A conservative's response to Olbermann's reports
Even for a particularly fevered election season you would think that an MSNBC guy who wants to convince his audience that he's both morally and intellectually superior to the Fox crew would have the brains to understand that such a claim requires proof [Oh, boy, here we go...]. Uh...apparently not.Keith Olbermann, you see, doesn't like President Bush. So far so good. I love the President [that says a lot about the author of this article] but this is a democracy, and if Bush-bashing is the way Keith thinks he can bring more eyeballs to his show [actually, it has worked. Olbermann's ratings have doubled in the past few months] and stop those 700 pink slips at his failing network [he's not responsible for the entire network], so be it. Maybe he really believes I have an undiscovered soft spot for his translation of the Angry Left "Bush lied" mantra into the more formal Olbermann-speak: "Your words are lies, Sir. They are lies that imperil us all." [Uh... don't make like your conservatives don't do the same thing. Cut and run? What the hell is that supposed to imply? Since this war started turning south the president has been calling Democrats cowards without actually saying it. Are we not supposed to be able to figure out what defeatocrat really means???]
Come to think of it, that last sentence has some bearing on what has emerged as Keith's strange defense of slavery. Why? Because in his haste to Bush-bash on the signing of the Military Commissions Act and what Olbermann calls "the death of habeas corpus" (meaning the denial of certain rights to terrorists), Mr. Olbermann uttered words that are, if I may borrow, "lies, Sir."
Olbermann charges George W. Bush has done something no one has managed to do before -- "killed the writ of habeas corpus." To illustrate the death of this ancient principle -- which he goes on to say "kills our Bill of Rights" Olbermann then goes back through a highly selective version of American history while making a very curious omission. An omission that makes one wonder just what really goes on in this guy's head [the REAL lesson here, if one cares at all about the big picture, is that this president has done away with habeas corpus. Nothing changes that. Sure, you can try to dismantle Mr. Olbermann's every word, but just like in the Mark Foley scandal, the overriding truth is still clear. In this case it's simple: no more habeas corpus. And THAT's what bothers so many people. More people care about habeas corpus than care about Keith Olbermann. No offense, Keith].
One of the reasons black Americans are not slaves today, or even slaves living in another country called the Confederate States of America, is that President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus.
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- October 26, 2006
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