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

Host: Keith Olbermann

Topics/Guests:

• 2008 ELECTION: Howard Fineman, Newsweek senior Washington correspondent and MSNBC political analyst
• BILL MOYERS ON DEMOCRACY AND THE MEDIA: Bill Moyers, PBS host and author of Moyers on Democracy
• SNL GOES AFTER HILLARY: Dana Milbank, Washington Post

The infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann is back. He's the master of multi-tasking: he can spout OlbySpin and lies to the camera while simultaneously blogging on DailyKos and surfing ebay for that must-have bubblegum card. Tonight, as always, he bellowed the opening spiel: Obama leads in super delegates! West Virginia! Joe Lieberthal! McCain's free ride! The Great Bill Moyers! SNL ridicules Hillary! And the biggest shocker of the night: the ancient O'Reilly video!! It's blue Monday at Olbermann Watch--where we spare you the annoyance of having to watch The Hour of Spin in the miracle of ObamaVision!

#5: Hillary doesn't realize it's over! Her win in West Virginia will be meaningless because Obama isn't campaigning there. (So meaningless that MSDNC is planning some seven hour of coverage!) Plug for Daily Kos! [Ding!] Obama's moving to a general election strategy. The Pundit for All Occasions dared to say the Obama campaign shouldn't be writing off states like WV and KY and then really crossed a line by pointing out Obama's lapel pin. "I can't believe we're actually noting these things", grumbled Oralmann. Howie was not Great Thanksed. Secret talks between the campaigns? John Harwood yammered.

After another plug for the Great O'Reilly Video (hereafter APftGOV) came #4: Joe Lieberthal, "turncoat". Scurrilous! Divisive! Lieberthal's accurate statement about Hamas and Obama dismissed by Krazy Keith as a "rumor"! Why? Because the reporter who broke the story is a "right-wing neocon"! [Ding!] It matters not that statement of the Hamas spokesman was caught on tape. Oh wait, maybe it does matter, because Fat Ass never mentioned that. He just attacked some reporter, a neat diversion to hide another classic piece of OlbySpin. Lieberthal is McCain's "hatchet man"! Lefty Jonathan Alter agreed: "hatchet man!"

After whining about "mercenaries" in Iraq, defending Iran by saying they're "making up" any involvement in Iraq, and APftGOV, #3: McCain camp claims media biased for Obama. "Madness!" cried Oralmann. Prelude to the blue-dress interview with "media giant" Bill Moyers. Prepare for another series of softball questions so leading that Fat Ass should have been holding a leash:

• Is the McCain camp setting a base line? Are they working the refs before the game starts?
• If there is media bias, is it about being for or against people, or about ways of seeing the world?
• Certain bursts from here show that we can break through once in a while, but how does it apply to each of the candidates?
• Do you see a way to break through when one of the candidates got behind a gas tax but the voters seemed to agree that she was pandering?
• Obama's strategy with Wright was all your plan, right?

Following APftGOV and yet APftGOV finally came #2: the stolen O'Reilly video. Keith, who has made others "worst persons" for making Hitler comparisons (not counting his own Sieg Heil salute), chuckled as he described one version that intercut O'Reilly with shots of Adolf. Classy. Nice. #1: SNL review with Dana Milbank.

In the Media Matters Minute, the victims were Wal-Mart, Doug Goodyear of the McCain campaign, and--Olbsession Night on OlbyPlanet--O'Reilly again. His crime was that he criticized a paper for refusing to cooperate with the FBI. It turns out the people the FBI were looking for were innocent, and that proves that O'Reilly was "paranoid" for criticizing the paper.

Now aside from how Bear is suggesting that it's wrong to cooperate with the FBI, and how it's better for them to spend months looking for people instead of getting help from citizens (does Bathtub Boy even pretend to be an American any more?)... Aside from all that, here's how OlbyLogic works. If someone refuses to open their bag for an airport screener, but eventually does and it's empty, does that make the screener "paranoid"? Does it even make the screener wrong to want to see in the bag? That's what OlbyLogic would have you believe, but--hey!--it's good enough to feed Oralmann's diseased Olbsession with a competitor he will never equal, let alone surpass.

