'This hole in the ground'

September 13, 2006 1 Comment

Two nights ago, Keith Olbermann gave a special televised speech about the five-year anniversary of 9/11.

Click here to watch the video of his speech. Here’s an excerpt of his speech, the full transcript can be found here.

When those who dissent are told time and time again — as we will be, if not tonight by the President, then tomorrow by his portable public chorus — that he is preserving our freedom, but that if we use any of it, we are somehow un-American…When we are scolded, that if we merely question, we have “forgotten the lessons of 9/11″… look into this empty space behind me and the bi-partisanship upon which this administration also did not build, and tell me:

Who has left this hole in the ground?

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  • http://www.sonic.net/jdf/ Burrowowl

    They actually have construction under way in that hole in the ground, but I suppose Mr. Olbermann doesn’t want any facts to get in the way of his Edward R. Murrow impersonation kick. I love the guy, but he’s missing the mark with this particular vector of anti-Bush barb-throwing. Of course, I’m somebody who found MSNBC’s use of the WTC site as a backdrop for their broadcasts Monday night (for Hardball, Coundown, Scarborough Country, and whatever Tucker Carlson’s show is called) to be in mildly poor taste. The lack of a soaring skyscraper 5 years after the towers fell down has a lot more to do with the local bureaucrats trying to keep everybody happy (it’s their nature) than with the manifold personal failings of George W. Bush.