[Osx-nutters] another special comment

[Jeff]

On Sep 12, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Patrick Coskren wrote:

> On Sep 12, 2006, at 8:51 AM, Jeff wrote:
>
>> And last:  to reduce the site of the WTC, with all of the deaths  
>> that occurred there, to a "background for a photo op" is simply  
>> despicable.  I've never heard anyone speak so crassly, crudely and  
>> shamefully for the sake of .. what?  Political points?
>
> But I believe that's his *point*.
>
>> Slings and arrows at the current admin?  Often we hear the term  
>> "dirty mind" thrown about jokingly when someone construes  
>> something innocent to be something risque or even perverse.  I  
>> think that Keith Olbermann's special comment is evidence of his  
>> own state of mind.  To me he seems to be a man who is trying to  
>> defend his own point of view by using hyperbole and misdirection.  
>> with the WTC site as a shield.
>
> On the contrary, he's trying to point out that this is what the  
> current admin does.  From little things like making sure Bush got  
> photographed at a memorial service on Sunday so that it would be in  
> the papers for Monday morning, to big things like his blanket  
> defense that critics don't understand "the lessons of 9/11".  Bush  
> constantly uses 9/11 as a prop; thats what Olbermann was trying to  
> say.
>
> -Patrick

Agreed that that's his point.  And it's sickening that Bush would use  
it as a prop.
But Olbermann is as bad, I think, when he makes laundry lists of  
things he's upset about (no memorial, no new building, no progress in  
five years--the list goes on).  He wraps the spectre of 9/11 around  
himself too, but for different ends.  Both sides disgust me.

Jeff