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Keith Olbermann: Bush Owes Us An Apology

Of course, we won't get it. He probably doesn't even apologize do Laura for being a three-hump chump in the sack.

An excerpt, from the crux of the piece:

In four simple words last Friday, the President brought into sharp focus what has been only vaguely clear these past five-and-a-half years - the way the terrain at night is perceptible only during an angry flash of lightning, and then, a second later, all again is dark.

“It's unacceptable to think," he said.

It is never unacceptable to think.

And when a President says thinking is unacceptable, even on one topic, even in the heat of the moment, even in the turning of a phrase extracted from its context, he takes us toward a new and fearful path -- one heretofore the realm of science fiction authors and apocalyptic visionaries.

That flash of lightning freezes at the distant horizon, and we can just make out a world in which authority can actually suggest it has become unacceptable to think.

Seriously, can we impeach this asshat yet? Unfortunately, a citizen cannot initiate impeachment proceedings, unless it's by crafting such a compelling letter to one's Representative (and, later, their Senator) that they will do so on behalf of their constituency. [A good precis on impeachment.]

In a slightly different vein, but repeating the same refrain as has been previously bandied about, Razerwolfe's summation of the current Islamo/Catholic pissing match.

Pope "Eggs" Benedict: This guy, six hundred years ago, said some critical things about religion & violence and happened to mention Mohammed. I'm not saying that Islamists are violent asshats, I'm saying "violence isn't a good way to spread religion."
Islamist Nutjobs: *react like violent asshats and go 'splody*
Media: *inexplicably side with nutjobs*
The Vatican: *facepalm*

Audio courtesy of music to be disgusted to.

Comments

[megiddo-lj.livejournal.com]

Pretty horrifying. If you go on to listen to the rest of that Rose Garden press op he also threatens to 'take his ball' and go home unless his bill is passed. Said bill basically allowing torture and repudiating the Geneva Convention, though he uses different language.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

They were discussing it on NPR this morning, and I seriously wonder how Renee Montagne & co can keep straight faces while reporting on this, and not go all Anderson Cooper shouting about the rats eating corpses right in front of them.

I can totaly imagine Carl Castle or Daniel Shore Finally Having Enough, "And yesterday, in a White House press briefing, Mr. Bush said that-- YOU KNOW WHAT, FUCK THIS SHIT, I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT ASSHOLE IS STILL IN OFFICE.