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Special Comments on the Bush Administration's War on American Values
Random House
January 2008
On Sale: December 26, 2007
192 pages
ISBN: 140006676X
EAN: 9781400066766
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Short, sharp, and oftentimes shocking, Keith Olbermann’s
“Special Comments” have made his nightly MSNBC program,
Countdown with Keith Olbermann, must-see viewing–and the
fastest-growing news show on cable TV. In these segments,
Olbermann calls out the perpetrators of mismanagement,
brutality, cronyism, and the appalling lack of
accountability at the highest levels of the Bush
administration. In so doing, Olbermann goes where most of
the mainstream media fear to tread–and his rapidly expanding
audience eagerly follows. In Truth and Consequences, Olbermann collects the best of
his Special Comments, presented here with additional
observations and other new material. Whether taking to task
the likes of Vice President Dick Cheney and (the thankfully
former) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who compare
critics of the Iraq War to Nazi appeasers, or giving his
impassioned perspective on why torture is un-American and
what it really means to support our troops, or grilling
timid lawmakers who fail to rein in presidential overreach
and abuses of executive power, Olbermann’s devastatingly
blunt (and at times wickedly funny) commentary cuts to the
core of the duplicity and cynicism of a government that has
lost the ability to distinguish between leading our great
nation and ruling it. Naturally, Keith Olbermann’s candor and razor-sharp polemic
have earned him many detractors and enemies. His antagonists
in the media, such as Bill O’Reilly, have mocked him and
accused him of rank intolerance. Yes, Keith Olbermann is
intolerant–of hypocrisy, demagoguery, fear-mongering, and
especially the equation of dissent with treason. In Truth
and Consequences, he fights to reclaim for himself and all
Americans the dignity of speaking one’s mind and acting on
one’s conscience.
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