Russell Crowe as Robin Hood
Russell Crowe as Robin Hood
Apparently, I only like Russell Crowe when he looks like he did in Gladiator. You can take “Body of Lies” and shove it. Ridley Scott apparently feels the same way. The new Robin Hood movie reunites Crowe with his Gladiator Director. This time you get to see Crowe fight the Norman Invaders in the forest instead of the Germans. The movie is due out in 2010.
Olbermann: Limbaugh Defends the Somali Pirates
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Rush Limbaugh characterizes the shooting of three Somali pirates as a police shooting of three black teenagers, and says they just wanted to surrender but weren’t given the chance.
Colbert: Tax Atax and Glenn Beck
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Glenn Beck holds his tea party in the only location that makes sense: the Alamo.
Colbert: “Yes, that does really REALLY make sense. So few remember that the Boston Tea Party began when George Washington and his ragtag troop of Union soldiers holed up in the Alamo surrounded by Nazis. Luckily, before Napoleon could bring in his Terminator reinforcements, Hannibal saved the patriot army with his elite corp of elephant men. To this very day we still rally around the cry, ‘Remember the Ewoks!’ For what it’s worth, I would like to throw my support to this grass roots effort by FOX News Corporation. I certainly hope that this occupation of the Alamo goes just as well as the last one.”
Charlie Brooker Slams FOX News
Leave it to a British BBC/Guardian commentator to accurately portray FOX News.
Daily Show: Goldman Sachs’ Surprise Profits
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Daily Show: With Goldman Sachs’ surprise profits, you’d think the treasury secretary that designed the bailout used to be the CEO.
Daily Show: Tempest in a Tea Party
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Daily Show: Americans buy one million teabags to protest wasteful spending.
Daily Show: America, F*** Yeah!
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Daily Show: Richard Phillips becomes America’s newest hero after pirates attack his freighter.
Rescue at Sea
SEAL Snipers took out three pirates holding a US sea captain hostage, killing them as they were apparently about to kill the captain. What’s incredible, is right before they were going to shoot the captain, two of the pirates stuck their heads out of the lifeboat’s cabin, making them easy targets for snipers waiting to take them out. From the Washington Post:
The three other pirates, however, showed signs of growing irritation, as the Bainbridge, 18 miles from shore, towed the lifeboat further out to sea, the senior military official said. “They had no promise of money, clearly no passage. The one ticket they had was the captain,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter on the record.
“In the last discussion, they said, ‘If we don’t get what we want, we will kill the captain,’ ” the official said.
Soon afterward, two pirates moved to one of the hatches of the lifeboat and stuck their heads out. The third pirate advanced toward the captain and pointed his AK-47 straight at Phillips’s back, the rifle touching it or inches away, the official said.
U.S. military observers thought that Phillips was about to be shot. SEAL snipers, who were positioned on a deck at the stern of the Bainbridge, an area known as the fantail, had the three pirates in their sights. The on-scene commander gave the snipers authority to fire.
“As soon as the snipers had a clear shot at the guy who had the rifle, they shot him and the other two in the hatches,” the senior military official said.
A member of the Special Operations team slid down the tow line into the water and climbed aboard the lifeboat. Phillips was then put in a small craft and taken to the Bainbridge.
The Obama’s New Puppy
SNL: New Jersey Gay Couple
