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May 5, 2008

Countdown with Keith Olbermann - May 5, 2008

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

Host: Keith Olbermann

Topics/Guests:

2008 ELECTION: Dana Milbank, Washington Post; Chuck Todd, NBC News political director
HAROLD AND KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY: Kal Penn, actor

This is a signal day on OlbyPlanet. There's the opening spiel, of course: Clinton claims she is electable! Both Dems will beat McCain! Poll numbers! A Countdown Special Anti-Hillary Report! Nightly McCain attack! Comedian! [Ding!] The latest Harold and Kumar instant film classic! But tonight the Olbypocrisy meter goes into the danger zone. You won't believe it as Fat Ass makes Rush Limbaugh "worst person"--and it turns out Oralmann did the same thing Rush did! On the air. On Countdown! The irony is exquisite, and Krazy Keith is Ridin' Dirty!

UPDATED with bonus audio soundbite!

#5: Ooh, Clinton said "your future" depends on voting for her, which Oralmann somehow decided was grossly unacceptable "hyperbole". Because Bathtub Boy never indulges in hyperbole. Now that Obama poll numbers have rebounded a bit, tonight we got another rundown of poll numbers. Keithy made a lame Geico joke and while The Laughing Stagehand didn't react, Olby himself found it so funny he laughed at it himself. Some talk about a silly report (Blue Blog Source: HuffPo) about a Clinton "nuclear option". Bear was ignorant as to why it couldn't work but why confuse the audience, or himself, with facts. Monkeymann pimped out Dana Milbank who echoed the spin o' the night and was Thanksed.

Is it time to count the delegates again? Yes it is! Obama still has more delegates. And in other news, the Pope is still a Catholic. Hot Toddy opined that tomorrow is the last day for voters to award big delegate wins, and he was Greatest Thanksed.

After a comedian [Ding!] came #4: a full segment attack on the Hillary campaign for its "metrics" of winning. Another supposed-to-be-funny piece of ridicule over the kind of spinning that every campaign does, but only Hillary (and McCain) get zinged for it on OlbyPlanet.

After calling Richard Perle two-faced, a leaf-blower, plus another comedian [Ding!] , came #3. This is usually the Designated McCain Attack Segment, and "Man on Fan" Olbermann did not disappoint. He seems to believe that because McCain favors English as an official language (as do 85% of Americans) therefore he shouldn't have a Spanish language website. Because there's something wrong with people who can speak two languages? Don't try to make sense out of it. It's OlbyLogic. Besides, that's a "controversial" thing to be for. Oh, and McCain disagreed with John Kyl, and he used the term "jihadist", and... wait a second. Is Oralmann's nitpicking tonight even more incredibly lame than usual? Answer: yes. Olby pimped out Matt Taibi, another in the parade of leftists, as the latest version of Olbermann carbon paper. They sat around and bashed Bush (he had bad convictions), McCain (a cynic with no principles), and--yes--Hagee. [Ding!] Why is Hagee relevant when Wright is not? Don't try to make sense out of it. OlbyLogic again. Through it all, Taibi sported a creepy, disturbing sneer that would give Jack Nicholson the willies.

After yet another comedian [Ding!] (because jokes only get funnier when you tell them for the 189th time) came #2: a plug for #1. #1: a lenthy plug for Harold & Kumar, sure to be the next Citizen Kane.

In the Media Matters Minute, Fat Ass attacked not just Steve Doocy (Fixed Noise! [Ding!]) but also his son, whose crime was something involving talking to Villanova students (Blue Blog Source: Raw Story). This was a typical Oralmann smear: he didn't like one question Doocy Jr asked out of about a dozen, and of course none of the others were mentioned. The next smearee was Bill Kristol (Blue Blog Source: Hillary Clinton's Media Matters), while the "worst" was comedian [Ding!] Limbaugh (Blue Blog Source: Think Propaganda). Comedian! [Ding!] Comedian! [Ding!] He said he didn't recognize the mayor of LA and thought he might have been a shoe shine boy or a secret service agent, and that was "another" Limbaugh "insult" of a "minority". Comedian! [Ding!]

