As George Bush said, “fool me once, shame on me, fool me–you can’t get
fooled again”. Or, how about the old saying, “if it walks like a duck,
talks like a duck, it’s a duck”. Why the snark? Just watch the Keith
Olbermann’s brilliant presentation–which shows conclusive, indisputable
evidence that George Bush and his minions have used bogus terrorist threats
to distract public attention from embarrassing political news–and you too
will become a member of the reality based community (thanks to John Amato at
Crooks and Liars for posting this up).
Ten. Count em. Ten separate incidents where the Bush Administration issued
public warnings of imminent attacks that subsequently turned out to be
non-existent or misleading. George Bush is the boy who cried Wolf, Wolf,
Wolf, Wolf, Wolf. . . .and no end is in sight. Olbermann deserves an Emmy
and a Pulitzer. He’s done a public service. He has blazed a trail the rest
of the media, print and electronic, ought to follow. Please ensure your
friends and relatives see this piece.
OK, they did the disclaimer about propter hoc ergo post hoc and pointed out that a similar timeline could have been constructed linking terror event announcements to opening new locations of chain stores. But here’s the question: At any time in the past five years, has there been a major terror alert that was not preceded by either very good news for the Democrats or very bad news for the Republicans? And conversely, were there any major Republican setbacks that were not followed by huge bumps in the terror alert level?
I really want to believe that the gummint has been screwing around with the terror alert system to its own advantage, I just don’t want to fall in to the logical fallacy Olbermann referred to at the beginning of the clip.
As great as that KO segment was, I really wish he would have followed up with these two questions. To point out that theres is not necessarily a causal relationship here is fine, but he really needed to follow-through wrt confirming that there were or were not examples that did not follow this “nexus”.
It would have made his case even more air-tight if there was not.
Here`s another side of bush. Will Ferrell on global warming.
http://www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=1147&pID=725752
Bush announced the Grand Opening of a new front in the war on terror-Lebanon. So now we have Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Londonistan. Is causing the war to metastasize something you crow about; is it evidence of effective leadership or is it failure?
Why yes, I do believe Bush is BarkingMad!