Dogs That Did Not Bark: We've heard repeatedly from Fat Ass about how the eeevil Bush administration has "broken" the Armed Forces. Things are so bad that they'll never get anyone to join! The military announced their April recruiting and retention numbers, and to no one's surprise, Herr Olbermahn spiked the story. And then there's this. Oralmann jumps on McCain for every slip, big or small. He's "delusional". He should be wearing "Depends". He's a "liar". Of course, that goes not just for McCain but for anyone to the right of Che Guevera. Remember the time Michael Chertoff goofed and said "Louisiana is a city" largely underwater? Oralmann cackled with glee over that one. It was the occasion for one of his first long-winded blowhardy Special Education Komments. Monkeymann never let go of it, still citing it two years later! But there are some whose mistakes don't get mentioned on OlbyPlanet. Some whose blunders get filtered out by the special lenses of ObamaVision so that they never pollute the purity of the propaganda. Mistakes that he can't just blame on his staff. Like: 57 states? 57 freakin' states? Fear not, Barack. Bear will protect you with his cone of silence.

Tonight's MisterMeter reading: 1 [LOW]

And that's The Hour of Spin for this, the 735th day since the declaration that "Karl Rove will in fact be indicted".

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How far left do you need to move before even Democrats are criticizing you for being unfair and unbalanced? Certainly OlbyWatch readers know that Keith is unbalanced but now even Lanny Davis - a Democratic Party stalwart who practically lived on MSNBC during Keith's first go around and the failed cable news network - is sharpening the knives by announcing that he now refuses to appear on Countdown with Olbermann or Hardball with Matthews.

Davis told The Hill's Betsy Rothstein he "would not go on either Olbermann or Matthews ever". The Hill report, courtesy of Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters, reveals Davis spoken with MSNBC management about the blatant bias of the network:

Davis says he spoke with a "member of senior MSNBC management" who "told me personally that they were aware that they needed to do something to bring credibility back to MSNBC in terms of balance."

The former Clinton adviser points to MSNBC hosts Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann as culprits. Though he says he personally likes the men, citing a 25-year-old friendship with Matthews, he thinks their shows are deplorably one-sided.

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Some KO Fan set up a fake "Facebook Pages" page for Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Facebook Pages, unlike Facebook Groups or Profiles, can only be created by the entity itself not fans of the entity whether that be an artist, product, company - or TV Show.

Per the Facebook FAQ:

Abuse

What do I do when I see a Page with offensive content or a Page that is pretending to be an artist or business that it's not?

To report a Page for content that violates our Terms of Use, please click on the "Report this Page" link found in the bottom, left corner of every Page. We do not allow Pages to impersonate any entities and will remove any that attempt to do so.

So, I have helpfully reported the fake Countdown page to the Facebook Admins and look forward to their removing the fan page for violating the Terms of Use, much to the consternation of the 1,700+ people who "fanned" the page.

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This blog is priceless. The blogger is shilling for Obama and seems to be a fan of KO in some sort of way but this person really has a talent. I could not stop laughing as I went through these posts. Here is an excerpt from the most recent one on Keith, apparently with nothing better to do, is screwing around in the comments section at Dkos.

...Keith replies with something so incredible stupid that I just had to post it. Just from his reply alone tells me he doesn't get it...He can't appreciate the hardships most people go through while he's sitting in his multi-million dollar condo getting fatter with a 24 year old girl.

The blogger continues...

The only time I see him actually put his feet on the ground is when he talks about our troops. Otherwise, he floats around with his big giant head trying to pretend he can relate...

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Will Bunch is an OlbyLoon. Why? Will is the senior writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and its former political writer. Will's been covering presidential campaigns since 1984 and was a key member of the New York Newsday team that won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting. Will lives in a tortured state of existence because he is a Pulitizer Prize winning journalist who has been relegated to a second rate tabloid newspaper in a third rate city. Keith is a second rate journalistic hack relegated to a third rate cable news channel. Will lives in a tortured state of existence which makes Keith Olbermann appealing to him.

