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

Host: Keith "Czechoslovakia" Olbermann

Topics:

• VEEP SPECULATION
• OLBY SUDDENLY SPOTS TIGHTENING POLLS
• McCAIN SMEAR DU JOUR
• McCAIN SMEAR DU JOUR PART DEUX

Guests:

• Chuck Todd, slumming on OlbyPlanet
• Richard Wolffe, UK exchange student
• Chris Kofinis, unofficial OlbyPlanet co-host
• Bob Herbert, Obama tank-dweller

Wow, Todd and The Wolffe Man. We haven't seen them for--what?--hours! Yes, both were just on The Hour of Spin 24 hours ago. Looks like the parrot pool isn't very deep, now that Dana Milbank has been banished for activities counter to the State.

Observer Dan:
KEITHS EDWARD R. MURROW MOMENT:
Keith at least 7 times making the lofty assertion that Joe Biden announced he had just had a successful bowel movement.

10th Cavalry:
Oralmann is the consumate asshole. Obama maybe misleading his party about Biden as the choice and McCain about Liebermann. That is viewed as Obama doing a head fake and McCain lying. Oh well guys like him crash and burn. For awhile they think they have a rocket ship up their A_ _, but eventually the fuel runs out. Then it is crash and burn.

Quads:
Keith at the bidding of MSNBC News executives (oops that is Keith actually) are now playing the "draft card" in response to a question posed to John McCain on the campaign trail. How many times has the Al Jazeera @ 30 Rock gang that could not report straight tell us that Bush was going to institute a draft when the war was going bad?

Now Goebbels Wing Man is accusing McCain of lying to us about the speculation of the Lieberman VP candidacy. Amazing how on Olby planet, McCain can be accused of lying to all of us based on the MSLSD gang's ignorant speculation based on the mis-direction bait about Lieberman being VP timber.

"How many more wars does John McCain want to fight?" said the discredited communications director of John Edwards. The fact that this man is even still getting a slot on Olby planet is in itself mindboggling.

ramjet:
The flaming one-legged flamingo, formerly referred to as Whatizname, does the dealing from the bottom of the deck two-step by claiming Opama Opponent is either crazy or dangerous (do I here 'both') for allegedly changing his position opposing the reinstatement of the draft because he'll need all those extra troops for all the sabre rattling and bomb, bomb, bombing of Iran that would be the souless heart and heartless soul of the foreign AND domestic policies of his (God help us, everyone) presidency.

But seeing now that he has not walked back from that election dooming gaffe, guranteeing a street level gathering of outraged draftees and their sobbing mommies and daddies that will put the doddering candidate's doddering campaign out of its misery, once and for all, how can this possibly be turned around? Will the campaign shrug it off as just another verbal typo? Or will they trudge forward down the road of kamikaze kalamity.

Only problem is it's a conclusion that follows a premise that is founded upon a dilemma that was created by a decision that was caused by a bout of insanity or a strain of incompetence (or, do I hear both?) which can be the only explanation that explains how this happened, even though it didn't.

J$:
Notice how when the discussion is about the Democratic race, Oralmann interviews a Democrat. And to be fair and balanced, when it's about the Republican race, Olby interviews...a Democrat! Really, Chris Kofinis, Edwards hack, is on this show so much that they might have to start listing him in the credits. This of course mandated an updating of The List--here's just the past few months. See how many times CK has sat in the Seat of Honor on OlbyPlanet:

• June 6: Chris Kofinis (D)
• June 9: Scott McClellan (R) [speaking against Bush policies]
• June 11: John Kerry (D)
• June 20: Chris Kofinis (D)
• June 23: Markos Moulitsas (D)
• June 25: Robert Wexler (D)
• June 30: Jim Webb (D)
• July 1: Chris Kofinis (D)
• July 17: Chris Kofinis (D)
• July 21: Chris Kofinis (D)
• July 22: Chris Kofinis (D)
• July 25: Bob Barr (L)
• July 31: Chris Kofinis (D)
• August 8: Chris Kofinis (D)
• August 12: Chris Kofinis (D)
• August 20: Chris Kofinis (D)

