figures show a continued waste of society's resources in the culture
war.

Skywolf.

_  

From: Allen St. Pierre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]org] 
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 3:09 PM
To: NORML News
Subject: Marijuana arrests reach all-time high

http://www.norml.org  http://www.norml.org/ NORML.org
http://www.norml.org 

September 18, 2006 

http://www.norml.org/images/news/ezine_subtitle.gif 

http://www.norml.org norml.org   

>From NORML.ORG: 

Marijuana Arrests For Year 2005 -- 786,545 Tops Record High Pot Smokers
Arrested In America At A Rate Of One Every 40 Seconds

Washington, DC: Police arrested an estimated 786,545 persons for marijuana
violations in 2005, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's
annual Uniform Crime Report
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/arrests/index.html , released today. The
total is the highest ever recorded by the FBI, and comprised 42.6 percent of
all drug arrests in the United States.

These numbers belie the myth that police do not target and arrest minor
marijuana offenders, said NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre, who
noted that at current rates, a marijuana smoker is arrested every 40 seconds
in America. This effort is a tremendous waste of criminal justice resources
that diverts law enforcement personnel away from focusing on serious and
violent crime, including the war on terrorism.

Of those charged with marijuana violations, approximately 88 percent some
696,074 Americans were charged with possession only. The remaining 90,471
individuals were charged with sale/manufacture, a category that includes
all cultivation offenses even those where the marijuana was being grown for
personal or medical use. In past years, roughly 30 percent of those arrested
were age 19 or younger.

Present policies have done little if anything to decrease marijuana's
availability or dissuade youth from trying it, St. Pierre said, noting
young people in the U.S. now frequently report that they have easier access
to pot than alcohol or tobacco.

The total number of marijuana arrests in the U.S. for 2005 far exceeded the
total number of arrests in the U.S. for all violent crimes combined,
including murder, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated
assault.

Annual marijuana arrests have more than doubled since the early 1990s.

Arresting hundreds of thousands of Americans who smoke marijuana
responsibly needlessly destroys the lives of otherwise law abiding
citizens, St. Pierre said, adding that over 8 million Americans have been
arrested on marijuana charges in the past decade. During this same time,
arrests for cocaine and heroin have declined sharply, implying that
increased enforcement of marijuana laws is being achieved at the expense of
enforcing laws against the possession and trafficking of more dangerous
drugs.

St. Pierre concluded: Enforcing marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers
between $10 billion and $12 billion annually and has led to the arrest of
nearly 18 million Americans. Nevertheless, some 94 million Americans
acknowledge having used marijuana during their lives. It makes no sense to
continue to treat nearly half of all Americans as criminals for their use of
a substance that poses no greater - and arguably far fewer - health risks
than alcohol or tobacco. A better and more sensible solution would be to tax
and regulate cannabis in a manner similar to alcohol and tobacco.

