Keith Olbermann (Countdown, MSNBC) has become the best commentary writer and purveyor on TV. He speaks for many who are outraged over what goes on in Washington and elsewhere under the guise of keeping us safe. On the 5th anniversary of 9/11, he shocked me with his honesty and deserved outrage over the utter inadequacies and blatant missteps of the Bush administration since that fateful day, lambasting them for their inability to make this country more secure, and for their failure to shepherd the process of rebuilding anything at all–whether it be functional space or a memorial–at Ground Zero. Then he came back two weeks later with a commentary about former President Bill Clinton’s now-infamous discussion with Fox’s Chris Wallace, “…a monkey posing as a newscaster…” and President Bush’s new tactic of blaming his predecessor for 9/11. It’s astonishing, and it’s exactly what we need to be hearing right now.

You might also be interested in seeing a prior commentary about Donald Rumsfeld.

Click the links above to watch any of the videos, if you missed the commentaries the first time around. Looks like it might be time to start TiVoing Countdown…

–Sean Coakley