When Our President Cannot Distinguish Between Killer Terrorists And Those Simply Dissenting From His Opinion and Acts

[Update: Crooks and Liars' video of this most recent Olbermann Special Comment (Bush Lies) can be found here.]

I swear, each time MSNBC's Keith Olbermann presents a Special Comment at the close of his "Countdown" program, it's even better than his last one. Such was the case Thursday night in a long and thoughtful comment in which he said, quite accurately, that Mr. Bush in no way tries to differentiate with terrorists willing to kill thousands of innocent people and those here in this country who disagree with his opinion and actions.

I'll offer some important snippets here, but go to Countdown for the full text. I also suspect the good folks at Crooks and Liars will supply the video, as they have before. You should also be able to get the video from the Countdown link provided above.

From Keith on Bush and Lies:

While the leadership in Congress has self-destructed over the revelations of an unmatched, and unrelieved, march through a cesspool ...

While the leadership inside the White House has self-destructed over the revelations of a book with a glowing red cover.

The president of the United States — unbowed, undeterred and unconnected to reality — has continued his extraordinary trek through our country rooting out the enemies of freedom: the Democrats.

Yesterday at a fundraiser for an Arizona congressman, Mr. Bush claimed, quote, “177 of the opposition party said, ‘You know, we don’t think we ought to be listening to the conversations of terrorists.’”

The hell they did.

One hundred seventy-seven Democrats opposed the president’s seizure of another part of the Constitution.

Not even the White House press office could actually name a single Democrat who had ever said the government shouldn’t be listening to the conversations of terrorists.

President Bush hears what he wants.

Tuesday, at another fundraiser in California, he had said, “Democrats take a law enforcement approach to terrorism. That means America will wait until we’re attacked again before we respond.”

Mr. Bush fabricated that, too.

And evidently he has begun to fancy himself as a mind reader.

“If you listen closely to some of the leaders of the Democratic Party,” the president said at another fundraiser Monday in Nevada, “it sounds like they think the best way to protect the American people is — wait until we’re attacked again.”

The president doesn’t just hear what he wants.

He hears things that only he can hear.

It defies belief that this president and his administration could continue to find new unexplored political gutters into which they could wallow.

Yet they do.

It is startling enough that such things could be said out loud by any president of this nation.

Rhetorically, it is about an inch short of Mr. Bush accusing Democratic leaders, Democrats, the majority of Americans who disagree with his policies of treason.

But it is the context that truly makes the head spin.

Read the entire piece here.