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

Host: Keith Olbermann

Topics/Guests:

• 2008 ELECTION: Howard Fineman, Newsweek senior Washington correspondent and MSNBC political analyst; Jonathan Alter, Newsweek columnist and NBC News political analyst; Christopher Hayes, The Nation; John Cleese, actor

Fat Ass barked the opening spiel: How dare Hillary say it? Is her political career over?!? And a Special Education Komment: This Time You've Gone Too Far! Nightly McCain attack! Parlsey! [Ding!] Sage! [Ding!] Rosemary & Thyme! [Ding!] [Ding!] Yep, casual Friday at Olbermann Watch.

UPDATED: With Special Komment annotated transcript, video, and a unique dramatic reading by the OlbyRobot!

#5: Hillary cites RFK assassination. Another plug for the Special Education Komment (hereafter APftSEK). it's a "third-rail word"! The Pundit for All Occasions nattered that the campaign needs to be put out of its misery but was not Great Thanksed. Lefty Alter chimed in to nitpick Hillary's dates and references.

After APftSEK and APftSEK came #4: Still more about Hillary. Wow, the Kos Kidz wanted Olbermahn to use this to force her out of the race, and it's obvious he is once again doing their bidding. Douglas Brinkley was shoehorned into the hour to further repeat the same news for the 7th time and promote the OlbySpin of the night: it's time to quit.

APftSEK, Parsley! [Ding!], and Hagee! [Ding!], plus a defense of vandalizing White House property preceded #3: the nightly McCain attack. Hagee! [Ding!] A recitation of alleged quotes attributed to Hagee! [Ding!] Hagee! [Ding!] Hagee! [Ding!] On-screen graphic calls Hagee [Ding!] "McCain's pastor". Parsley! [Ding!] Herr Olbermann decreed that it doesn't matter how healthy he is, he's too damn old. Hayes from the far-left Nation played fun-house mirror to Bear's caricatures of McCain and for that he was Great Thanksed.

After APftSEK, APftSEK, and APftSEK came #2: the Media Matters Minute. Tonight's victims: Campaign for Children and Families (Blue Blog Source: Think Propaganda), Lou Dobbs (Blue Blog Source: Think Propaganda) where once again Oralmann broke the Sopranos rule and dragged Lou's children into his attack, and "worst" Admiral Mark Buzby (Blue Blog Source: Raw Story).

Finally, held for the last Nielsen minute, tonight's Special Education Komment. The eyebrows were pumping, the shoulders were shaking, and once again Bathtub Boy pretended to address his rant to Hillary Clinton herself, as if she were actually watching his drivel. The requisite camera shifts at dramatic moments, the scripted decibel peaks at key dramatic moments, the suddenly hushed, "serious" moments: all the familiar elements were in place, repeated as before, in the same fashion. Only the muffed words and tongue slips (the problem when you writers have to whip up one of these at the last minute) distinguished this otherwise undistinguished rerun. In an odd way it was like watching Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, a rote, mechanical reassembly of tricks that, thanks to their overuse and predictability, long ago wore out their welcome. See the appendix for the full annotated text and video as soon as they become available.

If it's Friday, it's our weekly assessment of Krazy Keith's masculinity. During this four-day week, Monkeymann attacked Fox and other broadcasters 26 times. Olby's source (Hillary Clinton's Media Matters) criticized (MS)NBC 6 times, but Keithy protected his corporate masters with zero criticisms. That makes this week's Olbermann Manhood Quotient: -64 [twinkie limp].

Tonight's MisterMeter reading: 3 [GUARDED]

And that's The Hour of Spin for this, the 746th day since the declaration that "Karl Rove will in fact be indicted".

APPENDIX: Keithy's latest Special Education Komment, annotated transcript, video, and a special reading by the OlbyRobot...

