Olbermann’s special comment on the Health Care Summit

No dying parent, person should be paraded on national television as a political puppet. I'm sorry that Olbermann's father is ill, but this is a new low for Olbermann.

Thanks for remenbering this point Antony, using his father suffering for attaining a political gain that is COMPLETELY unrelated to his father problem

I do not have the luxury of a mass audience to tell my Mom's story, she was a devout christian lady and still knew enough to sign a living will. There were no questions about anything that we could not get answers for. What his dad is experiencing is not life, I hope he can get the right answers from whomever he needs to. We as a country cannot afford to give all the folks in the country the comfort the family might think they deserve. This exactly what I will do as my mom did and just pass on as is expected. It's obvious keith loves his dad and thinks the man is the greatest that ever lived, but in that leave him some dignity to go when he should.

Wow Olbermann you are a sucker! I cant believe he brought Palin into this, and that he damned everyone who votes against the bill to Hell. It's to bad that his father couldn't have gotten sick while we have gov run health care because right now they would be discussing whether its worth it to keep his father alive.

Aren't conservatives all about the family making decisions??? The last time I checked the “death panels” were not individual doctors chosen by the patient (conservative idea) consulting with the family, but a chart or plan taking into account the number of quality years left. This is what has been proposed by Ezekiel Emmanuel, Rahm's brother, as the death panels. Everybody on the left places politics into EVERYTHING, i guess including their own father's unfortunate circumstance. Everything he claimed; family decisions, personal doctor advise, is straight forward conservatism.

Somehow I DOUBT that his dad's actually asked him to say ANYTHING even including his story on national television.

On another note, it sounds like he's only really saying something about the panel portion of the healthcare bill.

I've learned a few things. First off…NOBODY'S gonna LET his dad DIE. Hospitals are OBLIGATED under CURRENT healthcare to treat you if you are in critical condition. It maybe not be the best and sedation drugs might not be used, but you WILL be treated even if you don't have a dime under the current system.

Who's to say that'll happen with Obama Care?

Also…let's FACE IT. The BEST healthcare is ABSOLUTELY FREE. Eat right and excercise.

My old man actually laid it out for me the difference between paying for medical procedures as they come along and just saving up money into an account of some sort for it.

I can SAVE money for myself and my family as long as we're HEALTHY and I put my “monthly premiums” into MY OWN ACCOUNT INSTEAD as a “rainy day fund”. It's all a gamble anyway, but WE should be FREE TO CHOOSE that gamble. DON'T MAKE me buy something I DON'T WANT.

Those are just MY thoughts on the healthcare debate.

WOW!! I just saw the Palin video. I've gotta attack BOTH parties on this one.

This shows Keith's HYPOCRACY by attacking her for using her daughters as a prop and then him doin it, but I HAVE seen her DO THAT THOUGH.

So…this video just supports both Anti-Olbermann AND Anti-Palin beliefs I hold dear.

Back to the old left-wing way of have to have it BOTH ways.

Actually I'm more interested to see the MSM hyperventilating when the ''Most Dumbest, not intelectual stupid Conservative Woman'' become President Sarha Palin

Just for fun lol about her policies, well nothing is perfect but except Ron Paul, I see none else in the horizon

Obama is a though leader ? He doesn't have the guts to to tell the truth, His Afgan strategy sucks and His approach to Iran is worthy to a 5 year old

Change we can believe in ? The Saudi and Israel will finaly come togueter and take out Iran Nuclear Plants while Obama is reading Teleprompter !

I feel sorry for his father, but Olbermann was a total douche. When he talked about Republicans not coming out of the room I couldn't help but remember of when he also wanted someone to walk Hillary Clinton into a room from which she would not leave…. And the man that said this wants the government to control your health care.

Keiths points would have been more powerful if he would have resisted the urge to attack Palin. He should have just told the story and tried to leave politics out of it.

The same story could easily be used to show that the system works. People get insurance if they want it and they get quality medical care and they get “life” panels if thats what you want to call them.

Hannity made a really awesome point about the way that liberals try to come off as more morally righteous and more compassionate as their reason for wanting to provide healthcare to the uninsured people…but they DON'T wanna do this with THEIR money. They wanna show their compassion with OUR money.

I give respect to Olbermaan senior, the courage and attitude are laudable. I have to agree with Anthony on the new low for Keith though. For shame.

Wow, 12 min. on national TV to set that up? (I wonder what the commercial cost of that would be?) I have not seen such a blatant appeal to emotion. Period. Chuck in the Straw Man argument and then a fallacious appeal to authority to boot. Wow, K. Olbermann, you really are on a roll. Look them up, I only listed a few… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

1st, The fact that he had this conversation and has been able to work this out currently, PROVES that we do not need this bill, and that no one is being denied the option to have this discussion with their doctors and children.

2nd, it is not a right to discuss healthcare, it is a personal responsibility. If you fail to do so, it is your own choice. I am tired of all the 'rights' that are being invented on the spot.

3rd. I really, really, really don't appreciate, and cannot respect anyone that damns me to hell over semantics, and have absolutely no respect for anyone invoking the Lord God in profanity. Classless and insulting. I got how he felt from the other 12 minutes, it is a proof that he believes me incapable of understanding him unless he 'stoops' to explain his anger.

And finally, 4th, he misrepresented the conservative position. Sure is easy to attack the opposition when you get to decide where they stand… sadly, he got that wrong again, as proved by the first point, by Mr. Olbermann himself.

My parting thought… If discussing end-of-life is a 'right', then it CANNOT be forced, unless you also believe that the government should provide guns to every citizen, as the second amendment spells the 'right to bear arms'.

I feel Keith just sullied a sacred moment for his father and his family, and only succeeded in making me feel dirty in the process; the whole situation is none of my business. The lingering moments between a dying parent and their child should not be broadcast as an ill-constructed political ploy on national TV.

I have yet to see how he could say someone right now saying 'help, help' cannot get help because they can't pay for it. That's not true. I went to the ER with a bacterial strep A infection, spent days in the hospital, got GREAT care and never had to prove during that time how I was going to pay for it. I don't recall any doctors or nurses stopping my treatments because they had to verify how I was paying first. That is a ridiculous argument.

While I feel for the Olbermann family and their current trials, I can't help but feel that the whole “performance” is somewhat theatrical. While no doubt it is a trying time, it just seems like a show to make a certain point.

Never mind the fact that if health care legislation would have passed years ago that Mr. Olbermann's father would be getting care in another country or would have passed already.