Oh brother...

In a recent blog entry at www.msnbc.com, MSNBC "news" personality Keith Olbermann, who wouldn't know a fact if it smacked him across the head, wrote some pretty ridiculous things about the controversey over White House spokesman Scott McClellan's comments regarding Newsweek. Some highlights in silliness include:

"Of course, everybody in the prosecution of the so-called ‘war on terror’ has done something dumb, dating back to the President’s worst-possible-word-selection (“crusade”) on September 16, 2001."

Actually, Keith, crusade is the most appropriate term the president could have used. I wouldn't expect Mr. Olbermann to know much about the Crusades other than what he reads from Left-Wing Weekly but all five Crusades were a response by Europeans to Muslim aggression. Like European Christians in the middle-ages, we were attacked by Arabs in the name of Islam. Call a spade a spade: Any response to Muslim aggression should be called a crusade.

"The news organization turns to the administration for a denial. The administration says nothing. The news organization runs the story. The administration jumps on the necks of the news organization with both feet — or has its proxies do it for them."

"That’s beyond shameful. It’s treasonous."

So Keith Olbermann thinks the Bush administration are a bunch of traitors. Lovely. No wonder the White House has a problem with the media. Can you blame them (the administration, not the media)? Olbermann and his ilk love throwing around terms like "unpatriotic" and "treasonous" yet when a conservative hints that a liberal may not be acting in the best interest of the nation--a legitimate point--liberals immediatly cry foul and accuse the right of McCarthyism.

So much for tolerance.

"While places like the Fox News Channel (which, only today, I finally recognized — it’s the newscast perpetually running on the giant video screens in the movie “1984”) ask how many heads should roll at Newsweek, it forgets in its fervor that both the story and the phony controversy around it are not so cut-and-dried this time."

I don't know whether to laugh or to cry. Other than the obvious insecurity complex Olbermann exhibits with tired attacks on Fox News, Olbermann shows a complete ignorance when it comes to George Orwell's 1984. In that book, it's the tolitarian left that is the villain (you know, guys like Olbermann). I think it's much more likely that Countdown is being shown on those screens.

"Either way — and also for that tasteless, soul-less conclusion that deaths in Afghanistan should be lain at the magazine’s doorstep — Scott McClellan should resign. The expiration on his carton full of blank-eyed bully-collaborator act passed this afternoon as he sat reeling off those holier-than-thou remarks. Ah, that’s what I smelled."

Ah, I see. McClellan is soul-less. Nice. Coming from a godless commie heathen like Olbermann, this doesn't mean a whole heckuva lot, does it?

Holier-than-thou remarks? Keith, Keith, Keith. Do you ever listen to yourself?

Oh brother...