Stop the tivo! Is this from the same Keith Olbermann who cracked about Bill Richardson "passing the guacamole"? Or even worse, who repeatedly called Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General of the USA, a "houseboy"? Hey Olby, might "houseboy" possibly be an insult to a minority? Gonzales is Hispanic, right Keith? Attention Fat Ass: if you can parrot your blue blog masters to smear Rush while yourself demean Hispanics with derogatory insults like "houseboy", aren't you in fact nothing but a sleazy sanctimonious hypocrite? Riddle me that, Bathman!

Dogs That Did Not Bark: Of course, since this is The Hour of Spin, you know there are mutts whose voices were muted. And the key criterion for silencing the spaniels is simple: something unfavorable to Keith's Krush: Barack Obama. Now we know that A-Mess-NBC has received its marching orders from the Obama campaign to stop talking about Jeremiah Wright, and they have eagerly agreed to the demand. Today there was another Obama embarrassment: it came in the form a report from the Wall Street Journal that finds the Illinois Senator looking to cut a deal with the Teamsters--a deal that would call off the dogs of the federal prosecutors. You know, the sort of "politicization" of the Justice Department that Oralmann has railed about for seven years, with the help of The Perfessor and occasionally The Disbarred Lawyer. But all of a sudden, this kind of ideology-based law enforcement is of no interest whatsoever to the great Edward R Olbermann. That's because he's a slovenly political hack.

And that's The Hour of Spin for this, the 728th day since the declaration that "Karl Rove will in fact be indicted".

UPDATE: Instant reaction to one of Bear's "worst person" smears:

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By Great Thanks on May 5, 2008 9:33 PM

Ah, "Harold and Kumar" as social commentary. It was clear Kal Penn was being even-handed about how he hopes everybody laughed at his movie, but Keith was incredulous as to why people on the Right would laugh at it. Because it's funny! Why would liberals laugh at it? Aren't they above us common folk and toilet humor?

By Olby Sucks on May 5, 2008 9:49 PM

Why is Hagee relevant when Wright is not?
J$

A great question that remains to be unanswered on any blog I post on or by any left wing pundit or whacko that I have seen. I still wait.....

By Scott on May 5, 2008 9:55 PM

Wow, so Doocy the younger asks a question on April 15th, appears on F&F on April 16th, and suddenly on MAY 5TH its news for Keith? Or was this just an excuse for a joint attack on Fox News and Hillary?

By johnny dollar

on May 5, 2008 10:08 PM

My mistake. I linked to the wrong page. I will update it and fix the wrong link.

By The Factor on May 5, 2008 10:12 PM

Obamanation is now telling Tony Soprano and the mobsters in the Teamsters union that once they elect a "friend of ours", their "problems" with the justice department will disappear. Letting mobsters raid the Teamsters' pension fund again is truly "change" you can stick and ice pick in. Where are Keith’s howls about using the justice department to cover people’s asses? Crickets Crickets Crickets.....

By The Factor on May 5, 2008 10:47 PM

On the Patriot Rush Limbaugh smear, is Keith saying that a shoe shine guy and a secret service agent are equivalent? I would be pretty happy if someone said I looked like a secret service agent. I would certainly rather be called a secret service agent than a "monkey", "chicken and waffles", "house boy", or "passing the guacamole".

By The Factor on May 5, 2008 10:48 PM

By Katy Turic on May 5, 2008 11:10 PM

From the blue blogs Keith gets his cues
Lift and read is Olbermahn's ruse
Attack Steve Doocy's son
What's next? A nun?
(MS)NBC calls it news

By Olby Sucks on May 5, 2008 11:37 PM

Stop the tivo! Is this from the same Keith Olbermann who cracked about Bill Richardson "passing the guacamole"? Or even worse, who repeatedly called Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General of the USA, a "houseboy"? Hey Olby, might "houseboy" possibly be an insult to a minority? Gonzales is Hispanic, right Keith? Attention Fat Ass: if you can parrot your blue blog masters to smear Rush while yourself demean Hispanics with derogatory insults like "houseboy", aren't you in fact nothing but a sleazy sanctimonious hypocrite? Riddle me that, Bathman! J$

Since many of the olbyloons have admitted to never reading the 'recaps' I felt the need to post this.

