
Purchase
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
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction
Short, sharp, and oftentimes shocking, Keith Olbermannβs βSpecial Commentsβ have made his nightly MSNBC program, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, must-see viewingβand 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 treadβand 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, Olbermannβs 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 Olbermannβs candor and razor-sharp polemic have earned him many detractors and enemies. His antagonists in the media, such as Bill OβReilly, have mocked him and accused him of rank intolerance. Yes, Keith Olbermann is intolerantβof 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 oneβs mind and acting on oneβs conscience.
 Media BuzzCountdown with Keith Olbermann - January 16, 2008 Countdown with Keith Olbermann - January 2, 2008 Countdown with Keith Olbermann - November 28, 2007
|