Yesterday on his MSNBC show Countdown Keith Olbermann delivered what he called a “special commentary” accusing George Bush of now only being concerned with holding on to power for its own sake while keeping his sorry ass out of jail. Powerful stuff."It is a fact startling in its cynical simplicity and it requires cynical and simple words to be properly expressed: The presidency of George W. Bush has now devolved into a criminal conspiracy to cover the ass of George W. Bush. All the petulancy, all the childish threats, all the blank-stare stupidity; all the invocations of World War III, all the sophistic questions about which terrorist attacks we wanted him not to stop, all the phony secrets; all the claims of executive privilege, all the stumbling tap-dancing of his nominees, all the verbal flatulence of his apologists...All of it is now, after one revelation last week, transparently clear for what it is: the pathetic and desperate manipulation of the government, the refocusing of our entire nation, toward keeping this mock president and this unstable vice president and this departed wildly self-overrating attorney general, and the others, from potential prosecution for having approved or ordered the illegal torture of prisoners being held in the name of this country. (For the rest)
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Anyone who thinks that Bush and Cheney are even remotely in danger of being prosecuted are living in Fantasyland. Schumer and Feinstein just gave Mukasey, who refused to concede that waterboarding was torture and therefore unlawful, their benedictions. Olbermann harbors delusions of being a serious but realistic commentator.
ReplyDeleteI'll take Olberman, delusions or not. He's the only thing even close to reaching the mainstream with the goods.
ReplyDeleteTrue, he hasn't the class or clarity of Murrow, but we gotta start somewhere. Name someone else with MSM exposure that's got the balls to speak out without hiding in comedy.
And let's not forget that Olbermann stuck to his progressive principles all through the worse of the gung ho "Mission Accomplished" Bushite thuggery. Okay, so Bushie won't do time, but the fact remains that he should, after all the highly illegal shit he's pulled.
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