[evil twin]

Personally I'm quite happy to see threads like this. They provide talking points around which debate can be started. However certain posters would rather attack the form the post takes or (yet again) accuse the poster of being a troll than the actual content of the post. "But there was no content" I hear you wail. Well, from my point of view, and the point of view of others, there is content here.

It's Keith Olbermanns view, and it allows his view to be disseminated. I don't go searching for this sort of thing myself, so I'm happy to have it presented to me directly on a forum I do follow. I would be just as happy to see an O'Reilly Factor talking point as the centrepiece for a discussion, even though I would almost certainly take issue with the content. It's certainly preferable than yet another rant against the state and how anarchy would ultimately save us all. Damn, did I just invite the ACers in? Oops.

Personally while I agree with Olbermann almost entirely on this point (shock horror), I don't think he does himself any favours using such a highly charged word as terrorism for what the repubs do. Even though it seems he's right given the definition of the word. I really think the republicans recent terror advert showed how utterly desperate they are, their policy to reduce terror has failed and yet this is their big hitting point they need to use to get votes. It's over guys.