Monday, September 11, 2006
Disgusting
Preznit Dickhead just gave a speech from the Oval Office that was supposed to commemorate the fifth anniversary of 9/11 and instead offered a big "Fuck You!" to war critics, political opponents, and anybody who doesn't agree with his policies 1000%. The speech was clearly an attempt by the preznit to rally Americans to his failing war and help his Republican Party hold power after the November midterms. Mike at Crest put it this way:
Keith Olbermann's "special comment" at the end of Countdown was a perfect response to the cynical political bullshit the preznit uttered tonight:
Amen.
But I'm not forgiving this bloodthirsty, arrogant piece of shit who stands on the bodies of the 9/11 dead and says you're either with him or you're with the terrorists nor his cowardly Vice Preznit who hides six stories below ground when the action gets good but talks real tough at Republican fundraisers nor his demented Secretary of Defense who calls critics of his war policies "appeasers" yet fails to properly arm his troops for war or send enough to secure the peace nor his political guru Karl Rove who gleefully told Republicans after 9/11 that they would use terrorism as a wedge issue to forge a permanent Republican majority.
To paraphrase Lynn Cheney, they are bad, bad men.
No, I'm not forgiving them for a long, long time.
UPDATE: Crooks and Liars has the tape of Olbermann's comments. Watch it.
Tonight's speech, on the commemoration of 9-11, was all politics. It was an attempt to use this day, and the deaths, to reframe the debate about Iraq. No memory, no commemoration, very little mention of 9/11 except as to it's political value in justifying his policies.
He stood on the bodies of the dead to justify his failing policies.
Keith Olbermann's "special comment" at the end of Countdown was a perfect response to the cynical political bullshit the preznit uttered tonight:
There is something worse still than this vast gaping hole in this city, and in the fabric of our nation. There is its symbolism of the promise unfulfilled, the urgent oath, reduced to lazy execution.
The only positive on 9/11 and the days and weeks that so slowly and painfully followed it was the unanimous humanity, here, and throughout the country. The government, the President in particular, was given every possible measure of support.
Those who did not belong to his party -- tabled that.
Those who doubted the mechanics of his election -- ignored that.
Those who wondered of his qualifications -- forgot that.
History teaches us that nearly unanimous support of a government cannot be taken away from that government by its critics. It can only be squandered by those who use it not to heal a nation's wounds, but to take political advantage.
Terrorists did not come and steal our newly-regained sense of being American first, and political, fiftieth. Nor did the Democrats. Nor did the media. Nor did the people.
The President -- and those around him -- did that.
They promised bi-partisanship, and then showed that to them, "bi-partisanship" meant that their party would rule and the rest would have to follow, or be branded, with ever-escalating hysteria, as morally or intellectually confused, as appeasers, as those who, in the Vice President's words yesterday, "validate the strategy of the terrorists."
They promised protection, and then showed that to them "protection" meant going to war against a despot whose hand they had once shaken, a despot who we now learn from our own Senate Intelligence Committee, hated al-Qaida as much as we did.
The polite phrase for how so many of us were duped into supporting a war, on the false premise that it had 'something to do' with 9/11 is "lying by implication."
The impolite phrase is "impeachable offense."
Not once in now five years has this President ever offered to assume responsibility for the failures that led to this empty space, and to this, the current, curdled, version of our beloved country.
Still, there is a last snapping flame from a final candle of respect and fairness: even his most virulent critics have never suggested he alone bears the full brunt of the blame for 9/11.
Half the time, in fact, this President has been so gently treated, that he has seemed not even to be the man most responsible for anything in his own administration.
Yet what is happening this very night?
A mini-series, created, influenced -- possibly financed by -- the most radical and cold of domestic political Machiavellis, continues to be televised into our homes.
The documented truths of the last fifteen years are replaced by bald-faced lies; the talking points of the current regime parroted; the whole sorry story blurred, by spin, to make the party out of office seem vacillating and impotent, and the party in office, seem like the only option.
How dare you, Mr. President, after taking cynical advantage of the unanimity and love, and transmuting it into fraudulent war and needless death, after monstrously transforming it into fear and suspicion and turning that fear into the campaign slogan of three elections? How dare you -- or those around you -- ever "spin" 9/11?
Just as the terrorists have succeeded -- are still succeeding -- as long as there is no memorial and no construction here at Ground Zero.
So, too, have they succeeded, and are still succeeding as long as this government uses 9/11 as a wedge to pit Americans against Americans.
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When those who dissent are told time and time again -- as we will be, if not tonight by the President, then tomorrow by his portable public chorus -- that he is preserving our freedom, but that if we use any of it, we are somehow un-American...When we are scolded, that if we merely question, we have "forgotten the lessons of 9/11"... look into this empty space behind me and the bi-partisanship upon which this administration also did not build, and tell me:
Who has left this hole in the ground?
