Keith Olbermann is burning up the airwaves with his scorching “Countdown” news program tonight. First, a little vignette about a “rumor” spread in Tikrit that food rations would be cut off to non-voters in Iraq’s election. Then a bit about of the “missing” nine billion bucks the Occupation Authority can’t seem to find that described Proconsul Bremer’s response to inquiries as “We can’t stop the reconstruction of Iraq and bother ourselves with differing accounting methods and spreadsheets.” Yeah, spreadsheets made of gold. Topping it all off: a discussion about exit strategies for Iraq. Is there one? His guest — a journalist — seemed to be giggling throughout the whole thing, in awe of Olbermann’s wickedness.
Ewwwwww! There’s David Frum — again! That little troll is everywhere. He’s declaring that the Bush occupation-election will show the powerlessness of terrorists like Bin Laden. Bull. We are recruiting for Al Qaeda. Steve Emerson, on the same program, marveled that the Iraqi insurgents could recruit 12 suicide bombers for a single day’s operations: “No other terrorist group I know of can do that.”
It’s telling how the different interviews showed varying reactions to Olbermann’s upfront anti-war skepticism: Emerson managed to look wistful and resentful at the same time as he basically acknowledged the truth of Olbermann was saying. The other guy, a journalist, giggled like a schoolboy. I applauded.
Go, Keith, go!
Hmmmm… I wonder how long they’ll let him get away with it.
UPDATE: Oh, wait .. Now Olbermann’s talking about his run-in with the James Dobson fundies, who think Sponge-Bob is gay — or something — at any rate, it looks like the fundies spammed him with thousands of emails, and now he’s reading their illiterate hate mail on air. Too funny. And sinister: There ‘s one that says “Don’t you remember what we did to Dan Rather?”
Yeah, now I know whether they’ll let him get away with it.