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K. Olbermann
Patrice Greanville
THESE ARE TOUGH TIMES FOR PEOPLE WHO TELL THE TRUTH IN AMERICA, especially in the lamebrain media where they are almost non-existent, so I guess we must be grateful for what we get. Still, we feel that some glaring omissions should be pointed out in those cases where, as happened with Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment last night (8.1.11), good intentions do not suffice to get the American people to really understand what is now facing them.
Indeed, as expected, Keith Olbermann, now on Current TV (an outfit with linkages to Al Gore, and therefore the Democratic Party and the US establishment in general), used the repugnant “Deficit Crisis deal” to lambaste the political class and the media—and the bovine, entertainment-addicted masses, too—for their hypocrisy, corruption, and passivity in this social crime, all of which is fine, and we all know it desperately needs to be done. Still, for all the fiery delivery and brimstone words, Olbermann, a left-liberal after all, and probably a stranger to class analysis, fell painfully short during his rather convoluted denunciation in a couple of critical aspects that radicals (just examine any of the pieces we have run on this topic on TGP) would not have ignored:
• He was opaque and therefore MIA when it came to attributing direct blame to Obama, without whose cynical demagogy this gargantuan fraud would have never flown;
• While railing against the politicians—in general—he loaded the dice against the Republicans (a popular Democrat meme among “progressives”), asserting that it was them, Bush Junior et al, who actually created this humongous boondoggle. This is true as far as it goes, except that Obama has had almost three years to turn that turkey around and did not lift a finger to do so, in fact, at every turn, he has worsened the deals or appointed people who even served under Bush (Summers, Geithner, Bernanke, Greenspan—the roster is long) and who were amply vetted by the corporate overseers. It’s easy to flog the GOP— the party is nothing but a disgraceful abject collection of outright criminals and crooks at the top and delusional imbeciles at the bottom—BUT, while doing so no genuine leftist should refuse to castigate the Democrats with equal fervor, for this is a party fully complicit in the hypocritical games that Olbermann so rightly denounces. Why? At this point to go on speaking ill mostly or exclusively of the GOP is to implicitly endorse the Lesser Evil claptrap, which is likely to collect more suckers in the 2012 election. The Democratic party needs to be dismantled, removed form the scene, or shaken so badly as to make its rotten top tier run for their lives. This is a party that continues to be the graveyard of progressive and radical movements. That task will not be accomplished as long as people go on voting—maybe while holding their noses—for the Lesser Evil.
To his credit, he nonetheless called for massive popular organized action beyond and outside electioneering. That alone might redeem his otherwise confused performance on this occasion. —Patrice Greanville
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