In a "Special Comment" regarding
the release by the Obama Administration of "the remainder
of this nightmare of Bush Administration torture memos,"
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann offered the current Commander in Chief
some praise for going "half-way," then blasted him
for issuing a statement which said that "nothing will
be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for
the past."
"This President has gone where few before him, dared,"
Olbermann said Thursday night. "The dirty laundry —
illegal, un-American, self-defeating, self-destroying —
is out for all to see."
Olbermann continued,
"Mr. Obama deserves
our praise and our thanks for that. And yet he has gone but
half-way. And, in this case, in far too many respects, half
the distance is worse than standing still. Today, Mr. President,
in acknowledging these science-fiction-like documents, you
said that:
"This is a time for reflection, not retribution. I respect
the strong views and emotions that these issues evoke."
"We have been through a dark and painful chapter in our
history.
"But at a time of great challenges and disturbing disunity,
nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy laying
blame for the past.
Mr. President, you are wrong. What you describe would be not
"spent energy" but catharsis.
Not "blame laid,"
but responsibility ascribed."
The following video is from Thursday's broadcast of Keith
Olbermann's MSNBC Countdown show.
