Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
On an almost nightly basis, Olbermann mocks Congressional Democrats as being weak and complicit for failing to stand up to Bush lawbreaking; now that Obama does it, it’s proof that Obama won’t “cower.” Grave warning on Olbermann’s show that telecom amnesty and FISA revisions were hallmarks of Bush Fascism instantaneously transformed into a celebration that Obama, by supporting the same things, was leading a courageous, centrist crusade in defense of our Constitution.
“We hope they both lose.” James Taranto on the feud between Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com and Keith Olbermann of MSNBC.
The cognitive dissonance is amazing.
Orwell’s definition of “doublethink” from Nineteeneightyfour:
“… the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. … To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies—all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.”
Obviously, Olbermann is skilled in doublethink; no wonder he thinks he’s twice as smart as the rest of us.
Obama is a politician????
who’da thunk
I hope the voting public sees thro this lying lawyer and restores some integrity to the office of the POTUS by electing the liberal, McCain!!