Tonight on his MSNBC news show, Keith Olbermann presented one of the most powerful and incisive video commentaries I've heard in years. His target was Donald Rumsfeld, who in a recent speech at an American Legion convention accused opponents of the war in Iraq of disloyalty and moral turpitude. Rumsfeld argued that opponents of the war are seeking to appease a "new type of fascism" and that they suffer from "moral or intellectual confusion." Olbermann suggests that the "new fascists" are in the top echelons of our own government: Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush. Fascism is a much abused and misused term, and all of us are too quick to level it towards those we disagree with. Nonetheless, Olbermann makes a powerful case that the time has come to use the word. In a time when journalists of whatever medium flinch from putting themselves and their reputations on the line, Olbermann speaks with a welcome ferocity.
See http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12131617/ for the text of Olbermann's commentary.
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uh, ya. I got to say, I don't go back so far, I've only been listening to political speechifying since Goldwater and Kennedy. Since then I have heard one politician who spoke both truth and sense, at the same time. He lost. As did we. And, I've heard maybe a half dozen speeches, monologues, or dialogues that compared to a desert dawn for clarity and sense.
But this little speech is a beaut. A real beaut. It is one of those with that desert clarity of truth.
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