Olbermann: Bush Is Just Trying to Play Us with 'Troop Withdrawal' in Iraq

The following is MSNBC Countdown host Keith Olbermann's special comment addressed to President Bush.

Bush says his new goal is to have the presidential candidates "comfortable about sustaining a presence" in Iraq, contradicting every rationale for his Iraq policy he's offered. Full Story »

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Francis Scalzi
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by Francis Scalzi - Oct. 1, 2008

Keith Olbermann is virtually the ONLY regularly scheduled commentator (setting aside occasional remarks by Brian Williams in NBC and Charles Gibson on ABC) who is worth his salt as a journalistic pundit. The rest of the TV punditocracy is a total disaster. This piece is only the latest in the series that Olbermann has committed to, in giving the moron in the oval office, on those infrequent occasions when he is not on vacation or reading a Karl Rove script to a captive military audience, a much deserved SCOLDING. It is a rare (nowadays) example of hard facts, hard hitting opinion, and "Truth Telling" (something unknown to the Cheney/Bush mob) that desperately needs to be aired. Yeah, I know - - it won't do any good with this administration, but it even took quite some time and an internal company fight before the reports and comments of Edward R. Murrow were allowed and took hold. To MSNBC I say "fire the quacks, like Motormouth Matthews, that inhabit that channel and keep Olbermann", all by himself if necessary.

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