Keith Olbermann, taking a stand

Just when you thought that American journalism was unable to stand up and ask the questions that must be asked, that the "talking heads" had all been bought off, and that there was no hope of anyone ever changing that....

Then...along comes Keith Olbermann, from MSNBC.

Check out these video reports, and see that there may indeed still be some hope for the future.

This one takes a look at the Bush administration's pre-911 actions toward terrorism, and looks at the warnings the transitional Clinton team gave them.



A brave broadside directly at the President :



How about Rumsfeld ?



He's not really one to mince words, as you can see in this clip on the recent Clinton bashing.



I trust someone puts him up for an Edward R. Murrow Award.

Perhaps it's never been a better time to refer back to some thoughts from George Orwell :

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.


Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.