Keith Olbermann's contributions to cable news journalism have finally been given the acknowledgement they deserve. The esteemed Media Research Center has announced its awards for 2004, and Keith has been recognized for his unique achievements in gazetteering:

Kooky Keith Award (for Keith Olbermann's Conspiratorial Rants)
First Place: MSNBC's Keith Olbermann

"John Dean, who was at the center of the greatest political scandal in this nation's history, has produced a book with perspective, and that perspective is simply terrifying. The bottom line: George Bush has done more damage to this nation than his old boss, Richard Nixon, ever dreamt of....John Dean, joining us here in the studio...."
"The feeling that I had been left after reading Worse Than Watergate was that this could have been the historical, essentially, prequel to George Orwell's novel 1984, that if you wanted to see what the very first step out of maybe 50 steps towards this totalitarian state that Orwell wrote about in his novel, this [President Bush's policies] would be the kind of thing that you would see...."
--MSNBC's Keith Olbermann to former Nixon aide John Dean on his Countdown program, April 5.

Mr Olbermann could not be present to accept the award (because of his new duties in the promo department of MSNBC), but OlbermannWatch is honored to accept this accolade for him. On KO's behalf, we would like to thank Bev Harris, Jesse Jackson, Cliff Arnebeck, of course John Dean, and others too numerous to mention. We look forward to 2005 with new anticipation, because, as this award demonstrates, even after KO has wrung the last drop out of the VoteFraud2004inOhioButNotPennsylvania story, there will still be an endless supply of loony Olbyisms. KO will always be the gift that keeps on giving.