From the transcript now, some of the highlights of that marvelous Keith Olbermann rant I mentioned below:
… a decision that might actually have more dire implications [i.e., more dire than the Civil War] than “Dred Scott v Sandford” … no checks on the ability of corporations or unions or other giant aggregations of power to decide our elections … they will implant the legislators of their choice in every office from President to head of the Visiting Nurse Service … will erase whatever checks there might still exist … the ability of corporations to decide the laws … It is almost literally true that any political science fiction nightmare you can now dream up, no matter whether you are conservative or liberal, it is now legal … the entirely bought and sold politicians, can change any laws … within ten years, every politician in this country will be a prostitute … So, like in ancient Rome or medieval England, [unions] will necessarily be strangled by the stronger sibling, the corporations, so they pose no further threat to the Corporations’ total control of our political system … Be prepared, then, for wars sold as the “new products” which Andy Card once described them as, year-after-year, as if they were new Fox Reality Shows, because Military Industrial Complex Corporations are still corporations … this corporate nation … racial and religious profiling … the United Corporate States of America … those poor dumb manipulated bastards, the Tea Partiers … watch them be banished, maybe outlawed … the Judas Goats of American Freedom … presumably President Palin, because if you need a friendly face of fascism, you might as well get one that can wink, and if you need a tool of whichever large industries buy her first, you might as well get somebody who lives up to that word “tool” … If there are any small towns left to take-over, Wal-Mart can now soften them up with carpet advertising for their Wal-Mart town council candidates, brought to you by Wal-Mart … buy and install their own city governments … personally wealthy men like John Kerry to become the paupers of the Senate, or the ones like Mike Bloomberg not even surviving the primary against Halliburton’s choice for Mayor of New York City … Be prepared for the end of what you’re watching now … the propagandists like Fox for that matter, because Fox inflames people against the state, and after today’s ruling, the corporations will only need a few more years of inflaming people … Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh don’t even realize it: today, John Roberts just cut their throats too … Kiss net neutrality goodbye. Kiss whatever right to privacy you think you currently have, goodbye … who stops Rupert Murdoch from buying the Associated Press? … This decision, which in mythology would rank somewhere between “The Bottomless Pit” and “The Opening Of Pandora’s Box” … sold into bondage alongside the rest of us … The Republicans, Conservatives, Joe Liebermans, and Tea Partiers are in the front aisle at the political prostitution store. They are specially discounted old favorites for their Corporate Masters. … Only later will it be hot. Then unbearable. Then flames. And the conservatives will burn with the rest of us. … corporations destroy free speech. … the raping and pillaging of the First Amendment, by people who can buy the First Amendment … the Quisling of freedom of speech in this country … corporations who now buy the school boards which decide which history books get printed … The next nine men and women on the Supreme Court will get there not because of their judgement nor even their politics. They will get there because they were appointed by purchased presidents and confirmed by purchased Senators … Supreme Court-sanctioned murder of what little actual Democracy is left in this Democracy. It is government of the people by the corporations for the corporations. It is the Dark Ages. It is our Dred Scott. I would suggest a revolution but a revolution against the corporations? The corporations that make all the guns and the bullets? …
It’s spectacular, from the first batshit enthymeme to the quiver-lipped finale.