I'd love to hear some good ol' fashioned olbypology for this one!

Thanks, Johnny!

By The Factor on May 6, 2008 12:16 AM

Thanks for the link to Raw Story about the EEEVIL Peter Doocy who must have been prepped by Karl Rove himself. Funny how Raw Story leaves out that Doocy let some moron rant about how her parents are life long Democrats and she is a life long democrat because she want health insurance. Its funny how the racist at Raw Story had to mention the Villanova is a "private catholic" college as if that means it is RNC head quarters. Catholics used to vote in large numbers for Democrats until they became the party of infanticide and the homosexual agenda.

By Olby Sucks on May 6, 2008 1:02 AM

They're kidding, right?

By Aaron Klein
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

Rev. Otis Moss (courtesy Cleveland Plan Dealer)

JERUSALEM – Otis Moss, the man slated to become the new chief pastor at the Trinity United Church of Christ, referenced a rap song during one of his recent sermons that includes among its lyrics "F--- America" and states the U.S. is "still with triple K" – referring to the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan.

By cee on May 6, 2008 9:13 AM

When Gallup and Rasmussen had obvious declines in SNOBamessiah's poll numbers during and after Wright reappeared, Olbermann totally ignored the slide....this was just last week....Even still, these polls show McCain doing better against him than HRC nationally....

http://tinyurl.com/6kklgt

http://tinyurl.com/2u693r

Anything that goes against the resurging SNOBamessiah is excluded from the hour of spin known as COUNTDOWN

By Robert Cox on May 6, 2008 10:07 AM

cee - nice use of tinyURL. Thanks! It looks a lot better and should be easier for folks to follow the links.

By cee on May 6, 2008 5:08 PM

A likely "mutted mongrel" for tonight's COUNTDOWN.....

A mistake made by NBC NEWS today akin to the "Lincoln/Douglass" mistake made by FOX NEWS last week.....

"MS-NBC had to go around the world to get its story on global warming yesterday. In fact, they had to substitute the North Pole for the South Pole. At the 45-second mark in this story about the disappearing ice at the top of the world, take a look at the critters they show on an ice floe [...] Those, folks, are penguins — which live at the bottom of the earth, as Nigel points out.

"The 'expanses of water that weren’t there before' were actually never there at the North Pole. All 17 species of penguins live in the southern hemisphere.

"Why would penguins make the long and rather warm journey across the equator to appear in an MS-NBC story about global warming?

"Escaping the expanding ice cap at the South Pole?

"Conducting their own investigation into polar-bear migration"

"MS-NBC’s editors don’t know one pole from another

"Something got exposed in this broadcast — scientific illiteracy at MS-NBC."

http://tinyurl.com/3watt9

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Keith Olbermann's "manhood quotient" will decline tonight!

By Olby Sucks on May 6, 2008 5:19 PM

"NBC Discovers Penguins on the North Pole" was a headline I saw earlier. TDF!!!

By MikeH on May 7, 2008 12:51 PM

"Why is Hagee relevant when Wright is not."

Thats not the question at all.

The real question is; why is every aspect of the Wright story front page earth shattering news while most casual Americans have never even heard about the Hagee controversy......thanks to the so called 'liberally biased' mainstream media.

By Olby Sucks on May 7, 2008 1:49 PM

The real question is;

posted by mikeh

This gets funnier every time he says it.......olbyloon diversion #1098.

By MikeH on May 7, 2008 2:54 PM

"This gets funnier every time he says it......"

Only to those who still still find elementary school humor amusing.

By johnny dollar

on May 7, 2008 9:37 PM

Bill Orally, Coultergeist, Fixed Noise, yada yada yada. Now THAT'S wit for grown-ups!

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