The left has been pummeling the Bush Administration and the Central Intelligence Agency about what they call the abuse of those under our War on Terror detention.
It’s bad enough I have to skim through the selective reflections of the liberal intelligentsia, but it really pisses me off that I can’t even watch Sunday night football without seeing and hearing Keith Olbermann’s smug remarks about conspiracies about the Patriots.
Olbermann’s glass house is getting bigger, to match is inflated sense of ego and worth. The day something embarrassing or improper is revealed about him, the fall from grace will be as harsh as his indictments based purely on partisan rhetoric, as well as the selective ignorance of those who inhale his rhetoric.
A classic example was his tongue-lashing of the Bush Administration on the November 5 episode of “Countdown”….
“All the petulancy, all the childish threats, all the blank-stare stupidity;
“All the invocations of World War Three, 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….”
I’m really impressed by Keith’s use of the Thesaurus. In typical liberal fashion, instead of using facts, verifiable facts, to bolster his arguments, it seems he’s just trying to impress us with the number of negative adjectives he can throw together per sentence.
So what’s the issue ticking off Olbermann this time?
Torture.
After two or so minutes of Waterboarding, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed gave up a lot of information of terrorist planning. He even reportedly told a CIA official, “I killed Daniel Pearl. I killed him Hahal (slit his throat in a ritual fashion).” Does Olbermann have any idea what a KSM-type would do to a Jewish Keith Olbermann in captivity?
With all that, George Bush is still his favorite bad guy. According to Olbermann’s narcissism, Bush is hardly intelligent and “courageous” compared to him.
“Perhaps when you’ve gone to Walter Reed and teared up over the maimed servicemen? And then gone back to the White House and determined that there would be more maimed servicemen?
“Has it been that kind of personal courage, Mr. Bush, when you’ve spoken of American victims and the triumph of freedom and the sacrifice of your own popularity for the sake of our safety? And then permitted others to fire or discredit or destroy anybody who disagreed with you — whether they were your own Generals, or… Max Cleland, or… Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame….”
“‘The United States of America does not torture.’
“Made you into a liar, Mr. Bush.
“Made you into, if anybody had the guts to pursue it, a criminal, Mr. Bush.
“Water-boarding had already been used on Khalid Sheik Mohammed and a couple of other men none of us really care about — except, Sir, for the one detail you’d forgotten — that there are rules, and even if we just make up these rules, this country observes them anyway, because we’re Americans, sir, and we’re better than that.
“We’re better than you.”
And who the hell are you, Keith Olbermann, that the President of the United States, of whom you’ve savaged for months now, owes you any kind of an explanation on anything?
And as far as courage is concerned, remember what you wrote in Salon about how you, Keith Olbermann, beat up on Suzy Kolber at ESPN2 before they gladly let you move on…?
Yeah, and lecture George Bush about courage. But I’m sure that’s the only despicable thing Keith has done in his life and he said he was sorry. That’s all that counts. Now, back to bashing the president….
“He had put his money, Mr. Bush, where your mouth was.
“So, your sleazy sycophantic henchman Mr. Gonzales had him append an asterisk suggesting his black-and-white answer wasn’t black-and-white, that there might have been a quasi-legal way of torturing people, maybe with an absolute time limit and a physician entitled to stop it, maybe, if your administration had ever bothered to set any rules or any guidelines….”
Is THAT courage, Mr. Olbermann? No need to that answer now. I’m sure you’ll bring that up on the next “Countdown.”
Again, I wonder what Mr. Holier-than-thou Keith Olbermann would do if he had to weigh life-or-death issues on an almost daily basis? Would he let us all die just so he’d look good with the liberal left who hasn’t the guts to fight for anything? If it were up to people like Keith Olbermann, the rape rooms in Iraq would be up and running, the genocide in Bosnia would be near complete by now, the starvation in Rwanda would be a slogan on his bumper’s sticker, and he’d probably be issuing another subpoena for Osama bin Laden.
Too bad Keith Olbermann never got the chance to ask President Clinton if the United States tortured terror suspects. I’m sure Olbermann would be included in that need-to-know category. I’m sure he’d be satisfied in the answer either way.
We may never know how many lives waterboarding terror suspects have saved. Maybe Keith Olbermann owes his life to the evil Bush Administration, considering how valued a target New York City is. But even if we find out later that NYC was spared because of information forcibly obtained, there is no reason for liberals like Keith Olbermann to thank those who do their jobs and expect none.
THAT takes courage. Just like the courage it takes to personally insult a president who would never respond to those insults. That would be beneath him… just like Keith Olbermann.
Bob Parks is a member/writer for the National Advisory Council of Project 21, Senior Writer for the New Media Journal, VP of Marketing and Media Relations/Staff Writer for the New Media Alliance, and VP of the Massachusetts Republican Assembly, and commentator for the Intel Radio Network.
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