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Bush and His Greatest Sacrifice: Golf? Keith Olbermann Special Comment on Countdown Tonight

Isn't it past time that we all unite and turn our attention to the real battle? Keith Olbermann thinks so, and has offered up a preview of his Special Comment for tonight's Countdown on MSNBC at 8pm.

excerpt:


  "Mr. President," he was asked, "you haven't been golfing in recent years. Is that related to Iraq?
   "Yes," began perhaps the most startling reply of this nightmarish blight on our lives as Americans -- on our history.
   "It really is. I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the Commander-in-Chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be as -- to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And  I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal."
   Golf, Sir?
   Golf sends the wrong signal to the grieving families of our men and women butchered in Iraq?
   Do you think these families, Mr. Bush - their lives blighted forever -- care about you playing golf?
   Do you think, Sir, they care about you?
   You, Mr. Bush, let their sons and daughters be killed.
   Sir, to show your solidarity with them - you gave up golf?
   Sir, to show your solidarity with them - you didn't give up your pursuit of this insurance-scam, profiteering, morally and financially bankrupting war.
   Sir, to show your solidarity with them - you didn't even give up talking about Iraq - a subject about which you have incessantly proved without pause or backwards glance, that you may literally be the least informed person in the world?
   Sir, to show your solidarity with them, you didn't give up... your
   4,000 dead Americans and your response... was to stop playing golf!
   Golf.
   Not "gulf" - golf.



Comments (5)

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I just finished watching Keith. He was in rare form. I don't think I've ever listened to him deliver a bigger ass kickin' before. Absolutely awesome!

Yeah, that was laying the smack down big time. Keith was shaking and spitting unlike I've ever seen him before. Bravo, Keith!

The Edward R. Murrow of our day.

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Keith hit a homerun! Our troops die and Bush gives up golf, maybe. My son lost his business because he was called up go to Iraq in the National Guard! Bush blame everyone but himself which should come at no suprize to anyone who know about how he drove his OWN business ventures into the ground and now he has done the same thing to America!

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