Olbermann: Special Comment on FISA Bill extension
Say what you will about Keith Olbermann, but he calls it the way he sees it. And in the dismal years of the Bush-Cheney regime, no one nails them better than KO.
It is bad enough, sir, that you were demanding an ex post facto law that could still clear the AT&Ts and the Verizons from responsibility for their systematic, aggressive and blatant collaboration with your illegal and unjustified spying on Americans under this flimsy guise of looking for any terrorists who are stupid enough to make a collect call or send a mass e-mail.
But when you demanded it again during the State of the Union address, you wouldn’t even confirm that they actually did anything for which they deserved to be cleared.
“The Congress must pass liability protection for companies believed to have assisted in the efforts to defend America.”
Believed? Don’t you know? Don’t you even have the guts Dick Cheney showed in admitting they did collaborate with you? Does this endless presidency of loopholes and fine print extend even here? If you believe in the seamless mutuality of government and big business, come out and say it! There is a dictionary definition, one word that describes that toxic blend.
You’re a fascist — get them to print you a T-shirt with “fascist” on it!
“Say what you will about Keith Olbermann…”
I would say that he is nothing less than the Edward R. Murrow of our time. If only some of the rest of the media gasbags had even a bit of his moral compass, patriotism and courage. Alas.
I like him a lot and watch him whenever I can. The thing about KO, however, is that he buries the needle so often. Or, switching metaphors, he turns the volume up to 11. But I guess, in his business, you have to.
Like Al Gore says:
I think Al gets it right, as usual. It’s not the anyone is too outraged, it’s that we may not have the capacity to be outraged enough at the shitstorm that is the Bush/Cheney presidency. Can’t say they didn’t warn us:
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.“