Posted on 09/25/2009 4:56:51 PM PDT by Rufus2007
Remember "Baghdad Bob," the Iraqi Information Minister Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf? Even with Iraqi forces in a full rout and American Marines just blocks away Baghdad Bob would completely deny the presence of U.S. troops in the Iraqi capitol.
Watching MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann," on September 24 was reminiscent of Baghdad's Bob's press conferences. Olbermann asked Newsweek's Jonathan Alter, also an MSNBC political analyst, how "the GOP" would convince the public that the health care system "is not really in crisis" and that it does not need to be a priority compared to Afghanistan. Turning right to page three of the current left-wing talking points, Alter used the opportunity to attack Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., for suggesting that the president is letting Afghanistan slide to curry favor for health care, by invoking George W. Bush.
"It's a pretty lame argument," Alter said. "I don't remember Jim DeMint saying when George W. Bush was proposing to reform Social Security a few years ago that somehow he was putting the troops at risk in Iraq, because he was worried about some domestic issue."
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Morons
Rent Idiocracy.
Watch Olberman and the Obamaloon.
Realize that the writer of this comedy flic is much, much more accurate that Nostradamus.
Not ALL sick people, just Olbermann.
Yeah
Olberdick seems to have been off of his meds, or, is that, taking toooooo many meds. Whichever, he's an idiot!
Why does Keith Olbermann hate the elderly?
Someone still watches him???
Why do Olbermann and Alter hate free people?
Homosexual lovers?
Notice how often Olbermann is absent from his own show? He may be on the verge of losing it completely. Can he do the show in a straight jacket?
Barack Obama hates blind people.
Paterson
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