Re: [Biofuel] A textbook definition of cowardice
Keith Olbermann seems to be the only media person in the USA willing to take on the Republican cabal, as it currently exists in the USA, and make is point, with a calm demeanor. Too bad his calm statements based on fact aren't widely seen or read. Not that I think that would make a big difference, as so many of my fellow citizens have taken the 3 monkey posture of, see no evil hear no evil, say no evil. Doug, N0LKK Kansas USA inc. D. Mindock wrote: I saw the interview where Fox News tried to sandbag Clinton, but he threw it all back in the interviewer's face. Now it seems that interview has been pulled from online access. Wonder why? Peace, D. Mindock ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] A textbook definition of cowardice
maybe pulled from MsM (don't know, don't watch, especially FauxNews) -- but it's all over the blogosphere, even HuffPost -- just 1/2 hr ago i watched And read the unexpurgated original version on Truthout.org. Keith Olberman nailed it, as usual -- must be something special (in the genes, maybe?) about Keiths! ;-)~ Peace, Love, and NO MORE WARS! E. Allen C. --- D. Mindock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw the interview where Fox News tried to sandbag Clinton, but he threw it all back in the interviewer's face. Now it seems that interview has been pulled from online access. Wonder why? Peace, D. Mindock A textbook definition of cowardice Keith Olbermann comments on Bill Clinton's Fox News interview SPECIAL COMMENT By Keith Olbermann Anchor, 'Countdown' MSNBC Updated: 7:29 p.m. CT Sept 25, 2006 The headlines about them are, of course, entirely wrong. It is not essential that a past president, bullied and sandbagged by a monkey posing as a newscaster, finally lashed back. It is not important that the current President's portable public chorus has described his predecessor's tone as crazed. Our tone should be crazed. The nation's freedoms are under assault by an administration whose policies can do us as much damage as al Qaida; 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. At least I tried, he said of his own efforts to capture or kill Osama bin Laden. That's the difference in me and some, including all of the right-wingers who are attacking me now. They had eight months to try; they did not try. I tried. Thus in his supposed emeritus years has Mr. Clinton taken forceful and triumphant action for honesty, and for us; action as vital and as courageous as any of his presidency; action as startling and as liberating, as any, by any one, in these last five long years. 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! President Roosevelt was rightly blamed for ignoring the warning signs-some of them, 17 years old-before Pearl Harbor. President Hoover was correctly blamed for-if not the Great Depression itself-then the disastrous economic steps he took in the immediate aftermath of the Stock Market Crash. Even President Lincoln assumed some measure of responsibility for the Civil War-though talk of Southern secession had begun as early as 1832. But not this president. To hear him 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. But if his own fitness to serve is of no true concern to him, perhaps we should simply sigh and keep our fingers crossed, until a grown-up takes the job three Januarys from now. Except for this. After five years of skirting even the most inarguable of facts-that he was president on 9/11 and he must bear some responsibility for his, and our, unreadiness, Mr. Bush has now moved, unmistakably and without conscience or shame, towards re-writing history, and attempting to make the responsibility, entirely Mr. Clinton's. Of course he is not honest enough to do that directly. As with all the other nefariousness and slime of this, our worst presidency since James Buchanan, he is having it done for him, by proxy. Thus, the sandbag effort by Fox News Friday afternoon. Consider the timing: the very weekend the National Intelligence Estimate would be released and show the Iraq war to be the fraudulent failure it is-not a check on terror, but fertilizer for it. The kind of proof of incompetence, for which the administration and its hyenas at Fox need to find a diversion, in a scapegoat. It was the kind of cheap trick which would get a journalist fired-but a propagandist, promoted: Promise to talk of charity and generosity; but instead launch into the lies and distortions with which the Authoritarians among us attack the virtuous and reward the useless. And don't even be professional enough to assume the responsibility for the slanders yourself; blame your audience for
[Biofuel] A textbook definition of cowardice
I saw the interview where Fox News tried to sandbag Clinton, but he threw it all back in the interviewer's face. Now it seems that interview has been pulled from online access.Wonder why? Peace, D. Mindock A textbook definition of cowardiceKeith Olbermann comments on Bill Clinton's Fox News interviewSPECIAL COMMENTBy Keith OlbermannAnchor, 'Countdown'MSNBCUpdated: 7:29 p.m. CT Sept 25, 2006The headlines about them are, of course, entirely wrong.It is not essential that a past president, bullied and sandbagged by amonkey posing as a newscaster, finally lashed back.It is not important that the current President's portable publicchorus has described his predecessor's tone as "crazed."Our tone should be crazed. The nation's freedoms are under assault byan administration whose policies can do us as much damage as al Qaida;the nation's marketplace of ideas is being poisoned by a propagandacompany 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."At least I tried," he said of his own efforts to capture or killOsama bin Laden. "That's the difference in me and some, including allof the right-wingers who are attacking me now. They had eight monthsto try; they did not try. I tried."Thus in his supposed emeritus years has Mr. Clinton taken forceful andtriumphant action for honesty, and for us; action as vital and ascourageous as any of his presidency; action as startling and asliberating, as any, by any one, in these last five long years.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 currentadministration, and in particular the President, has been given thegreatest "pass" for incompetence and malfeasance in American history!President Roosevelt was rightly blamed for ignoring the warningsignssome of them, 17 years oldbefore Pearl Harbor.President Hoover was correctly blamed forif not the Great Depressionitselfthen the disastrous economic steps he took in the immediateaftermath of the Stock Market Crash.Even President Lincoln assumed some measure of responsibility for theCivil Warthough talk of Southern secession had begun as early as1832.But not this president.To hear him bleat and whine and bully at nearly every opportunity, onewould 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.But if his own fitness to serve is of no true concern to him, perhapswe should simply sigh and keep our fingers crossed, until a grown-uptakes the job three Januarys from now.Except for this.After five years of skirting even the most inarguable of factsthat hewas president on 9/11 and he must bear some responsibility for his,and our, unreadiness, Mr. Bush has now moved, unmistakably and withoutconscience or shame, towards re-writing history, and attempting tomake the responsibility, entirely Mr. Clinton's.Of course he is not honest enough to do that directly.As with all the other nefariousness and slime of this, our worstpresidency since James Buchanan, he is having it done for him, byproxy.Thus, the sandbag effort by Fox News Friday afternoon.Consider the timing: the very weekend the National IntelligenceEstimate would be released and show the Iraq war to be the fraudulentfailure it isnot a check on terror, but fertilizer for it.The kind of proof of incompetence, for which the administration andits hyenas at Fox need to find a diversion, in a scapegoat.It was the kind of cheap trick which would get a journalist firedbuta propagandist, promoted:Promise to talk of charity and generosity; but instead launch into thelies and distortions with which the Authoritarians among us attack thevirtuous and reward the useless.And don't even be professional enough to assume the responsibility forthe slanders yourself; blame your audience for "e-mailing" you thequestion.Mr. Clinton responded as you have seen.He told the great truth untold about this administration's negligence,perhaps criminal negligence, about bin Laden.He was brave.Then again, Chris Wallace might be braver still. Had I in one momentsurrendered all my credibility as a journalist, and been irredeemablyhumiliated, as was he, I would have gone home and started a new careerselling seeds by mail.The smearing by proxy, of course, did not begin Friday afternoon.Disney was first to sell-out its corporate reputation, with "The Pathto 9/11." Of that company's crimes against