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Josh Phillips is an OlbyLoon. Why? Josh is an IT Professional from Houston, TX who spends his time blogging on a website called WindowsConnected and Twittering. Josh is a liberal living in the home state of George W. Bush, living in the same city with Bush 41. Keith hates George Bush 43 and 41 and even 41's wife and 43's mom. Josh is in a tortured state of existence which makes Keith so appealing to him.

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In trying to learn more about what I can do with Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, et al I ran across what appears to be the official Countdown with Keith Olbermann Fan Page on Facebook. The page has about 1,700 fans. I thought it might be help clear-thinking readers understand the POV of KO fans to Google a few of these fans and see just what it is that makes them so ANGRY (grrrrrr!). If any OW commenters would care to became a contributor to our experimental "Meet the OlbyLoons" series please drop me a line. The work entails picking a fan from the Countdown with Keith Olbermann page, running a Google search to look for something that would explain the tortured nature of their existence which makes Keith Olbermann so appealing to them.

First up is CJ Griffin (above).

CJ Griffin is an OlbyLoon. Why? CJ is now in grad school at Rutgers but apparently worked as a Program Associate for Astraea Mission Statement:

Our mission is based is on an enduring commitment to feminism, progressive social change and an end to all forms of exploitation and discrimination. We support programs and policies that strive to eliminate oppression based on race, age, sex, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, economic exploitation, physical and mental ability, anti-Semitism, and other such factors. Only through action will we build a world of peace and justice for lesbians, and for society as a whole.

Astraea has an enduring commitment to feminism and is committed to ending anti-semitism. CJ supports Astraea. Keith is well-known for his misogynistic and racist wise-cracks and anti-semitic antics. CJ supports Keith. Ergo, CJ is in a tortured state of existence which makes Keith so appealing to her.

See? Simple.

If you''d like to contribute to the "Meet the OlbyLoons" series let me know.

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

Host: Keith Olbermann

Topics/Guests:

• 2008 ELECTION: Jonathan Alter, Newsweek columnist and NBC News political analyst; Harry Reid, Senate majority leader and author of "The Good Fight"; Rachel Maddow, Err America Radio host and MSNBC political analyst; Mort Sahl, comedian
• MARY TILLMAN SPEAKS OUT: Mary Tillman, author of  "Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman"

The last opening spiel of the week, bellowed by the infamous, deplorable one in his best carnival-barker fashion: Obama on the verge but Hillary refuses to quit! McCain and Hagee! [Ding!] Pat Tillman! Satirist Mort Sahl! It's casual Friday at Olbermann Watch.

#5: Clinton low on money while Bill Jefferson plays "bad cop". Edward R Olbermann reveals that, impartial newsman that he is, he was "for" Hillary at first. Who's he for now? Man, that's a puzzler, ain't it? Edwards says Obama is a uniter. Hillary is being Nixonian! [Ding!] What she's doing is almost "bribery"! Keith pimped out Alter who said yeah her "code language" is Nixonian! [Ding!] Lefty quoted Hillary as saying "she is the candidate of white Americans", which is such a caricature of her words that it's almost a lie. But lying is fine on OlbyPlanet so he was Great Thanksed.

Next the blue-dress interview with Harry Reid. Yes it's hard to believe, it's stunning, it's an astonishing indictment of the partisan political hackery that is The Hour of Spin. We're talking about The List. Gaze upon it and be amazed. Meanwhile, that crusading journalist Keith Oralmann pummeled Reid with the tough questions that only years in the bathtub could have prepared him for. Prepare for questions so leading that Krazy Keith should have been waving a baton:

• Do you think the primary process is in its final stretch? Do you have to do something to make sure it is in its final stretch soon?
• Wasn't it a no-win for Hillary to raise the issue of her support from white voters?
• Wouldn't it make more sense to wait for the next administration before acting on FISA legislation?
• Isn't it clear that the threat that exists was exaggeration, drawn up into dimensions of "total disproportionateness"?
• What did the President say to you on the 9/11 anniversary and what does it say to you?
• Oh dear.
• Is there anything Lieberman could do that could make you take away his Homeland Security chairmanship?
• Isn't Countdown the best show on tv? Don't you hate Bill O'Reilly? Isn't it true I'm the smartest interviewer you've ever met?

