"COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN" (8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M. ET)

Host: Keith Olbermann

Topics/Guests:

• THE HADITHA MASSACRE: Dana Milbank, Washington Post
• THE WAR IN IRAQ: Zack Bazzi
• KATIE COURIC

"Speed Racer"

Keith Olbermann is back, tanned (of course), rested, and ready to spin. He was only a minute into Countdown when he played wish-fulfillment again, describing the Haditha allegations as:

...the incident for which the entire war may ultimately be remembered.

He played a clip of "Mister Bush" making comments on the subject, leading into Dana Milbank (shorn of fancy costuming), who opined that the President was vulnerable because he allowed an "environment" where this could occur. Milbank didn't see any evidence that Bush was involved in a coverup, but Olby snatched a silver lining out of that cloud with another of his trademark leading questions:

...if he did not know, or we have to assume that, does that actually raise more disturbing issues about the chain of command, about the, about the prospect of an actual coverup within the military, as you suggest, at various levels?

OlbySpin: it would be bad if "Mister" Bush knew about this, but if he didn't, that's even worse! No surprise, Milbank agreed. The thrust of KO's interview was the "political impact", stating that "there is a bigger ceiling for potential political impact" than there was with the My Lai massacre. Yeah, whatever.

Next came "The War Tapes", a documentary made by three national guardsmen in Iraq. Olby claimed that both supporters and opponents of the war regard it as fair, and Zack Bazzi said the same thing. When Krazy Keith asked him if the media are fairly reporting the war, Bazzi basically said they're doing their best. It's not for no reason that KO chose to interview the one soldier in the film who reads The Nation.

The Big News in story #4 was a set of photos from a Jack Abramoff junket to Scotland for golf. No, we're not making this up. The doubly discredited David Shuster showed pic after pic, with highlighting to identify the people he wanted to identify. Harry Reid (D) is involved in some controversy regarding a gift he accepted (ringside tickets worth over $1000), but you wouldn't know it from watching Countdown. Neither was there any mention of Reps Jefferson (D) or Mollohan (D).

After oddball, it was a feature on Senator Clinton, who according to Olby addressed issues of "national scope and resonance". KO ran a generous helping of clips from her campaign video. She couldn't buy that kind of free PR. Oh wait, she could on MSNBC. Time on a last-place cable news channel comes cheap. Jonathan Alter praised her work as a Senator (she could be "one of the great Senators in American history"), but was a bit more sanguine about her Presidential chances. This spin echoes the far left of the Democrat Party, where the Daily Kossacks regularly vote her as their last choice in online polls. Keith joined in, critiquing her speaking style.

In the #2 slot, the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann was forced to report that Lance Armstrong was cleared of doping charges. Remember that KO has already insisted Armstrong was guilty as sin, based on the fact that he once made a commercial in contravention of an ongoing strike. That, you see, proves that he is a greedy SOB, and therefore he took steroids. Don't try to figure it out, it's OlbyLogic. So the spin tonight was, maybe he was cleared of doping allegations for one race, but that doesn't prove he didn't use drugs in some other race. Yes, Lance Armstrong is guilty until proven innocent, because Krazy Keith doesn't believe in crossing a picket line. What a maroon.

There was too much Katie Couric in the #1 segment to tolerate, so we'll head straight to the Media Matters Minute. A "far-right Republican" running for Congress was a runner-up because he dared to criticize his opponent's stands on gay rights and illegal immigrants. KO called it "gay bashing" and "Hispanic bashing". A little racial profiling there, Olby? Why do you immediately assume illegal immigrants are Hispanic? The "worst person" was John Gibson, and Olby quoted him regarding Iraq and Haditha:

If Iraqis know their own history, they know massacres have been committed in Iraq by warring parties for millennia piled on millennia. This is the part of the world that was in on the massacre game early.

But KO ended his quote in midsentence. Just to correct the record, here's the entire sentence:

This is the part of the world that was in on the massacre game early, played it often, and the last character to be up to his eyeballs in massacres was the very guy we went in to regime change, Saddam himself.

Despite the incontestable truth of what Gibson stated, Olby was his typical snide self:

Well, that's all right then. What's one more massacre, huh?

