I’ve tended to avoid the political on this blog but there comes a time when issues become so threatening to the common good (and common sense) that they enter the private domain of each and every one of us. And in this instance it involves US American politics, not European or Canadian, so why does this involve me? Simply because the USA in its current executive political incarnation is threatening to erode fundamental tenets that western civilization has fought to achieve over three thousand years. So this involves all of us “westerners”.
On 5 November 2007, Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on MSNBC was absolutely vitriolic in his criticism of the Busheviks’ handling of Daniel Levin, former acting assistant attorney general for the Bush administration in 2004. Daniel Levin underwent waterboarding at an American military facility to help determine whether or not it is torture. In his verdict, there could be no questioning it as not being torture. In contrahending his superiors (failing to toe the line), he was dismissed by Alberto Gonzales. Yet the fallout to this has shown that it is not only Republicans whom not to trust, but also Democrats, as proven by the yellow bellies of Senators Feinstein and Shumer. Hideous humanity.
Olbermann is the last bastion of mainstream political commentary, beyond him there is nothing but vacuous toe-the-line journalism in thrall to the American regime. Watch and decide for yourself.
