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

Host: Keith "Czechoslovakia" Olbermann

Topics:

• McCAIN SMEAR DU JOUR
• McCAIN SMEAR DU JOUR PART DEUX
• McCAIN SMEAR DU JOUR PART TRES
• VEEPSTAKES

Guests:

• Howard Fineman, pundit with shoe polish in his hair
• E.J. Dionne, reliably leftist scrivener
• Vote Vets Obama tank-dweller
• Jonathan Alter, affectionately known to his friends as "Lefty"

Shock! No Wolffe Man? Was Chris Kofinis out of town tonight? Another Shock: Olbermann's stunning treatment of the threatening letters and pseudo-anthrax sent to two different McCain HQs today.

Remember the outrage when Edward R Olbermann got his letter with fake anthrax in it? Remember how he rushed to blame people like Michelle Malkin, blaming their words for demonizing him? Merkle tonight did not blame anyone for demonizing McCain (whom Olby has called everything from a disgrace to a delusional crackpot). He oddly made no such reference. In fact he was strangely silent about this news. Here we have terrorist attacks (Oralmann's own description) directed against a Presidential candidate, but Fat Ass doesn't get riled up about it, doesn't even bother with the story. Why would this be?

dcmeyer:
I couldn't get past Olby's carnival barking opening spiel tonight, "McCain meltdown." I guess getting spanked by The Ingraham Factor last night really gave KO the vapors.

Great Thanks:
John McCain is out of touch with Americans because he's made wise choices with his money.

EddieB:
I tune in to see just what "olbydouche" might be discussing on a particular night. Tonight, it seemed to me, his WHOLE show was going to be ridiculing McCain for his "HOW MANY HOUSES DO I OWN?" "controversy". I feel utterly stupid even saying this, but how much play would this get if were Obama?? The answer is obvious. How this lunatic still gets 50 or 100,000 people to watch on a given night is a scary thought. What a tool.

ramjet:
The Flaming One Legged Flamingo, previously known as Whatzizname, unbelievably ridiculed the McCain campaign spokesman for using the term " 5 1/2 years in prison" instead of "POW camp," like that's an attempt to try and make the experience seem worse than it actually was--showing precisely how ignorant, insensitive, cruel, and torturous this sad excuse of a pink wading bird really is.

Memo to FOLF:

• 1. POW = PRISONER of War
• 2. The Hanoi Hilton = Hoa Lo PRISON
• 3. Built in 1901 by the French who renamed the street it was on rue de la PRISON," or in Vietnamese, "Pho Nha Tu" which translates to PRISON Street.
• 4. When the French left in 1954, Vietnamese officials changed the name of the street and PRISON back to Hoa Lo.

All things considered, I'm certain Sen. McCain would have preferred to spend 5 1/2 years in whatever the FOLF's conception is of a prison rather than the "camp" he 'attended.'

Quads:
Howard Fineman wishes he can be "cool and accepted" on Countdown with the olbyloons. The black hair dye just is not cutting it, but he tries oh so hard to hit Olby's wheelhouse demographic of 18-24 year old young boys.

Citizen Keith continued to advance the notion that by McCain commenting on the draft, he was essentially announcing his true intentions once he becomes president. It does not matter that the Al Jazeera @ 30 Rock gang (which has become NBC news) reported the story ad nauseam a couple of years back, accusing Bush of wanting to reinstitute the draft --which never happened.

Fat Ass is clearly under the misguided assumption that he can pick an issue and actually make it a campaign issue. Keith is clearly as narcissistic as "legs wide open" John Edwards. But what do you expect from the gang of MSLSD. The acid has clearly gone to there head as they fly the American Flag upside down.

10th Cavalry:
Honestly, I suspect McCain probably doesn't know. The boss has the cash in the family and she is likely to be the owner. At least McCain pays his property taxes. How much property does Fatass own? Hizzoner appears to be a real estate mogul himself but like the slum landlords, tends to forget those tidy little things like property taxes.

Klein should take some hair off the backside and put it on top. Perhaps he can consult with Biden on how to do that.

Observer Dan:
KEITHS MOST PRICELESS BACKFIRE MOMENT: You could almost hear Homer Simpson coughing " DUH!" E. J. Dionne Jr. insisted on squeaking in one last comment, thankfully. It took all the air out of Olby's segment ridiculing John McCain for being a wealthy out-of-touch elitist:

Olbermann: " ..and thank you, uh, go ahead..."
E.J. Dionne Jr.: "uh, ok, and I was going to say we can bring in John Edwards Barber and do some $400 haircuts!
Olbermann: " ..........alright".

Billy Hill:
E.J. Dionne has never looked more like a frog than he did tonite. When his picture flashed up he looked like he was ready to leap, arms spread apart, hunkered over posed in the fly catching mode. What a bunch of weirdos.

Philly:
Lefty Alter prognosticates that Barry Soetoro's veep pick is Joe Biden. The deluded Alter somehow thinks Biden's big obnoxious yap is a plus, not a minus. Gaffetastic! Biden will blow another hole in Barry's sinking ship in no time flat. Olby thinks it's Hillary. Never say never, says Lefty. Hillary's "cathartic process" during Tuesday's floor vote will help unify the party, Alter says. There's no incentive for her to sabotage Obama. How silly. The Clinton's would get someone else to do their dirtywork. What is Alter thinking?

