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There are those rare moments in life when you realize you are watching something special. I have felt this a few times in my life — the Red Sox wining the world series, Barack Obama’s 2004 convention speech — but tonight Keith Olbermann added a moment to my list. It was the last ten minutes of the show and in retrospect might be one of the defining moments of his career.

It was famously said by LBJ, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost America.” He said this because the most trusted man in America went on TV live from Vietnam and said, “But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.”

While Olbermann’s appeal is to a liberal audience and is clearly not the trusted man in American nor even on cable for that matter. Tonight he made remarks which at least to me as a defining moment in his career and possibly like Cronkite’s remarks a turning point in this war. Not the war abroad but the war at home.

Please watch and try to find the time to watch it all.

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