K. Olbermann's July 4th diatribe: Resign Bush!!!

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Originally Posted by Chan

Now, now, you should know better than to try being logical and making sense here at AFF.

I know what he is ... it's the "appearance" promoted that is disturbing ...

I think the modern term is "news analyst"

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BTW,

Happy Birthday, Mr. President.

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He accused Bush of....

* lying this country into war.
* fabricating in the minds of his own people, a false implied link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11.
* firing the generals who told him that the plans for Iraq were disastrously insufficient.
* causing in Iraq the needless deaths of 3,586 of our brothers and sons, and sisters and daughters, and friends and neighbors.
* subverting the Constitution, not in some misguided but sincerely-motivated struggle to combat terrorists, but to stifle dissent.
* fomenting fear among his own people, of creating the very terror you claim to have fought.
* exploiting that unreasoning fear, the natural fear of his own people who just want to live their lives in peace, as a political tool to slander your critics and libel his opponents.
* handing part of this Republic over to a Vice President who is without conscience, and letting him run roughshod over it.
* of giving, through that Vice President, carte blanche to Mr. Libby, to help defame Ambassador Joseph Wilson by any means necessary, to lie to Grand Juries and Special Counsel and before a court, in order to protect the mechanisms and particulars of that defamation, with your guarantee that Libby would never see prison, and, in so doing, as Ambassador Wilson himself phrased it here last night, of becoming an accessory… to the obstruction of justice.

I have to say that I agree with most of that.

Also... if this rant were about a pardon that Clinton made then there would be a thread of praise for it.

Partisanship lives.

Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea

I know what he is ... it's the "appearance" promoted that is disturbing ...

I think the modern term is "news analyst"

One of the messy things about freedom of speech is recognizing the right of others to say things that we might consider offensive while resisting the urge to retaliate.

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Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea

I know what he is ... it's the "appearance" promoted that is disturbing ...

I think the modern term is "news analyst"

I think the little graphic said "Special Comment"

Hence... "Comment"ary.

And... an analyst is not a reporter.

An analyst analyzes what the reporters report.

I will agree that too much of what is called news these days is, indeed, commentary. But this was clearly presented as such.

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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

I think the little graphic said "Special Comment"

Hence... "Comment"ary.

And... an analyst is not a reporter.

An analyst analyzes what the reporters report.

I will agree that too much of what is called news these days is, indeed, commentary. But this was clearly presented as such.

again ... thanks for clearing up what I already knew

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Chan,

Were you baptized in lemon juice???

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Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea

again ... thanks for clearing up what I already knew

Oh... sorry.

Your post had demonstrated otherwise.

My bad.

Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea

Chan,

Were you baptized in lemon juice???

What are you talking about? Were you reading into my posts again?

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Originally Posted by Chan

What are you talking about? Were you reading into my posts again?

Quid pro quo?