If I ever meet Keith Olbermann, I am going to buy him a beer. An expensive, fancy beer.<\/p>\n
This snippet is just an excerpt from one of the reasons why.<\/p>\n
Keith Olbermann\u2019s Special Comment on Bush, September 11, 2006<\/a>
\nTerrorists did not come and steal our newly-regained sense of being American first, and political, fiftieth. Nor did the Democrats. <\/p>\nNor did the media. Nor did the people.<\/p>\n
The President \u2014 and those around him \u2014 did that.<\/p>\n
They promised bi-partisanship, and then showed that to them, “bi-partisanship” meant that their party would rule and the rest would have to follow, or be branded, with ever-escalating hysteria, as morally or intellectually confused; as appeasers; as those who, in the Vice President\u2019s words yesterday, “validate the strategy of the terrorists.”<\/p>\n
They promised protection, and then showed that to them “protection” meant going to war against a despot whose hand they had once shaken\u2026 a despot who we now learn from our own Senate Intelligence Committee, hated Al-Qaeda as much as we did.<\/p>\n
The polite phrase for how so many of us were duped into supporting a war, on the false premise that it had \u2019something to do\u2019 with 9\/11, is “lying by implication.”<\/p>\n
The impolite phrase, is “impeachable offense.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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