Matthews on Obama's statements on economy: "Add some music and it's a little like the Professor Harold Hill of The Music Man"
April 19, 2009 2:22 pm ET
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Let's just hope that Obama doesn't schedule any trips to OOOOOKLAHOMA or the South Pacific anytime soon. Matthews would just take the day off and run clips for an hour.
Wait-- actually, that would be a big improvement over his regular show.
The Harold Hill reference makes no sense-- Hill was in fact a redemptive character, a hero, who in the end galvanized 'River City' all to the good. He himself was redeemed as well.
Have these guys even seen The Music Man and garnered its point? I don't think so. This Harold Hill analogy on MSNBC-- no matter who it is being used against-- is just plain stupid. Hill was a good guy.
Hey Chris-
1. Olbermann's not going to like the fact that you stole the Harold Hill reference, which he uses to describe Glenn Beck, from him.
2. Pretty lame to use so many clips of The Music Man to make a "point" that makes no real sense at all- why didn't you just sell a little more ad time? It would have been more instructive than this crap.
3. Obama said that the economy is "troubled," Harold Hill says "We've got big trouble," and that gives you the idea to throw a few clips from a fifty-year old musical together? Seriously?
You get PAID for this gig?
Olbermann's use of Harold Hill to describe Beck is stupid-- it misses the point of the play. It's as stupid as the BOR and Mannity phony analogies you see all the time on FOX.
To call Beck a Harold Hill is actually granting him a compliment-- because Hill was an incredibly REDEMPTIVE character-- that was the whole POINT of the play!
Jeesh...!