Bob Herbert and Keith Olberman Don’t Know Dick
By Larry Johnson on August 6, 2008 at 5:09 PM in Current Affairs
Crude warning. This is too funny to resist. Thanks to the Daily Howler we get this precious Bob Herbert moment:
HERBERT (8/4/08): You guys have seen the ad a number of times, I am sure, and you have it here in-house. First thing you see are a couple of images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, right? And we see an image of Barack Obama right after that, comes quickly at the beginning of the ad. You remember that, right? Do you remember any other startling images right there at the beginning? All right. There is an image right there in that very beginning of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and there is an image of the Washington Monument. Look at the beginning of that ad again. And you tell me why those two phallic symbols are placed there—pow!—right at the very beginning of that ad. I really wish somebody would answer the question—I think it’s really important. Why are those two phallic symbols in this ad…
Here’s the video in question:
Word to Bob. That ain’t the Leaning Tower of Pisa nor the Washington Monument. Can you say, Siegesaule? That’s the crowd of adoring Berliners waiting for the second half of the concert to start. And all you see is a penis like structure?
But wait, there is more.
Howler also astutely points out:
Keith Olbermann: Herbert’s presentation occurred on Monday morning. Twelve hours later, our own Mr. O was still recycling his howlers:
OLBERMANN (8/4/08): It seems like the celebrity ad continues to echo and Bob Herbert of the New York Times was on this network pointing out something—I don`t know that anybody noticed before—this morning: That not only in that McCain ad were there two underdressed blondes mixed with the black guy in the ad, but there are also images of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Washington Monument, and the Victory Column in Berlin, as Bob Herbert put it, “phallic symbols”—three phallic symbols, two blondes and Barack Obama.
He’d had twelve hours to check his facts—but he still was repeating these world-class blunders. For the record, no one had “noticed” those famous structures because they aren’t there in the ad.
Man, what a couple of dicks.
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