Tonight on his MSNBC show Countdown, host Keith Olbermann dismantled former vice president Dick Cheney’s speech in defense of the Bush administration’s legacy on a point by point basis. Olbermann said that the vice president has humiliated himself beyond dimension. Check out the video.
RNC Chairman Michael Steele spoke to some Washington D.C. high school students for a C-SPAN Students and Leaders segment. Steele inspired the teens by telling them that he partied so much during his first year of college at John Hopkins that it got him kicked out of school. Steele said, “I partied my behind off.”
During his radio show Rush Limbaugh claimed that President Obama apologized to the terrorists today for the actions of the past 8 years. Limbaugh said, “Were I a terrorist, I would have been prompted to give his speech a standing ovation today.” What Limbaugh finds so un-American is the idea that detainees should have rights and trials.
During his speech at the American Enterprise Institute today, former vice president Dick Cheney continued to offer up his version of the Bush administration. Today Cheney said that the release of two memos will lead to the Bush administration, “will stand up well in history,” but the most striking part of his speech was his fond remembrance of America’s fear after 9/11.
