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Olbermann Blasts Giuliani's Anti-Dem Remarks: 'Terrorism'
by Jordan Yerman | April 28, 2007 at 11:15 am
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MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann pulled no punches against ex-New York Mayor and presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani, labeling Giuliani's vote-Republican-or-get-bombed diatribe as "the language of terrorism".
After quoting some of Giuliani's comments about the importance of having a Republican president to implement the war on terrorism, which Olbermann labeled a "vote Democrat or die" message, the Countdown host accused Giuliani of "threatening" the American people, and accused him of having "flights of grandeur" and of using the "language of bin Laden." Olbermann: "At least that Republican president under which we have not been safer has, even at his worst, maintained some microscopic distance between himself and a campaign platform that blithely threatened the American people with 'casualties' if they, next year, elect a Democratic president or, inferring from Mr. Giuliani's flights of grandeur in New Hampshire last night, even if they elect a different Republican. How dare you, sir? 'How many casualties will we have?' This is the language of bin Laden."
It's no secret that the Republican party uses the spectre of terrorism as leverage to gain and maintain power, but using it so blatantly and artlessly as did Giuliani may prove to be a huge tactical error. It really depends on the American public's collective appetite for BS: how much will they swallow before pushing the plate away?
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