We have not forgotten, Mr. President.
You have.
May this country forgive you.
Amen.
But I'm not forgiving this bloodthirsty, arrogant piece of shit who stands on the bodies of the 9/11 dead and says you're either with him or you're with the terrorists nor his cowardly Vice Preznit who hides six stories below ground when the action gets good but talks real tough at Republican fundraisers nor his demented Secretary of Defense who calls critics of his war policies "appeasers" yet fails to properly arm his troops for war or send enough to secure the peace nor his political guru Karl Rove who gleefully told Republicans after 9/11 that they would use terrorism as a wedge issue to forge a permanent Republican majority.
To paraphrase Lynn Cheney, they are bad, bad men.
No, I'm not forgiving them for a long, long time.
UPDATE: Crooks and Liars has the tape of Olbermann's comments. Watch it.
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I can't help thinking the worst legacy of the Bush era is the social division.
There is no excuse in the world for a US president to rip apart the very fabric of society, at home and elsewhere.
There is no excuse in the world for a US president to rip apart the very fabric of society, at home and elsewhere.
# posted by 
: 10:25 PM
: 10:25 PM
I think you're right, cartledge. But this guy's just a walking "Fuck you" and Republicans have been getting elected by holding down overall voter turnout with negative ads and bringing out only their base.
In other words, they've mastered the 51%-49% election and I doubt we'll see them give up their well-practiced dividing of America any time soon.
In other words, they've mastered the 51%-49% election and I doubt we'll see them give up their well-practiced dividing of America any time soon.
What scares me is the amount of people who are prepared to believe the shit that he spouts, despite the evidence to the contrary. Some even claim that there is a left-wing conspiracy in the media to discredit him, when they believe that he is a great leader. How do these people come to such way out conclusions??
If you wish to undersatnd the president and the America that supports him,do 4 things:
1. Read Kevein Phillip's book "American Dynasty: Aristocracy,Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush."
2. Remember that George W. Bush was never varsity material on any level.
3. Remember 2 four letter words: "Karl" and "Rove."
And
4. Not for better, but for worse, many if not most Americans are unable to think in sequences longer than a sound bite.
1. Read Kevein Phillip's book "American Dynasty: Aristocracy,Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush."
2. Remember that George W. Bush was never varsity material on any level.
3. Remember 2 four letter words: "Karl" and "Rove."
And
4. Not for better, but for worse, many if not most Americans are unable to think in sequences longer than a sound bite.
# posted by : 11:34 AM
: 11:34 AM
tony, you're right that most Americans can't think in sequences longer than a sound bite - obviously Rove/Mehlman understand that and know how to exploit it.
korova, given the skill with which Republicans work the news cycle and the ability of wingnut talk radio hosts and "docudrama" directors to spin the public discourse toward GOP talking points, the "Liberal Media" meme ought to be put to rest. Often while I'm watching CNN, I can hear the GOP talking points come right out of the anchors' or reporters' mouths like they're paid members of the Republican party. Ed henry is particularly bad, although I don't think it's because he's corrupt. He's just an idiot and he can't distinguish between facts and spin. Remember the "Rockey" guy in the FEMA trailer, (I believe Henry called him the "anit-Cindy Sheehan")? Henry played that up for all it was worth until somebody borke the news to him that Rockey was actually a paid GOP operative and his "meeting" with the preznit was nothing but a p.r. op.
Jon King, John Roberts, Miles O'Shithead, Soledad O'Shithead, Jeff Greenfield, are all just as bad as Henry when it comes to parroting GOP talking points and/or stupid shit. MSNBC has some reporters who are a little better at cutting through the spin. Olbermann, obviously, and David Shuster. Matthews can do it too when he wants to.
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korova, given the skill with which Republicans work the news cycle and the ability of wingnut talk radio hosts and "docudrama" directors to spin the public discourse toward GOP talking points, the "Liberal Media" meme ought to be put to rest. Often while I'm watching CNN, I can hear the GOP talking points come right out of the anchors' or reporters' mouths like they're paid members of the Republican party. Ed henry is particularly bad, although I don't think it's because he's corrupt. He's just an idiot and he can't distinguish between facts and spin. Remember the "Rockey" guy in the FEMA trailer, (I believe Henry called him the "anit-Cindy Sheehan")? Henry played that up for all it was worth until somebody borke the news to him that Rockey was actually a paid GOP operative and his "meeting" with the preznit was nothing but a p.r. op.
Jon King, John Roberts, Miles O'Shithead, Soledad O'Shithead, Jeff Greenfield, are all just as bad as Henry when it comes to parroting GOP talking points and/or stupid shit. MSNBC has some reporters who are a little better at cutting through the spin. Olbermann, obviously, and David Shuster. Matthews can do it too when he wants to.
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