YEARMARIJUANA
ARRESTS

2005
786,545
2004
771,608
2003
755,187
2002   nbs! p;
697,082
2001

[cia-drugs] Thailand's U.S.-Trained Military Mount A Bloodless Coup

2006-09-20 Thread norgesen





Thailand's U.S.-Trained Military Mount A 
Bloodless Coup

By Richard S. 
Ehrlich
Wednesday, 20 
September 2006, 8:45 am

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Troops from Thailand's U.S.-trained military, backed by 
tanks and armored personnel carriers, seized the prime minister's office on 
Tuesday (September 19) night and filled TV screens with propaganda, in a 
bloodless coup led by a "revolutionary body" to end corruption and stop 
perceived attacks on the king. 
"There has been social division like never before," a self-appointed Military 
Reform Council announced without identifying its members. 
"Each side has been trying to conquer another with all possible means, and 
the situation tends to intensify with growing doubts on the administration, amid 
widespread reported corruption," it said, seeming to acknowledge criminal 
allegations against Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. 
"State units, and independent organizations, have been politically meddled 
[with], not able to deliver their services as specified in the Constitution. The 
administration is also usually bordering on 'leste majeste' actions against the 
revered King," it said, making an extremely sensitive accusation which has been 
punishable by imprisonment. 
Coup troops on the street tied yellow ribbons on their weapons, symbolic of 
the color favored by the monarch at a time when many Thais have been wearing 
yellow shirts every week to display their loyalty to King Bhumibol Adulyadej 
during his 60th year on the throne. 
"The revolutionary body thus needs to seize power. We have no intention to 
rule, but to return the power to the people as soon as possible, to preserve 
peace, and honor the King who is the most revered to all Thais." 
The statement was broadcast in Thai language on domestic TV stations and 
translated into English by the Nation newspaper. 
Crucially the king, born in Cambridge, Mass., did not immediately appear to 
publicly voice his support for, or against, the coup.

Many Thais will wait for his blessing, or criticism, before deciding how to 
react to soldiers crushing democracy. 
The frail constitutional monarch, 78, has limited political power, but is 
regarded as a "father" of all Thais and attracts devout emotional loyalty, 
psychologically trumping the influence of any prime minister or general. 
Thailand has suffered more than a dozen coups and coup attempts since the 
1930s. Some coups initially appeared to be a military success, but quickly 
crumbled after the king declined to support the new regime. 
In the 1970s, and in 1992, military coup leaders remained in power until 
deadly insurrections by common citizens in Bangkok forced changes at the top 
amid widespread revulsion against the army's dictators. 
This Buddhist-majority, Southeast Asian nation did not seem to be in 
immediate danger of ending its tight military alliance with the United States, 
or Bangkok's robust capitalist policies. 
Before the announcement, the prime minister appeared to lamely insist he was 
in control by declaring via TV on Tuesday (Sept. 19) a "serious emergency law in 
Bangkok from now on." 
But he did so while in New York City attending the United Nations General 
Assembly, far from the tanks, armored personnel carriers and Humvees rumbling 
through Bangkok's rainy night. 
Critics of Mr. Thaksin's democratically elected government had hoped to put 
him on trial for tax evasion and other alleged crimes, and seize his family's 
vast wealth. 
Mr. Thaksin's next move, and when he will return home, remained unclear. 
Domestic TV programs were knocked off the air during the military move on 
Tuesday night, and instead broadcast loops showing the king and his family, 
accompanied by royal anthems and music -- signals that the government was no 
longer in control, but the new regime loved the king. 
Around midnight, live CNN and BBC broadcasts from Bangkok via satellite 
disappeared from Thailand's TVs, replaced by advisories apologizing for the 
interruption and then by blackness. 
Mr. Thaksin's woes date back to February when his family sold its stake in 
its Shin Corp. telecommunications empire to Singapore's government-owned Temasek 
Holdings investment group for 1.9 billion U.S. dollars. 
The Thaksin family did not pay taxes on the deal, insisting it was done 
offshore and legally did not qualify for Thai tax. 
Huge, peaceful street demonstrations in Bangkok began in March demanding Mr. 
Thaksin resign, but he had been elected by a vast majority in 2001 and 2005, so 
he held a snap election in April to confirm his mandate. 
Though he also won that poll, it was later deemed illegal, and fresh 
elections were scheduled for Oct. 15, and then shifted to mid-November, which he 
was expected to win. 
Though despised by much of Bangkok's wealthy elite and middle class, 
including Thai media, business leaders, students, intellectuals and others, the 
prime minister was very popular in the countryside where most people live, 
because his cheap 

[cia-drugs] Re: Fwd: [ctrl] Olbermann navigates tightrope minus a net

2006-09-20 Thread muckblit
I think it was Keith Olbermann who was the only media pundit to cover
the FEMA death camp scandal right after Hurrican Katrina.

