Epp Responds

Here's Todd Epp's response to my post below.  Here's a counter response.
1. I never wrote that Todd Epp called George Bush a fascist.  Indeed, one point of my post was to give Todd the opportunity to reject such a notion.  I did write Keith Olbermann insinuated the Bush administration was fascistic.  I did write that Todd Epp endorsed the screed in which Olberman said this.  Here, again, is what Olbermann said:

And about Mr. Rumsfeld‘s other main assertion of that this country faces a new type of fascism as he was correct to remind us that a government that knew everything could get everything wrong.  So too was he right when he said that.  Though probably not in the way he thought he meant.  This country faces a new type of fascism, indeed.

I take Olbermann to be saying the Bushies are fascists.  (This Brett Bozell column suggests that this is not the first time Olbermann has made this allusion.)  I believe this to be a fair interpretation.  If Todd disputes this interpretation let him say so and why. 
2. Todd makes no caveat about endorsing only part of what Olbermann says.  He does say, "You need to read or watch this."  He concludes the original post by writing, ""Thank you, Keith Olbermann, for daring to speak the truth about our troubled country." 
3. If Keith Olbermann, in the midst of the diatribe, accuses the Bushies of incipient fascism, and Todd Epp endorses the diatribe without caveat, what are we to conclude?  I charitably suggest Todd was sloppy.  Perhaps he could confirm this suspicion.  I should have included this charitable interpretation of Todd's post in my original post.  I ask his forgiveness for not doing so. 
4. If Mike Rounds's campaign press secretary penned a piece endorsing Sibby's accusation that Jack Billion was a communist, would Todd Epp and the Billion campaign not use this to question the judgment of Mike Rounds?  If Jack Billion's press secretary endorses Keith Olbermann's screed in which Olbermann insinuates that there is a creeping fascism emanating from the Bush Administration, does that not reflect on Jack Billion? Shouldn't be that hard for a veteran campaigner like Todd Epp to understand.  Sheesh.  Sure, SD Watch is Todd's site, not a campaign site, but Todd, as a high level campaign employee, would have to be naive beyond imagination to think that what he says on his personal site would not reflect on the Billion campaign.  It'd be like if Tony Snow had a personal blog and then got upset when it was used against George Bush. 
5. I don't think Todd Epp is like Dave Newquist or Chad Schuldt in the use of vituperative language, but in his response he shares one of their vices.  He accuses without linking.  I ask him to at least link to my original post so his readers can decide for themselves whether I have characterized this situation accurately or not.
6. Todd has always struck me as a stand up guy.  I am sorry to be in a pissing match with him.  Yup.  I know.  I started it.  I will let him end it.