Short on the Concept
Olbermann: Bush, Cheney should resign. Warmed over Bush-lied-people-died argument delivered in stentorian Declaration of Independential tones sees Scooter commutation as the last straw in King George’s long list of crimes.
Get a grip.
Crittenden to MSNBC, on this day, the Fourth Day of July, 2007:
When in the course of human commentary, one of your employees turns out to be this myopic and moronic, he should get two in the hat. Call security to keep a close watch on him as he collects his things and escort him to the door …
Or, to paraphrase:
And for you, Mr. Olbermann, there is a lesser task.
You need merely achieve a very low threshold indeed.
Show yourself to be the superior of those other bloviating TV dopes, Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite who, like you, abused their thrones.
Go play in traffic.
Forgive me if, in the course of reading this tripe, I fail to take it with something more than the level of seriousness it deserves. That said, if this is where after 231 years we have at long last arrived in this imperfect union of ours, if Olbermann’s idiotic remarks indeed reflect the will of the people and Bush is to be driven out, then it may be incumbent upon us as a righteous people to revisit the crimes of other recent presidents and mull appropriate punishment. Clinton, for all the dirtball crimes he pardoned, not to mentioned the debasement of the office; the stocks! Carter, for humiliating the nation by allow a third-rate nation to hold us hostage for 444 days and inaugurating 30 years of war and terrorism; a dank basement somewhere.
Democratic Daily’s perspective, or lack thereof:
This is not a question about the right of the President to pardon or commute the sentence of any American convicted of a crime. This is about the future of the Republic. Whether this nation is a nation of laws or run by the lawless.
Brilliant at Breakfast is, today. I agree: “Ms. Pelosi, THIS is how you do it.” Make a more complete jackass of yourself.
Taylor Marsh: “We wake up in bondage today.” I would have thought Marsh might enjoy that.
FireDogLake holds these distortions to be self-evident.
Meanwhile, Shaun Mullen at Moderate Voice: “For a bunch of white guys with bad hair … “ I don’t know about you, but I’m getting hair envy from a self-loathing white guy off that.
What today’s actually about here, and here.
Someone who understands the cost of freedom here. Robert Stokely gave you his son.
Don, headed back with tokens of home.
Badger Six mulls the narrative.
Captain’s Quarters mulls freedom and justice. As it happens, the captain had me over to his quarters just yesterday to discuss some of these very issues. Many thanks, Capt. Ed!
Oleg Atbashian at Pajamas mulls the retrogressive progressive view of history.
Surber on Olbermann: If America’s least-watched cable news anchor lies, does anybody hear it?
Ahoy maties from the Captain’s Quarters, navigators of the great Memestream, etal. Welcome aboard the tramp steamer SS Critter. Cookie’s serving up mashed bangers in the galley. Something’s seriously wrong in the sick bay. Blistering barnicles, but those South Sea islanders are tough! Thar she blows with a whale of a tale of Yankee bravery. But I’ll tell you, those Nipponers are a strange lot, with their own way of looking at the world.
Topics: America
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:13 am on Wednesday, July 4, 2007
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July 4th, 2007 at 10:18 am
Olbermann works in Wayne’s quote “I didn’t vote for him but he’s my president, and I hope he does a good job.”, to illustrate the idea that ‘citizens must, at some point, ignore a president’s partisanship’.
Ok, I’m fine with that along with the concept he draws from that::
‘ an implicit trust—a sacred trust: That the president for whom so many did not vote, can in turn suspend his political self long enough, and for matters imperative enough, to conduct himself solely for the benefit of the entire Republic. Not that we may prosper as a nation, not that we may achieve, not that we may lead the world—but merely that we may function.’
It’s stunning hypocrisy. The crowd he’s playing to hasn’t shown the slightest appreciation of Wayne’s concise quote or Olbermann’s pontifications about suspending political self-interest for the good of the country.
I’m not sure Olbermann is necessarily myopic and moronic. The article appears to be on the surface, but only because it can’t be any but if it’s to satisfy his target audience.
July 4th, 2007 at 10:27 am
I’m not sure Olbermann is necessarily myopic and moronic.