John Gibson said the massacre was "all right"?!? So you might think, only because Keith deliberately left out what else Gibson said:

I'm against massacres of civilians--I think we all are. I'm against cover-ups--you probably are too. But I'm also against taking an incident in which our troops overreact and commit an arguably criminal act and making it stand for the entire war.....The Iraq War may not be the best war we ever fought. When the dust settles we'll know for sure. But it accomplished a great goal that no one else had managed for the last 15 years at least: ridding the world of Saddam. No matter what the political spinners say, that was a great thing. And the Iraq War should be known for that fact--Saddam is gone--not for one incident of alleged revenge killing in a place called Haditha.

So, did John Gibson really say the Haditha massacre was "all right"? Did KO fairly represent his comments? Or is this just another envious smear from MSNBC's insecure, envious hack? No matter, Media Matters will obligingly put up video of Olby's slander within 24 hours time.

That's The Hour of Spin for this, the 103rd day of the Keith Olbermann CoverUp. And the magic number is still 7.

UPDATE: AllahPundit has linked this post from HotAir.com. His post is worth a read and the commenters are all clear-thinkers (so far).

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"COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN" (8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M. ET)

Guest Host: Brian Unger

Topics/Guests:

• HADITHA INVESTIGATION: Martin Terrazas Jr., brother of marine whose death sparked the reported massacre in Haditha
• REP. JEFFERSON (D-LA.) RAID HEARINGS: Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.)
• INTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUE RESEARCH CENTER PEFORMED AN X-RAY ON A SICK DUCK... AND SAW A HEAD OF AN ALIEN IN ITS STOMACH: Jay Holcomb, International Bird Rescue Research Center

Keith is about to return from vacation, but we got one last installment from comedian Brian Unger. Again there were a lot of taped reports from NBC. The interview with Martin Terrazas was oddly sliced and diced, and only a few sentences actually aired. Still, it seems unlikely the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann would have had the guy on Countdown at all.

Rep Frank was allegedly there to discuss the raid on Jefferson's office, but Unger immediately dove in with an Olby-style leading question. He wondered if there was "irony" in that Republicans who support what he wrongly described as the "warrantless wiretapping of average citizens" are now upset at this search with a warrant. Unger brought up the President's intervention, which gave Frank a chance to dredge up other favorite talking points.

A segment on "the swiftboating of Al Gore" was another free PR slot for his movie in the form of a typical Countdown attack on people who dare to disagree with the all-knowing guru of green. Ken Bazinet (NY Daily News) opined that Al Gore is being attacked because "he's the perfect messenger", and his critics are "on the payroll of big oil". Environmental groups also get money from "big oil", but that was not mentioned because that's OK.

Olby is back on Wednesday. That's The Hour of Spin for this, the 102nd day of the Keith Olbermann CoverUp. And the magic number is still 7.

UPDATE: Brent Baker at Newsbusters.org: MSNBC's Unger Ludicrously Claims Al Gore a Victim of 'Swift-Boating'

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Hope you all had a nice holiday weekend. The weather in New York was absolutely perfect and the steaks on the grill were cooked to perfection! What better time to clean out my KO notebook and start fresh for the summer. Here's a quick look and what has been catching my eye...

Olby Love Fest Continus at TVN...and New York Times

Brian transcribed this exchange from the Charlie Rose Show last Thursday.

BILL CARTER: I think what you notice what is happening in CNN is it's failing at night because it has bland people.

TUCKER: ...has been one of the most entertaining news stories of the year. I mean, I could watch those guys go at it every night.

This is a TWO-FER for Brian, he gets to boost Olby and MSNBC and trash O'Reilly and Fox News - all the while keeping his hands clean by claiming he was just quoting what the guy from The Times said.

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Bill Goodykoontz of The Arizona Republic tells fascinated readers who, if disaster strikes are the 4 TV news people he wants to be watching:

1. Walter Cronkite. If only he were still in the game.

4. Jon Stewart. And then, the day after Schieffer reports the news and Olbermann comments on it, Stewart makes fun of it. The endless cycle.

Let's put this guy Goodykoontz in charge of FEMA. In a crisis situation he wants to turn to Olby and Jon Stewart for hard news? And what the hell is a "koontz" and why is it good?

