MSNBC airs a bizarre video montage at the beginning of every episode of The Ed Show, but the program was especially outlandish on Monday and Wednesday, depicting President Obama as a series of larger-than-life figures. The liberal network first portrayed the chief executive as Superman standing on top of the White House, and later placed the Democrat's head on George Washington's body in the famed painting of the crossing of the Delaware River.
Two days later, The Ed Show lead segment repeatedly showed a graphic depicting the President as Uncle Sam, holding a pen in his boxing glove-covered hand: [video below the jump]
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By Matthew Balan | January 29, 2014 | 7:08 PM EST
By Ken Shepherd | June 4, 2013 | 6:09 PM EDT
It's one thing, perhaps, for a major movie critic to grouse about product placement in a major motion picture and deem such an action a "sell out." But when a business writer does so, it kind of makes you scratch your head.
Take TIME magazine's Brad Tuttle, whose beat his profile describes as covering "personal finance, travel and parenting, among other topics." In a June 4 piece headlined "Superman the Sell-Out? 'Man of Steel' Has Over 100 Promotional Partners," Tuttle groused about the various promotional tie-ins to the summer blockbuster:
By Ken Shepherd | April 28, 2011 | 10:15 AM EDT
Left-wing storylines generally are not box-office blockbusters, yet Hollywood liberals insist on making message movies anyway.
The same is true, and has been for decades, for comic books.
The latest example involves the quintessential American superhero, Superman (h/t e-mail tipster John Craig).
By Ken Shepherd | March 9, 2010 | 11:47 AM EST
Has Chris Matthews's brain been exiled to the Phantom Zone?
The "Hardball" host has a penchant for making loopy cinematic references, such as the time he compared Rush Limbaugh to the villain in the James Bond film "Live and Let Die."
Well, yesterday the MSNBC host made some odd, labored metaphor that found the former vice president being compared to Jor-El, the biological father of Superman (audio here; transcript via NB's Geoffrey Dickens):