On the other hand, the social commentator famous for claiming he never met a man he didn’t like would similarly find something agreeable in the otherwise fiery GE-employed TV and talk radio host:
“Dictator form of government is the greatest form of government: that is if you have the right Dictator.”
— Will Rogers in a 1926 edition of the Saturday Evening Post after interviewing Benito Mussolini, as quoted in 1997’s Fascist spectacle: the aesthetics of power in Mussolini’s Italy, by Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi.
Flash-forward to today:
Liberal radio talk show host and MSNBC’s Ed Schultz said President Obama should ‘put the boot on the neck of BP’ and act like a ‘dictator’ in his Oval Office address tonight.
— As quoted by Real Clear Politics (with video of Schultz’s remarks) today.
Update: On the other hand, Will Rogers also never met MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell. Allahpundit writes that what makes the choice of giving O’Donnell his own show on MSNBC “intriguing in a way that no other ‘Countdown’ retread could possibly be is one simple thing: When O’Donnell’s temper is triggered, he’s insane.”
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