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Keith Olbermann Connects Harriet Miers to Pre-9/11 Memo
MRC ^ | Wednesday October 5, 2005 | BrentBaker

Posted on 10/05/2005 10:38:27 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay

Leave it to Keith Olbermann to link the topics of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers and the 9/11 attacks. On his Countdown show on Tuesday night, the MSNBC anchor suggested that Miers was the person who handed President Bush a memo in August 2001 that warned of Osama bin Laden's desire to attack the U.S. This was the same memo that some on the left have used to justify their criticisms that the President should have foreseen and prevented the 9/11 attacks based on the memo's general warnings about bin Laden's intentions. Olbermann teased his Tuesday night show with a photograph of Miers handing the President a memo. He dated the photograph as "August 6, 2001, the day [President Bush] got the PDB, titled 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.'"

Olbermann led his show with the Miers nomination, and, after noting that the President planned not to release Miers' internal White House documents, he returned to the topic of the bin Laden memo, revealing that "there's another document being speculated about tonight," and described the document as the "infamous memo warning [President Bush] that Osama bin Laden was determined to strike in the United States."

Olbermann, in his opening teaser: "Which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? The President meets the press. The Senator whose quote may have inspired the nomination of Harriet Miers turns out to have been a Democrat [Patrick Leahy]. And then there's this photo of Ms. Miers handing the President a document, handing it to him on August 6, 2001, the day he got the PDB titled 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.'"

Olbermann, at about 8:04pm EDT, over a photo of Miers leaning over Bush with a piece of paper in hand: "And there's another document being speculated about tonight: This one. Ms. Miers and President Bush in a photograph going over a briefing paper at his Crawford ranch in 2001. We don't know which briefing paper that is in the photo, but we do know that on that very same day, August 6th, a little over one month before the 9/11 attacks, Ms. Miers handed the President the now-famous or infamous memo warning him that Osama bin Laden was determined to strike in the United States."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; binladen; harrietmiers; keitholbermann; liberalmoonbat; msnbc; olbermannisawhore; patrickleahy; pdb; sportswriterhack
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1 posted on 10/05/2005 10:38:29 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: fight_truth_decay

What's the kearning on that memo?


2 posted on 10/05/2005 10:40:25 AM PDT by TNPatriot (If we aren't the mainstream, why do we nearly control all three branches of Government?)
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To: fight_truth_decay

Now if KO can just tie in Diebold and Halliburton he'll hit the Trifecta.


3 posted on 10/05/2005 10:40:26 AM PDT by Semper Paratus
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To: fight_truth_decay

Who is Keith Olberman?


4 posted on 10/05/2005 10:40:30 AM PDT by trubluolyguy (I am conservative. That is NOT the same thing as Republican. Don't place party over principle.)
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To: fight_truth_decay

Olbermann should go back to sports, but I'm not sure there is a media outlet around that would take him as a sports person.


5 posted on 10/05/2005 10:40:54 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: fight_truth_decay

He could not make it on ESPN, and he is a failure here. His crap continues on PMSNBC.


6 posted on 10/05/2005 10:41:06 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (All democrats are ENEMIES of the Republic!)
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To: fight_truth_decay

I guess that was the only document someone handed to him that day!


7 posted on 10/05/2005 10:41:45 AM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help...)
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To: trubluolyguy

"Who is Keith Olberman?"

Same clown who coined the ESPN phrase "He put the biscuit in the basket" every time he did a hockey highlight. Yeah, he sucked at sports, too.


8 posted on 10/05/2005 10:44:09 AM PDT by goarmy ("Get ready, little lady. Hell's coming to breakfast.")
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To: Semper Paratus

KO is the epitome of a liberal moonbat ~ Bump!

Be Ever Vigilant!


9 posted on 10/05/2005 10:44:57 AM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: fight_truth_decay
Ms. Miers handed the President the now-famous or infamous memo warning him that Osama bin Laden was determined to strike in the United States."

Who handed Bill Clinton the "memo" or intelligence saying the same?

10 posted on 10/05/2005 10:47:00 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: fight_truth_decay
Keith Olbermann

An irrelevant turd in an obscure bowl.

11 posted on 10/05/2005 10:47:21 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
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To: fight_truth_decay
Keith...oh...Keith... you should have stuck to ESPN... instead of trying hard news and proving yourself a complete idiot! (and a leftwing political mouthpiece.)
12 posted on 10/05/2005 10:49:00 AM PDT by Americanwolf (I Served proudly.... how dare you tell me I have no convictions...)
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To: blackie

Moonbat removal BTTT


13 posted on 10/05/2005 10:50:31 AM PDT by calrighty (`Nobody)
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To: fight_truth_decay

Olbermann is a DU god. He is a true kool aid drinker.

For months after the 04 election he continued to hawk stories on how Bush stole Ohio. The DU'ers ate it up, and were sure it was a MSM conservative conspiracy that no one else picked up the story.

It never occured to them the reason the MSM didn't run with it, was that it was a certified moonbat kook theory.


14 posted on 10/05/2005 10:51:01 AM PDT by I still care (America is not the problem - it is the solution..)
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To: fight_truth_decay
Why did Keith wimp out on his story? He should have laid out all of the facts -- which are that the memo Miers handed to him actually listed the flights involved (including date) and their actual targets! Miers knew all of this because the entire 9-11 plot was a Zionist-Bilderburger-Trilateral Commission-CIA creation that was coordinated by the President's father, Karl Rove and Henry Kissinger!

Olbermann resurrects dead attacks on the President just like the New Jersey 'Rat Party resurrects dead Senators.

15 posted on 10/05/2005 10:51:32 AM PDT by You Dirty Rats (They misunderestimated Roberts; now they are misunderestimating Miers)
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To: fight_truth_decay

Talk about wandering out in the fever swamps to find a story that fits your template.

If Harriet Miers was THAT good, how come she didn't nudge out Condoleezza Rice for Secretary of State?


16 posted on 10/05/2005 10:51:43 AM PDT by alloysteel ("Master of the painfully obvious.....")
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To: calrighty

What is MSNBC?


Is that the shopping channel?


17 posted on 10/05/2005 10:52:44 AM PDT by Armedanddangerous (Cindy Sheehan, American Traitor)
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To: I still care
For months after the 04 election he continued to hawk stories on how Bush stole Ohio.

You mean Olbermann has stopped beating that dead horse?

18 posted on 10/05/2005 10:53:14 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Mr. K

Well, he did have a lot of brush to clear. ;-)


19 posted on 10/05/2005 10:55:15 AM PDT by rwa265 (The Promise of the Lord, I Will Proclaim Forever)
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To: fight_truth_decay

Now this is a valuable bit of information on the qualifications of a SCT nominee: She HANDED the President a memo.


20 posted on 10/05/2005 10:56:36 AM PDT by wildbill
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