Here’s a video montage of Keith Olbermann’s Countdown on MSNBC. I believe it’s from May 26, 2010, it features the Geto Boys.

Enjoy

The people that are dumping millions of dollars into the Tea Party “movement” don’t want you to know that they’re dumping millions of dollars into the Tea Party. The problem is that their logos are all over Tea Party documents and Web sites.

Koch Industries went out of their way to tell the news media that they don’t have anything to do with the Tea Party – nobody asked. But their claim is only true if you don’t look at the facts. Koch CEO Charles Koch has been involved with Tea Party sponsor Americans for Prosperity for years and years. Koch Industries has shoveled more than $4 million into AFP since 2005. Just visit the AFP Web site and you’ll clearly see that they support the Tea Party.

The Tea Party is not a grassroots, or populist, movement. It’s not a movement at all. It’s a well-funded political operation designed to get Republicans elected in November.

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I Get the Tea Party Now by keith
Keith Olbermann on the Tea Party Ruse with Politco’s Kenneth Vogel by keith

If you have a heart, you might get a bit choked up watching this special comment by Keith Olbermann. It’s about his dad who’s quite probably not going to live much longer. It’s a message to the politicians who are going to President Obama’s health care summit tomorrow. And it’s a message to the people out there who have gotten so damn cynical about what health care really means to real people. Playing gotcha politics is fun, and good for a laugh, but real people are dealing with life and death every day, and this stuff matters to them.

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The Countdown on MSNBC reported some interesting poll numbers about the attitude of voters regarding the support for health care reform, a public option and what’s motivating Republican opposition.

One question in the CBS News/New York Times poll asked the interviewee if they thought the GOP was opposing health care reform because they truly believe it’s bad for the country, or rather, if Republican Senators and Representatives are motivated by political reasons.

Forty-three percent of Republican voters believe that the GOP is driven to oppose reform for political reasons. Eighty percent of Democrats believe that.

The poll also shows that 49 percent of Republican voters believe the GOP truly thinks reforming health care reform is bad for the country.

And despite that, 80 percent of Democrats think Republican politicians are only interested in playing politics with health care reform, 54 percent think Democrat members of Congress should seek a compromise with Republicans.

While it’s never wise to put too much faith in a poll, this one appears to show that Republican voters are seeing through the rhetoric of GOP member of Congress and Democrats remain in a clueless fog of denial.

Regarding a public health care, 47 percent of Republican voters support it, and 11 percent haven’t even made up their mind yet. The question for members of Congress up for election next year is whether they can get re-elected by opposing a viable public option or not.

And the question for voters is whether they think simply tweaking the current employer-based private for-profit health insurance system is all we need to do to drive down the cost of health care. Or if real reform that includes a stronger role for government to keep health care from bankrupting the country is a must. We shall see.