Every generation has it’s ‘voice’ in news. Someone who speaks with such authority that you can say, ‘Yes! He speaks for me!’ In the early days of broadcast journalism, that voice was Edward R. Murrow. This quote from him rings true even today:
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
In the 60’s and early 70’s that voice belonged to Walter Cronkite. ‘Uncle Walter’ as he was affectionately know, was considered to be the most trusted name in news.
Today, a worthy successor to these great broadcasters has emerged. Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC’s ‘Countdown with Keith Olbermann’, has become that voice. On August 30, he rebutted comments made by Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to the American Legion’s National convention.
Nation/World
Rumsfeld: War critics are like Nazi appeasersTerrorists present a new type of fascism, he says
August 30, 2006
BY ROBERT BURNS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SALT LAKE CITY — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday the world faces “a new type of fascism” and likened critics of the Bush administration’s war strategy to those who tried to appease the Nazis in the 1930s.
He portrayed the administration’s critics as suffering from “moral or intellectual confusion” about what threatens the nation’s security.
Speaking to several thousand veterans at the American Legion’s national convention, Rumsfeld quoted Winston Churchill as observing that trying to accommodate Adolf Hitler was “a bit like feeding a crocodile, hoping it would eat you last.”
“Can we truly afford to believe that somehow, some way, vicious extremists can be appeased?” he asked.
“Can we truly afford to return to the destructive view that America — not the enemy — is the real source of the world’s troubles?
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060830/NEWS07/608300381/1009
Mr. Olbermann fired back at Secretary Rumsfeld on his show August 30th.
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.
You need to read this; trust me on this one. If you are at all sick at heart about what our government is doing in our names, read this. After you’re done reading get the clip from Crooks And Liars:
Keith Olbermann Speaks for me. Does he speak for you?
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John Lona // September 27, 2006 at 7:44 am
keep posting Keith’s video’s on youtube. Its my only hope to hear sanity from the US. I am an American living in Denmark, and I worder what the hell is happening to and in our country. Thanks