Hannitized: Maybe the real issue here is the original one. Are we willing to run the risk that a deliberately brief – often 45 seconds or less – but intelligence-rich international 2 A.M. cell phone call from Damascus to Dearborn would avoid detection because a revised surveillance act now requires that those who monitor such calls must first get a FISA warrant… for each call.

If you truly believe that such a cumbersome procedure does not represent the risk of harm – even great harm – to our nation, then your posted comments stand.

If you believe, as I do, that the risk inherent in missing 20% of such calls – because the delivery of a FISA warrant will take longer than the call itself – is simply not acceptable to our nation’s security, then you must, as an honest person, rethink your position.

Remember that President Bush’s original request was designed to monitor only those calls originating outside the united States, made by suspected or known terrorists, to persons inside our borders.

Finally, ask yourself this: Why would the President make such a proposal and stand by it, knowing that folks like Keith Olbermann and millions of Americans would scorn and mock him for it? There are only a few possible answers.

1. He is so stupid and stubborn that he neither knows or cares about his popularity and legacy.
2. He is a neo-con who cares little or nothing for the rights of citizens or their views.
3. He understands the enormous power of the cell phone as a tool and weapon in the hands of international terrorists who mean to do us harm.

I trust your judgement, Hannitized, and I assume that you will consider what I am saying to you.

Its about time we have somebody to combat the Orielly’s and the Glen Becks of the world.

Funny though, I don’t see any complaints about Glenn Beck on this blog. Wonder why that is? (chuckle)

Olbermann needs Ritalin

Hmmm…I wonder what happens when you google Olberman, spittle-flecked and mesmerizing rhetoric.

Wait, this guy is combating the O’Reilly’s and Glenn Becks of the world?

How come he failed to mention those two?

Oh, this must be another one of those “funny” comments again. Ha. Ha.

Boy, that was a zinger.

A response to the propaganda O’Rielly and Beck have been putting out was bound to happen. I called a race towards the bottom years ago.

The only difference is I am not dissapointed about it like I imagined I would be when I predicted it’s arrival, instead I relish in watching you guys trying to deal with it. Hilarious.

I guess “you get the most flak when you are over the target, right Rob”. Hahaha.

One of these days people like this will be in a bad situation and look up and the only person that can help them will know them and know they are crazy and hate filled. Maybe someone like me with a full EMS kit and AED kit in my vehicle without the requirement (my choice) to touch anyone I don’t want to touch if I’m not out on an official call. I keep waiting for this to happen, and it will happen so I can smile and say, suffer you bastard, help will be here in 20 minutes or so.

So…you’re seriously suggesting that I plagiarized the above post? Because I used the term “spittle-flecked” to describe Olbermann?

I think I’ve actually used that term to describe you in the past. Was I plagiarizing then?

Are you making this rather absurd accusation because you have no response to the well-made points I brought up in the post itself?

I suspect that’s likely true.

Funny though, I don’t see any complaints about Glenn Beck on this blog. Wonder why that is? (chuckle)

Well, I don’t complain about Glenn Beck because I’ve only listened to him a few times. But what’s actually funny is that you couldn’t be more wrong about Beck not getting criticized here. Both he and Rush Limbaugh have been lambasted on the reader blogs of late by critics. Conservative critics.

And if you go back through the archives, I’ve posted a number of rather scathing critiques of Ann Coulter’s rhetorical style.

So what was your point again, Hannitized? That the right doesn’t criticize their Keith Olbermann’s? Well you’re wrong, not that even the bomb-throwing Ann Coulter (who I dislike a good deal) deserves to be compared to Olbermann.

In my posts I state my accusations clearly and reasonably and then back them up with analysis and evidence.

I don’t just make wild accusations and then pretend like I didn’t really make them when I get called out.