[rattle through this quickly so viewers won't change the channel before you get to the good part]

Asked if her continuing fight for the nomination against Senator Obama hurts the Democratic party, Sen. Hillary Clinton replied, "I don't. Because again, I've been around long enough. You know, my husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. You know, I just don't understand it. You know, there's lots of speculation about why it is. "

The comments were recorded and we showed them to you earlier and they are online as we speak. She actually said those words.

[camera pivot; raise your voice]

Those words, Senator?

You actually invoked the nightmare of political assassination.

You actually invoked the specter of an inspirational leader, at the seeming moment of triumph, for himself and a battered nation yearning to breathe free, silenced forever.

[do the head shake thing here]

You actually used the word "assassination" in the middle of a campaign with a loud undertone of racial hatred  -  and  gender  hatred  - and political hatred.

You actually used the word "assassination" in a time when there is a fear, unspoken but vivid and terrible, that our again-troubled land and fractured political landscape [eyebrows up here] might target a black man running for president.

Or a white man.

Or a white woman!

You actually used those words, in this America, Senator, while running against an African-American against whom the death threats started the moment he declared his campaign?

You actually used those words, in this America, Senator, while running to break your "greatest glass ceiling" and claiming there are people who would do anything to stop you?

You!

[sound effect here; please try not to jump and wince in terror like you've done in every rehearsal, OK?]

Senator -  never mind the implications of using the word "assassination" in any connection to Senator Obama...

What about you?

[faster, pussycat, louder, louder!]

You cannot say this!

[OK, take a beat or two, lower it down to a 5, and don't forget the camera switch]

The references, said her spokesperson, were not, in any way, weighted.

The allusions, said Mo Uh-leathee, are, "...historical examples of the nominating process going well into the summer and any reading into it beyond that would be inaccurate and outrageous."

I'm sorry. There is no inaccuracy.

Not for a moment does any rational person believe Senator Clinton is actually hoping for the worst of all political calamities.

Yet the outrage belongs, not to Senator Clinton or her supporters, but to every other American.

Firstly, she has previously bordered on the remarks she made today...

Then swerved back from them and the awful skid they represented.

[emphasize 'skid' with that little head jut you do...it's so cute]

She said, in an off-camera interview with Time on March 6, "Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A. My husband didn't wrap up the nomination in 1992 until June, also in California. Having a primary contest go through June is nothing particularly unusual. We will see how it unfolds as we go forward over the next three to four months."

In retrospect, we failed her when we did not call her out, for that remark, dry and only disturbing, innside the pages of a magazine. But somebody obviously warned her of the danger of that rhetoric:

After the Indiana primary, on May 7, she told supporters at a Washington hotel:

"Sometimes you gotta calm people down a little bit. But if you look at successful presidential campaigns, my husband did not get the nomination until June of 1992. I remember tragically when Senator Kennedy won California near the end of that process."

And at Shepherdstown, West Virginia, on the same day, she again avoided the word assassination:

"You know, I remember very well what happened in the California primary in 1968 as, you know, Senator Kennedy won that primary."

On March 6th she had said "assassinated." By May 7 she had avoided it. Today... she went back into an awful well.

There is no good time to recall the awful events of June 5th, 1968 in Los Angeles, of Senator Bobby Kennedy, happy and alive - perhaps, for the first time since his own brother's death in Dallas in 1963... Galvanized to try to lead this nation back from one of its darkest eras... Only to fall victim to the same scourge that took that brother, and Martin Luther King... There is no good time to recall this.

[a little tremble in the voice here will help sell it]

But certainly to invoke it, two weeks before the exact 40th anniversary of the assassination, is an insensitive and heartless thing.

And certainly to invoke it, three days after the awful diagnosis, and heart-breaking prognosis, for Senator Ted Kennedy, is just as insensitive, and just as heartless. And both actions, open a door wide into the soul of somebody who seeks the highest office in this country, and through that door shows something not merely troubling, but frightening.

