Olbermann Special Comment--Chertoff's "gut feeling!"

Time to get into a fun Olbermann Special Comment on Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff's "gut feeling" about the increasing risk of a terrorist attack in the United States. I found the actual Chertoff "gut feeling" quote through YouTube:



The Chertoff's "gut feeling" became breaking news on MSNBC, a political analysis on CNN, and a top story on ABC News. It was even reported on Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

That is some pretty impressive news reporting and political punditry on Michael Chertoff's gut. I think my gut is telling me something too--there is going to be another terrorist attack in the world today. Let's look on the news sites--Iraq journalist for N.Y. Times shot to death, My gut predicted that terrorist attack! Can my gut get a job at Homeland Security?

I can't really say why Chertoff gave his gut feeling on potential terrorist attacks in the United States. It is a statement that presents no proof, no intelligence evidence of an attack, nothing. And yet, Chertoff was happy to make such a statement, and sit back and watch the news media play up the fears of evil terrorists are about to attach the United States because Chertoff's gut tells him that. In one sense, Chertoff's "gut feeling" terrorism story is a metaphor showing the incompetence of this Bush administration in fighting their Great War on Terror, and in making this country even less safe from a terrorist attack. We've seen how this administration uses terror threats as a political means to control the media and stifle either news stories critical of the administration, or to reduce the political and media influence of opponents and critics of the Bush administration. We have seen how this administration has decided to abandon the war on terrorism to engage in an opportunistic war in Iraq for control of oil and American imperialism. And now we're told that Chertoff's gut is warning us of an impending terrorist attack sometime this summer.

I'm thinking Chertoff's gut has some really bad indigestion. Instead of stocking up on duct tape to protect himself against the terrorists, maybe Chertoff should be stocking up on Pepto Bismol to protect himself from this possible terrorist attack?

So let's get into Olbermann's Special Comment. From YouTube:



And here is the transcript.