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Rory O'Connor asks readers to send in suggestions for Twenty Questions for Rick Kaplan and MSNBC. Of course, I like #3. Check out the line I placed in BOLD.

3. To this viewer, MSNBC news programming seems increasingly skewed rightward on the political spectrum. I would point to the Matthews' program, his approving commentary about the administration and the GOP generally, and his failure to have regular liberal voices on his show. (Joe Klein may be a Democrat, but he does not count as a liberal voice.) And the line-up of Scarborough, Carlson and Cosby speaks for itself, although Cosby seems more obsessed with missing white women than with politics. The only evening host who seems to be trying to play it straight is Olbermann, who is aggressive with everyone, and has a wide spectrum of views on his show. Please ask Mr. Kaplan whether he agrees with this assessment. If so, does he thinks the future of successful news programming depends on emulating the Fox News model? Is he concerned that cable news will drive liberals, moderates and even conservatives who don't want their "news" with a big helping of rightwing viewpoint to get their news from internet sources?

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There was a Drudge-Olby kerfluffle recently which included yet another blog complaining about Olby ripping them off...

The Loons at Think Progress led off with Drudge Falsely Smears Gore

Then Dead Spin claimed that Olby ripped them off when he named Drudge a WPIW

Looks like Keith Olbermann has been bouncing around our site again. Bully to him!

Based on this post it looks like they're right:

Why Matt Drudge Shouldn't Be Allowed To "Write" About Sports

Here's the KO video for One Good Move blog.

Ultimately the truth came out when Newsbusters posted Olbermann, Blog Falsely Smear Matt Drudge.

Any chance we'll see a correction from Olby? Don't hold your breath.

The always optimistic Ian at Expose The Left is still waiting: Drudge Was Right, Liberal Blogs That Attacked Him Have Yet To Update

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The Cable Game is reporting that Norah O'Donnell may speak truth to power but on Countdown the other night he could not seem to pronounce conservative activist Richard Viguerie's name correctly - not once but twice. Even KO got the name right, as would anyone who is in the least familar with Washington politics where Viguerie is widely known as the father of "political direct mail".

Cable Game has a bonus - a sexy photo of O'Donnell.

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One blogger took a dare from a reader to watch Olby for a week and soon came to regret it.

Okay, I think I have been rather fair and on the recommendation of a liberal emailer who shall remain nameless, I have watched several episodes of Countdown With Keith Olbermann over the past month-and-a-half. Some of the conclusions I reach are as follows: Keith Olbermann has become a very bitter, cynical, often-humorless commentator whose diatribes exude a hateful and heartless snarkiness. He has shown himself to be disingenuous when presenting his segments on-air oftentimes to the benefit of his liberalistic bent...

It just gets worse for KO until he concludes "I no longer find it necessary to waste any more of my time on Mr. Olbermann’s poor excuse for a television show."

Which, of course, is why we have Olbermann Watch where "we watch so you don't have to"!

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COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN" (9:00 P.M.-10:00 P.M. ET)

Host: Brian Unger

Topics/Guests:

• THE WAR ON TERROR: Col Jack Jacobs
• BARRY BONDS
• ANGELINA'S PITT STOP: Michael Musto, Village Voice

Given the developments in Iraq and Afghanistan, Brian Unger's opening segment was properly sober. At least he can have a fairly reasonable discussion with Col Jacobs minus the snide condescension of the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann. There was a lot of tape from NBC, including a good piece on triple purple heart winner Spec Steven Clark. Following oddball we got sleaze (sexual acts in a library Caught on Tape!), sports (Barry Bonds), and celebs (Brad, Angelina, Shiloh, and the perpetually unfunny Michael Musto).

That's The Hour of Spin for this, the 101st day of the Keith Olbermann CoverUp. And the magic number is still 7.

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"COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN" (9:00 P.M.-10:00 P.M. ET)

Host: Brian Unger

Brian Unger's Countdown featured left columnist and war reporter Joseph Galloway. The excuse was a thin one: a series of email exchanges with a Pentagon spokesman. Naturally Countdown brought Galloway on to spin everything his way, but you will never see the guy from the other end of those emails on The Hour of Spin. The rest of the hour was fluff and sleaze unworthy of mention.

