Posted on 02/24/2010 8:12:34 PM PST by Libloather
On MSNBC, Keith Olbermann describes how his father cries, "Help, help, help. Kill me."
Keith says saving his father's life would be torture.
Commiecare™ is a 'life panel'.
Do you have a link to a shot of this?
It isn’t over yet.
If Keith Olbermann was my son I’d beg for death, too.
If he was my kid I’d want to die too!
It sounds to me like the senior Mr. Olbermann is not being given the proper pain medication and should be accessed by a new doctor.
I’m glad no one took me at my word while I was going through child delivery. Turns out it was the best thing that every happened to me, so far. just sayin’
correction:::: ASSESSED by a new doctor, an expert in pain management.
Post of the day.
Not allowed under Commiecare™.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/24/keith-olbermanns-emotiona_n_475973.html
“”Keith Olbermann’s Emotional Special Comment: ‘My Father Asked Me To Kill Him’ (VIDEO)
“Last Friday night, my father asked me to kill him.”
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“It was just too much for my father,” Olbermann said. “’Stop this,’ he mouths. ‘Stop, stop, stop.’”
Olbermann said he resorted to gallows humor, asking his father, “What, you want me to smother you with a pillow?” And his father responded, mouthing, “Yes, kill me.”
“And as I left the hospital that night, the full impact of the last six months washed over me,” Olbermann said. “That conversation, that one, was what these ghouls who are walking into Blair House tomorrow morning called death panels. Your right to have that conversation with a doctor. Not the government, but a doctor. And your right to have insurance pay for his expertise on what your options are when dad says ‘Kill me’ or what your options are when dad is in a coma and can’t tell you a damn thing.”
Olbermann then laid into those who spread fear about death panels.
“That, right now, is the legacy of the protests of these subhumans who get paid by the insurance companies, who say these things for their own political gain, or like that one fiend, for money,” Olbermann said. “Betsy McCaughey told people tht this conversation about life and death and relief and release...she told people that’s a death panel and she did that for money! It’s a life panel. A life panel. It can save the pain of the patient and the family. It’s the difference between you guessing what happens next and you being informed about what probably will. And that’s the difference between you sleeping at night or second-guessing and third-guessing and thirtieth-guessing yourself.”
“It’s a life panel, and damn those who call it otherwise to hell!” he said.
Olbermann closed the comment with news that his father has not awoken since Friday, and that it’s now possible he never recovers.
“So considering that if he does not recover you will not see me here for a while, I have some requests,” he said. “Please, have this conversation with your loved ones. Don’t wait. Do it now. It’s tough. It acknowledges death, and it also narrows the gray area you and they will face from infinity to a foot wide. It is my greatest comfort right now and I want it to be yours. And to the politicians who go into Blair House tomorrow, for that summit, I have some requests as well. Leave your egos at the door. I want, I demand that you give everybody in this country a chance at the care my father has gotten. And I demand that you enact this most generous and kind aspect of the reform proposed, the right to bill the damned insurance company for the conversation about what to do when the time comes. The life panel.”
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After watching more than 30 seconds of Keith Olbermann I start to say the same thing.
It should be no surprise that Olbermann worships Death. The sad thing is that so many others do also.
Yes. I would have thought that his father had died of shame long ago.
I caught a good part of that, but not all. Did you catch the part where he called all the Town Hallers and Tea Poartiers ...get his..”subhumans”? and where he said Palin called their DemoCult death panels: “Death Panels” .. “for money!”?
Talk about lying euphemisms.
Liberals! (shaking head)
His Dad’s condition makes Keith uncomfortable, so Keith wants an easy out.
This level of selfishness in Keith is perfectly consistent with his selfish, liberal perspective on life.
Don’t send me any “Have you ever.....” notes!
Yes! Twice! (in addition to my own battles)
They should show this clip to the elder Olbermann. He’ll die of shame on the spot.
Whatever it takes, he must be kept alive ~
Just how far from the pain tree can this guy have fallen anyway?
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