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Tie: Why, it’s this one!

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Worst Person: Retired General Thomas McInerney, for suggesting that America become a nation of McTerrorists.

It’s not every day you get to start off with a Godwin’s reference made by President Bush. Thanks to some bad information and the standard dosage of ineptitude, Bush compared Barack Obama to Nazi appeasers. (Way to not get involved in the campaign there, chief.) Hillary Clinton quickly came to Obama’s defense, as did Joe Biden and John Kerry. Thankfully, Dana Perino stepped in to clarify things with her usual wit and grace. To top it all off, McCain steps in to defend Bush’s words, and to throw in a reference to Neville Chamberlain. Dana Milbank joins to discuss the appropriateness of the venue and the continued Republican attempt to discredit Obama in the eyes of Jewish voters. Rachel Maddow shows up immediately afterward to discuss just exactly how bad of a mistake this was on Bush’s part. And, you know, when you can boil the whole situation down to Obama v. Bush on foreign policy in the Middle East, it’s practically more than the Obama campaign can ask for.

Senator McCain announced his plans for his first term in office that, well, read more like little Johnny’s Christmas list than anything else. Also, after having listened to all of that, I kinda expected him to remind us to always wear sunscreen. The best part by far comes when McCain suggests that he’d like to hold something akin to Britain’s Prime Minister’s Questions after he’s elected. (And this would also be the only high point of his Presidency, were it to actually, you know, happen.)

Bushed: Ahmed Chalabi-Gate: American military and civilians have cut off contact with him because of contact with Iran’s government. And that’s the best they could come up with? Send-Em-Back-Gate: It’s not PTSD, it’s “adjustment disorder.” War Profiteering-Gate: Report on the plunder of Iraq was released. KBR’s still racking up the money, this time with an insurance scam.

Oddball: Fly, Fusion Man! And…sneeze, adorable panda!

Best Persons: NY Met Carlos Beltran rounds the bases with senior citizens, Samuel Wood of Twin Falls, Idaho left something behind in the move, and Cheney gave Bush a pare of infrared binocs? Sure, why not.

Paul Rieckhoff joins to discuss the reaction to Bush’s giving up of golf “for the cause.” Rieckhoff makes the excellent point that fixing Walter Reed, helping veterans with PTSD, and, you know, voting for the GI Bill would probably do a whole hell of a lot more. As it is, he’s only widening the divide between the number of dead soldiers and the human beings they are.

Back to BillO’s meltdown! One day, perhaps, this will get old. For me, that day is very far off, indeed. BillO responds, citing a contractual obligation to stir up shit. Sure, why not? As for the rest of the section? You really just need to see it. (And this, too.)

That’s it for me tonight! I’m off to nurse my sunburn.

Jon Stewart stole KO’s schtick about the GOP usurping the Effexor slogan tonight on The Daily Show. Either that is the highest form of compliment for KO or its the end of the week for Stewart’s gang and they’re running out of material!!!

Or maybe that was the trade off for using one of their people in the body language skit!

Oh, Ashley, Thank you, thank you.

The Dance Remix of the Bill-O meltdown made my day/late night. It is even better than the original.

As for the body language expert, I figured out part way through that it was a con, but it was still funny.

As there is no title for your entry could I suggest Keith’s line about how adorable Pandas are even their body functions that would be gross from almost any other species?

I suppose that one would have to be right in front of the sneezing Panda and getting the full force of the off cast to find this anything other than just so cute.

PS: Dana’s tie was a deep aqua blue with white dots, similar to Keith’s red one with white dots, and when they were side by side, with Keith in the Lavender, it was so beautiful I was no longer listening.

Was is just me or did Keith seem…well, bubbly? I haven’t seen him like this in a long time (okay, I just started watching in September, after Joel McHale had him on “The Soup”). It was positively awesome!!!

Oh Paul, you’re pretty awesome too. It’s great to have a voice of the military on primetime instead of Bush using active duty as a backdrop for some dumbass speech.

Yesterday was also Dan’s birthday. Keith’s Oddball intro from last year** still makes me happy, even if actual public Dan/Keith communiques have been thin on the ground (thin in the air, just … generally pretty trim).

Paul Rieckhoff is awesome. Any night we get him or Rachel, I’m happy. Nights we get both, I’m thrilled.

My favorite part of the show, though, was Biden’s quote. God bless a man who can follow an exclaimed “This is bullshit” immediately with “this is malarkey.”

**To wit:

On this date in nineteen fifty … something, we don’t have to mention the exact year, Dan Patrick was born. Bon vivant, gourmet, gourmand, raconteur, fancy dancer, international Strat-O-Matic champion, Joe Isuzu’s stunt double, and of course, but for the tragic trick knee … one of the immortals of professional basketball. In short: national treasure. Happy birthday, partner.

The Huffington Post beat both Keith & Jon pointing out the Repub/drug slogan.

That “demo” tie with O-Reilly made Keith bubble, that was awesome!

I like that Paul Rieckhoff keeps his eyes on the prize and is always focused with facts and often nudges Keith back to the big picture. I sensed Keith was just a tiny bit annoyed when Paul mentioned they have a golf course in IRAQ. Keith seemed to want to focus it back to Bush specifically, just like he did with the Bill-O and ‘there are no homeless vets’ thing. But as then, Paul always keeps it about the vets and their needs and struggles. He is a great spokesperson for our vets. I remember Paul said he’d be happy to meet with O-Reilly, to ‘educate’ him, I don’t think O’Reilly ever had him on.

