Keith Olbermann is, without a doubt, the best tv commentator. His commentary gets better with each passing day.

‘Have you no sense of decency, sir?’

It is to our deep national shame-and ultimately it will be to the President’s deep personal regret-that he has followed his Secretary of Defense down the path of trying to tie those loyal Americans who disagree with his policies-or even question their effectiveness or execution-to the Nazis of the past, and the al Qaeda of the present.

Today, in the same subtle terms in which Mr. Bush and his colleagues muddied the clear line separating Iraq and 9/11 — without ever actually saying so-the President quoted a purported Osama Bin Laden letter that spoke of launching, “a media campaign to create a wedge between the American people and their government.”

Make no mistake here-the intent of that is to get us to confuse the psychotic scheming of an international terrorist, with that familiar bogeyman of the right, the “media.”

The President and the Vice President and others have often attacked freedom of speech, and freedom of dissent, and freedom of the press.

Now, Mr. Bush has signaled that his unparalleled and unprincipled attack on reporting has a new and venomous side angle:

The attempt to link, by the simple expediency of one word-”media”-the honest, patriotic, and indeed vital questions and questioning from American reporters, with the evil of Al-Qaeda propaganda.

That linkage is more than just indefensible. It is un-American.

Mr. Bush and his colleagues have led us before to such waters.

We will not drink again.

And the President’s re-writing and sanitizing of history, so it fits the expediencies of domestic politics, is just as false, and just as scurrilous.

“In the 1920’s a failed Austrian painter published a book in which he explained his intention to build an Aryan super’state in Germany and take revenge on Europe and eradicate the Jews,” President Bush said today, “the world ignored Hitler’s words, and paid a terrible price.”

Whatever the true nature of al Qaeda and other international terrorist threats, to ceaselessly compare them to the Nazi State of Germany serves only to embolden them.

More over, Mr. Bush, you are accomplishing in part what Osama Bin Laden and others seek-a fearful American populace, easily manipulated, and willing to throw away any measure of restraint, any loyalty to our own ideals and freedoms, for the comforting illusion of safety.

It thus becomes necessary to remind the President that his administration’s recent Nazi “kick” is an awful and cynical thing.

And it becomes necessary to reach back into our history, for yet another quote, from yet another time and to ask it of Mr. Bush:

“Have you no sense of decency, sir?”

GO KEITH!!!!!!

Ok, I don’t mean to make light of Steve Irwin’s death, but Wolf Blitzer has got to be the dumbest guy on tv. He just referred to Steve Irwin’s death as a “swim by stabbing.” What the fuck is that? Just when you thought it was safe to go in the water. That sting ray must have been from the hood. Probably a single parent home. His Mom is probably a crab whore. I bet he was a black Ray…..or Latino Ray. He probably belongs to one of those underwater gangs…… the GBR Rays, maybe. I bet the really bad ass gang, the Austrailian Crocs paid the GBR Rays to do the swim by!!
Somebody please…..get this asshole off the airwaves!!!

Brian Ross and Gretchen Peters Report:

Osama bin Laden, America’s most wanted man, will not face capture in Pakistan if he agrees to lead a “peaceful life,” Pakistani officials tell ABC News.

The surprising announcement comes as Pakistani army officials announced they were pulling their troops out of the North Waziristan region as part of a “peace deal” with the Taliban.

Article here

Gee, remember the day about 6 months after 9/11 when he wasn’t worried about Bin Laden? Now he’s the next Hitler.

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There is a new release film, a documentary, that will infuriate and sicken you and at the same time you won’t want to miss this look into an American sub-culture that rivals any in the fundie Mideast. It is no less a training camp. It is unique in that the producers of the film are Liberal and yet it is agreed that what they present is an unbiased view of what they witness. They allow the participants to speak for themselves.

Here is a trailer: