by Keith Olbermann
Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 12:05:36 PM PDT
It has been the nation's yoke - but also its salvation.
The Neo-Cons, the Bushies, the Contractors from Contract With America - the whole cornucopia of schemers, manipulators, and corner-cutters - have a thirst for power and control that is exceeded by only one personality facet:
Their stupidity.
Our latest winner, David Frum, the auteur of The Axis Of Evil, the guy who decided it was a good idea to try to sandbag his intellectual superior, Rachel Maddow, and wound up lucky to not have his eyebrows singed off.
He has done it again.
He has attributed a quote to me about the Reichstag fire - leaving no room for doubt that I said it, that I somehow said it about him, that I even called John McCain a "Nazi."
As convinced and unequivocal as the "evidence" demanding the invasion of Iraq.
And just as wrong.
I never said anything of the kind, on television or off. The quote he attributed to me was from a blogger. And here's the biggest shock - he hasn't corrected it.
Frum may believe he legally covered his laughable ass by preceding his NRO
post with the phrase "I'm told last night" that I spoke out about his appearance with Rachel.
But then he drops the hypothethical and goes into unambiguous assertion of fact.
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Honestly, watching the far right over the last few weeks is like watching Lee J. Cobb come apart like a cheap suit at the end of "Twelve Angry Men."
UPDATED AT 4:30 PM EDT: After the intervention of MSNBC's crack PR team, Frum has "corrected," after a fashion:
PS - I'm told wrong. I have the transcript now, and I see that he called me the runner-up "worst person in the world." Always a bridesmaid ...
Keep trying, Dave. We'll make more.
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