OK, that last line was made up. But it's no less leading than what came before. For agreeing to just about every leading question Reid was Great Thanksed.

After a Hagee [Ding!] came #4: Merkle moved the nightly McCain attack up one segment, presumably to make room for Mort Sahl. "John McCain is not driving the bus." Hagee! Hagee! [Ding!] [Ding!] Repeat of an old OlbyLie about Fox News "defending" McCain. Olby pimped out comedian Rachel Maddow, who tonight played a poli-sci expert and piled on yesterday's calling of Mrs McCain a "fraud" with more attacks on the Mrs. Hagee! Hagee! [Ding!] [Ding!] Jeremiah Wright is "dirty politics" but we need more Hagee! [Ding!] He's "apocalyptic"! McCain is a "liar"! The comedian was upset that McCain's campaign called Arianna Huffington names, approximately 10 seconds after Oralmann called McCain a "liar". Nice way to treat a POW, Fat Ass. If this were 1974 you would be Jane Fonda.

After a Fox Noise [Ding!], a "lunatic fringe" [Ding!], and another "lunatic fringe" [Ding!], came #3: Herr Olbermahn exploits the family of Pat Tillman yet again over "Mister Bush's war". Mary Tillman was Great Thanksed before she said a single word. Merkle wondered if the friendly fire was "really accidental", while Mary blamed Rumsfeld for the "cover-up" because Rummy had written Pat a letter thanking him for enlisting and was aware of his celebrity. Yeah, that just about cinches it.

#2: The Media Matters Minute: the requisite attacks on O'Reilly (for reporting on GE's dealings with Iran)--Mackris! [Ding!] Loofahs! [Ding!] Loofahs! [Ding!]--and Roger Ailes (Blue Blog Source: TVNewser) of Fox Noise! [Ding!] Fixed News! [Ding!]

#1: A sad spectacle, the legendary Mort Sahl lowering himself to appear with the slovenly political hack Olbermoronn. Keith lied again about Fox "defending" McCain (see link above) but the hallmark of an OlbyLie is that he'll repeat it over and over until every credulous lemming has soaked it in. "Man on Fan" Olbermann wanted to know why Hillary doesn't realize that it's over. It was nice to see Sahl even though he's not exactly on his game these days.

If it's Friday, it's our weekly assessment of Krazy Keith's masculinity. This week, Monkeymann attacked Fox and other broadcasters 29 times. Olby's source (Hillary Clinton's Media Matters) criticized (MS)NBC 5 times, but Keithy protected his corporate masters with zero criticisms. That makes this week's Olbermann Manhood Quotient: -68 [mama's boy limp].

Tonight's MisterMeter reading: 1 [LOW]

And that's The Hour of Spin for this, the 732nd day since the declaration that "Karl Rove will in fact be indicted".

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

Host: Keith Olbermann

Topics/Guests:

• 2008 ELECTION: Richard Wolffe, Newsweek senior White House correspondent and MSNBC political analyst; Dana Milkbank, Washington Post; Jonathan Alter, Newsweek columnist and NBC News political analyst; Eugene Robinson, Washington Post associate editor and columnist and MSNBC political analyst
• BARBARA WALTERS: Paul F. Tompkins, comedian and VH-1 contributor

Wolffe Man is in the house tonight to play Olbersturmfuhrer's stooge. Milbank might show up in some sweet threads much to the delight of Mr. Merlot. Lefty "Analyst" Alter and forever amused Eugene Robinson. Quite a lineup of committed parrots. So called comedian Tompkins and more! I'm already going crazy with anticipation.

