Corn Beltway Boys Cordless Power Tool Of The Week: Keith Olbermann

If only the liberals would fight the war on terror like they fight the Republicans...

Here are a few Keith Olbermann's quotes about Rudy Giuliani saying a Democratic victory in 2008 will bring another 9/11:

Only in this America of the early 21st century could it be true that the man who was President during the worst attack on our nation and the man who was the mayor of the city in which that attack principally unfolded would not only be absolved of any and all blame for the unreadiness of their own governments, but, moreover, would thereafter be branded heroes of those attacks.

Who playing politics now Keith? Somehow Rudy is to blame for 9/11? What the hell? I mean God forbid we place the blame on the terrorists you fucking egoistical asshole.

And now, that mayor, whose most profound municipal act in the wake of that nightmare was to suggest the postponement of the election to choose his own successor, has gone even a step beyond these M.C. Escher constructions of history. 'If any Republican is elected president, and I think obviously I would be best at this, we will remain on offense and we will anticipate what (the terrorists) will do and try to stop them before they do it.' Insisting that the election of any Democrat would mean the country was 'back on defense,' Mr. Giuliani continued last night: 'But the question is how long will it take and how many casualties will we have? If we are on defense, we will have more losses and it will go on longer.'

In aftermath of 9/11 and all that Rudy Giuliani did, Keith chooses to only focus on the postponement of the elections? Olbermann has definitely gone beyond his usual Salvador Dali constructions of history.

At least that Republican president under which we have not been safer has, even at his worst, maintained some microscopic distance between himself and a campaign platform that blithely threatened the American people with 'casualties' if they, next year, elect a Democratic president or, inferring from Mr. Giuliani's flights of grandeur in New Hampshire last night, even if they elect a different Republican.

Did I miss another 9/11? Not safer? How do quantify that? I would love to hear how we are not any safer. Keith rants about politics of fear, but then offers no proof to his own outlandish claims. God how I do love irony.

How dare you, sir? 'How many casualties will we have?' This is the language of bin Laden. Yours, Mr. Giuliani, is the same chilling nonchalance of the madman, of the proselytizer who has moved from even some crude framework of politics and society, into a virtual Roman Colosseum of carnage, and a conceit over your own ability, and worthiness, to decide who therein lives and who dies. 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.

How can Olbermann have an integrity left after comparing a great American like Rudy Giuliani to Osama Bin Laden simply because he doesn't agree with Giuliani's assessment of the Democrat's policies on terrorism? You what Keith? You're no different than Joseph Goebbels. How do you like analogies now?

'The Democrats do not understand the full nature and scope of the terrorist war against us,' Mr. Giuliani continued to the Rockingham County Lincoln Day Dinner last night. 'Never, ever again will this country be on defense waiting for (terrorists) to attack us, if I have anything to say about it. And make no mistake,' he concluded, 'the Democrats want to put us back on defense.'There is no room for this. This is terrorism itself, dressed up as counter-terrorism. It is not warning, but bullying, substituted for the political discourse now absolutely essential to this country's survival and the freedom of its people

Bullying? Terrorism? Keith has ranted for so long that his diatribe has become what he originally set out to condemn. According the Olbermann it's wrong for Rudy to say America will be safer with a Republican President, but somehow it's fine to call Giuliani a terrorist. Oh, the bleepin' irony.

Franklin Roosevelt's words ring true again tonight. And, clarified and amplified, they are just as current now as they were when first he spoke them 74 years ago. 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself,' and those who would exploit our fear, for power and for their own personal, selfish, cynical gain. Good night and good luck.

First of all, take you Edward R. Murrow impression and shove it. I've seen Edward R. Murrow deliver a newscaster and you sir are no Edward R. Murrow. Hell, you're not even Katie Couric. Ironic again is the fact that Olbermann would use Roosevelt as an example after spending so much time berating the Republicans for stripping away civil liberties. Apparently history wasn't one of Keith's strong points in school, because Roosevelt quickly rounded up many Japanese living in America after Pearl Harbor and put them internment camps. But why let a little thing like fact interfer with perfectly good soap box hysteria?

Did I miss the memo stating why I should friggin' care what a tool like Keith Olbermann says? If Keith Olbermann is a legitimate newscaster then so is the Corn Beltway Boys. Apparently Keith is as good at reporting the news as he is in bed.

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