Olbermann TRANSCRIPT: Why Is The Republican Party Imitating Terrorists?

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Olbermann TRANSCRIPT: Why Is The Republican Party Imitating Terrorists?

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Special Comment: Advertising terrorism
The key to terrorism is not the act � but the fear of the act
KEITH OLBERMANN'S SPECIAL COMMENTS

By Keith Olbermann

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There is a cheap �Texas Chainsaw Massacre� quality to the whole thing, and it also serves to immediately call to mind the occasions when President Bush dismissed Osama bin Laden as somebody he didn�t think about�except, obviously, when elections were near.

Frankly, a lot of people seeing that commercial for the first time, have laughed out loud.

But�not everyone.

And therein lies the true threat to this country.

The dictionary definition of the word �terrorize� is simple and not open to misinterpretation:

�To fill or overpower with terror; terrify. To coerce by intimidation or fear.�

Note please, that the words �violence� and �death� are missing from that definition.

The key to terror, the key to terrorism, is not the act�but the fear of the act.

That is why bin Laden and his deputies and his imitators are forever putting together videotaped statements and releasing virtual infomercials with dire threats and heart-stopping warnings.

But why is the Republican Party imitating them?

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And yet you can actually claim that you and you alone can protect us from terrorism?

You can�t even recover our dead from the battlefield�the battlefield in an American city�when we�ve given you five years and unlimited funds to do so!

While signing a Military Commissions Act so monstrous that it has been criticized by even the John Birch Society, you told us, Mr. Bush, �there is nothing we can do to bring back the men and women lost on September 11th, 2001. Yet we�ll always honor their memory, and we will never forget the way they were taken from us.�

Except, of course, for the ones who�ve been lying under a manhole cover for five years.

Setting aside the fact that your government has done nothing else for those five years but pat yourselves on the back about terror, while waging pointless war on the wrong enemy in Iraq, and waging war on the cherished freedoms in America;

Just on this subject of counter-terrorism, sir, yours is the least competent government, in time of crisis, in this country�s history!

�These are the stakes,� indeed, Mr. President.

You do not know what you are doing.

And the commercial�the one about which Zawahiri might say �hey, pretty good�we love your choice of font style�?

All that need further be said is to add three words to Shakespeare.

Mr. President, you, and that advertisement of terror, are full of sound and fury�signifying (and competent at) nothing.

Read The Whole Transcript At:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15392701/