Posted on 01/19/2009 8:30:53 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann delivered his latest "Special Comment," in which he called on President-elect Barack Obama to prosecute President Bush and administration members on a charge of torturing prisoners, and invoked extreme examples such as slavery leading to the Civil War, and the handling of Germany after World War I leading to the rise of Nazism and World War II, to illustrate that "this country has never succeeded in moving forward without first cleansing itself of its mistaken past," and that Obama must try to prosecute Bush for the sake of the country’s future. After quoting Bush’s recent words about the interrogation techniques he authorized against 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and statements by Obama expressing reluctance to pursue prosecutions against the Bush administration, Olbermann began invoking extreme examples from history.
This country has never succeeded in moving forward without first cleansing itself of its mistaken past. ... We compromised with slavery in the Declaration of Independence, and, fourscore and nine years later, we had buried 600,000 of our sons and brothers in a civil war. After that war’s ending, we compromised with the social restructuring and protection of the rights of minorities in the South. And a century later, we had not only had not resolved anything, but black leaders were still being assassinated in the cities of the South. We compromised with Germany in the reconstruction of Europe after the First World War. Nobody even arrested the German kaiser, let alone conducted war crimes trials then. And 19 years later, there was an indescribably more evil Germany and a more heartrending Second World War.
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Olber-mouth should be the first one strung up publicly after Zer0 fails miserably
Boycott his employer General Eletric.
Reality? Objective truth? Who needs 'em?? This dude's got a hate on, and those things will just hold him back.
Disgusting piece of filth is too kind when describing Olberdumb.
The guy has serious mental health issues.
But hey, even the mentally unhealthy can get a job at MSNBC.
Look up idiocy in the dictionary and Olbermann’s picture will appear. ;-)
As an objective politcal pundit, Olberman makes a great sports caster.
“Boycott his employer General Eletric.”
That’s a big assignment, but I’m sympathetic.
olberman is an idiot plain and simple.
I’m afraid that it will be a long slow death for BDS, and for some people who suffer from the affliction, such as Mr. Olbermann, the disease will live as long as they do.
Impeach Obama!
This would definetly back fire upon the demo-Rats.
Bring it on Pelosi.
I’m sorry, which of Wilson’s Administration were prosecuted for the treachery of the abandonment of the Fourteen Points and the train wreck that became the Treaty of Versailles?
Thought so.
Mental illness is a horrible thing.
He is not even a sportscaster.
He is seriously ill.
At the very least Bush left with the same 50 states he started with...
Will Obama be able to say the same???????
I guess that all depends on how he leads...
Well - why doesn’t he also mention FDR’s war crimes when placing Japanese in concentration camps in the US? I guess that was ok though because FDR was a “progressive”
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