Something you should definitely see....

I meant to put this up before. I know I watch a heck of a lot more news than anything else these days, and Keith Olbermann, ESPN sportsguy extraordinaire and host of MSNBC's "Countdown", has become the best new anchorman since Walter Cronkite. Making the news interesting, having informed guests on the show, and not averse to making fun of himself or the news at times makes "Countdown" ten times more interesting than any network evening new show. It's on usually at 8pm and midnight weekdays on the east Coast, and its totally worth a watch. Two nights ago Keith has a final commentary based on Donald Rumsfeld's old-man-crazy "if you criticize the govermnment you're with the fascists" BS that is an inspiring, passionate, and moving as his hero, Edward R. Murrow. Crooks & Liars has the video up, you can click here to go there, or click here if you would like to download the whole thing as well.
Good night, and good luck, indeed.

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack. Donald H. Rumsfeld is not a prophet. We end the countdown where we began, our #1 story. With a special comment on Mr. Rumsfeld’s remarkable speech to the American Legion yesterday. It demands the deep analysis - and the sober contemplation - of every American. For it did not merely serve to impugn the morality or intelligence - indeed, the loyalty - of the majority of Americans who oppose the transient occupants of the highest offices in the land; Worse, still, it credits those same transient occupants - our employees - with a total omniscience; a total omniscience which neither common sense, nor this administration’s track record at home or abroad, suggests they deserve. Dissent and disagreement with government is the life’s blood of human freedom; And not merely because it is the first roadblock against the
kind of tyranny the men Mr. Rumsfeld likes to think of as "his" troops still fight, this very evening, in Iraq. It is also essential. Because just every once in awhile… it is right - and the power to which it speaks, is wrong.

Amen.

Update: Youtube has the video up. here it is...