Thursday, March 01, 2007
Olbermann Nails Condi while Kerry Gets His Revenge - Vol. 3 Issue 29
This week, the forces of light struck back against the lies, sleaze and ignorance of the Bush regime and its politics of deceit and division. Keith Olbermann landed the first blow against Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, in response to her idiotic rambling on “Fox News Sunday.” During her disastrous appearance, Rice drew a parallel between World War II and the Iraq War when discussing what would happen if Congress were to revise the Iraq War authorization. Here is a sample of Olbermann’s brilliant vitriol:
"We already know about her suggestion that the president could just ignore whatever congressional Democrats do about Iraq. Just ignore Congress. We know how that game always turns out. Ask President Nixon. Ask President Andrew Johnson.
Or ask Vice President Dick Cheney, who utterly contradicted Secretary Rice on Monday when he warned President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan about what those mean congressional Democrats could do to his foreign aid.
All of this, par for the course. But about what the secretary said regarding the prospect of Congress’ revising or repealing the 2002 authorization of the war in Iraq: Here we go again! From springs spent trying to link Saddam Hussein to 9/11, to summers of cynically manipulated intelligence, through autumns of false patriotism, to winters of war, we have had more than four years of every cheap trick and every degree of calculated cynicism from this administration, filled with Three-Card Monte players.
But the longer Dr. Rice and these other pickpockets of a nation’s goodness have walked among us, waving flags and slandering opponents and making true enemies - foreign and domestic - all hat and no cattle all the while, the overriding truth of their occupancy of our highest offices of state has only gradually become clear.”
To read the entire commentary or watch the video, see MSNBC.
John Kerry was very patient and cunning in getting his revenge on the slimy plutocrat who financed the infamous swift boat attacks. He waited until near the end of the confirmation hearing on the appointment of St Louis businessman Sam Fox, to become Ambassador to Belgium, and then he sprang into action.
To read the transcript of Kerry’s interrogation of Mr. Fox is a delight. If only is the Senator had reacted that way 2004, we may have avoided the many fiascos brought to us by the Bush-Cheney regime. To read the transcript go to, Washington Post. For two excellent articles about this incident, see The Examiner and CNN.com.
Hurrah for Olbermann and Kerry! Maybe the progressive folks are developing some spine?
Cheers,
Savant
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