Could Keith Olbermann be the Edward R. Murrow of this generation? God knows this country could use one, at least one. He seems to be aspiring to have such a voice on his MSNBC show, for which I must applaud him. This clip of him taking Donald Rumsfield to task for his recent negative campaign against Iraq war/war on terror-dissenting Americans is a brilliant piece of writing and speech certainly in the strong spirit of Murrow. I will quote Murrow below just as Olbermann so aptly does to end this segment. We need to hear this now just as many needed to hear it then. For the “enemies” may have changed, but the spirit has stayed the same.

“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of un-reason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men; Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were – for the moment – unpopular.”