“As a
final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth
of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your
political party seemingly perpetual congressional seats....When somebody
asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a
sincere and frightened nation; when somebody asks you, sir, about your
gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to
soothe the families of the war dead; this advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the
hell up! Good night and good luck.”
— MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann in a “Special Comment” on Countdown,
May 14. [80 points]
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Runners-up:
“If
you believe in the seamless mutuality of government and big business,
come out and say it! There is a dictionary definition, one word that
describes that toxic blend. You’re a fascist! Get them to print you a
T-shirt with fascist on it!...You, sir, have no place in a government of
the people, by the people, for the people. The lot of you are the
symbolic descendants of the despotic middle managers of some banana
republic to whom ‘freedom’ is an ironic brand name, a word you reach for
when you want to get away with its opposite.”
— MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann addressing Bush in a “Special Comment” on
Countdown, February 14. [63]
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“So,
besides urinating on the Constitution and the rights and freedoms every
American soldier has ever fought to win and protect, the Bush
administration has now decided that when its victims have actually
served their sentences, doled out under its own medieval, quote,
‘justice,’ unquote, system, it still might not choose to set them free,
thereby giving that Constitution and our country a second pass on the
way out.”
— MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, August 7 Countdown. [55]
Winner
