Ah, Mr. Olbermann. Your errors are so frequent. A few months ago, there you were, raging away at Secretary of State Condoleez Rice about some minor statement she made on a Sunday talk show which today nobody even remembers (and you knew what she was getting at, despite your blizzard of words suggesting otherwise). And in the midst of all that, to bolster your argument that the Bush administration should bow down to congressional Democrats, you tried to make an analogy to the Marshall Plan. Here's what you wrote: "The president of the United States went back to Congress and asked it for a new authorization and for the money. And do you have any idea, Madame Secretary, who opposed him when he did that? The Republicans!"
And do you know what, Mr. Olbermann? That's false! A falsehood!! Wrong!!! How do we know that? How might you know that?
All you had to go was go here. There, you would have seen that a major, nay indispensable, sponsor and advocate of the Marshall Plan was none other than a REPUBLICAN---Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee! Vandenberg helped guide the bill through congressional approval, yes, answered some Republican criticisms of the legislation, but answered them so effectively that when a final vote on the Plan was taken, Mr. Olbermann---you know, when congressional members actually record whether they're "opposing" something or not?---the plan passed by a vote of 69 in favor, 17 against! And Republicans held the majority in the senate at that time.
Meaning that a majority of Republican did not oppose the Marshall Plan, as you claimed--but instead they favored it!
Mr. Olbermann is wrong again. Your show gives out daily a "worst person in the world" award. Good thing it doesn't give one out for most errors.