This concludes a week of liberal, anti-administration voices, balanced by exactly zero guests from the other side of the spectrum. This is why Countdown is the most biased "news" hour on US television. Olby apologists, unable to refute such obvious facts, instead attack Bill O'Reilly, claiming he is more biased than Olbermann, because O'Reilly only "has a guest liberal on once a month or so". It's a totally fallacious argument, but just to expose the empty bluster of the Olbermanniacs, we'll play along.

From Monday to Thursday of this week, Mr Bill's guests have included these Democrats and liberals:

• Mary Anne March (Democratic strategist)
• Tyson Slocum (environmental activist, Public Citizen)
• Georgia Goslee (attorney, Democrat)
• Kirsten Powers (Democratic strategist)
• Gale Connor (attorney, Democrat)
• Wendy Murphy (Democrat attorney)
• Anthony Wiener (Democrat Congressman)

From Monday to Thursday of this week, Keith Olbermann's guests have included these Republicans and conservatives:

• [sound of crickets]

That's The Hour of Spin for this, the 98th day of the Keith Olbermann CoverUp. And the magic number is still 7.

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"COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN" (9:00 P.M.-10:00 P.M. ET)

Host: Keith Olbermann

Topics/Guests:

• POLITICAL SCANDALS: Craig Crawford, Congressional Quarterly columnist and MSNBC political analyst
• PRES. BUSH AND BRITISH PRIME MINISTER'S NEWS CONFERENCE: Richard Wolffe, Newsweek White House correspondent and MSNBC political analyst
• "AMERICAN IDOL" FINALE: Maria Milito, Q104.3 radio

It's 8 PM and no KO. Guess even MSNBC wasn't willing to let Olby play "anchor" for the Bush-Blair press conference.

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Yes, since his last try was nothing short of disastrous, Olby was not permitted to anchor the live news conference. But he did show up at 9:00 pm with Big News: Dick Cheney may testify at the Scooter Libby trial. Since Cheney himself said that publicly three months ago, some will wonder why this is big news. But as long as it keeps The Great Leak Case in the Countdown headlines, that's all that matters.

Craig Crawford trying to explain constitutional issues is like asking Floyd the Barber to analyze quantum physics. But Olbermann's Brain giggled his way through some nonsensical commentary about executive branch power encroaching on the legislative. We don't recall him complaining when the legislative branch was trying to encroach on the executive to get papers from the Cheney energy task force. Oh, that was different.

Brain's entire contribution was fatuous, but not as much as Keith's latest Konspiracy: the press conference with Blair was just a klever kontrivance to distract attention from...from what? It was never made exactly clear, but it had to be something.

After the usual dross, celebrity fluff, and oddball videos, the Media Matters Minute continued in its tradition of being the most predictable segment in all of television. Yes, Bill O'Reilly was worst. If you want to know the details, just check the website, or wait 24 hours for Media Matters to put up the free PR video of Olbermann's Attack #93. Suffice it to say that it all hinges on Krazy Keith not knowing (or pretending not to know, or flat out lying about) the differences between the tenses: past, present, and future.

This would have been a good opportunity for Olby to apologize to Matt Drudge. Drudge reported that Al Gore drove multiple cars to a movie premiere, and Olby made him a worst person runner-up, alleging that Drudge just made it all up. Today Drudge linked to the Reuters report. Oops, looks like it wasn't Drudge who make it up. Another KO personal attack proves wrong, yet there was no correction aired, and there will be no correction from Olby on air or anywhere else, ever. Krazy just doesn't believe in corrections, because he doesn't believe in telling the truth.

With sweeps over, comedian Brian Unger will replace comedian Keith Olbermann on Friday, plus Monday and Tuesday of next week.

That's The Hour of Spin for this, the 97th day of the Keith Olbermann CoverUp. And the magic number is now 7. --J$

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OlbermannWatch is happy to announce the addition of David Lunde of Lundesigns.com to the ranks of OlbermannWatch contributors. David works regularly with Brian Maloney (The Radioequalizer), Debbie Schlussel, and Michelle Malkin providing photoshopped images. He is aiming to provide a new KO image each week and takes requests.

