Good synopsis, Johnny, but at this point you've gotten so use to this smuck that you could...eh...phone it in...

I was amused by Olbermann saying "You can call it 'International Spying' when you get your own news show."

Makes sense somehow.

After he's also calling a compendium of snark, sarcasm, mugging for the camera, and interviews of colleagues, a "news show"....

Bravo, Johnny! 8:58 PM will be very hard to beat!

As for Keith's attacks on O'Reilly, at what point do the people at MSNBC say enough already? I mean, this obsession is so childish, bizarre, and counterproductive. Talk about free advertising for the competition! I mean, is Keith trying to drop from a .3 to a .2 by talking about O'Reilly every night?

I don't think such a one-sided "fatal attraction" scenario has existed between television hosts in the history of television. Can you think of any similar situation? I guess Keith is a groundbreaker after all.

At some point, I expect Keith to be arrested on O'Reilly's property with rope, duct tape, a rambling diary, and a well-thumbed copy of "Catcher in the Rye."

Actually, KFK, I cheated a little, and put it up before it was really finished. That way I got an earlier time! But I think I've gone about as far as possible with the time-stamp angle.

Well I've seen KO grasp at straws before when it comes to O'Reilly but the guy does an interview about a dominatrix who's client dies and this warrents worst person status? Why? Seems to be a decent enough story. Oh well O'Reilly talked about MSNBC on tonights show so I assume he will be the back to back worst person in the world.

Keith Olbermann is really Rupert Pupkin

LOL re: pupkin. On tonight's Factor Bill O laid the smackdown on MSNBC succinctly: Rick Kaplan, marianette of the far left, has destroyed any credibility that MSNBC has as a news reporting organization. He irreparably damaged CNN and he is destroying MSNBC. The way that Olby is embarassing himself and his company makes me think that Immelt is doing an incompetent job. It would be one thing if Keith got ratings and they lived with the pathetic personal attacks, but to consistently lower the bar of journalistic respectability and get embarassingly low ratings says a lot of bad stuff imho about GE. I can't believe Jack Welch would stand for the type of grandstanding Olby commits when his ratings are below the Grand Canyon.

Jack Welch is drunk by noon. He never catches Meltdown.

That explains "Connected: Coast to Coast" too.

Thought I read Welch retired.

Did anyone hear O'reilly on the Radio Factor talking about the fact that MSNBC fired Phil Donahue because of low ratings and that he should sue MSNBC seeing as KO ratings are LOWER despite the fact that he has been on for three years. He also referred to KO as that "idiot" on MSNBC.

I ran into this site only a few weeks ago and I enjoy the daily synopsis. Keep up the good work J$1.

BTW, isn't it interesting how Maureen Dowd believes every man who doesn't behave as she wishes is subconsciously feeling emasculated.

No wonder she complains about being unable to find a good man, she considers herself the gold standard of virility.

sssssssssssssMEOW!

Dowd is a sick, horny old maid. I'm sure getting older is like a prison sentence for a vain attention addict like her. She should really stop the photo spreads where she tries to look sexy -- they only make her look desperate and scary.

Love her columns now that I can't read them behind the "Times Select" iron curtain (which to date has a paltry number of subscribers).

Dowd couldn't get laid if she walked through San Quenton's death row holding a fistfull of freedom vouchers!

Welcome to the site Dave.

You are comparing Keith's short pieces on celebrity news to Bill's 3-part interview with Howard Stern?

Jonathan,

Two Things......

Number 1: Howard made the talk show rounds to promote his new show. Yes he went on Bill and Bill broke it up into three parts. Howard also went on Larry King and got a whole hour. Howard also was on Sixty Minutes. Yet who was in Howard's studio the first day???? Let's ask Sulu shall we?

Number 2: Jonathan, Rush has been on the radio for sixteen years but, you must inform you're readers that he has a....Let me quote. "A nationally syndicated conservative radio program"? After sixteen years you're readers can't figure that out?

Puck,

In response to #1, The original post implied that there was some complaint about the time spent On-Air in coverage of what "johnny dollar" considers tabloid.

In response to #2, face it, people exist that don't know who Rush Limbaugh is. What's wrong with being thorough? If the only thing you can refute in that blog entry is me pointing out who Rush Limbaugh is, it proves that there is a lot of truth to what I actually said.

The point being made in the original post is that more and more time on Countdown is spent on Tom Cruise, Oprah, Howard Stern, NBCcross-promotions, etc. There have been days when the second half of Countdown isn't all that much different from Entertainment Tonight. Except the hosts there don't wear a wig.

But don't consider it a complaint. I don't especially care if Olby slants the news about Tom Cruise, or makes homophobic jokes about him. That means he has less time to slant, twist, and fictionalize the important news of the day.