To be fair to Olbermann, his mystifyingly outrageous lack of outrage over this story appears contagious among the liberal MSM — so much so that it apparently forced a group of prominent liberals to fundraise in order to publish an advertisement in the New York Review of Books entitled “Crimes are Crimes No Matter Who Does Them,” which condemned Obama’s terrorist-assassination program. Signatories to the ad include liberal stalwarts Noam Chomsky, Cindy Sheehan and Williams Ayers (though, in all fairness to Ayers, he may have more understandably self-serving motives for condemning a CIA program that summarily hunts down and assassinates suspected U.S. citizen-terrorists.)
How world-turned-upside-down is this? Liberals paying their own money to voice criticism of a CIA assassination program in the bible of liberal group-think? Since when are liberals/Hollywood elites forced to pay for talking points they usually get in their own media for free? And you can bet those elites lobbied their press contacts hard trying to get their outrage expressed gratis long before opening their own checkbooks.
Seriously, I commend these liberals, actors and accused domestic terrorists for spending their own money to criticize their beloved president. It takes guts to oppose big government’s imposition on people’s rights – those liberals should just ask the Tea Party folks. Although it sure sounds like Al-Awlaki “needs killin’,” it wouldn’t be the first time government propagandists demonized an individual/group as a pretext for oppression.
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