Are we as dumb as the regime thinks we are? Hopefully, not. But, most of the news media seems to believe we are. For this reason I shall feature one who doesn’t.
Since Keith Olbermann’s Countdown is one of the very few programs worth watching on the three cable news channels, I wouldn’t want you to have missed these statements about W’s September 5th chat and Donnie’s August 30th ‘confusion’ speech.
Olbermann, September 5:
Make no mistake here - the intent of that is to get us to confuse the psychotic scheming of an international terrorist, with that familiar bogeyman of the right, the “media.”
The President and the Vice President and others have often attacked freedom of speech, and freedom of dissent, and freedom of the press.
Now, Mr. Bush has signaled that his unparalleled and unprincipled attack on reporting has a new and venomous side angle:
The attempt to link, by the simple expediency of one word - “media” - the honest, patriotic, and indeed vital questions and questioning from American reporters, with the evil of Al-Qaeda propaganda.
That linkage is more than just indefensible. It is un-American.
Olbermann, August 30
Thus for give me for reading Murrow in full.
“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty” he said in 1954, “We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not disended from fearful men, not from men who fear to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. And so, goodnight and good luck.”
Please find the find the entire transcript of his comments here & here.
September 7th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Thanks for the new format. It is much easier for me to take in all the radical bon mots on your blog.
Dedicated DBP blog fan