MikeC:
In the Media Matters Minute, ONBC's (see The Cable Game) Keith Oralmann continued to take advantage of a vacationing Bill O'Reilly--trying to find *anything* related to him, even if indirectly--by doling out O'Reilly Attack #507. Before the attack came these:

Worse was Mitt Romney. "Joining the chorus of those on the right who are just not smart enough to recognize the irony in their own macho comments about Georgia and Russia." Yes, Merkle played the irony card again in order to make a conservative or Republican look stupid. In the spirit of Chet Huntley, Keith did a mock impression of Mitt, complete with moderate tempo and pauses, while reading a quote he got from a blue blog. The quote regarded Sochi, Russia, hosting the 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Fat Ass snarked back: "Uh, Governor, I-I know we didn't like them and we decided their government was legit-illegitimate, but *Iraq* was still a sovereign nation and...we acted militarily against *it*. (flashing a thumbs up): Nice work, Bub. You may have just blown Chicago's chances for the 2016 [Summer] Olympics." No, he may not have.

Worser was "comedian [ding!] *Rush Limbaugh*." His crime? He disparaged St. Rachel of Madcow. Bathtub Boy wasn't going to take this sitting down...or in the bathtub. He came back with: "Homophobia and the latent homosexual tendencies contained in that answer notwithstanding, that's a lotta trash talk comin' from a guy with Viagra and an I.V. of it, no hair...and no TV show!"

Worst was another 1,000-mile stretch for an O'Reilly Attack, in this case, #507. Billo! [ding!] The Olbsessed one is mad that Mr. Bill hasn't attacked him personally, going after the big boys at NBC and GE instead. Keith took advantage of News Corp's price going down, trumpeting the news with evil glee, but not before going back to January to read a quote in the Ted Baxter voice. Maybe 1,000 miles was too short a number to describe the stretch. How about 2 light years, trillions of miles! And folks, when I said evil glee, I meant *evil glee*. Keith "Man on Fan" Olbermann lurched backward in his chair as he let out an ultra-sinister chuckle, with the high school senior staff (I've dropped them a grade from my previous recap). Then, "I'll just read this verbatim from the Los Angeles Times." He whipped out a paper...again! What exactly is reading something from a paper, sometimes holding it, supposed be an homage to? I have no idea. Is it an old-timey "this just in to the news desk" sort of thing? Olbermoronn continued with the evil glee (including an "Arr!" for Rupert Murdoch") while reading the LA Times blurb. Yeah, I trust the LA Times. Not! When he was finished, "Now, you might expect me to take this opportunity to claim that I, somehow, influenced News Corp's stock price hemorrage. Nonsense. I will agree with Bill tonight." If you agree, then why are you attacking him? "Stock prices are *his* sphere of influence. Fox is down a third? (leaning right and looking back): Ask the clown! Bill Orally [ding!], today's...Worst...and now discounted by 34%...Person...in the Worrrrrrlduh!"

The Factor:
Hey Keith, what's better? To have a cable show that no one watches while making 4 million dollars or to have a Radio show that 18 million people listen to on 300 hundred stations making over $100 million? Oh and from what KarmaBites tells us, your Viagra joke came up a TINY TEENY LITTLE bit short.

The Factor:
Dogs That Will Never Bark: Rachel Madcow was shopping tapes at the EVIL Fox News.

demeyerr:
Pooches that didn't peep: McCain takes lead over Obama: Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.

Katy Turic:
NBC's on Obama's campaign
For two hours they'll bash John McCain
Meltdown to Mister
Maddow Keith's sister?
"News show of record" for the insane

And that's The Hour of Spin for this, the 836th day since the declaration that "Karl Rove will in fact be indicted".

Great thanks to our OlbyWatch recappers who contributed!