Effective, Damning and Accurate: Olbermann Recounts Bush -- Eight Years in Eight Minutes
Friday night, Keith Olbermann recited the voiceover for video depicting the Bush presidency, calling it "eight years in eight minutes." I wasn't certain if it would be grandiose and over the top or not, but -- damn. Every data point hit. Nothing extra, and he caught a great deal of the disastrous data points, big and small.
Watch, and while you may weep for what our nation has been subjected to and reduced to, you can also be thankful that the long national nightmare is effectively over, and a time of reckoning and accountability is upon us if we are to restore ourselves to a whole, healthy democratic republic once more:
Transcript over the fold, snatched from the comment by True Blue Majority from within the dKos diary of thereisnospoon. The snatch was done with plenty of respect and genuine affection; no pixels were harmed in the process.
Transcript for the 17 Jan 2009 Countdown with Keith Olbermann |
George Walker Bush. 43rd president of the United States. first ever with a criminal record. our third story tonight, his presidency: eight years in eight minutes. early in 2001 the U.S. fingered Al Qaeda by March 5 Bush had a map ready for Iraqi oil exploration August 6, 2001 next month Clarke requests September 11th Rumsfeld says Afghanistan does not have enough targets in February General Tommy Franks tells a visiting Senator July and Britain's intel chief says Bush is the man who said it would take several hundred thousand troops then in Iraq, stuff happens: other stuff does not happen: the payoff? secret star chambers for terrorism suspects, Rumsfeld warned in 2002 that he was torturing on U.S. soil twelve hundred immigrants rounded up it wasn't just Mr. Bush no longer subject to the rule of law Mr. Bush's hands off the blackouts end Mr. Bush further deregulates commodity futures and the prices fall deregulating financial services and lax enforcement of remaining rules firms that had survived the Great Depression could not survive Bush unlike the auto bailout but Bush failed even when his party and his patrons the man apologized. Mr. Bush faked the truth tried to silence the truth about global warming politicized the truth of science at NASA, the EPA, his lies Rice's mushroom cloud Pat Tillman the air at Ground Zero global warming the surge causing insurgents to switch sides that American citizen John Walker Lindh's rights heckuva job Brownie the lie that no one could have predicted the economic crisis Bush actually admitted that he lied about not firing Rumsfeld all of it median income down two thousand dollars the Dow, down from ten thousand five hundred eighty seven buying toxic goods from China with two unfinished wars 2000 miles of Appalachian streams consistently undermining historic American reverence and Bin Laden? and among all the gifts he gave to Bin Laden leaving us with precious little to cling to tonight hope. |
Have a great day, folks; the light at the end of the long, dark tunnel that we see flickering up ahead just might be way out of this hole, instead of the headlights of an oncoming train.