That was a hilarious recap, Johnny. Every time you joked that Keithy is nothing like Tim Russert was while he's dedicating the show to him, I had to laugh. I also liked the Photoshopped image.
I should probably give you an OlbyRobot reading of the recap. That way, everyone can know what I heard as I was reading.

I thought it would be interesting to see how closely his show was modeled after Olbermann's. He didn't flat out dedicate the show to Russert tonight but he mentioned him over and over and over and over, so I deduced that he must have been doing this broadcast in Russert's memory.

More like selective memory.

If KO really wanted to honor Russert today he would have just called in and stayed in the Tub..instead of reminding everyone how big the loss of Russert really is by showing how KO is the future of the profession that he loved so much. New Murrow indeed.

And he wouldn't have made the trip to D.C., where he did tonight's show.

Wow Olbermann really looked especially haggard tonight. Was that because it's Russert's memorial day, or maybe it's because Jimmy Legs is beset on all sides these days with people attacking his style?

I flipped over when he was talking about Enron and Phil Gramm. That was so hard to follow I didn't know it was about gas prices until now.

Outstanding job tonight, Johnny.

You said it all much better than I could have in a million years!

Great Thanks: I think you're on to something.

I think the stress of the criticisms being leveled upon him over the course of the past few weeks, and his unflattering self-reflection following Russert's death is revealing a real sense of burn out.

His style, particularly of late, seems to be to throw anything at the wall and see if it will stick.

It doesn't matter what pertinent associations can be made with Phil Gramm, Enron, Big Oil, credit crisis, some financial institution in Europe, or troops being "not that important". It's all too complicated. (And too stupid for clear-minded souls to care.) But, by golly, devote the air time at all costs!

The goal is to preach to the week-minded the following equation day after day:
John McCain + "liberal scapegoat" = EVIL = Obamessiah victory

Then it doesn't matter.....as long as he fills an hour time slot, the paycheck comes.

Russert must be proud.

Keith's so full of lies he may burst
He named Cindy McCain "The Worst"
Attention span short
Countdown should abort
Because Keith will never place first

When did Limbaugh mention blacks?? Does Keith and his blue blog Democrats & Liberals think their are no blacks in Iowa and Illinois? I would like to take them buy a few little towns called East St. Louis, Belville, and Des Moines. News Flash, New Orleans is not the only city with a black population that has been flooded.

Jason Leopold? Really? Jason Leopold?

Jason Leopold, the multiply discredited, fradulent "journalist" with an Enron/Bush fetish?

This Jason Leopold? "In 2002, Salon.com retracted an article by Leopold which had implicated Bush administration official Thomas White in the Enron scandal; the editors of Salon.com said that it could not authenticate an email that said White was aware of the financial machinations of the division he ran. They also noted that several paragraphs of the article, amounting to 480 (out of 5,000) words were verbatim copies of material that had appeared in The Financial Times. Although Leopold did provide attribution to the FT article, Salon said he did not provide enough attribution for those paragraphs."(Wikipedia)

Jason Freakin Leopold? "May 13, 2006, Leopold reported on the website Truthout.org that Karl Rove had been indicted by the grand jury investigating the Plame affair.[1] Rove spokesman Mark Corallo denied the story, calling it "a complete fabrication".[2] Truthout defended the story, saying on 15 May they had two sources "who were explicit about the information" published,[3] and confirmed on 25 May that they had "three independent sources confirming that attorneys for Karl Rove were handed an indictment" on the night of 12 May.[4] The grand jury concluded with no indictment of Rove." (Wikipedia again)

AHHHH, never mind. MSNBC/NBC NEWS, and especially Tim Russert (RIP, Middle Russ) have a long history of relying on these "Karl Rove will in fact be (has already been) indicted" types to supply their "News." (Yes, David "It's hard out here for a pimp" Schuster, I'm talking to you!)

I guess we can look for Leopold to take over the slot vacated by whichever Obama delegate, er, current MSNBC host gets annointed to sink the good ship "Meet the Press."

I noticed Bruce Springsteen’s musical tribute to Tim Russet ended right when Keith show is supposed to start. Not even a tribute to a man Keith claims he admires can interrupt the daily one hour of McCain bashing?
Shame on you Max Headroom!!

I looked back when this "shocking" revelation about Gramm came out. It dates back to May 29, 2008 by a blog called Money-RX. The guy does a circular argument where he actually uses an MSNBC article (written by KO's producer - shock!) that was written about HIS article as a reference.

So why isn't this in the mainstream news picking this up (as the Kossacks are screaming)? Because it bashes Gramm only when there were many more involved. For instance, "Gramm passed this and that bill !" Really? All by himself? He's one powerful senator.

Another reason it's not mainstream is that the Dems pushed the lenders to lend to people with terrible credit ratings while giving themselves VIP deals.

Johnny $

Outstanding recap...It just gets better and better.

I wish they gave out internet awards...aka "the bloggies".....you guys are the tops.

Olbermann is the furthest thing from Russert.

Just a couple of thoughts on tonight’s COUNTLESS with Keith Olbermann.

First, I couldn’t help but notice that Olbywan introduced Al Gore as a Nobel Prize Winner….

I’m wondering if Barak’s #1 Fan is going to start referring to Rush Limbaugh as comedian AND Nobel Prize Candidate Rush Limbaugh?

On second thought, maybe not….

With past award winners such as discredited ex-President Jimmy Carter, ex-benevolent despot Mikhail Gorbachev, ex-terrorist (only because he’s dead) Yassir Arafat and all but indicted ex-Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, well just leave Al Gore with all that good company…and leave Rush out of it.

Next….this moral outrage over the Curious George thing.

Keith…your MAN CRUSH for Barak is really getting in the way of your objectivity.

For eight years now…you and your ilk have been comparing President George W. Bush to ….everybody all together now….a MONKEY.

Entire websites are dedicated to this premise with hundreds…nay….thousands of side by side photos to drive home this point.

But now…someone comes up with a similar adaptation for one Barak Hussein Obama….and you have full on hissy fit.

Grow up and stow your righteous indignation.

Also Jim it's perfectly fine to imply that McCain wears adult diapers: http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=69153

My OlbyRobot reading was added. What do you guys think of it?

Very nice Mike C! Now I can take it with me!

Anyone can take it with them by going here:
http://www.nextup.com/