[the pause of significance; camera pivot means time to ratchet up the decibels a bit]

And politically inexplicable. What, Senator, do you suppose would happen if you withdrew from the campaign, and Senator Obama formally became the presumptive nominee, and then suddenly left the scene? It doesn't even have to be the "dark curse upon the land" you implied today, Senator. Nor even an issue of health. He could simply change his mind... Or there could unfold that perfect-storm scandal your people have often referenced, even predicted. Maybe he could get a better offer from some other and wiser, country. What happens then, Senator? You are not allowed back into the race? Your delegates and your support vanish? The Democrats don't run anybody for President?

[crank it up a bit more]

What happens, of course, is what happened when the Democrats' vice presidential choice, Senator Thomas Eagleton of Missouri, had to withdraw from the ticket, in 1972 after it proved he had not been forthcoming about previous mental health treatments. George McGovern simply got another vice president.

Senator, as late as the late summer of 1864 the Republicans were talking about having a second convention, to withdraw Abraham Lincoln's re-nomination and choose somebody else because until Sherman took Atlanta in September it looked like Lincoln was going to lose the election to George McClellan.

You could theoretically suspend your campaign, Senator.

[lots of head shakes and hand waves here to sell the sarcasm]

There's plenty of time and plenty of historical precedent, Senator, in case you want to come back in, if something bad should happen to Senator Obama. Nothing serious, mind you.

[snarl at the camera, growl into the microphone]

It's just like you said, "We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California."

[meaningful pause, camera pivot, lower your voice again]

Since those awful words in Sioux Falls, and after the condescending, buck-passing statement from her spokesperson, Senator Clinton has made something akin to an apology, but without any evident recognition of the true trauma she has inflicted.

[get through this paragraphs as fast as possible]

"I was discussing the Democratic primary history, and in the course of that discussion mentioned the campaigns both my husband and Senator Kennedy waged California in June in 1992 and 1968," she said in Brandon, South Dakota. "I was referencing those to make the point that we have had nomination primary contests that go into June. That's a historic fact.

"The Kennedys have been much on my mind the last days because of Senator Kennedy.  I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation, particularly for the Kennedy family was in any way offensive, I certainly had no intention of that whatsoever."

"My view is that we have to look to the past and to our leaders who have inspired us and give us a lot to live up to and I'm honored to hold Senator Kennedy's seat in the United States Senate in the state of New York and have the highest regard for the entire Kennedy family.  Thanks."

[the pause of significance]

Not a word about the inappropriateness of referencing assassination.

Not a word about the inappropriateness of implying - whether it was intended or not - that she was hanging around waiting for somebody to try something terrible.

Not a word about Senator Obama.

Not a word about Senator McCain.

[start to ratchet it up again]

Not: I'm sorry...

Not: I apologize...

Not: I blew it...

Not: please forgive me.

[pause, change camera angles, watch the clock]

God knows, Senator, in this campaign, this nation has had to forgive you, early and often...

And despite your now traditional position of the offended victim, this nation has forgiven you.

We have forgiven you your insistence that there have been widespread calls for you to end your campaign, when such calls had been few. We have forgiven you your misspeaking about Martin Luther King's relative importance to the Civil Rights movement.

We have forgiven you your misspeaking about your under-fire landing in Bosnia.

We have forgiven you insisting Michigan's vote wouldn't count and then claiming those who would not count it were Un-Democratic.

We have forgiven you pledging to not campaign in Florida and thus disenfranchise voters there, and then claiming those who stuck to those rules were as wrong as those who defended slavery or denied women the vote.

We have forgiven you the photos of Osama Bin Laden in an anti-Obama ad...

We have forgiven you fawning over the fairness of Fox News while they were still calling you a murderer.

[crescendo here]

We have forgiven you accepting Richard Mellon Scaife's endorsement and then laughing as you described his "deathbed conversion."

We have forgiven you quoting the electoral predictions of Boss Karl Rove.

[whatever you do, do NOT stumble over quoting the electoral!]

We have forgiven you the 3 a.m. Phone Call commercial.

