Thom has got it really wrong about Keith here. Keith was not a cheerleader for the war, ever. I recall Keith was the most courageous journalist on cable in that era. Which is why I became a fan. The entire MSM became a “patriotic” echo chamber cheer leading the war, but my memory of Keith is he was one of the most courageous and honorable journalists of that era. Thom’s right almost all of the MSM was craven in their uncritical support of the invasion, but I have no recollection what so ever of Keith being party to that lot of sell outs? I do remember Chris Mathew’s slobbering; “We are all neocons now.” And I think Chris' reporting is just what his corporate masters wanted out of him and everybody else at that time.
Keith was not only an excellent journalist, but a courageous and principled one.
Thom is awesome, but he was pretty half assed in this case accusing Keith of something I cannot recall him doing. (I also can’t recall when Keith started at MSNBC and when I starting watching him in earnest? It might have been a year or two after the invasion, even?)
Keith’s absence from political cable news leaves a tremendous gap in our national discussion. I'm glad he’s making a living doing the sports he loves, but our country would be a better place if Keith was back doing political commentary and analysis. Come to think of it, Keith would still be in that game if he had compromised his principles to get along and keep his jobs. He stood for what he believed, even though in the end it cost him his slot in the MSM.
Thanks for the less than robust apology, Thom. The main benefit of Iraq's current state of turmoil is good in the sense it is forcing the world to revisit how we got into Iraq back in 2003 in the first place. And in hindsight, it's clear that all the GWB toadies knew they were lying as they were catapulting the propaganda. I recall GWB ginning up fear and talking about mushroom clouds like a scout master telling ghost stories around the camp fire to a group of boy scouts.
-90% Jimmy
ps - for further reference, here's my failed DU post in large part about the traitors that lied us into that stupid tragic invasion. Reportage from my visit to my Congressman's Town Hall of last Sunday. The two youtubes are overwhelming to watch, as the lying and mendacity and propaganda and banality of that crew is constructed entirely of their own public statements, before compared with after. Lots of "I never said that". Like they don't understand they were recorded and we can check what they said! Those cretins can't even lie good. And why should they learn? MSM was such agenda driven corporate propaganda these guys could get away with murder. Uh, I mean, did indeed get away with murder. Vincent Bugliosi,in the second youtube even wrote a book; "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder" back around 2006?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025142323
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