Olbermann On Clinton Fox ordeal

The [Uni­ted State’s] free­doms are under assault by an admi­nis­tra­tion whose poli­cies can do us as much damage as Al-Qaeda; the nation’s “mar­ket­place of ideas” is being poi­so­ned, by a pro­pa­ganda com­pany so bla­tant that Tokyo Rose would’ve quit.

Nonethe­less… the head­line is this: Bill Clin­ton did what almost none of us have done, in five years. He has spo­ken the truth about 9/11, and the current pre­si­den­tial administration.

• The Bush Admi­nis­tra­tion did not try to get Osama Bin Laden before 9/11.
• The Bush Admi­nis­tra­tion igno­red all the evi­dence gathe­red by its predecessors.
• The Bush Admi­nis­tra­tion did not unders­tand the Daily Brie­fing entit­led “Bin Laden Deter­mi­ned To Strike in U.S.“
• The Bush Admi­nis­tra­tion… did…not…try.

Moreo­ver, for the last five years one month and two weeks, the current admi­nis­tra­tion, and in par­ti­cu­lar the Pre­si­dent, has been given the grea­test “pass” for incom­pe­tence and mal­fea­sance, in Ame­ri­can history!

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To hear [Bush] bleat and whine and bully at nearly every oppor­tu­nity, one would think someone else had been Pre­si­dent on Sep­tem­ber 11th, 2001 — or the nearly eight months that pre­ce­ded it. That hardly reflects the honesty nor man­li­ness we expect of the Executive.

I also find Olbermann’s com­men­tary on the Katrina fiasco last year refreshing: