Appeasers

From the AP:

NEW YORK - Keith Olbermann's tipping point came on a tarmac in Los Angeles six weeks ago. While waiting for his plane to take off he read an account of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's speech before the American Legion equating Iraq War opponents to pre-World War II appeasers.

The next night, on Aug. 30, Olbermann ended his MSNBC "Countdown" show with a blistering retort, questioning both the interpretation of history and Rumsfeld's very understanding of what it means to be an American.

It was the first of now five extraordinarily harsh anti-Bush commentaries that have made Olbermann the latest media point-person in the nation's political divide.

"As a critic of the administration, I will be damned if you can get away with calling me the equivalent of a Nazi appeaser," Olbermann told The Associated Press. "No one has the right to say that about any free-speaking American in this country."

"No one has the right to say that about any free-speaking American in this country." Well, close. It's: "Everyone has the right to say that about any free-speaking American in this country." Odd that Olberman tries to limit the speech of some Americans in the very same sentence in which he's asserting his right to free speech.

Weren't the WWII appeasers using their right to free speech? Sure they were, as was anyone who said, "Tone it down. You're helping our enemies."