Robert L. Peters

15 May 2008

Olbermann To Bush…

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From the Huffington Post (thanks Nancy Wynn)

“Last night, Keith Olbermann unleashed what may well have been his angriest, most blistering Special Comment yet, aimed squarely at his favorite target: President Bush. Olbermann was responding to Bush’s claim that he had given up golf in honor of the Iraq war—and his assertion that a Democratic president withdrawing from Iraq would “eventually lead to another attack on the United States”—a statement Olbermann called “ludicrous, infuriating, holier-than-thou and most importantly bone-headedly wrong.” Olbermann continued in that vein for a full 12 minutes (or 2,000 words), frequently raising his voice and spitting out his words in disgust…

Olbermann turned Bush’s reference to “cold-blooded killers who will kill people to achieve their political objectives” around and threw it back at him, saying that such killers were “those in—or formerly in—your employ, who may yet be charged some day with war crimes.” It didn’t get any milder—saying that, to Bush, “freedom is just a brand name,” and pointing out that al Qaeda in Iraq was a result of the invasion: “Terrorism inside Iraq is your creation, Mr. Bush!” Olbermann also criticized Bush’s statement that he was “told by people” that there were WMDs in Iraq: “People? What people?… Mr. Bush, you destroyed the evidence that contradicted the resolution you jammed down the Congress’s throat, the way you jammed it down the nation’s throat.”

A cathartic rant worth taking in… and perhaps(!?) a sign that the U.S.’s cowed media might eventually find its voice again? The concerned world watches, hopes, and prays…

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