The internets tubes are all clogged up today with commentary about Keith Olberman’s public dressing down last night of our august and apparentlly insane Secretary of Defense, Mr Rumsfeld, who seems to think time stopped somewhere around November, 1945.

Crooks and Liars has the video in all its magnificent Democratic splendor, as Mr Olberman discusses the madness of Mr Rumsfeld.

There are transcripts all over the place, but I think the video carries more emphasis because Mr Olberman has a way of presenting truth and facts that escapes the other talking heads on TV. He is about the only positive aspect to MSNBC’s current lineup, and is at his best when poking sharp sticks inside the cages of Fascists like Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, mAn Coulter (and Mr Rumsfeld, for that matter.)

Spencer Ackerman also discusses Mr Rumsfeld’s assault on 67% of the American people and their values over at The New Republic’s online blog today. Since a subscription is required (and it’s a shortie) we’ll just pass it along.

In mid-1967, Robert McNamara recognized the Vietnam war, which he had argued for so vociferously and prosecuted with such zeal, was unwinnable. Yet the war continued. When Lyndon Johnson, the following year, fired him as defense secretary and appointed him to the World Bank presidency, McNamara, feeling the burden of what he had done to the country, cried at his press conference. One looks at Donald Rumsfeld's spittle-flecked speech calling millions of antiwar Americans traitors and Nazi-appeasers, and thinks: At least Robert McNamara had a sense of shame.

(NB: As always, the most sublime comment on Donald Rumsfeld belongs to Tom Toles.)

UPDATE It's been reported by Antichrist S. Coulter that Paul Begala has coined a new political campaign phrase"

Well slap the dog and spit in the far

First off, this is, without a doubt, the best quote OF THE WEEK!!! On The Situation Room on CNN, Democratic Strategist Paul Begala (?)(it's not in the transcript yet), after they'd discussed Rumsfeld's frothing-at-the-mouth flagellation of "fascism" (his new definition of the "war on terra") (and yet again, they co-opt another word and utterly corrupt the meaning) --- Paul says, timing it perfectly before the break:

"There are probably four or five venereal diseases that are more popular right now than Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush!"

Tip of the way-too-small Kevlar helmet to Kevin Hayden of The American Street for the update news.