Special Comment
The full transcript of Keith's Special Comment after the jump.
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More in little bit, but we wanted to give you all a heads up that tonight Keith will deliver a special comment on a story we did on Friday that continues to percolate on the eve of the Mukasey hearings. We'll have an excerpt for you soon.
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The full text of Keith's Special Comment: President of Hypocrisy, after the jump.
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Tune in at 8p ET for Keith's Special Comment regarding the President's attack of the anti-war movement and Moveon.org. We have provided an excerpt after the jump.
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Here's the entire transcript of Keith's 'Scapegoat' Special Comment from tonight...the video can be found here.
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Tonight on Countdown, Keith Olbermann delivers a special comment on the leaked Bush Administration letter that blames Senator Hillary Clinton, and all war dissenters, for this President's failures in Iraq:
Here's a preview...
The selection of the wrong war, in the wrong time, in the wrong place the most disastrous a geo-political tactic since Austria-Hungary attacked Serbia in 1914 and destroyed itself in the process that had nothing to do with the overwhelming crisis Iraq has become it isn't Mr. Bush's fault.
The criminal lack of planning for the war the total "jump-off-a-bridge-and-hope-you-can-fly" tone to the failure to anticipate what would follow the deposing of Saddam Hussein that had nothing to do with the chaos in which Iraq has been envelopped it isn't Mr. Bush's fault.
The utter, blinkered idiocy of "staying the course", of sending Americans to Iraq, and sending them a second time, and a third, and a fourth, until they get killed or maimed the utter de-prioritization of human life, simply so a politician can avoid having to admit a mistake that had nothing to do with the tens of thousand individual tragedies darkening the lives of American families, forever it isn't Mr. Bush's fault.
The continuing, relentless, remorseless, corrupt and cynical insistence that this conflict somehow is defeating, or containing, or just engaging the people who attacked us on 9/11 the total "Alice Through The Looking Glass" quality that ignores that in Iraq, we have made the world safer for Al-Qaeda it isn't Mr. Bush's fault!
The fault, brought down as if a sermon from this mount of hypocrisy and slaughter ,by an nearly anonymous Under-Secretary of Defense the fault has tonight been laid on the doorstep of Senator Hillary Clinton and, by extension, at the doorstep of every American the now vast majority of us who have dared to criticize this war or protest it or merely ask questions about it or simply, plaintively, innocently, honestly, plead "don't take my son; don't take my daughter."
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And now as promised, a Special Comment -- on Michael Chertoff's gut.
You have by now heard the remark -- instantly added to our through-the-looking glass lexicon of the 21st Century, a time when we suddenly started referring to this country as "the homeland" as if anybody here has used that term since Charles Lindbergh or the German-American Bund in 1940.
Michael Chertoff's "gut feeling."
Which, he took pains to emphasize, was based on no specific nor even vague intelligence -- that we are entering a period of increased risk of terrorism here.
He got as specific as saying that Al-Qaeda seems to like the summer, but as to the rest of it, he is perfectly content to let us sit and wait and worry - and to contemplate… his gut.
His….. gut!!
We used to have John Ashcroft's major announcements.
We used to have David Paulison's breathless advisories about how to use duct tape against radiation attacks.
We used to have Tom Ridge's color-coded threat levels.
Now we have…. Michael Chertoff's gut!
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click to WATCH VIDEO"Rather than a reasoned discussion — rather than a political campaign
advocating your own causes and extolling your own qualifications — you
have bypassed all the intermediate steps and moved directly to trying
to terrorize the electorate into viewing a vote for a Democrat, not as
a reasonable alternative and an inalienable right ... but as an act of
suicide."
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Special Comment: Tom DeLay’s DeLusions
Indicted former bug exterminator, Tom Delay has written a new book about his time in government, sharing stories ranging from the 1994 Republican Revolution, to how he personally found Christ, to how the Democrats are like Hitler.
“I believe it was Adolf Hitler who first acknowledged that the big lie
is more effective than the little lie, because the big lie is so
audacious, such an astonishing immorality, that people have a hard time
believing anyone would say it if it wasn’t true. You know, the big lie
— like the Holocaust never happened or dark-skinned people are less
intelligent than light-skinned people. Well, by charging this big lie”
— that DeLay violated campaign-finance laws in Texas — “liberals have
finally joined the ranks of scoundrels like Hitler.”
Tonight, Keith Olbermann delivers a brief Special Comment in response to that astounding display of idiocy.
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In the meantime, are we sure Delay even wrote this book?