We have forgiven you President Clinton's disparaging comparison of the Obama candidacy to Jesse Jackson's.

[keep cranking it up, but watch the spit]

We have forgiven you Geraldine Ferraro's national radio interview suggesting Obama would not still be in the race had he been a white man.

We have forgiven you the dozen changing metrics and the endless self-contradictions of your insistence that your nomination is mathematically probable rather than a statistical impossibility.

We have forgiven you your declaration of some primary states as counting and some as not.

We have forgiven you exploiting Jeremiah Wright in front of the editorial board of the lunatic-fringe [Ding!] Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

We have forgiven you exploiting William Ayers in front of the debate on ABC.

[look down at imaginary notes]

We have forgiven you for boasting of your "support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans"...

We have even forgiven you repeatedly praising Senator McCain at Senator Obama's expense, and your own expense, and the Democratic ticket's expense.

[use that spastic head shake]

But Senator, we cannot forgive you this.

"You know, my husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California."

We cannot forgive you this -- not because it is crass and low and unfeeling and [spit this word] brutal.

This is unforgivable, because this nation's deepest shame, its most enduring horror, its most terrifying legacy, is political assassination.

[louder, louder, shout it out! turn it up to 11]

Lincoln.

Garfield.

McKinley.

Kennedy.

Martin Luther King.

Robert Kennedy.

And, but for the grace of the universe or the luck of the draw, Reagan, Ford, Truman, Nixon, Andrew Jackson, both Roosevelts, even George Wallace.

The politics of this nation is steeped enough in blood, Senator Clinton, you cannot and must not invoke that imagery! Anywhere! At any time!

[shoulder/head shake, scream at the camera, sell this for the big finish]

And to not appreciate, immediately - to still not appreciate tonight - just what you have done... is to reveal an incomprehension of the America you seek to lead.

This, Senator, is too much.

Because a senator - a politician - a person -  who can let hang in mid-air the prospect that she might just be sticking around in part, just in case the other guy gets shot - has no business being, and no capacity to be, the President of the United States.

[look down, lower voice, and say the following without looking into the camera to show ultimate disgust]

Good night and good luck.

UPDATE: Tonight's Special Education Komment as read by the OlbyRobot, using Text Aloud via AT&T Natural Voices [courtesy of MikeC]:

40 Comments

By JustinH on May 23, 2008 9:45 PM

I sent this to you, Robert, this morning.

McCain rejected the months-old endorsement of Texas preacher John Hagee after an audio recording surfaced in which the preacher said God sent Adolf Hitler to help Jews reach the promised land. McCain called the comment "crazy and unacceptable."

He later repudiated the support of Rod Parsley, an Ohio preacher who has sharply criticized Islam and called the religion inherently violent.

McCain issued a statement Thursday afternoon announcing his decision about Hagee.

"Obviously, I find these remarks and others deeply offensive and indefensible, and I repudiate them. I did not know of them before Reverend Hagee's endorsement, and I feel I must reject his endorsement as well," he said.

Later, in Stockton, he told reporters: "I just think that the statement is crazy and unacceptable."

Then in an interview with The Associated Press, McCain said he rejected Parsley's support, too.

"I believe there is no place for that kind of dialogue in America, and I believe that even though he endorsed me, and I didn't endorse him, the fact is that I repudiate such talk, and I reject his endorsement," McCain told the AP.

source: http://news.aol.com/elections/story/_a/mccain-rejects-preachers-endorsements/20080522162009990001?icid=100214839x1202590663x1200108541

By Katy Turic on May 23, 2008 10:30 PM

When Keith finally blows a gasket
And he's carried off in a casket
And he's spewed his last spiel
Just like Howard Beale
We'll refer to his case as a basket

By MikeR on May 23, 2008 10:39 PM

Amazing ...absolutely amazing.