Delaying the USAF airport opening team for four days, FEMA hid eighty
living sick people under cover of a room labelled morgue at the New
Orleans airport. The USAF team could have re-opened the airport with its
portable radar and flight control electronics and landing lights and
generators, and then those eighty people would have been flown out.
There was no flooding to prevent busing people as they arrived at the
stadium and convention center, and then flying out the medically needy,
from Monday afternoon on.

Pastor Toby Nelson of California, Doctors Perlmutter and Gerhardt found
the false morgue, and tried to save sixty of the eighty living. They
could only get half a dozen past FEMA, but all of those were revived by
simply allowing them to drink WATER! Not even an IV, but they  were in
condition to DRINK water--they did need medical attention but FEMA
prevented them from receiving any. FEMA removed the disappeared the
living from the death camp cum morgue overnight. Only in the version
involving Pastor Toby Nelson was it said that FEMA was sequestering
living people in a room called morgue, other versions mention
Perlmutter and Gerhardt as being blocked from attending consenting
patients in a FEMA clinic at the airport.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/msearch?query=perlmutter+katrina
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/message/31475

-Bob

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 Begin forwarded message:

  From: Alamaine, IVe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Date: September 20, 2006 8:19:35 AM PDT
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: [ctrl] Olbermann navigates tightrope minus a net
  Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?
  type=televisionNewsstoryID
 
=2006-09-19T075408Z_01_N19319823_RTRIDST_0_TELEVISION-OLBERMANN-DC.XML
 
  Olbermann navigates tightrope minus a net
  Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:53 AM ET
 
  By Ray Richmond
 
  LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Keith Olbermann sometimes feels
  as if
  he's out there by himself on the high wire, a lone (or nearly lone)
  voice
  of reason in a world gone mad. Emboldened by the left as the right
  man in
  the right place at the right time, dismissed by the right as a Bush-
  bashing tool of liberal propagandists, the host-anchor of MSNBC's
  nightly
  Countdown newsmagazine has long been a zealous polarizing force as
a
  journalist who wears his heart in plain sight.
 
  But while using his platform in part to protect what he sees as
truth,
  justice and the American way and its ongoing assault from the Bush
  administration, Olbermann has suddenly evolved into more than
  merely Bill
  O'Reilly's sardonic whipping post. He's morphed before our eyes
  into the
  second coming of Howard Beale.
 
  Surely you remember Howard. He was the character (played with Oscar-
  winning brilliance by Peter Finch) who took on the establishment
  with his
  televised mad as hell rants in the seminal and prescient film
  Network, which this fall marks 30 years since its release.
 
  While Olbermann has fully embodied the Beale zeitgeist more than
  ever, he
  has done so with decidedly more clear-eyed focus than the manic rage
  practiced by that particular fictitious icon. Over the past three
  weeks,
  he has crafted and delivered a pair of impassioned, acerbic essays
  that
  first slammed defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld (on August 30) and
  then,
  on September 11, one skewering President Bush for his politicizing
the
  events of five years before.
 
  An excerpt: How dare you, Mr. President, after taking cynical
  advantage
  of the unanimity and love, and transmuting it into fraudulent war
and
  needless death, after monstrously transforming it into fear and
  suspicion
  and turning that fear into the campaign slogan of three elections?
 
  It was a devastating and lengthy commentary that last week became an
  immediate sensation in the video download universe (earning nearly
  300,000 page views on YouTube alone). Coincidentally or no,
  Olbermann's
  household numbers are up 73% in the first two weeks of September
from
  August.
 
  While there is no argument that Olbermann can at times be self-
  indulgent,
  somewhat arrogant, over the top and stridently passionate, he is
  also the
  most compelling news personality of his generation. Love him or
  hate him,
  he is a charismatic, righteously indignant force of nature who is
  inspiring fervent cheers and detesting jeers in equal measure.
 
  No voice came to me and told me to do this, Olbermann says. It's
  simply the eruption of the need to say something. If this country
was
  founded on anything, it's the fight to the death to protect the
  right of
  someone to say that which you disagree with. I just think maybe I'm
  first
  in voicing skepticism of the administration that's been irrationally
  muted.