COUNTDOWN Complete Transcript: "That, Sir, is not only un-American -- it is dictatorial"

[kpete]

That, Sir, is not only un-American -- it is dictatorial.

And in pimping General David Petraeus, Sir, in violation of everything this country has been assiduously and vigilantly against for 220 years, you have tried to blur the gleaming radioactive demarcation between the military and the political, and to portray your party as the one associated with the military, and your opponents as the ones somehow antithetical to it.


You did it again today, Sir, and you need to know how history will judge the line you just crossed.

It is a line -- thankfully only the first of a series -- that makes the military political, and the political, military.

It is a line which history shows is always the first one crossed when a democratic government in some other country has started down the long, slippery, suicidal slope towards a Military Junta.

Get back behind that line, Mr. Bush, before some of your supporters mistake your dangerous transgression, for a call to further politicize our military.

http://thenewshole.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/09/20/372833.aspx

[Suich]

1. Wow!

One of his better commentaries!

[liberalmuse]

2. KO hit it out of the park tonight.

He was ticked off! Thanks for the transcript. I'm going to download it.

[Richard Steele]

3. K&R

[Beaverhausen]

4. Welcome back, KO!!!

[nuxvomica]

5. One small quibble: Smedley Butler

From the transcript:

Marine General Smedley Butler -- who revealed to Congress the makings of a plot to remove F-D-R as President -- and for merely being approached by the plotters, was phased out of the military hierarchy.

Butler had retired in 1931 and he broke the plot in 1934. Yes, he was probably held back from advancement in the Marine Corps because of his outspokenness but that was unrelated to the plot story.

That aside, Olbermann made mincemat out of Little Boots.

[FloridaJudy]

6. All I can say is:

K.O. :yourock:

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:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

You deserve a twenty-one woohoo salute.

[Faygo Kid]

7. Thank God he's back, and no OJ as first story

I have no quibble with his guest hosts, except they are not Keith - and the lead-in would no doubt have been OJ AGAIN had Keith not come back to put a stop to that crap. Great special comment.