Friday, September 15, 2006
Keith Oberman's commentary on the President and 9/11 - You MUST watch this
This is the best political commentary on President Bush and the aftermath of 9/11 that I have heard or seen in a long time. Done by Keith Oberman on MSNBC, it’s nearly 9 minutes long but it is incredibly powerful, articulate and compelling. Watch it. Share it with others. Get the word out. Thanks, Dale, for passing along this incredibly powerful piece of eloquent journalism. To view his commentary in its entirety, click on the link below. - tj
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This is really quite remarkable. The latest commentary that Keith Oberman has been doing on MSNBC on the Bush administration and 9/11. It's nearly 9 minutes, but it is really powerful.
If you aren't aware or seen any of the others. . take the time.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/
War Room
Keith Olbermann on what Bush has wrought
Keith Olbermann began his commentary Monday night remembering what it was like to breathe air that "contained the remains" of thousands of strangers and four of his friends. He ended it with words and images from "The Twilight Zone."
Somewhere in between -- somewhere before he started quoting Rod Serling -- Olbermann delivered the sort of probing, reality-based post-9/11 assessment we got from neither ABC nor the president of the United States:
"The only positive on 9/11 and the days and weeks that so slowly and painfully followed it was the unanimous humanity, here, and throughout the country. The government, the president in particular, was given every possible measure of support.
"Those who did not belong to his party -- tabled that. Those who doubted the mechanics of his election -- ignored that. Those who wondered of his qualifications -- forgot that.
"History teaches us that nearly unanimous support of a government cannot be taken away from that government by its critics. It can only be squandered by those who use it not to heal a nation's wounds, but to take political advantage.
"Terrorists did not come and steal our newly-regained sense of being American first, and political, fiftieth. Nor did the Democrats. Nor did the media. Nor did the people.
"The President -- and those around him -- did that.
"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's words yesterday, 'validate the strategy of the terrorists.'
"They promised protection, and then showed that to them 'protection' meant going to war against a despot whose hand they had once shaken, a despot who, we now learn from our own Senate Intelligence Committee, hated al-Qaida as much as we did.
"The polite phrase for how so many of us were duped into supporting a war on the false premise that it had 'something to do' with 9/11 is 'lying by implication.'
"The impolite phrase is 'impeachable offense.'"
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This is really quite remarkable. The latest commentary that Keith Oberman has been doing on MSNBC on the Bush administration and 9/11. It's nearly 9 minutes, but it is really powerful.
If you aren't aware or seen any of the others. . take the time.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/
War Room
Keith Olbermann on what Bush has wrought
Keith Olbermann began his commentary Monday night remembering what it was like to breathe air that "contained the remains" of thousands of strangers and four of his friends. He ended it with words and images from "The Twilight Zone."
Somewhere in between -- somewhere before he started quoting Rod Serling -- Olbermann delivered the sort of probing, reality-based post-9/11 assessment we got from neither ABC nor the president of the United States:
"The only positive on 9/11 and the days and weeks that so slowly and painfully followed it was the unanimous humanity, here, and throughout the country. The government, the president in particular, was given every possible measure of support.
"Those who did not belong to his party -- tabled that. Those who doubted the mechanics of his election -- ignored that. Those who wondered of his qualifications -- forgot that.
"History teaches us that nearly unanimous support of a government cannot be taken away from that government by its critics. It can only be squandered by those who use it not to heal a nation's wounds, but to take political advantage.
"Terrorists did not come and steal our newly-regained sense of being American first, and political, fiftieth. Nor did the Democrats. Nor did the media. Nor did the people.
"The President -- and those around him -- did that.
"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's words yesterday, 'validate the strategy of the terrorists.'
"They promised protection, and then showed that to them 'protection' meant going to war against a despot whose hand they had once shaken, a despot who, we now learn from our own Senate Intelligence Committee, hated al-Qaida as much as we did.
"The polite phrase for how so many of us were duped into supporting a war on the false premise that it had 'something to do' with 9/11 is 'lying by implication.'
"The impolite phrase is 'impeachable offense.'"
