VIDEO & TRANSCRIPT: Olbermann - Cheney By His Own Terms A "Traitor To The United States Of America"

[Hissyspit]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/34694994#34694994

Cheney Encourages America's Enemies

OLBERMANN: "'We are at war,' Dick Cheney came down last week from Mount Megalomania to announce, 'and when President Obama pretends we aren't, it makes us less safe.'

If Mr. Cheney believes we are at war, then he, as the most recent former occupant of the Vice Presidency, is under the strictest of obligations to put aside his case of terminal partisanship, and rally to the support of his President at a time of war. Instead, his remarks not only give encouragement to the enemies of this country, they give them an exact measure as to how successful they have been in damaging our freedoms.

In a previous time, Mr. Cheney's pathetic exploitation of human fears, his undermining of our courage and resolve and clear-headed calm thinking, would have resulted in his being chased off the national stage by a public sick to death of the personal industry he has made of undermining American freedom and of undermining the authority of this elected government.

And in a previous and more resolute time among journalists in this country, nobody would be pretending that this obvious fact was not true: It would have been in every newspaper and on every broadcast, after his disgraceful performance since Christmas, when terrorists attempt attacks in this country, Dick Cheney IS the beneficiary.

And if he cannot summon exactly the same kind of absolute apolitical patriotism he demanded of everyone else while he was in office, he is, by his own terms, nothing more or less, morally, if not legally, a traitor to the United States of America."

[av8rdave]

1. Bravo Keith! Somebody had to say it!

[malaise]

2. Thanks Hissyspit

:hi:

[Kadie]

3. K&R n/t

[NYC_SKP]

4. "...nothing more or less, morally if not leagally, than a traitor to the United States of America."

Thanks for posting this, Hissyspit.

I don't get MSNBC anymore.

:toast:

[UpInArms]

5. You go - Keith! Tell it like it is

and call these freaks on their hypocrisy.