I am. The man is a walking example of a half dozen symptoms I recognize from my abnormal psych class.
July 4th, 2007 at 10:36 am
Bush to Consider Libby Pardon
Good for him and I hope he does it. Judging by the incredibly infantile reaction by the bedwetting left, a full pardon may just finish them off.
July 4th, 2007 at 11:04 am
“The man is a walking example of a half dozen symptoms I recognize from my abnormal psych class.”
Don’t assume an enthusiastic prostitute like Olbermann necessarily subscribes to the joy of sex. It’s business.
“Judging by the incredibly infantile reaction…”
If a commutation can cause this display of ignorance, contradictions, and unadulterated hypocrisy at so many levels, a full pardon should distract the looney left and by default the part of democrat leadership that’s playing to them for months.
July 4th, 2007 at 11:16 am
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July 4th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
“I accuse you, Mr. Bush, of lying this country into war.”
How can he lie us into a war with Iraq when the previous president spent eight years bombing and blockading Iraq?
It isn’t possible to go to war with a country you’re already at war with. And when you’re bombing a country, you are, by definition, at war with it.
Leftist traitors like Olbermann lie pretty much every time they open their mouths, and one of their biggest and most oft repeated lies is is that George Bush started a war with Iraq.
No, he didn’t, he escalated an ongoing war with Iraq and totally destroyed the enemy, something the incompetent clown who preceded him couldn’t do in eight years of warmaking (Slick was a little too busy getting blow jobs from a skank and bombing countries that never did the United States the slightest harm…like Yugoslavia, for instance, to deal with state sponsors of terrorism like Iraq, for instance).
July 4th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
More Olbermann hogwash…
“I accuse you of fabricating in the minds of your own people, a false implied link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11.”
How can you fabricate something that already exists? In 1998 the Clinton administration indicted Osama Bin Laden, and in that indictment they flatly state that there is a connection between Al Qaida and the Baathist government of Iraq.
“Additionally, the indictment states that Al Qaeda reached an agreement
with Iraq not to work against the regime of Saddam Hussein and that
they would work cooperatively with Iraq, particularly in weapons
development.”
http://www.fas.org/irp/news/1998/11/98110602_nlt.html
In 1999 Clinton administration counterrorism chief, Richard Clarke, used a supposed connection between Iraq and Al Qaida to justify an American missile strike on a pharmaceutical factory in the Sudan, a factory supposedly making chemical weapons for Al Qaida…
“Clarke did provide new information in defense of Clinton’s decision to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles at the El Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan, in retaliation for bin Laden’s role in the Aug. 7 embassy bombings.”
“While U.S. intelligence officials disclosed shortly after the missile attack that they had obtained a soil sample from the El Shifa site that contained a precursor of VX nerve gas, Clarke said that the U.S. government is “sure” that Iraqi nerve gas experts actually produced a powdered VX-like substance at the plant that, when mixed with bleach and water, would have become fully active VX nerve gas.”
http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2004/03/24/108014941866383557/
The Bush administration didn’t “fabricate” anything. It was the previous administration who “fabricated” a connection between Al Qaida and Iraq…long before President Bush took office.
Also…the United States has official reasons for why we’ve been fighting in Iraq, and they’re listed in the Congressional resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq, and guess what? The Baathists are in cahoots with Al Qaida IS NOT one of the reasons.
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=107_cong_public_laws&docid=f:publ243.107
Keith Olbermann is a totally partisan phony, a liar and a traitor.
July 4th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
“I accuse you of firing the generals who told you that the plans for Iraq were disastrously insufficient.”-Oberdolt
Got news for you, Oberdolt. It’s up to the president to decide what our strategy will be during war, and he has the authority to decide who will implement that strategy. He can fire any general who can’t or won’t do as he’s told, and if you doubt it, then ask George McClellan or Douglas MacArthur about it.
Olbermann = moron.
July 10th, 2007 at 10:54 am
Olbermann = moron
Lucky Olbermann. Now all he has to do is carry water for America’s corporate interests to be a shoo-in for the Republican nomination for President.