The context of her statement makes it clear that she is giving multiple examples of primary fights that went well into the summer. Every other journalist who heard her statements understood that. But Olbermann, in a state that borders on psychosis, latches onto a single word and reads an entirely different message than anyone else. Then he proceeds to rant for several minutes in prime time about a plot that only he sees.

Can we say paranoia?

By MikeC on May 23, 2008 11:03 PM

Douglas Brinkley was on? I never thought that'd happen. I thought he was a fair-minded historian.
I don't feel like watching the SEK tonight or reading the annotated transcript, but I did provide Johnny with the OlbyRobot dramatic reading. You'll love it, all 14 minutes and 14 seconds.

By dcmeyer on May 23, 2008 11:06 PM

Two soldiers attacked by olby for 2 nights in a row. Yeah, he really supports those who serve our country.

By Scott on May 23, 2008 11:24 PM

dcmeyer....

Why do you hate the troops? :D

According to the bitching Kossacks, Brian Williams spent about 30 mins on this subject. KO spent 10 mins plus on this SEK alone, not to mention the rest of the show.

BTW, I think the sound effect heard there may have been David Gregory hitting his desk to get KO to wrap it up.

By Scott on May 23, 2008 11:30 PM

Crap, correction to my post....Williams (they claim) spent about 30 SECONDS on the subject....probably more than it deserved, and probably more than was spent on Hagee's statement today, with a rabbi praising him.

By MikeC on May 24, 2008 12:01 AM

I'm not sure I understood Olby. Was he saying it was a good thing Reagan, Ford, Truman, Nixon, Andrew Jackson, and both Roosevelts died?

By MLong on May 24, 2008 12:18 AM

I wonder what KO will do if Lord Obama is forced to make St.Hill his VP>..after all the things he's said about her could he easily return to a**kissing mode?...I guessing all it would take would be another check handed to Her or Bubba on air before he gets on his knees again. LOL!!!.

By The Factor on May 24, 2008 12:36 AM

Why does Olbermann keep saying you can't use the word assassination "in this America"? Who is fear mongering now? As if someone is going to plot the assassination of Obamanation base on Hitlery stating a historical fact. When did we lose freedom of speech in this America? Where was Olbermann’s righteous indignation when all his left wing zombies were writing up assassination porn of George Bush? What a disgrace.

By ramjet on May 24, 2008 12:51 AM

KO accomplishes the impossible.
I actually felt a twinge of sympathy for Hillary tonight.

By johnny dollar on May 24, 2008 1:41 AM

"Maybe he could get a better offer from some other and WISER country."

What do you suppose Oralmann meant by that?

By Konservo on May 24, 2008 3:26 AM

"What do you suppose Oralmann meant by that?"

Cuba?

http://tinyurl.com/3vmlrg

BTW, I know you like tinyurl, J$, but they seem to be Ron Paul supporters. If you look at the lower left-hand sidebar on their site under "Liberty and Freedom" you'll see what I mean...

Just sayin'

By Robert Cox on May 24, 2008 10:06 AM

I agree with ramjet, I actually felt sorry for Hillary. Obviously she did not mean that she was continuing to fight for the nomination on the chance that Obama would be assassinated. Even RFK's son, a Hillary supporter, said so. This is just a tactic from the Obama camp to push Hillary out of the race.

It is also a good indication of the tactics we can expect from St. Obama. According to Obamanation Bill and Hillary Clinton are race-baiters who are inciting violence against a black presidential candidate. Republicans tried for many years to go after the Clintons and drive down their support in this country. A decade later they failed. The far-left wing of the Democratic party, in just four short months, has done more damage to the reputation of the Clintons that the archiest of the arch-conservatives could ever have dreamed of doing.

What I kept thinking was, as Keith went farther and farther out on a limb, that apparently Keith does not realize that within NBC are many people who SUPPORT Hillary and have good relations with the Clintons (Tom Brokaw comes to mind). It seems to me at some point that some elder statesman at NBC News - and that will have to be Brokaw - is going to have to draw the line with Olbermann's increasingly demented rhetoric. Of course, it's fine when the target is the Bush administration but now Keith has gone way deep into the kind of behavior for which he has now earned himself some really enemies within NBC who are not going to forget what he did last night.

