{"id":30575,"date":"2010-11-06T14:01:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T19:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=30575"},"modified":"2010-11-06T15:25:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T20:25:11","slug":"olbermann-on-citizens-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/olbermann-on-citizens-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Olbermann on Citizens United vs FEC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Olbermann's spceial comment on the Citizens United v FEC decision.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is Olbermann at his best: his special comment on the Citizens United vs Federal Elections Commission<\/em> decision. It took me a whole day to figure it out: This is what Olbermann was protesting against by making those campaign contributions, knowing full well he would be called out on it. See the video here<\/a><\/strong>. Here is a segment of the closed caption transcript, which I have copy edited for accuracy.<\/p>\n

The next nine men and women on the Supreme Court will get there not because of their judgment nor even their politics. They will get there because they were appointed by purchased presidents and confirmed by purchased senators. This is what John Roberts did today. This is a Supreme Court-sanctioned murder of what little actual democracy is left in this democracy. It is government of the people, by the corporations for the corporations. It is the dark ages. It is our Dred Scott<\/em><\/a>. I would suggest a revolution, but a revolution against the corporations? The corporations that make all the guns and the bullets? Maybe it won’t be this bad. Maybe the corporations, legally defined as human beings but without the pesky occasional human attributes of compassion and conscience, maybe when handed the keys to the electoral machine, they will simply not redesign America in their own corporate image. Let me leave you with this final question. After today, who is going to stop them? Good Night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is Olbermann at his best: his special comment on the Citizens United vs Federal Elections Commission decision. It took me a whole day to figure it out: This is what Olbermann was protesting against by making those campaign contributions, knowing full well he would be called out on it. See the video here. Here … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}