I love your crazy site! Devoting a "watch" to this wacko is like building a pyramid for Norman Fell's corpse! However, it needed to be done.

I am impressed by your dramatic effect on the "Rantdown" ratings! If I am not mistaken, is the statistical error close to half of the audience for that show?

In a few months this guy will be gone. then who will you go after?

does this even work?

Devoting a "watch" to Olbermann is like trying to kill a fly with a bazooka, or building a pyramid to house Norman Fell's corpse. I do enjoy your site, however.

I think you might be picking on a mental patient. Olbermann looks pschizophrenic and probably is on medication. His paranoia (hence his love of "the big conspiracy") is evident in his unblinking beady eyes.

33% drop caused by oblywatch? Cmon. How do you know it wasn't just his viewer's remote going bad and the guy was too lazy to walk across the room to change the channel?

I swear, if you play the theme music to Countdown backwards you can hear a car crash.

Frankly, as far as arrogant jerks go...I'll take Olbermann over Bill O'Reilly any evening.

O'Reilly's boorish obtuseness (is that a word?) makes me want to give the Nobel prize to who ever invented the mute button... And yeah, I know, considering Olbermann's employment history, behind the scenes he too has to be as peevish and petty as a junior high school girl.

BUT AT LEAST HE DOESN'T SAY HE'S LOOKING OUT FOR ME!

That's because he isn't.

"that's because he isn't."

Well, thank God...

Let him stay busy looking out for John Kerry. Look what he's done for him...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9270-2004Dec17.html

(I hope I'm not violating any laws, Bob.)

Here's a link to a piece by Michael Kinsley that I think is really rather amazing. It's an honest and insightful piece, but I expect that from Kinsley, though we don't often see eye-to-eye. What's amazing is that Kinsley, himself, is so AMAZED that there are people out in the hinterlands who are interested, concerned, and knowledgeable about public policy. Even rather obscure policy matters like the cost/benefits of social security privatization.

Kinsley is a good guy and a wonderful writer and thinker. But it just goes to show how opinion makers are so isolated within their own strata that they are blown away to discover that there are so many common everyday folks who share their passion for all things political and who are every bit as knowledgeable and insightful as they are.

Gosh, I think we posters here should feel very good about ourselves. And we should thank Bob for providing this blog where we can speak our minds and share our opinions.

Some blogs concern themselves with dissecting matters like Social Security policy .... but we've come here for something much much more importunate and discerning - the lambasting and mutual loathing of Keith Olbermann.

Group hug!

More lost votes http://rschultz.blogspot.com/

Bob I played 9nevohteebnavgiwdul backwards. It sounded like a head-on, Audi vs. BMW.

Fire your arithmetician!: a drop from 0.4 to 0.3 is a 25% drop, not a 33% drop. Rock-solid editing, guys.

this line made creating this wonderful, amazing blog worth it:

OlbermannWatch is like "building a pyramid to house Norman Fell's corpse."

note to Aaron: can't you do math? if Keith's ratings are .3 and they got there by dropping .1 points and .1/.3 = .33333 then that is a 33% drop!!!! Sheesh. No wonder you think votes are being miscounted when you can't even peform the most basic arithmetic calculations.

Sorry Aaron Lawson, but Rubin is correct.
Keith's original rating was 0.4. Now its 0.3. That means that it is now 3/4 of what it used to be, or 75% of what it used to be. That means it dropped 25%.

It is true that if is ratings were to go back up to 0.4, it would represent a 33% increase over his current level.

To make a better example, lets say Keith's rating had dropped from 0.4 to 0.1. This would represent a 75% drop in ratings. But by your method, Keith's ratings are .1 and they got there by dropping .3 points and .3/.1 = 3.0 then that is a 300% drop. Does that number make any sense?

DISCLAIMER: I thought Keith Olbermann was a nutjob after reading the book he co-authored with Dan Patrick about ESPN, way before he exposed his particular brand of insanity on the tiny world of MSNBC viewers after leaving ESPN.