"They're Sorry, So Sorry"
Scrapbook They’re Sorry, So SorryReaders occasionally ask THE SCRAPBOOK how we keep the girlish figure. Do we diet, drink lots of water, do pilates? None of these things, actually. We eat...
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...That didn’t keep Olbermann, however, from pronouncing on his own show: “It was an utterly inappropriate and indefensible thing to say...
...Shuster does file reports for Olbermann, but was guest-hosting Tucker Carlson’s show when he offered his pimp observations...
...Praised by our own critic John Podhoretz, the movie Juno, about a pregnant teenage hipster who chooses adoption over abortion, is up for best picture, best original screenplay, best director (Jason Reitman), and best actress (Ellen Page...
...Ones that transcend political parties and politics itself...
...We’ve always found it simplest just to turn on Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC...
...Anyway, there were plenty of players who covered themselves in shame in the recent fracas over MSNBC reporter David Shuster’s lapse into witless ghettospeak, suggesting on the air that Chelsea Clinton, who’d gone so far as to call superdelegates on her mom’s behalf, was “sort of being pimped out” by her mom’s campaign...
...We eat whatever we want, then we induce vomiting...
...Olbermann, for you non-MSNBC viewers (which is to say, most Americans) is the formerly charming ESPN anchorman who repurposed himself as a leftwing firebrand doing discount Edward R. Murrow impressions (he stole the “Good night, and good luck” sign-off, hoping viewers would mistake him for a serious person) and delivering pompous “you-sir...
...Maybe thanks to our film, the young man asked about Katyn will be able to say more than that it is the name of a small town not far away from Smolensk...
...The] Clintons have every right to be furious, hurt, and appalled...
...We are literally, dreadfully, sorry...
...Obama’s effort in Texas would be different...
...Figueroa said...
...Many of us here have similar reactions...
...But the real kicker came after Shuster’s apology, from none other than Keith Olbermann...
...Regarding best documentary, we are indifferent to the winner but decidedly rooting against No End in Sight (i.e., in Iraq) and Sicko (Michael Moore admiring Cuba’s health care system...
...Spare us the MSNBC Good Parenting Award...
...diatribes against easy targets like Donald Rumsfeld...
...And Shuster had already apologized—twice...
...Clinton on behalf of MSNBC...
...You are going to see Senator Obama campaign the way he did in Iowa,” Mr...
...Mr...
...The Clinton campaign, for one, pimped the pimp-story, trying to run up the score on MSNBC with calculated outrage, being unreceptive to apologies, threatening not to participate in the cable channel’s upcoming debate, and implying that Shuster, who has been suspended, should be fired...
...Let it spin a tale about the suffering and drama of many Katyn families,” said Wajda, whose father, Captain Jakub Wajda, was among the victims...
...Not that he needed to weigh in...
...Directed by the legendary Andrzej Wajda, the movie commemorates the Soviet massacre of 14,500 Polish officers and other members of Poland’s intelligentsia in 1940 at the behest of Stalin and carried out by the NKVD—a crime Moscow finally acknowledged in 1990...
...The director had seen a high school student on television who failed to recognize the significance of the date September 17 (when the Red Army invaded Poland in 1939, a few weeks after the Nazis attacked from the west...
...We’re not huge fans of David Shuster, but when he gets off suspension—if he gets off suspension—he would be within his rights to give Olbermann a good pimp-slapping...
...David has been suspended and [it] remains only for me to apologize without limit to President Clinton, to Senator Clinton, and to Ms...
...Barack (cont...
...Nor did Olbermann find the word objectionable when he himself used it, accusing President Bush (“your hypocrisy is so vast, sir”) of “pimping” General David Petraeus...
...NBC suits embarrassed themselves by groveling to the Clintons and suspending their reporter for a questionable choice of words...
...But most of all, THE SCRAPBOOK is hoping this year’s Oscar for best foreign language film goes to Katyn...
...Wajda’s concern is that “the young generation . . . is moving away from our past...
...And the Winner Is… The Academy Awards are not usually on THE SCRAPBOOK’s list of things to watch, but we will be rooting for a few favorites when the 80th annual awards show is aired this Sunday, February 24...
...Busy with mundane matters, they forget names and dates, which, no matter if we want it or not, create us as a nation with its fears and misgivings surfacing at every political opportunity...
...Obama’s national field director, Cuauhtemoc Figueroa, vowed that Mr...
...We’d even tune into MSNBC to see it...
...Shuster embarrassed himself with a fawning apology (understandable, since he’s fighting for his career) in which he said that “all Americans should be proud of Chelsea Clinton, and I’m particularly sorry that my language diminished the regard and respect she has earned from all of us and the respect her parents have earned in how they raised her...
...Strange that Olbermann wasn’t similarly furious, hurt and appalled when Village Voice columnist Michael Musto had previously suggested—in banWhat He Was Thinking ter with Olbermann on Olbermann’s show—that both Katie Holmes and Angelina Jolie had “pimped” their babies (surely a newborn baby is more innocent than even the 27-year-old Chelsea...
...We’re going to take him to little communities so that he’s not only going to touch voters with his words, he’s going to be able to reach out and physically touch them’ ” (New York Times, February 12...
Vol. 13 • February 2008 • No. 23
