Tim Robbins at the NAB convention

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From Variety

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117984006.html?categoryid=2868&cs=1&query=tim+robbins+nab

Instead of the soothing and rallying bromides that fill most keynotes, Robbins’ speech alternated between dire warning and stern plea.

Addressing the kickoff of the National Assn. of Broadcasters confab in Las Vegas, Robbins at first hesitated over whether to deliver the speech he had prepared, thinking he might serve the audience better by submitting to a Q&A session with a moderator.

But after some back and forth with the audience, which encouraged him to go with the speech, Robbins obliged. He launched into an apology to conservative talkers Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly “and Laura whatshername,” noting that all had labeled him traitorous or unpatriotic for having called for more time to be given to U.N. weapons inspectors before deploying military force against Iraq.

“They said I was a dupe of left-wing appeasement … and how right they were,” Robbins quipped. “Had I known then of all the smiling faces” that now populate Iraq, “the wildfire of democracy that is spreading throughout the Middle East,” he would have not spoken as he did, he said.

He added that he can see now that his words were indeed “traitorous, unfounded and irresponsible, so I apologize to the talkradio geniuses.”

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Tim Robbins keynote address to the NAB

Not work safe, some profanity but very very funny

http://a330.g.akamai.net/7/330/2540/20080414194408/www.broadcastingcable.com/contents/media/Tim%20Robbins-NAB%20Keynote.mp3

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