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

Host: Keith Olbermann

Topics/Guests:

• 2008 ELECTION: Pick three from this list: Milbank, Todd, Maddow, Fineman, Wolffe, Robinson.

Oralmann bellowed the opening spiel: Lanny Davis strikes! Pennsylvania polling! McCain's "hundred year war" [Ding!]. Why don't the Democrats pound McCain's health plan? Oh wait, one of them will, tonight! It's hump day at Olbermann Watch.

#5: Stumbling over a city name, Oralmann called out Lanny Davis for an op-ed in the "Murdoch owned" WSJ. Polls narrowing in Pennsylvania. OK, check off Fineman from that list. The Pundit for All Occasions bloviated and was Thanksed. Then the blue-dress interview with Edwards:

• Does that presage an endorsement?
• Dems' health plan compared to McCain's is like comparing an emergency room to a band-aid. How come that hasn't gotten more attention?
• Why is the McCain "evisceration" plan getting a pass?
• Are Clinton and Obama plans essentially the same?
• What if you not endorsing helps one candidate more than another?
• It would be a wonderful thing if McCain would just endorse a universal health plan.

Needless to say, Edwards was Great Thanksed.

#4: The Iraq debate is "fake". Petraeus hearings "landed with a thud". Tour reductions are phony! Oh look, it's the Wolffe Man! Check another name off. Wolffie simpered and was Thanksed.

#3: Isn't this the spot for the nightly McCain attack? You are correct, sir! Bear was loaded for bear as he laid into the "pro-war" candidate. Back to the "100 years war" smear [Ding!], which Olby insisted isn't a smear at all. What do those lunatics at fact-check.org know anyhow? Ace elocutor Oralmann invented another new word: "prosperousness". Way better than that stodgy, but genuine, term "prosperity"--so much better that Monkeymann used it twice! McCain deserves what he's getting because he brought it on himself! Goodie, another name to check off the list: lefty Eugene Robinson.

#2: Plug for #1. #1: Hillary's unpaid bills. In the Media Matters Minute, Monique Davis (for criticizing atheists), Ari Fleischer (Blue Blog Source: baseball card collector geek site Lion in Oil), and Joe Lieberthal (Blue Blog Source: Oralmann's masters at DailyKos).

Tonight's MisterMeter reading: 1 [LOW]

And that's The Hour of Spin for this, the 702nd day since the declaration that "Karl Rove will in fact be indicted".