Olbermann on Bush's "Impeachable Offense"

Here's the brightest light in journalism today, Keith Olbermann, on MSNBC's Countdown last night, giving his closing commentary with the gaping hole that used to be the World Trade Center behind him:

"They promised bi-partisanship, and then showed that to them, 'bi-partisanship' meant that their party would rule and the rest would have to follow, or be branded, with ever-escalating hysteria, as morally or intellectually confused, as appeasers, as those who, in the Vice President's words yesterday, 'validate the strategy of the terrorists.'

"They promised protection, and then showed that to them 'protection' meant going to war against a despot whose hand they had once shaken, a despot who we now learn from our own Senate Intelligence Committee, hated al-Qaida as much as we did.

"The polite phrase for how so many of us were duped into supporting a war, on the false premise that it had 'something to do' with 9/11 is 'lying by implication.'

"The impolite phrase is 'impeachable offense.'"

Wow. And he ends with this:

"When those who dissent are told time and time again -- as we will be, if not tonight by the President, then tomorrow by his portable public chorus -- that he is preserving our freedom, but that if we use any of it, we are somehow un-American...When we are scolded, that if we merely question, we have 'forgotten the lessons of 9/11'... look into this empty space behind me and the bi-partisanship upon which this administration also did not build, and tell me:

"Who has left this hole in the ground?

"We have not forgotten, Mr. President. You have. May this country forgive you."

Please watch below or read the transcript on Olbermann's blog.