Video: Keith Olbermann takes Rumsfeld to task

[Ian David]

Video: Keith Olbermann takes Rumsfeld to task
06:41
Olbermann delivered this commentary with fire and passion while highlighting how Rumsfeld 's comments echoes other times in our world's history when anyone who questioned the administration was coined as a traitor, unpatriotic, communist or any other colorful term.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLeg0mfoQzM

[Iwasthere]

1. need transcript of it

I am at work (no youtube)

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Transcript can be found on DU homepage

:hi:

[Ian David]

6. Transcript of Keith Olbermann's speech on Rumsfeld

Aug. 30, 2006 | 8:34 p.m. ET

Feeling morally, intellectually confused?




The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

Donald H. Rumsfeld is not a prophet.

Mr. Rumsfeld’s remarkable speech to the American Legion yesterday demands the deep analysis—and the sober contemplation—of every American.

For it did not merely serve to impugn the morality or intelligence -- indeed, the loyalty -- of the majority of Americans who oppose the transient occupants of the highest offices in the land. Worse, still, it credits those same transient occupants -- our employees -- with a total omniscience; a total omniscience which neither common sense, nor this administration’s track record at home or abroad, suggests they deserve.

Dissent and disagreement with government is the life’s blood of human freedom; and not merely because it is the first roadblock against the kind of tyranny the men Mr. Rumsfeld likes to think of as “his” troops still fight, this very evening, in Iraq.

It is also essential. Because just every once in awhile it is right and the power to which it speaks, is wrong.

More:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240

[rodeodance]

2. Send this to the media and ALL your Congresscritters.

[Fridays Child]

4. Where does the line form for...

...women who want to have Keith's baby? The world could use a lot more people like him.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. KO... stay off small planes

and keep it up!