Is the above photo Keith Olbermann beating up on George Bush-or me beating up on Keith Olbermann? Sometimes, even I'm not sure.
I turned on Keith Olbermann tonight because I wanted to see how he would handle the Chris Matthews "Oh God" comment last night on MSNBC. Of course, it didn't occur to me to turn on Chris Matthews to see what he would say, but I never watch "Hardball" anyway. As for "Countdown", it was the same old dog and pony show. It's getting to be like "I Love Lucy".
(* Matthews, on "Hardball", skillfully and disingenuously told his viewers tonight that he was reacting to the staged backdrop for Jindal's speech; the antebellum appearance of the Governor's mansion, the winding staircase, the hallway from which he emerged. Yet, those images were on the screen at least a full minute before Jindal appeared-at which time, Matthews made his comment.)
First, Keith brought on his old stand-by, Newsweek Editor Richard Wolffe (2 f's) to help Keith pound on Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's speech in response to President Obama's address to Congress. Keith charged that Jindal made up a story about being with a local sheriff when he told a government bureaucrat over the phone to go pound sand-or something like that. It never happened, said Keith, later adding that the sheriff is now dead,(so I guess we'll never really know, will we Keith). Then he and Wolffe (2 f's) talked about how even Republicans thought that Jindal's speech was awful and he looked like some sophomoric TV character (somebody the page). Finally, they concluded that Jindal's political career was now doomed (knowing that the governor is considered a rising star in the Republican Party). Wolffe (2 f's) also made a passing joke about Matthews' comment about Jindal's entrance to the podium and Keith laughed. (It's not so funny, Keith. You should be embarrassed. But more on that later.)
Eugene "Chuckles" Robinson and Jonathan Alter apparently had the night off, so Keith then brought in the "always fair and balanced" Paul (the worm) Krugman to help him beat up on those awful Republicans some more (as if they matter, for cryin' out loud).
Then there is poor old George Bush, who used to be president. Keith can't let go. He talked about some nursing home law that was passed under Bush. He showed a clip of Rachel Maddow interviewing Nancy Pelosi about this so-called "Truth and Reconciliation" nonsense that Patrick Leahy is proposing (What are we, Argentina?) . Pelosi is "concerned" that in the end, no one will go to prison, a concern we know Keith shares.
"Worst Person in the World"? Bronze goes to Politico.com's Michael Calderone for incorrectly identifying the "Oh God" speaker as Keith then correcting it to Matthews. Hey Keith, how about Matthews as "Worst Person in the World" for saying it? Silver to-who else, Bill O'Reilly-just for being Bill O'Reilly. This must have been the 2,283rd award to O'Reilly. Never let it be said that Keith Olbermann holds a grudge. The Gold to Sean Hannity ("The Manitee") for being a conservative-or some other infraction.
And as further evidence that Keith can't let go of the Bush thing, he again signed off by reminding us it was the 467,126th day since George Bush declared, "Mission accomplished".
Good night, Keith.
Good night, Richard.
Good night, Chris.
10 comments:
Yeah, these guys really do beat a dead horse.
Hey, how about another post about Bill Ayers? Or something about how Obama is pushing this country towards socialism? Or a post about how Olbermann likes to beat a dead horse?
Hi, I'm Bobby Jindal. My parents are immigrants, like President Obama. My skin is brown - but not as brown as President Obama.
I'm the governor of Louisiana. And let me tell you - government doesn't work! Here's an example: Katrina. Remember when a Republican president who was pretty incompetent was told by his former Arabian horse breeder turned disaster recovery head of FEMA that "Mr. President, there's a big storm heading to New Orleans, and he did nothing about it" - and then Bush went to San Diego and played guitar? Yup - proof right there that government doesn't work!
In fact, it works so badly that the only person that was helping people was a sheriff getting out boats. Yes, a government official performing his duties in an emergency - that proves that government just doesn't work when you elect people of competence!
Now, let's talk about this "stimulus" plan. You may remember that 9 years ago, we had a surplus in the deficit, we were paying down the debt, and we were doing that with a combination of a reasonable tax rate and drawing down spending. Then Republicans got into office, and we cut taxes and spent the money on two wars and on piling up security for places like a Kentucky Fried Chicken center. And look how well the economy did!
Now that we're in bad economic straits, we Republicans have the solution: tax cuts! Because it worked so well over the last 8 years!
Look at Louisiana - while I've been governor, we've cut taxes all over the place - and our growing unemployment (funds for which I just denied, because poor people just need motivation to work), firing schoolteachers (because we don't have enough money to pay them because we cut all of those taxes - kids can education themselves about things like Intelligent Design!), and having to take in the other upteen billions from the federal government to meet our budget deficits - so my governorship for my state has been awesome!
Of course, we also want to reduce spending. Like on things like volcano monitoring. You may think that because my state was all but destroyed by a natural disaster because people weren't heeding the warning signs, I'd be more interested in monitoring that. Hell, no! See, if you know its coming, that just encourages government to respond badly. Instead, if it's God will to wipe out a bunch of people and towns, it should happen.
Now, I know President Obama just said he wants to cut wasteful spending in the Pentagon, and give troops a pay raise and increase spending on veterans. But I'm going to ignore that, and say that Obama wants to cut our military so we're more likely to be attacked. If I close my eyes real tight, then reality can't see me!
So, remember folks:
1. I'm just like Obama!
2. Tax cuts cure everything from having a stimulus, to funding two wars, to fixing our economic woes!
3. Spending money monitoring possible natural disasters is a waste of money. Tax cuts and prayers are far more effective!
4. If you didn't know, me and Sarah Palin are going to run for President in 2012 along with Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee. Republicans rock!
Lance,
Bill Ayres!!! Wasn't he just on TV defending his actions in the 60s-again? If he foes away, I'll go away.
Bryan,
"Oh God!" Another proud graduate of the Fousesquawk School of Composition.
Gary, the irony of the whole situation is that nobody would even be paying attention to him if conservatives yourself didn't make his molehill into such a mountain. You have yourselves to blame for his newfound fame. Leave it to conservatives to not understand the concept of "there's no such thing as bad publicity".
And Bryan - that was brilliant.
Wasn't the governor of Louisiana during Katrina a Democrat? Then again so was the mayor of New Orleans too.
Why didn't they do better to remove the people from harms way?
Bryan,
Findalis is right. You have cleverly implied that Jindal was responsible for Katrina. The fact is that Jindal is a rising star. He has injected a measure of honesty into Louisiana plotics-historically the most corrupt state in the country. And if you really want to see incompetency in action research what Gov Blanco and Mayor what's his name-the guy who called NO a chocolate city-Ray Nagin. See how they handled the situation.
Google the name Edwin Edwards, former governor of Louisiana. Compare his corrupt administration to Jindal's.
You have cleverly implied that Jindal was responsible for Katrina.
Ummm...no he didn't.
And even that's true, both that and the bad democrats doesn't change the fact that the Republican administration was dangerously incompetent.
No one came out shining in katrina except the coast guard folks that were picking people off of roofs. That was forgotten among all the recriminations.
And you are correct about Bryan. He was slamming Bush.
My apologies, Bryan.
I wish I could take credit for writing that little gem, but I can't. I just thought it was funny enough to share with you guys.
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