Olbermann tells the babysitter "The call's coming from inside the house"

[Human Torch]

Countdown Special Comment: Death of Habeas Corpus: “Your words are lies, Sir.”
By: John Amato on Wednesday, October 18th, 2006 at 6:30 PM - PDT



http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/18/countdown-special-comment-death-of-habeas-corpus-your-words-are-lies-sir/

Keith Olbermann has been calling it like it is. His "Special Comments" are indeed special because no other talking head outside of Cafferty is willing to step up to the plate and say what needs to be said on 24/7. "Your words are lies, Sir." They are lies, that imperil us all.' Sounds about right to me.

Video - WMV http://movies.crooksandliars.com/OlbermannSpecialComment-RIPHabeus.mov">Video - QT

Olbermann: And lastly, as promised, a Special Comment tonight on the signing of the Military Commissions Act and the loss of Habeas Corpus.

We have lived as if in a trance. We have lived… as people in fear.

And now — our rights and our freedoms in peril — we slowly awake to learn that we have been afraid… of the wrong thing.

Therefore, tonight, have we truly become, the inheritors of our American legacy.

For, on this first full day that the Military Commissions Act is in force, we now face what our ancestors faced, at other times of exaggerated crisis and melodramatic fear-mongering:

A government more dangerous to our liberty, than is the enemy it claims to protect us from.

We have been here before — and we have been here before led here — by men better and wiser and nobler than George W. Bush.

[SoFlaJet]

1. I loved the part

where he said the law he signed could someday be the same one that puts HIM in jail for no reason...now wouldn't THAT be the mother of all ironies

[peace13]

4. Really makes me think that Bush never intends to leave!n/t

[calimary]

5. Yes. Today, John Walker Lindt. Tomorrow, george walker bush?

I was simply thunderstruck when I heard those words.

Wow. Gonna have to start calling him "Ballpark." As in - hit one out of the.

[uppityperson]

2. thanks for the link.

am in a place with no sound. thanks

[eleny]

3. great analogy!

[OzarkDem]

9. Absolutely!

I plan to repeat it often.

[whistle]

6. Keith Olbermann is taunting the Bush Administration into testing

...the torture bill, perhaps on him. I thought what he had to say was great, but I hope he has an exit plan and a way to ensure that Habeas Corpus is not suspended on him.

[pennylane100]

8. If that happens,

it would be a perfect time to take to the streets.

[ShortnFiery]

7. Very well put! n/t