Tuesday, September 19, 2006

SNL TV Funhouse - imagined Saddam and Osama - Superheroes cartoon show video. Just goes to show that the best comedy is offensive to everyone.

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Keith Olberman's latest anti-Bush rant is a hit in the "reality-based" community.

"If there's any comparison between the compassion and decency of the American people and the terrorist tactics of extremists, it's flawed
logic," Bush said. "It's just -- I simply can't accept that. It's unacceptable to think that there's any kind of comparison between the
behavior of the United States of America and the action of Islamic extremists who kill innocent women and children to achieve an objective....


In four simple words last Friday, the President brought into sharp focus what has been only vaguely clear these past five-and-a-half years - the
way the terrain at night is perceptible only during an angry flash of lightning, and then, a second later, all again is dark.

"It's unacceptable to think," he said.

It is never unacceptable to think.


And when a President says thinking is unacceptable, even on one topic, even in the heat of the moment, even in the turning of a phrase
extracted from its context, he takes us toward a new and fearful path -- one heretofore the realm of science fiction authors and apocalyptic
visionaries.

That flash of lightning freezes at the distant horizon, and we can just make out a world in which authority can actually suggest it has become
unacceptable to think.


Thus the lightning flash reveals not merely a President we have already seen, the one who believes he has a monopoly on current truth.

And a response:

Olbermann took an awkwardly worded, off-the-cuff remark by Bush at his Friday press conference, which was more likely intended to mean that it was "ridiculous to claim" a comparison between America and terrorists, and blew it out of proportion as if the comment were an attack on the right to think, and therefore a grave threat to democracy.

Hint to the libs - it's been almost 6 years now and I haven't seen any newspapers or TV networks shut down and I don't know of very many Americans being held as prisoners of conscience. Cut the hysterical crap and get serious if you want even a chance to get control of Congress. Even I would suggest that this country is better off with a divided governement, but you're ruining any chance we've got.

President Bush may not have a monopoly on truth, but he does have a monopoly on the Presidency. He's the decider, after all.

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