From truthout.org, I came upon the clip that aired on MSNBC last night. I expected typical cable news jargon, empty rhetoric and "easy" commentary in response to 9/11 and the five years since... What I discovered was a complex, thought-provoking consideration -- and apt condemnation of the current administration, directed pointedly in regards to 9/11 and the War. Please, take a moment, and read the transcript of this, or watch the clip, located here.
The following are a few excerpts I found to be particularly, well, precise:
How dare you, Mr. President, after taking cynical advantage of the unanimity and love, and transmuting it into fraudulent war and needless death, after monstrously transforming it into fear and suspicion and turning that fear into the campaign slogan of three elections? How dare you - or those around you - ever "spin" 9/11?
Towards the end of the segment, Olbermann cites a quote from Rod Serling, from The Twilight Zone; equally apt commentary:
"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men.
"For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own - for the children, and the children yet unborn."
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