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

Host: Keith Olbermann

Topics/Guests:

• 2008 ELECTION/NORTH CAROLINA AND INDIANA PRIMARIES: Chuck Todd, NBC News political director; Richard Wolffe, Newsweek senior White House correspondent and MSNBC political analyst; Howard Fineman, Newsweek senior Washington Correspondent and MSNBC political analyst; comedian Rachel Maddow, Err America Radio host and MSNBC political analyst

The infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann bellowed the opening spiel: Clinton won't quit, even though it's over! Supporters telling her to quit, because it's over! She should stop her "anti-Obama rhetoric" because it's over! The nightly McCain attack! The nightly attack on Fox Noise! [Ding!] It's hump day at Olbermann Watch, as we once again report on the most biased hour of television in the known 'verse. Do not adjust your set. While CNN and FNC are now airing in high definition, A-Mess-NBC has instead relied on their own in-house technological advancement, something no other news channel can equal, let alone surpass. Yes, The Hour of Spin is coming to you in that new miracle of television: ObamaVision!

#5: Bonus obscure historical reference (El Alamein)--we usually have to sit through a Special Education Komment to get one of those. Hillary won't admit it's over. Feinstein talked to the Congressional newspaper "The Hehuill". Which is something like "The Hill". Obama lost Indiana despite having once held a lead. Oh wait, that's not right. A-Mess-NBC engineers adjusted their ObamaVision dials and it came out properly: Obama was expected to lose Indiana by a huge margin but he almost won. That's better. Hillary's "talking points". Hot Toddy was there for the nightly report: Obama still has more delegates. And Grant is still buried in Grant's Tomb. Oh, and don't forget, it's over!

Another string of historical factoids (supposed to be demonstrative of how well-informed Bathtub Boy thinks he is, except when it comes to knowing that you can't mount a filibuster in the House of Representatives of course) led to more talk about how it's over! More talk about the gas tax holiday. Why can't MSLSD give us a gas-bag holiday? The Wolffe Man simpered on cue.

After a comedian [Ding!] came #4: Not only is it over, it was over in February! This was a supposed-to-be-clever "CSI" rundown of Hillary flubs, missteps, and "fear mongering" over the months. On OlbyPlanet, not only do you get kicked when you are down, you get Fat Ass grinding his heel into your rump. The Pundit for All Occasions did his expected and was Many Thanksed.

After a "dumbass" (Max Boot) and another Pulitzer-worthy edition of "oddball" came #3. This should be the nightly McCain attack if Mr Merlot sticks to the cookie-cutter template. Let's see. Obama is the Obamanee. (Groan.) Hillary, it's over! And the Republicans are in a "panic"! Now we're getting there. Keith pimped out comedian Rachel Maddow, who tonight played a political analyst. John Hagee! [Ding!] There we go; now we're on track. The comedian concluded that the only way McCain can win is to lie, run a dirty campaign, or break the law. Hey, why even bothering to have the election? Oh, and Hillary? It's over!

After a Fox Noise [Ding!] came #2: The Media Matters Minute. "Man on Fan" Olbermann attacked comedian [Ding!] Rush Limbaugh for the "failure" of "operation chaos" (neatly avoiding any mention of the Obama campaign's insistence that it didn't fail at all). Comedian! Comedian! [Ding!] [Ding!] Also the nightly smear of Fox made it to the "worst" category. It was the typical Oralmann tapestry of multiple lies: Fixed Noise [Ding!] did "breaking news" (OlbyLie) about a "scoop" (OlbyLie) that a woman had big breasts (OlbyLie). Actually it was a medical report with Dr Manny Alvarez (Olby would probably dismiss him as a "house boy") about the risks of excessive implants.

#1: Fat Ass home movies of an unbuilt baseball park. We polled the OlbyWatch staff and the vote was unanimous: the big breasts story was far more interesting. You can judge for yourself. We included the breast video as an appendix to this report. View it and vote in the comments. What would you rather watch: Herr Olbermann in ObamaVision or big breasts?

Tonight's MisterMeter reading: 2 [LOW]

And that's The Hour of Spin for this, the 730th day since the declaration that "Karl Rove will in fact be indicted".

APPENDIX: "Worst person" video:

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