Bill Moyers Journal: Keith Olbermann on his Special Comments.

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Bill Moyers sat down with MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann to discuss his breakout from the rest of the mainstream media with his Special Comments.


BILL MOYERS: …You have some strong things to say about politics.


KEITH OLBERMANN: It became necessary.


BILL MOYERS: Why?


KEITH OLBERMANN: I was sitting on a plane in Los Angeles reading in August of 2006 about Don Rumsfeld talking to the veterans and talking about how every– everyone who was in opposition to the Iraq War policy, the so-called war on terror, even to some degree the Bush administration, was the equivalent in his mind to the Nazi appeasers of the 1930s. And he went on at length about how, you know, here’s the– we’re doing the Churchillian role. And I thought, you know, sir, I took history classes. Your group is not Churchill. Your group is Neville Chamberlain because Neville Chamberlain minimized and marginalized anybody who disagreed with him. Reading this ridiculous remark and waiting to see somebody respond to it. And no one did. I’m thinking, well, you know, somebody with a platform ought to be talking about this. Somebody with a– with an avenue to respond should be– oh, yeah, I have a platform.



The entire interview is available at PBS.