Wonder if Dana Milbank read this one:

Actor-writer-director Tim Robbins, who has been known to speak his mind when standing in front of an audience, was asked the give the keynote opening speech Monday at the 2008 National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas.

The National Association of Broadcasters chooses Tim Robbins as their keynoter, and we’re asked to believe they’re not on the left?

Robins was in his usual form, which is to say much of what he said could not be printed in this space. Reports broadcastingcable.com:

Ditching the chance to give his views in an exchange with TV critic David Bianculli, who appears on National Public Radio and in the pages of Broadcasting & Cable magazine, Robbins described that abyss using expletives that would not be allowed on free over-the-air radio or television by the Federal Communications Commission. In addition to using the common vulgarity for copulation, known as the f-bomb, Robbins joked that “Die, you Nazi [expletive deleted]“ was the lesser known of Edward R. Murrow’s signoffs at the end of his London blitz broadcasts.