olbermann

(haven't had time to do anything else on the site today, but I didn't want to let this go by)

Speaking truth to power, on a network channel, in ways that nobody has dared to do in my lifetime - and it doesn't even draw a glance? (except from lost-children-of-the-internets, of course)

Couldn't have seen that one coming. At least not to this extent.

These neocons apparently have so little honor that it's not even worth defending. It's like trying to attack an oil slick.

...the world remembers what it is to hope again.

Hot damn! (quicktime - via Crooks and Liars)

I could be wrong, but perhaps this was such a direct and thorough attack on the reputation and integrity of the Secretary of Defense, by a "credible media source", that it might not be able to be ignored as completely, as say, the Colbert incident was.

We shall see.

Found this video link over at Buzzflash. Looks like the White House Press Corps has finally been released from the GOP mind meld. The video is a bit long, but is worth watching all the way through. Scott McClellen doesn't appear to believe his own words as he tries to fend off questions about how he can say that we do not torture. even as Cheney lobbies for an exemption for the CIA.(Click the title for more.)