Olbermann Watch - MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann: Amazon Slashes Price of Olbermann "Worst" Book

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June 20, 2006

Amazon Slashes Price of Olbermann "Worst" Book

It's not due out for months but in the wake of OlbyEmailGate, Amazon is already slashing prices by 35% on Keith's "rip and read" compilation of old scripts being passed of as "humor" by the appropraitely named Wiley Books.

The Book Description is a real laugher:

Controversial, outspoken, and wildly entertaining, Keith Olbermann hosts a popular nightly newscast on MSNBC.

[Book Cover courtesy of OlbermannWatch.com contributor David Lunde of Lundesigns.com]

It continues:

A key feature of Olbermann's unique and witty countdown of the day's top stories is his daily award for "The Worst Person in the World." Honorees range from dumb criminals to the likes of Tom Cruise, Amber Frey, Geraldo Rivera, the Coca-Cola Company, assorted members of the Bush Administration, and FEMA spokesperson Mary Hudak. Bill O'Reilly of Fox News has a bumper crop of gold medals. From sports figures to schoolteachers, no one is exempt from Olbermann's ire.

One hundred and twenty of these incisive presentations, featuring bronze, silver, and gold medal recipients, have been packed into this tongue-in-cheek treatise on the past year's events. Along with actual transcripts, Olbermann shares his methodology for selecting the winners from the vast pool of possibilities presented by each day's news. Finally, he selects his top pick for the "worst of show" and reports some of the fallout from his awards, such as the mysterious disappearance of certain remarks from a transcript on Rush Limbaugh's Web site after Olbermann called them out on Countdown.

In the style of Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, and Al Franken, Keith Olbermann's The Worst Person in the World presents a brash and scalpel-sharp appraisal of the depths to which humans can slide socially, politically, and morallyâ€“and what fun it can be to find out.

Keith Olbermann (New York, NY) is a veteran broadcaster who may be best known as the anchor of ESPN's SportsCenter from 1992 to 1997. He has also hosted primetime news programs and anchored the World Series broadcast, and received the Edward R. Murrow Award for his coverage of the events of 9/11.

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By Nonfactor on June 20, 2006 8:55 PM

Amazon cut the price of a book?! No way!

By Brandon on June 20, 2006 9:23 PM

Way Dude. Read it and weep. Must mean their advance orders are pathetic.

By Brandon on June 20, 2006 9:24 PM

Way Dude. Read it and weep. Must mean their advance orders are pathetic.

By x on June 20, 2006 11:15 PM

I'm not conservative or a Republican and I despise Olby. He's an arrogant jerk.

This cover is hilarious!

By Ann Coulter on June 21, 2006 10:07 AM

"In the style of Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, and Al Franken..."

Ah yes. The father, son, and holy ghost of literary geniuses.

By Missy on June 21, 2006 5:16 PM

"From sports figures to schoolteachers, no one is exempt from Olbermann's ire."

No one, except for liberals, that is.

By O'reilly is weird on June 21, 2006 7:09 PM

Amazon is dicounting this book by 37% already, and others are willing to give it away for $17.99

I think American Conservatism has been discounted even more than KO. What does that say? Spin away!

American Conservatism : An Encyclopedia (Hardcover)
by Bruce Frohnen (Editor), Jeremy Beer (Editor), Jeffery O. Nelson (Editor)

List Price: $55.00
Price: $34.65 & this item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Details
You Save: $20.35 (37%)

Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.

70 used & new available from $17.99

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1932236430/102-1930667-1220106?n=283155

By Robert Cox on June 22, 2006 9:58 AM

Weird,

This site is not FrohnenWatch, BeerWatch or NelsonWatch so we really don't care about some book by Bruce Frohnen, Jeremy Beer and Jeffery O. Nelson.

Maybe you should team with the Olbermann.org Loons and start those sites. Then you can have five readers too.

By Spot On Dude on June 22, 2006 10:44 AM

DEVESTATING post there RC. especially the part where you sidestepped the meaning of Weird's post and went right for the jugular by appending the word "Watch" to the end of each author's name! OUCH. and did you ever rip Olbermann.org a new one with that spot on "Loons" qualifier. very original. very creative.

back off Weird! RC IS IN D HOUSE! ... (he's the one on the left)

By puck on June 22, 2006 10:58 AM

So when all is said and done we might be able to say Ann Coulter sold more books in one day than Olby did total?????.......cool!

By . Big Sales . Big Deal . Idiots Abound . on June 22, 2006 11:12 AM

MEIN KAMPF SALES SOAR IN TURKEY

Helena Smith in Athens
Tuesday March 29, 2005

Mein Kampf, the book Hitler wrote in prison before he rose to power in 1933, has become a bestseller in Turkey, provoking consternation. The dreams of creating a master race are being snapped up by young Turks. Its publishers believe that more than 100,000 copies have been sold in the past two months.

