Posted on 07/13/2009 8:34:47 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
There is no "Worst person in the world" award here on the Lid, but if there were today's winner would be MSNBC Moonbat Keith Olbermann and his bosses at MSNBC.
We all remember that horrible video of the Iranian woman, Neda Agha-Soltani, that shows her being shot by a sniper, collapsing mortally wounded, and literally life draining from her body as bystanders frantically tried to save her.
In response to Olberman noting that major political upheavals such as the one in Iran often produce an identifiable martyr, Engel interrupted to tie the tragedy of Neda Soltani to Muhammad al-Dura. He characterized al-Dura as "a symbol of injustice" and termed Soltani's death "a similar moment."
KEITH OLBERMAN: To the point of Neda Soltani, I don't know that there has ever been a revolution or even a near revolution that did not have an identifiable face, a martyr. You think of everything from Tiananmen square to Lexington and Concord.
RICHARD ENGEL (Chief Foreign Correspondent) : (interrupting) I was thinking more ... you remember Muhammad al Dura, the boy who was shot in gaza?
OLBERMAN: Yes. Yes.
ENGEL: In his father's arms...
OBERMAN: Yes
ENGEL: And who became a symbol of injustice. I think this is a similar moment.
There is one major difference between the two, the al-Dura story has been proven to be a hoax many times over. Olbermann who fancies himself as a newsman, did not bother to correct Engel. That's when Andrea Levin of CAMERA got involved:
The only comfort I take: If the useful idiots such as Olbermann get their way (a marxist dictatorship), he and his ilk will be among the first of those put up against the wall. Cf. Stalin. If by some miracle we turn this around, he’ll be out of a job. One or the other will happen within the current generation’s lifetime.
Either way, he’s screwed. Ironically, he’s less screwed if we win...
Self haters hate everything. Don’t try to figure them out. It’s a mental illness.
I saw a movie starring Nick Nolte as a deranged murderer. He was also the cop in charge of the investigation. Someone asked him why anyone would do such a thing. He said it is only the sane who need to know why. The serial murderer murders because that is what they do.
That is what they do.
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