--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <groups@> wrote: > > > > http://movies.crooksandliars.com/CD-SC-KerryJoke.mov > > I don't agree with every single point, but that is the > most scathing political commentary I have ever seen, and > the scariest part is that only a fools could possibly > disagree with the overall message. > > Wait for it...
Here's the transcript, BTW: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15519404 He's been doing these blistering commentaries on a regular basis for about a month now, and his ratings are surging. I was pleased to see that I'm not the only one who sees Kerry's apology as having been on behalf of the Republicans: "So now John Kerry has apologized to the troops; apologized for the Republicans' deliberate distortions." His rhetoric can be a bit creaky and convoluted, and sometimes he isn't entirely fair. For example: "This president must apologize to the troops for having suggested, six weeks ago, that the chaos in Iraq, the death and the carnage, the slaughtered Iraqi civilians and the dead American service personnel, will, to history, 'look like just a comma.'" There was initially much outrage in the left blogosphere at Bush's "just a comma" remark, which was understood to be a trivialization of the war. But several blogggers who were familiar with Christian thinking pointed out that this was a misinterpretation; the reference was to a different metaphor: Everything is part of God's overall plan, and where humans might want to a period because our vision is limited, God puts a comma because He is not yet finished (the Christian version of Krishna's "Unfathomable is the course of action" in the Gita). Only in retrospect will we see the perfection of God's design, in other words. One may or may not agree with Bush's notion that the Iraq disaster is part of God's plan and therefore not to be questioned, but Bush wasn't trivializing the war. Olbermann is a blog reader, so I'd be really surprised if he hadn't read this explanation. I prefer to read the transcripts of these comments rather than watch them. I find Olbermann's tendency to do them as dramatic readings, at times virtually spitting through clenched teeth, annoying and overdone. The words themselves are so devastating, they don't need to be pumped up with an emotional delivery. The impact would be greater if he would just read them straightforwardly and let the viewer supply the emotion. But there sure isn't anything like his comments in broadcast journalism today, and he's obviously touched a chord with viewers. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
