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This is a mandatory post
Every blogger should have a link to Keith Olbermann's 'Special Comment' from his show Monday evening. Whether one agrees or disagrees with him, Olbermann was THE news on Monday and Tuesday. He rationally laid out the crimes against this country that George Bush has committed and had others commit.
As has been asked by many, where are the anchors from NBC, CBS and ABC? What does it take for them to prepare and deliver their own special comments? What does Brian Williams wish to be remembered for? Being a nice-looking but thoroughly interchangeable newsreader? That's quite the epitaph.The same goes for Katie Couric. Charles Gibson ain't a beauty but he surely wishes to be known for diligent reporting and not telepromter reading.
It actually is embarrassing that the network news has shriveled so far that it's become robotic, taking a stand for nothing.
As Tim Rutten put it so well the other day in his Los Angeles Times column:
"...Regular readers of Regarding Media may recall that the late Edward R. Murrow delivered about the best possible judgment on this confusion's impact, when he decried a faux notion of journalistic fairness that is willing to concede "the word of Judas equal weight with that of Jesus."
It's the kind of he-said-she-said news coverage that would have reported the Sermon on the Mount this way: "On a mountainside in Galilee today, a popular young rabbi argued that 'the meek shall inherit the earth.' Other religious authorities, however, pointed out that if God did not want the rich to fleece the poor, he would not have allowed them to behave like sheep..."
I'm late getting to it but here it is:
The presidency is now a criminal conspiracyFinally concluding with:
Special Comment: On waterboarding and torture
Keith Olbermann
Anchor, 'Countdown'
MSNBC
November 5, 2007
It is a fact startling in its cynical simplicity and it requires cynical and simple words to be properly expressed: The presidency of George W. Bush has now devolved into a criminal conspiracy to cover the ass of George W. Bush.
All the petulancy, all the childish threats, all the blank-stare stupidity; all the invocations of World War III, all the sophistic questions about which terrorist attacks we wanted him not to stop, all the phony secrets; all the claims of executive privilege, all the stumbling tap-dancing of his nominees, all the verbal flatulence of his apologists...
...All of it is now, after one revelation last week, transparently clear for what it is: the pathetic and desperate manipulation of the government, the refocusing of our entire nation, toward keeping this mock president and this unstable vice president and this departed wildly self-overrating attorney general, and the others, from potential prosecution for having approved or ordered the illegal torture of prisoners being held in the name of this country...
...Made you into a liar, Mr. Bush.
Made you into, if anybody had the guts to pursue it, a criminal, Mr. Bush...
And ultimately these men, these patriots, will defeat you and they will return this country to its righteous standards, and to its rightful owners, the people.For both the print and audio versions, go here.
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