Olbermann on Giuliani’s fear mongering
If you know me, you know I’m a big fan of Keith Olbermann. Well, this clip, of Olbermann roasting Giuliani’s recent fear mongering tactics while campaigning really takes the cake.
Here’s an excerpt:
“If any Republican is elected president - and I think obviously I would be best at this - we will remain on offense and will anticipate what (the terrorists) will do and try to stop them before they do it. ”
Insisting that the election of any Democrat would mean the country was “back… on defense,” Mr. Giuliani continued:
“But the question is how long will it take and how many casualties will we have. If we are on defense, we will have more losses and it will go on longer.”He said this with no sense of irony, no sense of any personal shortcomings, no sense whatsoever.
And if you somehow missed what he was really saying, somehow didn’t hear the none-too-subtle subtext of ‘vote Democratic and die,’ Mr. Giuliani then stripped away any barrier of courtesy, telling Roger Simon of Politico.Com, quote…
“America will be safer with a Republican president.”
At least that Republican President under which we have not been safer… has, even at his worst, maintained some microscopic distance between himself, and a campaign platform that blithely threatened the American people with “casualties” if they, next year, elect a Democratic president - or, inferring from Mr. Giuliani’s flights of grandeur in New Hampshire - even if they elect a different Republican.
How dare you, sir?
“How many casualties will we have?” - this is the language of Bin Laden.