Jason Bateman stopped by Keith Olbermann’s Countdown last night to promote Hancock, but what everyone really wants to know is what he had to say about a possible Arrested Development movie.
Luckily, David Cross provided some welcome outside interference to break up the Hancock talk. Nothing much revealed, except that the movie is a possibility and they are trying to work stuff out.
Wasn’t Keith Olbermann supposed to be a newsman of sorts?
Someone had to say it and it’s about time. Kind of used to the major media being lapdogs, but at least Olbermann says what’s already been percolating on blogs all over.
What I like about his special comment is that he’s demanding from Clinton and holding her up to a presidential standard that Clinton herself has been asking from Sen. Obama. Clinton’s advisers and her hanger-ons on the campaign are killing her chances of becoming the President, which is a shame. This flap is not going away either.
The political blogs are going to keep this issue in the limelight for as long as it takes. If Samantha Powers uses the word “monster” and is asked to resign, how can Sen. Clinton not ask Geraldine Ferraro to resign as well? It’s shameful.
By James Furbush | February 27th, 2007 | 12:03 pm PST
This Keith Olbermann Special Commentary during last night’s show doesn’t really need any introduction or background information for context.
But here’s the shorthand. On a Fox News interview, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice compared the current situation in Iraq to the rebuilding of Europe at the end of World War II. Now Olbermann always likes to go over board with some of his special commentaries. And why not? Since they have brought him higher ratings, more buzz and much love from liberals.
So what exactly drew the ire of Olbermann? These are the exact words Rice spoke during her interview:
It would be like saying that after Adolf Hitler was overthrown, we needed to change then, the resolution that allowed the United States to do that, so that we could deal with creating a stable environment in Europe after he was overthrown.
Except that the President did go to Congress to fashion what would become the Marshall Plan. A plan that pumped $12 billion dollars into Europe to rebuild and maintain democracy, at least in Western Europe.
Though it makes for great television, Rice should have taken a history lesson before comparing Saddam to Hitler and Iraq to post-World War II Berlin.
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