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

Host: Keith Olbermann

Topics/Guests:

• 2008 ELECTION: Richard Wolffe, Newsweek senior White House correspondent and MSNBC political analyst; Chuck Todd; NBC News political director
• LIEBERMAN MAY SPEAK AT THE GOP CONVENTION: Howard Fineman, Newsweek senior Washington correspondent and MSNBC political analyst 
• MCCAIN CAMP BLAMES AN INTERN FOR RECIPE PLAGIARISM: Rachel Maddow, Air America Radio host and MSNBC political analyst

The opening spiel is starting to get a wee bit predictable: Obama up in the polls! Obama is more electable! McCaIn campaign controversy! Lunatic Fringe! [Ding!] C-in-C threshhold test Rerun! It's hump day at Olbermann Watch.

#5: Tonya Harding again? Again. Clinton continues to sink. The Boss endorsed Obama! Obama's numbers are up! Hillary not honest or trustworthy! The Wolffe Man again? Again. He simpered on script and was Great Thanksed. More people call for Hillary to drop out if she's behind after June 3rd.The growing "backlash" could force her to quit! Hot Toddy nattered that Obama has more delegates and was Great Thanksed.

After a plug for the "proverbial" [Ding!] Commander-in-Chief test came #4: Horrors! Joe Lieberthal may speak at the GOP convention! McCain "groveled" before the "fundamentalist right-wing pastors". The speech, of course, would be a terrible, disastrous mistake. (So why is Oralmann so upset about it?) Lieberthal's "reason" has gone "out the window"! The Pundit for All Occasions said Joe is "bitter"! He was Thanksed.

After a "comedian" [Ding!] we got #3: Cindy McCain's recipe for squash--Day Two! It's now a question of "ethics"! Comedian Maddow to analyze again? Again. OK, that does it. Skipping ahead to:

#2: (after a "lunatic fringer" [Ding!], "comedian" [Ding!] and Fixed News [Ding!]) Keith Richards, Stephen Colbert. #1: Rerun of the so-funny C-in-C test. In the Media Matters Minute: comedian [Ding!] Limbaugh (Blue Blog Source: Hillary Clinton's Media Matters), Shepard Smith (Blue Blog Source: Hillary Clinton's Media Matters) Fixed News [Ding!], and lunatic fringer [Ding!] Hugh Hewitt (Blue Blog Source: Think Progress) Fixed News! [Ding!].

And that's The Hour of Spin for this, the 709th day since the declaration that "Karl Rove will in fact be indicted".