I’ve been recording and watching MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann for a good while now.
The show is an hour long, and very fluffy — usually I can watch the whole thing in fifteen or twenty minutes, fast-forwarding through the celebrity gossip and animal stunts. What’s left is pretty good, most of the time.
Olbermann is often forcefully critical of the Bush administration, and this has made him a favorite among many anti-Bush blogs, including this one. A month ago, he made a strongly-worded “special comment” in response to a Donald Rumsfeld speech comparing critics of the Iraq War to World War II-era appeasers of fascism. Olbermann seemed genuinely angry, and the blogosphere was buzzing for days.
It must have been good for ratings, because Olbermann has since made a number of “special comments.” Some of these later commentaries have struck me as calculated crowd-pleasing diatribes generating more heat than light — as if Olbermann seeks to be the anti-Bush Bill O’Reilly.
But this week, responding to Republican efforts to blame Bill Clinton for 9/11 and absolve the Bush administration, Olbermann presented this meaty look at what the Bush administration did to protect America before 9/11:
More like that, please, Keith.
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