“People of Berlin and people of the world, the scale of our challenge is great. The road ahead will be long. But I come before you to say that we are heirs to a struggle for freedom. We are a people of improbable hope with an eye towards future, with resolve in our heart. Let us remember this history, and answer our destiny and remake the world once again.” — Barack Obama
Not related to movies or entertainment? Depends on what moves you or entertains you. Obama’s speech in Berlin was the lead story on Access Hollywood, and he’s being greeted like a superstar all across Europe and the Middle East. But how does Obama’s speech affect the Oscars? Click to the quote after the cut to find another reason why Ben Stein will never win one.
Ben Stein: I want — I’m glad you brought up this Denver thing. I don’t like the idea of Senator Obama giving his acceptance speech in front of 75,000 wildly cheering people. That is not the way we do things in political parties in the United States of America. We have a contained number of people in an arena. Seventy-five-thousand people at an outdoor sports palace, well, that’s something the Fuehrer would have done. And I think whoever is advising Senator Obama to do this is bringing up all kinds of very unfortunate images from the past.
Keith Olbermann reminds us that Bush broke into NBA games across the country in March 2003 to announce the war in Iraq had begun — with Big Brother Bush’s speech broadcast to thousands of captive basketball fans on sports stadium jumbotrons. (10 arenas; 175,000 restless spectators)
But back to Obama’s blockbuster reception overseas, as Ron Reagan said last night, “Isn’t it nice to see crowds in other countries waving the American flag instead of burning the president in effigy?”
