A montage to the great Leon Trotsky!! Hero of the Soviet Union, True heir after Lenin, comrade of all workers.

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McCain tries to claim that the surge started before it started...insane? I think so.

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BillO the clown voice: "Al Gore now is done. He's done, OK. He is not a man of respect, he doesn't have any judgment. The fact that he went to this thing is the same as if he stepped into the Klan gathering. It's the same. No difference. None. OK. He loses all credibility with me. All credibility." Keith: "Here's a buffoon who works for FOX News which took a photograph of Jacques Steinberg of the New York Times and altered it to enlarge his nose and his ears — actually copied the propaganda techniques of the 1930's and he's comparing anyone else on the planet to the Nazis?! Check out your bosses offices, Bill. And your mirror, k?"

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The ad exploits "a distorted stereotype of the Mafia, and of labor unions as tools of organized crime" to misrepresent legislation that, despite what the ad implies, would actually make it easier for workers to organize unions.

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Tribute To Leon Trotsky

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Hillary hoses Billo on Universal Heathcare.

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Soviet Russia will rise again!

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Scenes from the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (German Democratic Republic) or DDR (GDR), a socialist state which existed between 1949 - 1990. This is a techno version of the national anthem "Auferstanden aus Ruinen", composed by Hanns Eisler with lyrics originally written by the poet Johannes R. Becher (they were dropped and reinstated at various points in East Germany's existence depending on the political climate!).

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Keith Olbermann looks at Oregon's Measure 50, a proposed cigarette tax to fund for children's health insurance, which ended up being the most expensive referendum in the state's history. The bill failed, no doubt due in part to the enormous money pumped into the No on 50 movement by cigarette companies and Republicans like Grover Norquist. Michael Moore chimes in with a hope that the Democratic presidential contenders reconsider their own health plans to eliminate the part that is broken: letting health insurance companies dictate treatment. To that end, he encourages those interested in really fixing health care in this country to support John Conyers' HR 676.

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Deborah Shank's story would have been sad enough, considering the devastating injuries she suffered in a traffic accident seven years ago. Nevertheless, Wal-Mart found a way to add a brutal coda. Wal-Mart started out as one of the good guys in this story, paying almost $470,000 of her initial medical bills. But three years after Shank's husband sued and settled with the semi driver's employer, the retail giant changed hats. It demanded every penny back, plus interest and legal fees — more, in fact, than the $417,477 the settlement had placed in a special-needs Medicaid trust fund for Shank's future healthcare expenses.

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President Bush has been doing his best to remind the American people that he's still around, and what better way to do that than to throw a few hissy fits? As Keith Olbermann says on today's Countdown, from the tone of Bush's voice, it sounds like he's just given up. The president is once again chiding House Democrats for drafting new FISA legislation that does not include amnesty for telecommunications companies who illegally spied on Americans, calling those companies - "patriotic." Right. Rachel Maddow joined Keith and as always, her analysis is spot on. She points out that President Bush was willing to veto the safety of the American people all in the name of protecting corporations and himself from prosecution. They also touch on the "resignation" of Admiral Fallon and how it was obviously a shot across the bow of anyone in the Pentagon who wants to be a real patriot and save the country from launching another unprovoked war against a sovereign nation. Maddow:"The other part of this strategy is that they're using a biplane to fly a picture of Eric Shinseki around the Pentagon to remind everybody what happens when people don't toe the line and do something that's right instead of what the President wants."

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Huey P Long "Share the Wealth"

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The Republican CNN/YouTube debate looked more like an episode of Jerry Springer than a presidential debate. Senator John McCain was asked a question about taxes and decided to go way off topic and attack Rep. Ron Paul for his stance on Iraq and wanting to bring the troops home. McCain accused Paul of what he called the same sort of appeasement that allowed Hitler to take power and WWII to happen, and told him he'd just returned from Iraq and said he had a message for Ron from "the troops" — and the audience let him have it. Paul put it right back in his face by reminding him that he has received more donations from active duty military personnel than any other Republican candidate. Oh, did anyone notice Chuck Norris in the audience? This stuff just writes itself...

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Jack Cafferty points to a recent Colorado Supreme Court ruling allowing an anti-abortion group to collect signatures for a ballot measure that would define a fertilized egg as a person and asks his viewers to weigh in on it. The court approved the language of the proposal, rejecting a challenge from abortion-rights supporters who argued it was misleading and dealt with more than one subject in violation of the state constitution. If approved by voters, the measure would give fertilized eggs the state constitutional protections of inalienable rights, justice and due process. Is a fertilized egg a person? What do you think of an issue that has the potential not just to outlaw abortion, but could affect a woman's right to in-vitro fertilization and birth control, not to mention stem cell research, being decided by a referendum?

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Willie Geist on MSNBC's Morning Joe looks at Keith Olbermann's guest turn on The Simpsons, in which he names Marge as the Worst Person in the World (worse than Satan and Mr. Burns? D'oh!) for skipping commercials while watching TV. Gosh, I guess all Keith has to do is get on South Park and he's hit the animated cultural icon trifecta.

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On Tuesday's Countdown, Keith Olbermann takes on the Falafel Guy for his outrageous attacks on Mark Cuban and his total lack of knowledge when it comes to the history of free speech. O'Reilly has suggested that somehow FDR would have arrested and jailed Cuban for producing a movie like Brian De Palma's Redacted (which he admits he's never seen) or for simply criticizing BillO himself. O'Reilly also called on his minions to boycott Redacted and hold signs up saying "support the troops" outside any theater that shows the film and at Maverick games. Like those 70-80 year olds that make up most of Billo's audience are going to go sit outside the American Airlines Center with signs. Cuban responded by challenging The Culture Warrior to watch the movie with him and appear with him on Countdown to talk about the movie — of course, Keith would get to moderate. Olbermann: "He (Cuban) has been under Bill O'Reilly's evil gaze since March of this year and as usual, BillO's King Lear act in which he threatens somebody with terrible consequences and boycotts and plagues of locusts, has produced nothing tangible other than making the object of his impotent rage richer."

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With the news that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is considering not letting the Senate out for holiday recess to prevent Bush from making recess appointments of egregious candidates like Dr. James Holsinger for Surgeon General, Keith continues his series of interviews with John Dean, author of Broken Government exploring the themes of his recent book.

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You knew after his big night at the Oscars Sunday, the far right would come out in full force against former Vice President Gore. Since these single-minded sensationalists never let those pesky "facts" get in the way, Keith breaks down the utility bill.

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Keith Olberman reviews the lack of credibility that has permeated the Commander in Chief on Iraq. Keith: We would be greeted as liberators, with flowers. As they stood up--we would stand down, we would stay the course, we were never 'stay the course',The enemy was al Qaeda, was foreigners, terrorists, Baathists. The war would pay for itself, it would cost 1-point-7 billion dollars, 100 billion, 400 billion, half a trillion dollars. And after all of that, today it is his credibility versus that of generals, diplomats, allies, Republicans, Democrats, the Iraq Study Group, past presidents, voters last November, and the majority of the American people.

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With "The Decider's" decision to wait until next year to announce a change in Iraq strategy, Jack wonders why there is suddenly no rush to change course. Perhaps it has something to do with the ISG Report that bought Mr. Bush the precious political cover he desperately needed after the resounding election results. At least Jack brings us some comic relief with his new nickname for FOX News. Cafferty: "Instead of a Christmas present to the nation and the people of Iraq in the form of a way to stop the insanity, the decider has decided not to decide until January."

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