MikeC:
And now, the most dreaded two minutes in television, the latest from the Media Matters grapevine. By that, I mean, it's time for the Media Matters Minute. The good news is there was no O'Reilly attack. The bad news is the following people *were* attacked:

Worse was John Gard, a Republican running for Congress in Wisconsin's 8th District. T. Boone Olbermann says the notion that Cuba is drilling off the Florida coast is "flat-out horse hockey." "Cuba granted *leases* to foreign countries to explore for oil on Cuban *land*. Mr. Gard does make sense at one point in the ad when he concludes, (mimicky voice): 'Makes no sense to me.'" This is the same clueless conservatives card he played with Rudy Giuliani a few weeks ago.

Worser was Gen. David Petraeus! Yes, Jane Fonda Olbermann once again goes after the military...not to mention organized religion. Gen. Petraeus endorse a book by an evangelical Lutheran Chaplain. Horrors! He must be taken down! "Never mind the impact on those soldiers who are not of [the Chaplain's] faith. How about Army regulations against...promoting religion against *proselytizing*?! General Petraeus, who never has never been troubled by Army regulations, nor *Constitutional* ones, claims that when [the Chaplain] asked him for a recommendation, he didn't give him permission to *publish* it, that it was only intended for [the Chaplain] personally." An evil grin sets in. "Yes, you're right," Rev. Olbermoronn tells his credulous lemmings, "that *doesn't* make any sense. Guy asks ya for a book blurb and you don't expect him to print it. But it gets worse." I'll bet it does. "Petraeus' endorsement has been on that book jacket...since the book was published *last year*." [But he only made 'worst person' tonight, because the blue blog source, HuffPo, only recently covered this. And it ain't news on OlbyPlanet unless it comes from a Blue Blog.--J$]

Worst was "comedian [ding!] Rush Limmmbaaaugh, defending John McCain... What else? That's what it says on the Talking Points Rush gets. ...by attacking Obama's response to McCain's attack ad." There goes the Talking Points meme again. Talking Points this, Talking Points that. Oralmann does a Limbaugh impression while reading a parsed blue blog quote. He then chimes back with: "There's...4,000 jokes in there, like, uh, 'bout the last time comedian [ding!] was called either little...or a *man*. But hidden in that statement...Rush? You're suggesting that you should be able to hit the girl?" Okay, I don't know if that's a pleasuring reference or a violence against women reference. "Comedian [ding!] Rush Limmmmmbaaaaaugh!" And you know what the last line was.

Katy Turic:
McOlbermahn thinks he's McCute
McJournalist in a McSuit
McHack, McInsane
McObama's campaign
McOlbermahn will McPollute

And that's The Hour of Spin for this, the 837th day since the declaration that "Karl Rove will in fact be indicted".

Great thanks to our OlbyWatch recappers who contributed!

7 Comments

By Mike C. on August 22, 2008 12:45 AM

Corrections to my contribution:
1) "Gen. Petraeus *endorsed* a book..."
2) "... 'Gen. Petraeus, who has never been troubled by..."

So, Keith "Rip 'n Read" Olbermann strikes again.

By CountDung on August 22, 2008 12:46 AM

*Rush? You're suggesting that you should be able to hit the girl?" Okay, I don't know if that's a pleasuring reference or a violence against women reference. "Comedian [ding!] Rush Limmmmmbaaaaaugh!" And you know what the last line was.*

Is that like "Hillary and a guy go into a room and only the guy comes out?"

Just wondering.

By CountDung on August 22, 2008 1:20 AM

*How this lunatic still gets 50 or 100,000 people to watch on a given night is a scary thought. What a tool.*

Well let's look at the KOS kiddies first. They consist of 300,000 mentally ill drug smoking drunks who are either on campus or in their Mom's basement. They have isolated themselves to the point that friends and family ignore or hate them. Their only friend now is Olbermann.

Then there's the 700,00 grown ups who couldn't stop smoking pot and in their self loathing have never done anything constructive to help society. They love Keith because he mocks those who do constructive things for society. And yes, they also live in Mom's basement even though most of them could afford their own place.

Conclusion:

Losers

By cee on August 22, 2008 9:29 AM

Ah, another check-off on the radical leftist hit parade for Keith Olbermann.....Hatred of Christianity.....with his screed against General Petraeus. Lovely.

Why do the zealots on the religious left take such umbridge for people publically expressing their faith? Christianity has many attributes and one of them is recognizing their is a God....It is a requirement and I am sorry if discussing such a thing makes the secularist uncomfortable, but please put the pitchforks and torches away! Let's avoid something akin to the Salem witch trials!

General Petraeus has made it clear that he believes there is religious freedom in the military but that does not mean there is a gag in his mouth regarding his belief that there is a God and that faith in Him influences those believers in all walks of life, including in the military. The atheist can simply snicker at this belief, make his or her argument on the values of their beliefs, and move on.....OR be a hateful fanatic requesting the squelching of basic human rights and file a lawsuit like some on Olbermann's and Obama's team are planning on.....

http://tinyurl.com/5buoeq

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Some religious bigots are actually calling for the general to be court martialed....I wonder what SNOBamessiah thinks about this request from his base?

VERO POSSUMUS!

By Scary Uncle on August 22, 2008 1:11 PM

Keith Olbermann...to quote you, "Why do you hate our military?"

By Tony on August 22, 2008 6:15 PM

Im not sure which name I like better for Olbermann.

Rip n Read
or
Jane Fonda Olbermann.

By Drunk Cubs Fan on August 31, 2008 1:12 AM

Nice spinning there, referring to Doocy's "doosy" as a joke.

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