Monday's Special Comment

[Bill]

Keith Olbermann had a special comment on Monday regarding the passage of Prop 8. If you're familiar with Keith's Special Comments, the tone of this one is very different; Keith seemed close to tears toward the end.

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Transcript:
thenewshole.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/11/10/1667759.aspx

Some excellent related Daily Kos Diaries:

Keith Olbermann is in tears
www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/10/205727/71/173/658861

Keith Olbermann: You Have Changed My Mind Forever.
www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/11/14833/671/837/657164

Prop 8's Silver Lining
www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/11/123851/24/812/659239

[Brian]

Wow, thank you for all of that, Bill! I missed Monday's "Countdown."

[Susan]

Yes I saw Olbermann's comments on Prop 8. I agree he seemed near tears. Very moving actually!

[Bill]

I mentioned to Brian about a diary tonight; a confrontation between a lesbian couple and some prop-8 proponents, pre-election. So I thought I'd provide the link.

www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/28/113518/72/159/644637

[Brian]

Those journals really are excellent, Bill. I'm grateful you brought them to my attention. I can't get over the one by the lower-case christian who's mind was changed by Keith. (Hope it's real! I'm even more skeptical of the Internets than I am of the mainstream media.)

Frankly, I've been envious about all the feet on the street since Proposition 8 passed. Where were these people when we marched against the war in Iraq? (Or before the election on Nov. 4.) How are they so well organized? What motivates them? I've been reading a lot. This story from Saturday's Los Angeles Times...

www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-elcoyote15-2008nov15,0,6294928.story

...deals less with means of technology, like social networking sites, blogs, text messaging and online donating, and more with the ends -- the hurt and anger being expressed through retribution and extortion.

Fear and loathing catapulted the Latter Day Saints to raise $5 million in the final weekend before the election when it looked like Prop 8 might go down, according to an exclusive on the front page of Saturday's New York Times. Maybe that's when the manager of El Coyote ponied up her measly $100.