Randi Rhodes: O'Reilly Out-Cheeses Green Bay

Did you go to a Super Bowl party yesterday? If you didn’t, you missed the Pittsburgh Steelers serving up turnovers. The Super Bowl has become like a national holiday—everybody eats and drinks too much, and at a certain point they all forget what it is they’re observing. If you don’t recall, the Green Bay Packers beat the Steelers. Green Bay and Pittsburgh are both small market teams. As Bill Maher points out, the NFL is basically built on a socialist economic model of sharing the wealth, which has the effect of creating more wealth for everybody. The reason a socialistic system isn’t used in the rest of the American economy is that more wealth for everybody isn’t evidently the goal of everybody. It seems some people prefer having more wealth for some people.

Before the game, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly interviewed President Obama (video below). Out of respect for the office of the President, O’Reilly refrained from shouting over President Obama’s answers. He just talked over them. Obama’s answers were cut off more times than Ben Roethlisberger’s passes. Every time Obama opened his mouth, you heard Bill O’Reilly’s voice. It was like watching the E-trade baby.

Chrysler aired a two-minute Super Bowl commercial announcing that Detroit is back. The Chrysler ad sent a very positive message—that Chrysler now has enough money to afford a two-minute ad during the Super Bowl. Hey, the entire Chrysler bailout was more than worth it, if it meant two fewer minutes of commercials for GoDaddy.com. See all the ads here.

In back-to-the-real-world news, Hosni Mubarak’s family fortune is estimated to be around $70 billion. He amassed tens of billions of dollars while serving as Egypt’s president. Thank God we live in country where politicians have to wait to become lobbyists to cash in at that level. Egypt is run as a personal fiefdom by one guy with $70 billion. No one person could do that in America. In America, it takes two Koch brothers to do that. Let me get this straight—Mubarak has 70 billion dollars, and he’s attacking people with camels? For that kind of money he should be able to attack people with endangered species. Mubarak should have sent a bunch of snow leopards and white rhinos into the protesters.

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