| Jackson50 said: Oh my gosh, Keith Olbermann...what a sad, sorry sap. The only news shows worth anyone's time are "Meet The Press"and "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." If I am watching election results, I may tune in to CNN.
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I think there is like a seven-year gap between those two videos...which might explain some of it. There is a difference between making fun of someone who is upset about a tragedy immediately after it happens and criticizing someone who uses that tragedy several years later to manipulate people. One is personal, one is political.
What he said is a little bit hypocritical, but you have to look at the context in which each was made. I disagree with Republicans and Democrats who use tragedy as a political football, unless an administration under one of those parties was partially responsible for that tragedy (Katrina for Republicans, invading Vietnam for Dems, although Nixon kind of stole the mantle by keeping the war going when he said he would end it, twice).
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
