[Marxism] MSNBC Keith Olbermann on Donald Rumsfeld

["Gilles d'Aymery" <aymery@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Even in the MSM some people seem to awaken to reality. See the remarks
below by Keith Olberman... Link to full text and video appended at the end.
Gilles

Aug. 30, 2006

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and

shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

Donald S. Rumsfeld is not a prophet.

Mr. Rumsfeld´s remarkable comments to the Veterans of Foreign Wars

yesterday demand the deep analysis - and the sober contemplation - of
every

American.

For they do 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, they credit 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.

[...]

And about Mr. Rumsfeld´s other main assertion, that this country

faces a "new type of fascism."

As he was correct to remind us how a government that knew

everything could get everything wrong, so too was he right when he

said that - though probably not in the way he thought he meant it.

This country faces a new type of fascism - indeed.

--

Although I presumptuously use his sign-off each night, in feeble

tribute... I have utterly no claim to the words of the exemplary journalist

Edward R. Murrow.

But never in the trial of a thousand years of writing could I

come close to matching how he phrased a warning to an earlier generation
of

us, at a time when other politicians thought they (and they alone) knew

everything, and branded those who disagreed, "confused" or "immoral."

Thus forgive me for reading Murrow in full:

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty," he said, in 1954.

"We must remember always that accusation is not proof, and that conviction

depends upon evidence and due process of law.

"We will not walk in fear - one, of another. We will not be

driven by fear into an age of un-reason, if we dig deep in our history

and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful
men;

"Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to

defend causes that were - for the moment - unpopular."

[Full with video:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/08/30/keith-olbermann-delivers-one-
hell-of-a-commentary-on-rumsfeld/#more-9932 ]

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