The whole thing is great, but if you’re in a hurry, do yourself a favour and skip forward to about 4.10 and enjoy Chris Mathews DESTROYING right-wing pundit Kevin James by revealing that he doesn’t know what Neville Chamberlain did in Munich or what the word ‘appeasement’ means. It’s hilarious!
When Keith Olbermann has a meltdown, it’s a little bit more focused than those of his ‘rivals’. This is a startling excoriation of George Bush and especially his recent comment that he is giving up golf to support the troops in Iraq. I wonder, when Christopher Hitchens, Kevin Myers and all the other cheerleaders of this nasty, cynical war watch something like this, do they ever think of just changing their names and shuffling sideways into the shadows? Amazing to be so wrong on such an important matter, and yet continue to sound off like your opinion is worth more than a handful of magic beans. Link
…Hurray! Bilal Hussein was freed! He never should have been detained in the first place, but rather than admit this, Major General Douglas Stone, head of US detainee operations said “We reviewed the circumstances and determined that he no longer presents an imperative threat to security.” (Emphasis mine). Typical scumbag way of avoiding responsibility for arresting an innocent man.
…unfortunately about eight years too late.
“Several times, the President went out of his way to remind me that he
was the Commander in Chief. You don’t have to keep telling me that, I
thought. I know who you are. Like others, I have been around people who
are good at wielding power. They never have to tell you they are in
charge. They just are, and you know it. What I saw and heard that day
really unsettled me. I’m the Commander in Chief… I’m the President…
I’m the Commander in Chief… It was unpresidential.”
If you really want to attack a ridiculous Conservative idea, ask a Conservative. Link
And now here is Ben Stein, sneering and scoffing at Darwin, a man who
spent decades observing and pondering the natural world — that world
Stein glimpses through the window of his automobile now and then, when
he’s not chattering into his cell phone. Stein claims to be doing it in
the name of an alternative theory of the origin of species: Yet no such
alternative theory has ever been presented, nor is one presented in the
movie, nor even hinted at. There is only a gaggle of fools and
fraudsters, gaping and pointing like Apaches on seeing their first
locomotive: “Look! It moves! There must be a ghost inside making it
move!”
It has to be said, though… if Conservatives like Derbyshire hadn’t thrown in their lot with religious wackjobs in order to get a semi-retarded man elected President, then maybe articles like this one wouldn’t be necessary.
Yes. Absolutely. Exactly. What she said. One of the big mysteries of Western life in the last few years is the phenomenon of no-one giving a fuck about the Iraqi bodycount. Thank God for people like Naomi Klein. (Sorry, forgot I was an atheist. But you know what I mean.)
Tim Robbins keynote speech to The National Association of Broadcasters is cranky, funny and inspiring! Hurray for him! Link
Thanks to Jimmy for the reminder that RTE is one of the few broadcasters to have held Bush’s feet to the fire in an interview.
He’s so rattled here… so unused to a the normal back-and-forth of a political interview. It’s an absolute joy to watch.
