War Today, War Tomorrow, War Forever!
Kind of has a ring to it, don’t you think? It’s part of the latest embarrassingly bad commentary from the drama-addicted, accuracy-challenged Keith Olbermann. He’s engaged in a bit of a kindergarten project with bluntnose scissors and Elmer’s glue. He starts with someone else’s arts and crafts project, the following chop job graph from the NYT:
…. Mr. Bush told the author, Robert Draper, in a later session, “I’m playing for October-November.” That is when he hopes the Iraq troop increase will finally show enough results to help him achieve the central goal of his remaining time in office: “To get us in a position where the presidential candidates will be comfortable about sustaining a presence,” and, he said later, “stay longer.”
And cites Bush’s latest statement, at al-Asad, that continued progress may lead to a troop reduction:
The president told reporters, “They (General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker) tell me if the kind of success we are now seeing continues, it will be possible to maintain the same level of security with fewer American forces.”
So that he may dramatically proclaim a gotcha:
Everything you said about Iraq yesterday, and everything you will say, is a deception, for the purpose of this one cynical, unacceptable, brutal goal: perpetuating this war indefinitely.
War today, war tomorrow, war forever!
And you are playing at it! Playing!
A man with any self respect, having inadvertently revealed such an evil secret, would have already resigned and fled the country! You have no remaining credibility about Iraq.
Olbermann has advanced quickly from kindergarten cut-and-paste to full-blown alienated adolescent fantasy fiction. I like that “War today, war tomorrow, war forever!” Very nihilistic. Very Klingonesque. Very Nazi-evocative, which of course is the idea.
Olbermann is making a serious political argument, however, so it is wrong for me to mock him. Someone just needs to explain to him, this is how it works: If surrender-happy Congress can be prevented from pulling the plug, and progress can continue in the counter-insurgency, and weathervane presidential candidates can be convinced it will be politically viable in 2008 to commit themselves to the future genocide-free stability of Iraq and the greater Middle East, then, eventually, troop levels can be reduced. The “playing” part, Keith, is a figure of speech.
Here’s his closer:
Mr. Bush, our presence in Iraq must end. Even if it means your resignation. Even if it means your impeachment. Even if it means a different Republican to serve out your term. Even if it means a Democratic Congress and those true patriots among the Republicans standing up and denying you another penny for Iraq, other than for the safety and the safe conduct home of our troops.
This country cannot run the risk of what you can still do to this country in the next 500 days.
Not while you are playing.
Olbermann’s a little out front of the herd on that. The other cowboys reined in when they saw the cliff and are trying to turn the livestock. The Dems don’t want to impeach. They know they couldn’t pull it off if they did. They haven’t managed to cut off funds. They haven’t, now that I think of it, managed a damn thing except a watered down non-binding resolution in one house. The Dems, in fact, are starting to figure out that Bush is right. Bush is right. The way out is winning. They don’t much like it. It’s a big problem for them.
Note to self: Examine this man’s career for clues about how he managed to land himself a prime national slot. Could make fascinating case study of TV vapidity. Check for any indication that he is a man of faith, who might humbly kneel each night and thank God most fervently for television, where they have an even greater tolerance for fools and frauds than they do in print. TV, where the sound of one’s voice, the tone and rhythm of one’s words, delivered with sufficient fire in the eye and lantern jaw, can make what is actually said blissfully irrelevant!
Prior Olbermann here:
History Lesson for Chickendove
Welcome PJM, RCP, Surberistas, etal. No chickendove she, leggy Couric shows her stuff in Iraq, where she is atoning for CBS’s sins. Take notes, Keith! It’s called a reality check. Related, what’s with all the Potemkin journalism? You may also what to check out artlessness mirroring the funhouse reflection of life: Yellow Protestism.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 1:50 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2007
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September 5th, 2007 at 6:54 am
“Note to self: Examine this man’s career for clues about how he managed to land himself a prime national slot….”
“…TV, where the sound of one’s voice, the tone and rhythm of one’s words, delivered with sufficient fire in the eye and lantern jaw, can make what is actually said blissfully irrelevant! ”
(Self answers own query)
September 5th, 2007 at 9:10 am
[...] It’s Crittenden. [...]
September 5th, 2007 at 10:33 am
Get ready for more of these Olbermann-isms….as the war turns in Bush’s favor, these people will go crazy. First, they throw everything at Bush. Then they will go after Dems.
September 5th, 2007 at 10:44 am
[...] Olbermann from Countdown Last Night: Mr. Bush, our presence in Iraq must end. Even if it means your resignation. Even if it means your impeachment. Even if it means a different Republican to serve out your term. Even if it means a Democratic Congress and those true patriots among the Republicans standing up and denying you another penny for Iraq, other than for the safety and the safe conduct home of our troops. [...]
September 5th, 2007 at 10:47 am
[...] Olbermann from Countdown Last Night: Mr. Bush, our presence in Iraq must end. Even if it means your resignation. Even if it means your impeachment. Even if it means a different Republican to serve out your term. Even if it means a Democratic Congress and those true patriots among the Republicans standing up and denying you another penny for Iraq, other than for the safety and the safe conduct home of our troops. [...]
September 5th, 2007 at 11:01 am
Web Reconnaissance for 09/05/2007
A short recon of whats out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often.
September 5th, 2007 at 11:38 am
Message to Olbermann: Go back to to Sports Center, jackass. Leave the important stuff to the grown ups.
September 5th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Olberman has been sniffing glue again, Heh?
September 5th, 2007 at 11:51 am
These idiots will still be bleating impeachment on Bush’s last day in office.
September 5th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Go check out Daily Kos: there’s a diary entry about how this was Keith’s best commentary EVAH!
What’s in the water over there?
September 5th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
What’s in the water over there?
Moon juice.
September 5th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Poor Olbermann. He got done in by The Right Brothers and doesn’t even know it.
September 5th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
The only reason Olby keeps his job is he’s got pics of high up network exec’s frolicking naked with barnyard animals. I see no other viable explanation.
September 5th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Hummmm. I see that there really is a parallel universe. His perceptions are certainly not of this one.
September 5th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
He is one of those people who don’t care what is said about them so long as something is. Try to visualize the great void within. If you can, you’ll feel pity for his pain.
September 6th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
[...] Keith Olbermann is a drama queen. [...]
September 7th, 2007 at 10:14 am
“Keith Olbermann”
I’ll catch up with what this skank has to say as soon as I finish reading the memoirs of Benedict Arnold and Vidkun Quisling.