‘Your words are lies, Sir’
The Military Commission Act 2006. I don’t think Keith Olbermann likes it:
Essential viewing.
(via The Friday Thing)
Posted on October 20th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
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He has been morphing into a cross between Edward Murrow and Howard Beale - one that happily baits Bill O’Reilly. Wa-hey!
[...] (hat tip - Chicken Yoghurt) [...]
Thank you for bringing that to my attention Justin.
This guy is great, and a shining example of what Journalism and journalists ought to be. I hope his peers are taking note of him. Something needs to stir them from their slumber. What a pair he must have. Murrow would be proud.
[...] Via Justin, Keith Olbermann on the 2006 Military Commission Act, or below the cut: [...]
One has to feel pity for this man who seems anguished by the actions of the current government and what he regards as historical abberations on a similar scale. He seems to believe that the US is historically the “shining light of liberty to the world”.
Perhaps he spends more time with his baseball cards than with history books.
Dunno about you, but I would rather have the guy anguished to find his country isn’t a “shining light”, than the one who has no problem turning down the dial another notch because he knows his country was never that good anyway.
It’s a rather more constructive over-simplification.
[...] These developments are deeply disturbing. As i pointed out to our investors when raising finance for our movie, if we lose America then the whole international project for human rights risks being lost. We need a US with a robust commitment to human rights and the rule of international law to be at the heart of global affairs. The current policy, in which the UK is a pliable, willing cohort, is setting us back years. [...]