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Colbert – The Word – Ownership Society

“Stephen’s refreshing tax cut with lime will work its way through the system and trickle down like a racehorse” Explaining the trickle down theory and Bush’s tax cuts with Bud Light

Olbermann – Rove rewrites history

Not a surprise that Karl Rove, ‘Bush’s brain’ would have a view of the lead-up to the Iraq war totally out of sync with proven facts.

Maddow More torture documents to be released

Michael Isikoff says, “…a couple of months ago, just before those interrogation memos were released, I and others had said it was going to be a key test of the Obama presidency‘s commitment to transparency if they disclose those memos.

If they did, it would open the floodgates for a lot of this to come pouring out, and we‘d begin to see the full scope, the full story of the program. But what‘s actually turned out is rather than that – that one disclosure being a big breakthrough, it‘s become trench warfare. Document by document, a fight goes on over it in which the CIA and the intelligence community have pushed back hard.” Read the transcripts here

Olbermann – Cheney takes another pot shot at Obama

Lies and the lying liars that tell them… more from the former Bush Administration. Somebody tell Cheney to GO AWAY!!!

Olbermann – Special Comment – US Future depends upon torture accountability

In light of the recent revelation of torture memos or torture manuals ascribed to and developed by the Bush administration and Obama’s decision not to prosecute, Keith delivers a special comment. Read the memos in full here

Olbermann – Bush pals spin legacy

picture-16How artful, crafty types paint lipstick on a pig… but, yes, it is still a pig. Jonathan Alter talks with Keith about unemployed Bush officials and bamboozlement.

Maddow – Legal jeopardy – will Bush legal team be held accountable?

Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff talks about the infamous torture memos and the possibility the legal machinations may lead to disbarment of the lawyers involved.

The Daily Show – Fox News fear imbalance

picture-141Fox News is having a hard time saying goodbye to George W Bush, or is it they are having a hard time saying hello to Barack Obama?

The Daily Show – You don’t know Dick – farewell

picture-112While we may not have agreed with some of the decisions Dick Cheney has made, we can all agree that we can’t call them mistakes.

Olbermann – Special Comment – Bush guilty of torture

picture-10There appears to be some waffling on the part of the president-elect as regards applying the rule of law equally, even to former presidents.

Olbermann – Eight years in eight minutes

picture-61Olbermann recaps the Bush presidency in eight minutes.

The Daily Show – Bush kept us safe, except for Sundays and 9/11

picture-33Bush finally has an exit strategy – to spin his administration as a success

The Daily Show – Only six days, seven nights till it is almost over

picture-14Hard to envision a more pathetic final press conference. It should be noted that even the press were disinterested in attending this historic moment and they had to fill the back two rows with interns.

The Daily Show – Peer presser

picture-32An artful comparison of the incoming vs outgoing presidential manner of handling questions from the press.