Olbermann’s Special Comment:

Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment was about lying... in particular Bush lying. It's really good to finally hear somebody say it after reading about it on the blogs for the last 5 or 6 years. He takes it right to Bush and calls him on his outright lies while fundraising. Fundraising while our troops in Baghdad have seen the bloodiest three days in the capital since the war bagan. I'm sure damn near every blog will link to this but if you did manage to miss it Crooks and Liars has it. Olbermann: And lastly tonight, a Special Comment, about — lying. While the leadership in Congress has self-destructed over the revelations of an unmatched, and unrelieved, march through a cesspool… While the leadership inside the White House has self-destructed over the revelations of a book with a glowing red cover… The President of the United States — unbowed, undeterred, and unconnected to reality — has continued his extraordinary trek through our country rooting out the enemies of freedom: The Democrats. Yesterday at a fundraiser for an Arizona Congressman, Mr. Bush claimed, quote, "177 of the opposition party said 'You know, we don't think we ought to be listening to the conversations of terrorists." The hell they did. 177 Democrats opposed the President's seizure of another part of the Constitution*. Not even the White House press office could actually name a single Democrat who had ever said the government shouldn't be listening to the conversations of terrorists. President Bush hears… what he wants. Tuesday, at another fundraiser in California, he had said "Democrats take a law enforcement approach to terrorism. That means America will wait until we're attacked again before we respond." Mr. Bush fabricated that, too. And evidently he has begun to fancy himself as a mind-reader. "If you listen closely to some of the leaders of the Democratic Party," the President said at another fundraiser Monday in Nevada, "it sounds like they think the best way to protect the American people is — wait until we're attacked again." The President doesn't just hear what he wants. He hears things, that only he can hear. It defies belief that this President and his administration could continue to find new unexplored political gutters into which they could wallow. Yet they do. Go To Crooks and Liars for the rest