Keith issued arguably his most powerful Special Comment yet tonight. This time he takes on the GOP’s newest fearmongering ad which quotes Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri superimposed over pictures of explosions with the sound of a ticking bomb in the background. As if that wasn’t enough, it’s topped off with the cryptic message echoing LBJ’s 1964 “Daisy” ad that ran just once: These are the stakes.
In my opinion, the most important point Keith makes concerns the recent uproar over the video CNN showed this week of a sniper attack on US troops in Iraq. House Armed Services Chariman Duncan Hunter and Congressman Brian Bilbray have come out strong against it calling it a “terrorist snuff film” yet they seem to have no problem with a RNC ad which is really nothing short of a propaganda film itself.
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This is followed up by the Republican attack ad against Harold Ford, which was so egregious, that even Bob Corker had the good sense to request it be pulled.
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All these actions are a sign of increasing desperation by the Republicans and their Party, and another sign that “We the people” need to vote the bums out. Vote November 7th, just not for Republicans.
* The first two paragraphs of this article is by the poster of the Keith Olbermann video in question.
