J$ asks:

What do you have when a master of spin accuses someone else of spinning? Is that Spinning Squared? Spinning to the Ultimate Power?

This is known as "cyclotronic spin," in which spin is accelerated to near the speed of spin itself, at which point the mass of spin becomes infinite and all encompassing.

Is it my imagination J$ or did you phone this one in? Were you in a hurry to watch your TIVO'd American Idol or have you grown tired of this endeavor? I blame you not for either.

What's wrong with saying that it could be lights out for Tom Delay? As Keith pointed out, he usually carries more than 80% of the vote in the primary, but now he only has a 62%. What's wrong with speculating? Everybody does it; when Keith does it does it make it more horrible? Or is he not supposed to speculate on anybody’s political career - ever? Keith didn't say that Tom Delay was toast, he said that it could be "Lights Out" for Tom Delay.

I think it was interesting to know about the hat. I didn't know he wore that because he was an orthodox Jew, as I'm sure a lot of people did. So many people were making fun about it, and it came out exactly why he was wearing it. The interviewer didn't even know it seems because he himself asked why the hat. Jon Stewart made fun of the hat for Christ's sake, and he's Jewish. Just because Keith asked a question why he was wearing the hat that everyone makes fun of he's now John, everybody's religion besides Christianity, Gibson material?

Keith twisted the statistics of the church fires to seem like they were racially motivated? Were we watching the same show? Right off the bat he said that the fires didn’t turn out to be motivated by race, but rather because the boys liked seeing things burn - they were pyros.

I can usually agree with some spots you say that Keith spun the news a bit, but in this post, just about everything you say to slam Keith is unsubstantiated.

KfK, sorry that every entry can't be a Pulitzer winner. I'm only human. How about coming on board to do an ep or two each week? We can arrange it. We have the technology. Seriously, I'd like nothing better than a few days a week away from the Olbermann spin cycle.

> He said that it could be "Lights Out" for Tom Delay.

Yeah, and it could be re-election for Delay as well. But I didn't hear him speculating that. And just yesterday, the bar seemed to be set at gettins less than 50%. Now 62% is suddenly an alarming sign of defeat.

> I didn't know he wore that because he was an orthodox Jew

We reported that weeks ago right here. In this case we weren't just 48 hours ahead of KO (like in the breach/top mess). We were WEEKS ahead of KO.

> Were we watching the same show? Right off the bat he said that the fires didn’t turn out to be motivated by race

We were watching the same show, maybe not reading the same article. I specifically said he HAD twisted the statistics, the "had" referencing an earlier show he did when the church fires first came out. And I went through all that trouble to include a link!

> in this post, just about everything you say to slam Keith is unsubstantiated.

Nonfact and KfK team up against J$. It's a freaking mutiny!

I love when KO has to eat his words when he has a guest on his show that isn't part of his softball team. i.e. feinman and wolffe. thats because he can't toss the them softballs like he does his team. I also loved the Abramoff picture with the President, the one that KO had to circle in red. He is joke!!!

Olby's personal attack on Barry Bonds continues. Bonds may not be the most likable guy, but he's certainly not the only MLB player using steroids... just the one who's re-writing the record book.

Poor Olby's coveted baseball card collection will be worth much less once Bonds holds both of the Home Run records. Might that explain Olby's hard-on for Barry?

Delay got 62% of the vote - is Texas an open primary state? If it is, I wonder if lots of Dems were voting against Delay in the Republican primary to make him look like he is in trouble.

Jack, many baseball fans are mad at Barry Bonds, not only did he try and deny taking steroids at all, or even knowing what they were, he changed the record books and history of baseball while on performance enhancing drugs. Keith has a right to be mad at Barry Bonds, as well as baseball fans everywhere.

And Patrick, I think you have to be part of the party to vote in the primary in Texas. He's down more than 20% of the vote from last time, and this being the former House Majority Leader, it's kind of important to see if he gets re-elected or not.

I wasn't aware that Keith went after Bonds, BUT unfortunately, I have to agree with NF and KO here. The idea that a dishonest, narcissistic, cattle roid injecting, ego-maniac like Bonds may have his name sitting above Hank Aaron in the most hallowed record in all of sports, makes me want to vomit.

It is like making someone valedictorian of his class, despite the fact that everyone knows he cheated on his exams.

Baseball has always been my favorite sport, but if he breaks the all-time HR record and it is allowed to stand, I call for a boycott of Major League Baseball by the fans! The owners, MLB, and the Players Association have been screwing with us FAR TO LONG. Strikes canceling the World Series, rising ticket prices, ethically challenged roid monsters, "head in the sand" drug testing policy (until Congress threatened them,) and an All-Star game ending in a tie??

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Getting charged with a crime will usually take away a few votes. My problem with this story is that no one cares. Thanks Keith, for spending time on a story that no one cares about. Maybe today you can spend 5 minutes examing a picture of a Republican senator throwing a bubble gum wrapper on the ground. Another example of the corrupt party breaking the law!

That pile of text was supposed to be a gesture showing my feelings for MLB,or a "go **** yourself."

Dave,

That may be the closest thing to performance art on the web I've ever seen! Congrats on an intriguing post.

Mr. Dollar,

Much like Frodo in "Lord of the Rings" (a movie beloved by Olbermanniacs everywhere), you are destined to carry your burden alone, for it would corrupt and drive insane any other man.

I do think that the Barry Bonds story is one that is definitely worth discussing and I can't blame KO for doing that. Dave, I think you are right regarding the sad possibility that Barry Bonds' name may be listed in the record books over that of the great Hank Aaron. That would just plain be wrong. I do think you might be off-track, though, in stating that no one cares. I guess we'll just have to wait and see how that plays out. There are so many things about KO that we can rant about but I think he should get a pass on his reporting of this story.

Wow, KO KO'd. Impressive.