I love that “old man yells at cloud” thing, I wonder if there is a café express t-shirt yet…

(My horoscope says “Your Moon is in your 3rd House of Communications” which means a certain higher level of chattiness…sorry…bare with me, Becky!) ;)

Oh, a nice shout out to Rachel Maddow from the Sun-Times, she’s coming back on WCPT, Chicago’s progressive station.

http://www.suntimes.com/business/feder/953175,CST-FIN-feder16.article

Also, it’s Studs Terkel’s birthday today, he’s 96.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/85358/

This link has a short article as to how CBS, current owner of King Features, tried to take the Bill-O meltdown off You Tube, with links to the Colbert take off and the music download of what is being called Fuck It! for those who want it on their ipods or other music system, none of which I understand or know how to use, but it is such a lively beat.

Random thoughts –

GM — thanks for clearing up the Effexor thing.

Does anyone know if one can get Rachel’s show via the Internet? I live in Houston…they only do Rush and Hannity around these parts.

Now that that lady who created a false My Space identity to harass that young girl into suicide, I was wondering if KO and other celebs have an opening to go after those fake My Space pages of them. KO has several put up by the anti-Olby groups. Unfortunately, some naive My Space folks are writing nice comments to KO on the fake pages, signing up as friends — and I’m sure they get blasted in response from the fake “KO” which doesn’t help his image. While freedom of speech and satire are important rights…but this is out-and-out fraud and libel as they knowingly put up a page that misrepresents KO. Since UTube cuts out “copyright” infringements, you think ID stealing would also be verboten on My Space

Just my rant for the day.

Ashley, thanks for the BOREilly Dance Mix YouTube. It was very popular at work.

Besides my Dana “Dead Parrot” Milbank and KO calling him “Winston,” pretty soon DM’s name is going to look like this:

Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- nürnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- shönedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm

Happy Friday, y’all.

Houstonian,

You can stream it live from the Air America site (I’m told, though it hasn’t worked for me in months). When I have to listen away from an actual radio (and NY’s station doesn’t carry all 3 hrs. of her show or else I’d link you to that), I usually turn to Madison’s station or Green 960 — the latter more often because of their speedy & convenient podcasts of past episodes.

Dear Becky,

Thank you for teh clip from The Adventures of Zevo Calamari & Boo in tumble blogging. Full entry and site recommended to all cat fanciers, etc.

Houstonian, try Chicago’s WCPT site for radio streams. If when you click on the “listen” button, and it doesn’t work, click on “not working” and it automatically finds you another stream. I’ve had pretty good luck.

http://radiotime.com/station/s_27032/WCPT_850.aspx

I was glad that lady got indicted. I was the tall one in my youth and was never bullied (nor did I ever bully). It is bad enough kids say hateful things to each other, but for an adult, it’s just so horrendous. I hope she gets some prison time (although, then her child is without a mother), the case is going to be hard to prosecute, they almost have to re-write some laws, or at the very least interrupt them accordingly.

OlbermannWatch actually reported one of the fake Keith Facebook pages, the one with like 1700 friends, of course only after they made fun with posts on OW of “olbyloons” from said facebook page. I use to get a chuckle from OW once in a while, there use to be some smart & witty progressives that commented there, fighting the good fight, but they no longer have open comments, so only the neocon freaks signed up and it has turned into an Obama hate-fest. It is going to be great when Obama is president and Keith consistently beats O’Reilly in the ratings.

Perhaps NBC/MSNBC hired one too many rightwingers:

Huckabee jokes about pointing a gun at Obama at an NRA meeting:

http://www.breitbart.tv/html/97143.html

Just when I thought Sen. Clinton had come to her senses, she does a “pundits-out-of touch” ad ala Rudy G. Like Rudy, she included—funny, contains NO snippts of Fox or CNN pundits. (It’s the third video from the top):

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/channel-08/2008/05/new_ads_for_clinton_in_kentuck.html

What I’m waiting for is the real behind the scnes footage using that new medium Keith loves to use:

“BILL O’REILLY GOES NUTS AT ‘INSIDE EDITION’ PUPPET THEATRE”!

The Mets and the Yankees had an interleague game scheduled tonight(Friday) and it was RAINED OUT!!

That’s what he gets for taking a night off.

I accidentally edited out Keith’s name in the part where Sen Clinton “includes Keith and everyone else at MSNBC” but leaves out FOX & CNN.

Rachel did an absolutely bang-up job on Friday night. She’s by far the best substitute host on Countdown, and here’s hoping we’ll see her far more often in the anchor chair — on her own show.

T you are right,

I was in my kitchen when the show began, and when I realized that it was not Keith’s voice, I started my standard Oh, NO, but was not to the second long O when I realized that it was Rachel’s voice, and I was instantly in glee.

I did have a moment of being horrified for her when she accidentally said Andrew Jackson instead of Johnson, a mistake that been made by many who do know better, as I am certain she does, and I was so relieved that it was caught and corrected before she went off the air. I also wonder if the error was on the prompter.

I also think that she gave the segment title for BUSHED its due.

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