Olbermann and the Invasion of Iran
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Noel Sheppard at Newsbuster.org watched sportscaster Keith Olbermann's MSNBC show last night. (If he watched with two friends, the Sheppard party would have comprised nearly 10% of Olbermann's nightly audience.)
Keith Olbermann continued to rant about the President's mention of Iran in his speech. (The President named the country six times and used 201 words out of his total 2,936, mostly also speaking of Syria.)
Only this President, only in this time, only with this dangerous, even Messianic certitude, could answer a country demanding an exit strategy from Iraq, by offering an entrance strategy for Iran.
Only this President, could look out over a vista of 3,008 dead and 22,834 wounded in Iraq, and finally say "where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me" — only to follow that, by proposing to repeat the identical mistake in Iran.
Of course, the President spoke not a word about invading Iran. Olbermann is concocting that to let him grasp something he can understand, and he can comprehend it only because it doesn't exist. The man's intellect has been limited by his cynical and potentially destructive anti-Bushie shtick. And it's the only reason he exists on television, his appeal to his hate-filled moonbat niche.
Of course, the Iran bit was something he imagined directly after the President delivered his speech, as I wrote here. The President mentioned Iran (with Syria), and Olbermann asked NBC WH correspondent Dave Gregory why no one at the White House had talked the President out of doing something so foolish. Gregory replied that it fit with the President's speech, making Olbermann look foolish, but Chris Matthews bailed him out by claiming co-ownership of the Iran rant.
What Matthews might have done was encourage Olbermann that his Iran notion was a smart one, causing him to go ballistic on his own show.
I can try to identify why Olbermann zeroed in on the President's mention of Iran rather than his nearly co-equal mention of Syria, but who knows? Olbermann is as scatterbrained as his adherents, and we never know what insane thing they'll spout next.
It's an industry, which is a shame; but often, the public wants what the public gets.
I can hear you now: "Keith who?"
I would rather watch Rosie O'Donnell on the floor in Nip/Tuck
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"As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this."
- George Mason
I did not need that image.
The Academy: researching the Illiberal Arts
but its still better than watching, seeing, listening, or breathing near Keith Olberman
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"As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this."
- George Mason
I have to agree that Olberman was using some creative license, but I also have to say that he is probably the only liberal journalist in a sea of conservatism. Go ahead, start screaming about the "liberal media", but as an independent who votes on issues not blindly by party, I have heard nothing but conservative rhetoric, posturing and forgiveness of conservative slime balls for the last six years. Yes, Clinton this and Clinton that, but that was over six years ago. Conservatives need to quit wheeling out the rusty old Clinton propoganda and the liberals need to come up with a solution to this debacle we call the Iraq war. As a veteran, I'm ashamed of our leadership and press, across the board, but please be honest there is no liberal media. It's a made up term like WMD's and mission accomplished.
He is an addle-brained sportscaster who provides entertainment for the weak-minded. His analysis is beneath sophomoric, and I've never seen that he has made a valid point let alone one backed by anything other than his vacuous opinion.
At least David Broder makes sense. Olbie is incoherent.
For some, the pain comes from hearing different points of view.
For others, the pain comes from having a large man named "El Guapo" try to kill them.
For yet others, the pain comes from wasting the time needed to write drek that concludes with a couple of dog whistles for the Left (I'm beginning to like that term), only to see his time posting on a board end less than twenty-four hours after it began.
Walk on through the wind. Walk on through the rain, tho' your dreams be tossed and blown.
And you'll never walk alone.
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Even those who learn from history are surrounded by those doomed to repeat it.
"the liberals need to come up with a solution to this debacle we call the Iraq war. As a veteran, I'm ashamed of our leadership and press, across the board, but please be honest there is no liberal media."
It appears the American leftist terrorist enablers have come
with their solution, it's called surrender. As a veteran I am ashamed that terrorists now determine what American leftists support. I think our leadership is doing better than could be expected given the number of American hating liberals there appear to be in this country. As for the liberal press, they are doing the same thing they did in Vietnam. Glorifing anyone who hates America and trying to destroy the lives of decent Americans.
Just letting you know we care, Mark.