This was interesting last night. Speaking of Michael Jackson and someone else I just can't stomach - Geraldo:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9247152/
OLBERMANN: One last note on the blame business. We can all agree, probably, that this is the worst possible time for grandstanding. Yet, they are out there, celebrities and commentators and others, for whom this is just another opportunity to open their mouths and swallow whole their feet.
Thus, we gently resume one of our nightly features from happier times, COUNTDOWNs list of todays nominees for the title of worst person in the world.
At the bronze level, Rush Limbaugh again. Amazingly, he was calling the storm on the air Hurricane Katrina Vanden Heuvel, after the liberal commentator of that name. I think Mr. Limbaugh has found a new doctor, if you know what I mean.
Also nominated, Michael Jackson, a news release today announcingquoteIn response to the widespread devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, recording superstar Michael Jackson has been moved to pen a song with the working title From the Bottom of My Heart. He says he wants to make it into a new version of We are the World.
Gosh. Thanks, Michael. New Orleans, of course, doesnt have any songs of its own already or anything.
But the winner, the incomparable Geraldo Rivera. He went out and rescued a 71-year-old woman on Sunday, escorting her and her dog to a heliport near the Convention Center, to great acclaim. Stephen Elliott in New Orleans, writing for Salon.com, reports that, after the woman was medevaced, a doctor took him asideElliott, that isand told himquoteThats the second time he brought her in here. They did two takes. Geraldo made that poor woman walk from the FOX News van to the heliport twice, both times carrying her dog.
Im guessing the second take was required, because, in the first one, Rivera had given away U.S. troop positions again. Geraldo Rivera, todays worst person in the world.