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

Host: Keith Olbermann

Topics/Guests:

• 2008 ELECTION: Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.); Richard Wolffe, Newsweek senior White House correspondent and MSNBC political analyst; Eugene Robinson, Washington Post associate editor and columnist and MSNBC political analyst

Tonight we break from our usual format to bring you an OlbyWatch Special Report on the towering, unrivaled, monumental hypocrisy of the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann. We focus in particular on tonight's interview with Hillary Clinton, the latest chapter in the parade of Democrats who have appeared on The Hour of Spin. Krazy Keith has walked into a propeller yet again, and you won't believe how bad it really is.

To set the scene, this key fact must be established. Oralmann's connections with the DailyKos run strong and deep. It is, of course, a recurrent Blue Blog Source for his writers. In addition, Monkeymann himself blogs there. What's more, he raises money for them.

Now let's get to the good part.

Last week Herr Olbermahn erupted in outrage over the fact that Sean Hannity suggested a debate question to Stephanopoulos, and George had the outright nerve to use it:

The real story of his debate may not be found where they found the answers, but where one of the moderators found his questions: Sean Hannity of Fox News, and separately a local New York right wing radio host [presumably Steve Malzberg], each insisting during interviews this week with George Stephanopoulos of ABC that he ask Senator Obama about his tenuous past link to 60s and 70s terrorist radical William Ayers. Tonight Stephanopoulos did that.

ABC asking not a single question about Afghanistan or Pakistan, but abdicating journalistic decision-making of its own to take dictation, literally, from Sean Hannity on Tuesday, writing Stephanopoulos a question for Obama.... From the journalistic standpoint view, this actually was no joke the worst presidential debate in television history... What was the George Stephanopoulos role in this thing? Was it to gain ratings or was it something else? Because - he relied on Sean Hannity's journalistic judgment which is just sounds like a bad thing to begin with even if you're asking, how's the weather.

Stephanopoulos felt it appropriate to ask questions on behalf of Sean Hannity this week...

OK so Fat Ass thinks it's terrible to take questions from an outside partisan source. Which brings us back to the Daily Kos once again. They were kind enough today to permit their readers to write questions for Keith to ask Hillary Clinton. Hmm. Outside questions from a partisan source. Did Edward R Olbermann actually execute a double-reverse flip-flop and do exactly what he yelled at Stephanopoulos and Hannity for doing? We report you decide.

Krazy Keith asked six questions in his pre-taped interview with Hillary Clinton. Let's look at five of them and compare them with what the Daily Kos wanted him to ask:

Example 1
DAILY KOS: Ask her about that comment she made about hitting Iran. I'd like to hear an answer to that. [ source ]

OLBERMANN: You were asked about a hypothetical Iranian attack on Israel... Which hypothetical middle east conflicts would incur massive retaliation from this country?

Example 2
DAILY KOS: I have talked to a couple of women, very intelligent women, who totally think that the media has been sexist and biased against Hillary and that this is a stand for women. One gave me a link to a video which started with the implication that Keith Olbermann is a sexist pig. [source]

OLBERMANN: Do you believe criticism of your campaign is necessarily sexism or largely sexism?

Example 3
DAILY KOS: I do hope he asks her about why she decided to use Osama bin Laden in her latest ad. Is she playing the fear card on purpose? [source]

OLBERMANN: This new ad you put out today, and that ad flashes a very brief image of Usama Bin Laden. For nearly six years now that tactic has been a bloody shirt for many Democrats. Is it not just as much of a scare tactic for a Democrat to use it?

Example 4
DAILY KOS: There is no way I would go on Faux News or talk with Mellon Scaife. [source]

OLBERMANN: Richard Mellon Scaife is utterly unforgivable. I realize you have a primary to win by why did you meet with him and why did you not reject his endorsement of you?

Example 5
DAILY KOS: Ask her about attacking Obama for saying McCain would be better than Bush when she went around for weeks saying Obama wasn't CIC material and McCain was. [source]

OLBERMANN: Obama said all three of the present candidates would be better than "Mister" Bush. Last month you said you thought it was imperative that we can cross the Commander-in-Chief threshhold and you said Senator McCain had done that. In those remarks, hadn't you already "cheered on" Senator McCain at Senator Obama's expense?

Wow. Keith Oralmann, who railed for three days about ABC using one question from Sean Hannity, lifts question after question from the blue blog he writes for, a site just as partisan as Hannity himself. And would you believe it, not a single question about Afghanistan or Pakistan.

Olbermoronn...you're busted!