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Back at ya links to:
I Own the World: Olbermann Learns That Unrequited Love Hurts
(come for the post, stay for the comments…) and
Snark and Boobs: Olbermann (And Maddow) Learn That Unrequited Love Hurts
…for featuring this info–and link–in their posts!

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Keith Olbermann Countdown Pledge: “I hereby pledge that I will not buy this perversion of health-care reform”

Keith Olbermann: “Fine me, Jail Me!” Not Gonna Buy Federally Mandated Perverted Insurance

Tonight on Keith Olbermann’s MSNBC Countdown, Keith Olbermann told viewers what he really thought about the “heinous mandate” of Obama’s healthcare reform now that it seems that the public and single payer options and Medicare buyin may be removed:

“The Senate Bill with the mandate must be defeated, if not in the Senate, then in the House. Health care reform that benefits the industry at the cost of the people is intolerable and there are no moral constructs in which it can be supported. And if still the bill, and this heinous mandate become law, there is yet further reaction required. I call on all those whose conscience urges them to fight to use the only weapon that will left to us if this bill as currently constituted becomes law. We must not buy federally-mandated insurance, if this cheesy counterfeit of reform is all we can buy. No single payer? No sale. No public option? No sale. No Medicare buy-in? No sale.

I am one of the self-insured, albeit by choice. And I hereby pledge that I will not buy this perversion of health-care reform. Pass this at your peril, senators. And sign it at yours, Mr. President. I will not buy this insurance. Brand me a law-breaker if you choose. Fine me if you will. Jail me if you must. But if the Medicare buy-in goes but the mandate stays, the people who fought so hard and and sincerely to bring sanity to this system must kill this mutated, ugly version of their dream because those elected by us, to act for us, have forgotten what must be the golden rule of healthcare reform. It is the same rule to which physicians are bound by oath: First, do no harm.

Goodnight, and good luck.”

By LBG

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