In a pretty spectacular peroration tonight, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann delivered a ten-minute indictment of the president and vice president and asked Bush to perform one last act of patriotism: resign. Saying “Even Richard Nixon knew it was time to resign” and adding that Nixon’s resignation, belated though it was, ranked as one final action of nonpartisanship, Olbermann urged George W. Bush to emulate Nixon, “not for self, not for party” but for the country. Olbermann also expressed a wish that Bush could get Cheney to resign.

Olbermann also prefaced his speech, in one of several promotional moments, with the comment ...   more »