By Robert Cox on June 22, 2006 12:50 PM

Spot On,

Don't you OlbyLoons ever get tired of making yourselves look stupid? You know what I'm talking about don't you? You typical LibNutHypoCrite...

For the rest of you, you should know that according to the MT Comments section, "Spot On" is connecting to OlbermannWatch from a machine located at IP Address 85.195.119.22.

SiteMeter lists the following information for 85.195.119.22's visit to OlbermannWatch this morning:

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Continent : Europe
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Notice anything?

Here's clue - he is connected to the site a machine running Microsoft Windows 2000.

Even more ironic, I am typing this comment on my PowerBook G4 running OS X.

Sometimes it's just like shooting fish in a barrel dealing with the LoonyLeft.

By Bradz on June 22, 2006 1:13 PM

Notice anything?

not particularly. if he`s posting using anonymouse, which is a proxy server, then the IP addresses are dynamically linked. which means he could be located anywwhere.

Here`s clue - he is connected to the site a machine running Microsoft Windows 2000.

and your point is ... ?

Even more ironic, I am typing this comment on my PowerBook G4 running OS X.

and your point is ... ?

Sometimes it`s just like shooting fish in a barrel dealing with the LoonyLeft.

and your point is ... ?

----------

are you merely trying to derride SPOT ON for using an old version of Windows? or for being in Germany? (which is unlikely, given the proxy server).

what`s more interesting is your sudden preoccupation with this poster ... what gives RC? you`re usually pretty laid back.

By Nonfactor on June 22, 2006 1:13 PM

Wait, was this some sort of lame attempt at an insult, Mr. Cox? Pathetic.

By KfK on June 22, 2006 1:17 PM

We need more Europeans commenting on the American political scene. We can learn alot from failed unstable socialist multiculturalocracies in the midst of a grand experiment in jihadi appeasement.

You clowns should stick to looking internally for now. Your poor economic growth, burgeoning hostile foreign populations, and near-negative native European population growth seem pretty big issues to me.

Actually, if I were in your shoes, with no future to look forward to, I would live in a fantasy world too. You know, pretend that things are great, up is down, jihad is joy and freedom is frightening. In that case, Olby is your guy!

Go buy his book -- I hear he signs every copy and visits your house for an extra $5.

By KfK on June 22, 2006 1:21 PM

Bradz,

You have the attention span of a mid-level Olbyite.

Read the entire thread, then pose your questions to yourself. If you can not find the answers, proceed immediately to an 8th grade classroom near you.

By Anonymous on June 22, 2006 1:31 PM

GOD, YOU FOLKS ARE EVEN DUMBER THAN I THOUGHT. COX RUNS THIS SITE AND THINKS HE CORNERED SOME EASTERN BLOC COMMIE POSTING ON HIS PRECIOUS PAGES. BUT HE DOESN`T EVEN KNOW ABOUT PROXY SERVERS?! WHAT, ARE YOU GUYS LIKE 50 OR SOMETHING?

By KfK on June 22, 2006 1:40 PM

Anonymous coward,

If you check the site archives, I have in the past deduced that "Spot On" is European you idiot.

The majority of Cox's post was about Windows 2000 vs. mac and the idiotic post by Spot On.

For your information, I deduced "Spot On" was European mainly from his use of the phrase "Spot On."

Hurray for idiots, Olby's core audience.

By KfK on June 22, 2006 2:13 PM

Dear Spot On,

Even though I am a total idiot, I think I have you figured out. You use the name `Spot On`, and therefore you are European. And since you are European, you are unworthy of this site -- which we morons have reserved for brain dead Americans of the Republican ilk.

Please do not post here again, Spot On. And if you do, please use a different moniker so I won`t be able to detect your true identity (because I am an idiot).

Hurray for idiots, Olby`s core audience, of which I am one.

By KfK on June 22, 2006 2:36 PM

Again, do not post using my name. Nobody should do that, especially the inartful and stupid.

By KfK on June 22, 2006 2:47 PM

go fuck yourself KfK.

what are you gonna do? get your hapless pal Cox sucker to trace my IP address to Germany!? Ha!

By Abe on June 22, 2006 3:04 PM

Do you realize that a lot of stores discount popular books pre-release or on initial release? The idea is to attract customers looking for that title in hopes that they will buy other titles at the same time. It's not like this book is being remaindered before it's published.

So, in short, your post argues for the popularity of Olbermann's book rather than its unpopularity. Nice work.

By anon on June 22, 2006 3:14 PM

No, they dont realize shit. Cause they`re morons. Nuff said.

By Anonymous on June 22, 2006 3:15 PM

classy bunch!

By IceNine on June 25, 2006 1:58 PM

This whole website has to be the saddest thing I've ever seen.

By The Average Olbermannwatch Reader on June 26, 2006 12:25 PM

IceWine,

You don't like it so you probably give blowjobs to terrorists, you commie piece of shit terrorist satisfier!!!!!!1!11!!!!

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