Mark it. Last night was the beginning of the end for Keith Olbermann.

By kb on May 24, 2008 12:31 PM

Come on Keithy, where is your sense of humor. It is always funny to wich a Republican dead, Why not a Democrat, you hypocrite.

By CountDung on May 24, 2008 1:16 PM

Good thing Clinton didn't say, "as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station."

By ramjet on May 24, 2008 1:17 PM

"the archiest of the arch-conservatives"

All our friends are here - But it ain't complete
We ain't the Archies without the Jughead Olby beat

Whoa oh oh

By Olby Sucks on May 24, 2008 1:18 PM

"It is clear from the context that Hillary was invoking a familiar political circumstance in order to support her decision to stay in the race through June. I have heard her make this reference before, also citing her husband's 1992 race, both of which were hard fought through June. I understand how highly charged the atmosphere is, but I think it is a mistake for people to take offense."

Robert Kennedy

I guess the hack didn't catch this.......or ignored it.

By MikeC on May 24, 2008 2:02 PM

You hear that, Merkle? RFK Jr., a Clinton supporter, wasn't offended.

By The Factor on May 24, 2008 2:06 PM

How does David Shuster get his own show? Wasn't he just suspended like a month ago? What kind job suspends someone for a week and then gives them a promotion? Obviously what Shuster did was not a grievous offense to NBC management.

By MikeC on May 24, 2008 2:07 PM

I wonder what FNC correspondent Douglas Kennedy thought of this.

By johnny dollar on May 24, 2008 2:12 PM

Well he's probably got larger concerns on his mind right now.

By MikeC on May 24, 2008 2:24 PM

Exactly. I mean, is this really a big deal, or is this a far-left "We want Obama now!" deal?

By Olby Sucks on May 24, 2008 2:34 PM

It's a classic example of the (d)'s eating their own. The party of 'disloyalty.'

By MLong on May 24, 2008 3:55 PM

"Mark it. Last night was the beginning of the end for Keith Olbermann."

Well as I've said before in 8 months 1/2 his act is gone(bashing Bush) so what dose He do then?..plus we know he's already burning bridges at MSNBC so when those ratings start to slide how long before they move David Gregory into the 8pm slot?

Plus what happens if Lord Obama is elected and starts having some bad news days will KO call in and stay in the tub so he won't have to report it?..that might make him quit on his own..just so he isn't forced to deal with it...New Murrow indeed.

As for St.Hill the more I think about it the more it's clear that it's not a big deal...but the reaction of the MSM is really a lesson on how far down they've fallen in ethics..most of them are so far in the tank for Obama I think he could be found with both a dead Hooker and a live Boy and they would still support him. LOL!!!

By Olby Sucks on May 24, 2008 4:36 PM

in the tank for Obama I think he could be found with both a dead Hooker and a live Boy and they would still support him. LOL!!!

by mlong

The obamaloons wouldn't think twice about putting a check next to his name in Nov. if that happened. It would be "smearing" to them! LOL!

By Tony on May 24, 2008 4:39 PM

Picture this. olbamma gets elected (I think I just threw up in my mouth). I dont think his promise to get our troops back home is possible. What is bathtub-boy going to do? His hero gets elected, then does NOT end the war. Remember, these are the same democrats that promied to end the war and bring gas prices down when they won in 2006.

By MikeC on May 24, 2008 5:02 PM

Sadly, neither Oralmann nor any of the other radicals at MSNBC/NBC/CNBC/NBC Sports/NBC affiliates/NBC Universal/USA Network/GE/RCA (hell, they bleed into everything) are going anywhere. While most Americans can't stand them and want them gone so the brand can return to good standing, the screaming minority (as opposed to the silent majority) love them to bits. They're making money hand over fist over hand and everybody's talking about them. They're winning in the demo more often, especially on primary nights and the weekends. They're very satisfied. God help us.