In honor of injured Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, we present David's first contribution to Olbermann Watch.

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"COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN" (8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M. ET)

Host: Keith Olbermann

Topics/Guests:

• SCANDALS AND POLITICS: Dana Milbank, Washington Post; David Shuster, MSNBC
• GLOBAL WARMING: Free advertising for the new Al Gore movie
• SUV CRASH: Vicki Harrison, Ingham County Sheriff's Office

#5: Supposedly the William Jefferson investigation, but first Olby led with a report that Dennis Hastert was being investigated re Jack Abramoff. But wait, no he's not because the Justice Dept denied he was being investigated. Then on to the Jefferson business with Milbank, who made a bad joke about frozen assets. KO described the search of the office as a "G-Man approach", so what does this tell us? Apparently Olby doesn't like searches with a warrant. But he doesn't like searches without a warrant. He doesn't like government acting without judicial oversight. And he doesn't like government acting with judicial oversight. Maybe that's why Lloyd Grove christened him Krazy Keith. Points to Milbank for not openly buying into the preposterous, constitutionally illiterate claims of "separation of powers" violations.

#4: One of KO's most blatantly partisan comments:

[moderates] found themselves sucked into a phony war that has cost the lives of nearly 3,000 American service personnel.

This to introduce a spot on Richard Viguerie, a "noted conservative" who actually has little influence on today's "far right", to use Olby's phraseology. He is so last century that Norah O'Donnell didn't even know how to pronounce his name. RV is upset with George Bush's leadership; he pulled the same stunt during Ronald Reagan's presidency. Regurgitated NBC video.

#3: Interview with Al Gore = PR for his new movie, recycled from the network mothership. #2: iPods for fitness training (regurgitated), Elton John, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Brittney Spears. #1: SUV crash Caught on Tape.

Worst person: Bill O'Reilly (surprise!) because he said a student refused to stand up for the pledge, when her father claims she really does. KO left out that this student was lobbying the school to stop making students do so. No matter, it's still O'Reilly Attack #92.

And that's The Hour of Spin for this, the 96th day of the Keith Olbermann CoverUp. And the magic number is now 8.

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"COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN" (8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M. ET)

Host: Keith Olbermann

Topics/Guests:

• SCANDALS AND POLITICS: Richard Wolffe, Newsweek
• THE NSA AND PRIVACY: Mark Zaid, slip-and-fall lawyer
• THE DIXIE CHICKS: Joe Levy, Rolling Stone

#5: Here we go again: The Great Leak Case. Olby made an olbique reference to fraudster Jason Leopold, trying to pump up his street cred by claiming he reporting something months ago that turned out to be true. KO noted that he also reported the "imminent" indictment of Karl Rove, but it hasn't happened yet. Actually, mental patient Leopold did not claim an indictment of Rove was "imminent"--he said it had already happened, over a week ago, and Rove was given 24 hours to get his affairs in order. Why Krazy Keith wants to rehabilitate this nut case is anyone's guess

#4: Voice of America doesn't have a Baghdad correspondent. KO's set-up to the "hugely embarrassing story" directly corresponds with that of a prominent blue blog. #3: Hurricane season, deadly alligators (regurgitated NBC videos); #2 Barbaro's recuperation, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Michelle Rodriguez.

Media Matters Minute: runner-up Fox News (KO didn't like a question that was posed for debate purposes). First runner-up: Matt Drudge, for linking to a parody site article about Barry Bonds. Note that Drudge merely linked, and didn't claim it to be authentic. Unlike the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann, who actually reported fake news from a parody site as fact. Worst person: Pat Robertson, who is "now selling fitness shakes". Now? He's been selling them for months.

#1: The Dixie Chicks. Olby quotes from a New York Times article about Bill O'Reilly meeting up with Natalie Maines, then cites it as an example of Mr Bill trying to "weasel out" of earlier critical comments. It's a "bully's move", replied Levy, and Keith added that "she stuck it to him good". KO reported all this as fact, but was the Maines-O'Reilly conversation as she portrayed it in the Times and as Olbermann reported it? According to this, it wasn't. Krazy Keith, of course, deliberately kept this from his audience, just as he doesn't allow points of view to air that oppose his own spin. After all, being fair and giving viewers the whole truth, why that would spoil the elegant simplicity of a carefully crafted smear. And if Olby had given all the facts, it just wouldn't have been Attack #91.

