Video: Olbermann commentary blasts 'fearmongerer' Giuliani
Keith Olbermann blasted 2008 GOP White House hopeful Rudy Giuliani as a "fearmongerer" in his latest Special Comment on MSNBC's Countdown.
"Channeling his inner Karl Rove," is how Olbermann describes Giuliani, as the former mayor of New York City said recently that a Democratic president would "wave the white flag on Iraq" and made other remarks about supposed Democratic shortcomings on national defense.
"[W]e are at the center of one of history's great ironies," says Olbermann. "Only in this America of the early 21st century could it be true that the man who was president during the worst attack on our nation, and the man who was the mayor of the city in which that attack principally unfolded, could not only be absolved of any and all blame for the unreadiness of their own governments, but – moreover – would thereafter be branded heroes of those attacks."
Olbermann blasts Giuliani, and by extension the Republicans, for his remarks. "This is not the mere politicizing of the war in Iraq, nor the vague mumbled epithets about Democratic softness from a delusional vice president. This is casualties on a partisan basis, of the naked assertion that Mr. Giuliani's party knows all, and will save those who have voted for it and to hell with everybody else, and that he – with no foreign policy experience whatsoever – is somehow the messiah of the moment."
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