By MikeC on May 24, 2008 5:09 PM

And what's more, they have their middle fingers raised in unison as they say, "F*** those n**c** right-wing lunatic fringe warmongers! F*** Fox! F*** Bill O'Reilly!" I'll bet they're actually doing that.

By MikeC on May 24, 2008 7:31 PM

With regard to Hillary, I've grown to like her and her supporters, in the way the enemy of the enemy is my friend.

By MikeC on May 24, 2008 7:32 PM

Let me rephrase that: the opponent of the opponent (Obama).

By Grammie on May 25, 2008 12:03 AM

After reading the transcript I decided to watch the video. I got as far as

"[camera pivot; raise your voice]

Those words, Senator?

You actually invoked the nightmare of political assassination."

and I had to bail.

Thank you so much for the OlbyRobot, MikeC. Not only is it a hoot I can actually claim truthfully that I heard it..

By Sharon on May 25, 2008 1:07 AM

"Republicans tried for many years to go after the Clintons and drive down their support in this country. A decade later they failed. The far-left wing of the Democratic party, in just four short months, has done more damage to the reputation of the Clintons that the archiest of the arch-conservatives could ever have dreamed of doing." (Robert)

-Exactly what I have been thinking but verbalized much better. With that kind of power in the media, the re-election of Bush seems pretty incredible.

"What I kept thinking was, as Keith went farther and farther out on a limb, that apparently Keith does not realize that within NBC are many people who SUPPORT Hillary and have good relations with the Clintons (Tom Brokaw comes to mind)." (Robert)

- I guess he thinks he will go down as a martyr.

By CountDung on May 25, 2008 7:55 AM

Every Friday I'm going to list Herr Traitors advertisers. I'm putting the list into Excel so it's taken me a little longer than anticipated.

Here our the main offenders:

Mercedes Benz

Purina
Thomasville Furniture
Centrum Silver
AT&T
Coffee Mate
Marriot
V-8
UPS

HBO special "Recount" LOL - Losers!

By CountDung on May 25, 2008 8:04 AM

Here ARE the main offenders I mean.

By Robert Cox on May 25, 2008 11:07 AM

Sorry, but I prefer staying at Marriot hotels when I travel and I have an iPhone which means I have service from AT&T.

I do not drive a Mercedes, own a cat, drink V-8 or use Coffee Mate in my coffee. Not sure why Centrum Silver would be advertising on Countdown since we all know it such a young, hip audience but I don't take that either. I do ship using UPS and the UPS Store is near my house. I don't really care about Thomasville furniture one way or another.

Now, what might be MORE effective is boycotting GE products. I hearby refuse to purchase any medical imaging equipment, jet engines or gas-powered electrical turbines until Keith Olbermann is removed fired by NBC.

By MikeC on May 25, 2008 2:27 PM

Also, some of those sponsors are also sponsors for "The Factor." UPS, for example.

By CountDung on May 25, 2008 4:54 PM

I hear you Robert. It is interesting about Centrum. I think his viewers might include 60's radicals that are now professors that can afford Mercedes Benz's.

A few people from News Busters wanted a list of his advertisers so I said I would do it over here. I just wanted something to attack him but I see now that it's futile.

Besides I agree with you that he's going down, hoisted by his own petard.

By MikeH on May 25, 2008 11:08 PM

"I hearby refuse to purchase any medical imaging equipment, jet engines or gas-powered electrical turbines until Keith Olbermann is removed fired by NBC."

I'm way ahead of you there Bob! ...... I haven't purchased any of those things for over a year now.

I just KNEW we could find some common ground!

By Olby Sucks on May 26, 2008 12:07 AM

Those words, Senator?

You actually invoked the nightmare of political assassination.

Krazy Keith

LOL!

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