And that's The Hour of Spin for this, the 95th day of the Keith Olbermann CoverUp, and the magic number is 9.

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- Guest Contributor Brandon Coates -

Want to know what kind of person would operate a webpage devoted to Keith Olbermann? Let's delve into the mind that is the braintrust behind www.keitholbermann.org who claims a membership of 254, with over 60 new members signing up in the last three days alone. Sounds impressive until you take a closer look at the list of registered members and quickly deduce that out of those 154 members that over 140 have never posted at all. That seems a little odd doesn't it? You do not need to be a registered member of a board merely to lurk. No registration is required to read the pages of a board. But there they are, over 140 "members" with not a single post among them. In fact, of the 254 registered users, only about 40 have ever posted there at all, and only 16 have over 100 posts. It gets stranger still when you realize that nearly 4000 of the 7000 plus posts have been made by just two individuals at the board: the board's owner and his wife.

But why would someone go to the time and trouble of registering over 140 non-existent "members" at their board? That answer can perhaps be found at the discussion pages of Wikipeia.org where a very lively discussion has gone on about www.keitholbermann.org and their pathetic attemps to use Wikipedia to drive traffic to their hapless Keith Olbermann forum.

The site's owner began his shameless self-promotion of his own board months ago by announcing its creation and immediately linking to it at Wiki before he’d even launched the site. He made bogus claims on the Keith Olbermann Wikipedia entry that his was the only message board on the internet devoted to Keith Olbermann on the internet and would quickly become "the major fan site". In other words, he was linking to the site from Wikipedia before the site had even been launched - and telling a stunning whopper to boot. A quick check right here at Olbermann Watch would have revealed that there were any number of message boards devoted to KO including those at Television Without Pity, two at Quick Topic, and of course, the estrogen-challenged, middle-aged “girly� fans who inhabit the Democratic Underground.

When editors at Wikipedia pointed out that his promotion of his own website at Wikipedia violated two important rules - "spam" and "vanity". "Doctor Mike" responded to these charges by claiming "The style manual is in error. It is unique. The fact that I created the site does not prevent me from noting it's existance. I happened to notice it first since I wrote it. It is not spam."

When telling fish stories on Wikipedia, Michael is prone to persecution theories. Here are just a few of the replies he's had to others questioning the inclusion of his site over those other sites (you know, the ones he claims don't exist) at Wikipedia: "Please enlighten as to your personal agenda against this site?" and "The above unsigned comment must be from Robert Cox, ruthless self promoter and owner of a blog which refers to Mr. Olbermann as 'Krazy Keith'." Cox confirmed to this writer that he does not leave "unsigned comments" on Wikipedia and did not leave any with regards to KeithOlbermann.org or "Doctor Mike". When another Wikipedian tried to explain his reasons why the site should not be listed as Wikipedia, Mike replied "This, my friends is a Scientologist not only attacking Keith Olbermann, but yours truly, a Psychologist, because Scientologists not only hate Olbermann, they also hate Psychologists." Huh?

Just why would the guy behind www.keitholbermann.org be registereing phony users? A Wikipedia editor may have gotten it right when he warned Mike "If you're here to make sure that the famous Wikipedia cites you as the authority on something (and possibly pull up your sagging (Google) PageRank you'll probably be disappointed."

Take a closer look at the registration page on his website again. See all those registrations with zero posts? See all those "www" icons besides them? Where might those lead to you ask? Straight to spam link pages or sites featuring pages full of links for pharmacology and pornography websites. And what does Michael's favorite playground Wikipedia say about someone who would do this and why? "Link spam takes advantage of link-based ranking algorithms, such as Google's PageRank algorithm, which gives a higher ranking to a website the more other highly-ranked websites link to it. Hidden links or putting links where visitors will not see them in order to increase link popularity. Additionally, it is a well known fact that websites receive a boost at Google and other search engines when their sites are listed as links at the highly popular Wikipedia site.

How desperate do you have to be to spend your time creating phony users for a site no one visits in the hopes of turning Wikipedia into your own private marketing campaign?

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