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

Host: Keith "Czechoslovakia" Olbermann

Topics:

• OHN McCAIN ATTACK DU JOUR
• JOHN McCAIN ATTACK DU JOUR PART DEUX
• THE ANTHRAX CONSPIRACY PART TRES
• NIGHTLY O'REILLY ATTACK (#502)

Guests:

• Eugene "Geno" Robinson, Obama tank-dweller
• Chuck Todd, numbers guy
• Gerald Posner, conspiratorialist Jimmy Olson wannabe
• Neil Katyal, failed attorney for convicted terrorist

Olbypocrisy Alert! It was only seconds into the opening spiel when Keith Olbermoronn stepped into a minefield once again, exposing himself for the slovenly political hack that he is.

Flashback: Bathtub Boy has been whipping out the anthrax investigation for years to flog the Bush administration. What's taking so long? How incompetent can they be? He was still flogging it in 2007 when he bellowed:

The entire investigation is barely still alive at this point.

And just a few weeks ago, unaware of the progress the FBI investigation was making, "Man on Fan" Olbermann addressed, bizarrely, Condi Rice (!) and snarkily complained about the slow pace of the investigation:

And since you mentioned the anthrax, and we got some of it in this office as nearly seven years ago. How is that investigation going?

So what did Fat Ass have to say today? It's a classic of Olbypocrisy:

The anthrax attacks: The Rush to Judgment!

No, we are not making this up. What a tool.

Crush:
My boss today remarked how the 'oh berrmann' show reminded him of a show that was written and researched by 7th graders. Remember to inflate your tires! Remember when Saddam Hussein told poor peasants who couldn't afford toothpaste that they should use their fingers to scrape their teeth.

story#5- Based on nbc news electoral map analysis. Once McCain chooses Romney, wisc/iowa/minn will lean Republican. I cant even believe I'm using an NBC news map based on faulty info, but whatever.

#4 is about the anthrax dude who commited suicide before he spent his remaining years in a federal prison. I know it's every citizen's duty to question the government, but when you have feds and scientists and corporations all getting together to create militarized anthrax to unleash on a very selective few Americans, you gotta stop believing Elvis is alive and stop searching for the man on the grassy knoll.

#3 Keith is afraid that trying terrorists in Gitmo will lead to American soldiers who are captured to be tried in a similar way. Idiot. They would be beheaded or John McCained.

Mike C:
#2: The Media Matters Minute. Worse was You-Know-Who. We'll get to that in a moment.

Worser was Brian Kilmeade. (Why does Keith hate soccer coaches?) Fixed News! [ding!] Enacting Republican Talking Points! How dare he criticize St. Ron Suskind! Blasphemy on OlbyPlanet. Dumb guy voice for Coach Brian. (Holding finger in the air): "Um..." (Reading paper): "June 17, 2004. Mr. Bush [ding!] told a news conference, quote, 'the reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda...because there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda.' (Looking up again): Brian, never defend the President, even on the stuff that sounds crazy to you. He in history (or is it 'and history?') will always make you look like a dork."

Nikki Tinker. Who cares about that? Skiparoo.

Now, to O'Reilly Attack #502. "The bronze to Billo the Clown [ding!] who's now reduced to congratulating himself about this." Ted Baxter time again. Keith "Man on Fan" Olbermann reaches back to Monday for the second night in a row. This time the Reality Check segment. Bill said The Factor audience is smarter than The Colbert Report audience and a poll proves it (in response to a newspaper article that said the opposite). Since we know not to trust Merkle, you know you can trust the poll BOR cited. ... Wait a minute. Keithy pushed fast-forward on his TiVo because he's suddenly quoting a line about being tired of "left-wing media outlets." This means that although it took me two nights to get to this point, my prediction that Fat Ass would attack our humble correspondent for that came true.

Olbermoronn's retort to Mr. Bill--as if he's paying attention--went like this: "First, the Pew Research Study was conducted in February of Two-thousand-and....zeven." I knew he'd be attacked for that aspect, too, because I agree (I feel dirty for agreeing) that the poll was a wee bit old. "But...(feigned surprise with a chuckle): gosh, Billy..." The sophomoric-and-never-junior-or-senior staff laughs on cue. "...you're crowing about this? Your audience is exactly 4% smarter than those watching a Cahhh-medy show? Uh, 'scuse me. (Lurch toward camera): Another comedy show?" Back to serious/is-that-Billo [ding]-for-real face and on to Worser and Worst.

JustinH:
I watched a little bit of the #1 story: "Doesn't McCain know Paris is mocking him?" He just got compared to Yoda!!! Who wouldn't want to be compared to Yoda!? I dream of being compared to Yoda. "Doesn't he realise they're calling him old?" McCain knows he's old. He knows he has white hair. Newsflash: John McCain has a sense of humor! Oh, dear Lord! Then Olbermann with Maria Milito get to talking about if Paris wrote it herself...."whatever." I saw a better review of this advertisement on "Attack of the Show" on G4. Personally, I thought the Paris Ad was awesome and hilarious. And Olbermann is still a D-bag.

The Factor:
Keith "wives should not be attacked" Olbermann suggest that Senator McCain thinks Cindy McCain is a slut. Keith "I asked Porn Star Mary Carey out on a date" Olbermann thinks that the Sturgis biker rally is full of sluts and whores. Keith then lies and says that unlike Obamanation's fabled Germany visit where "200,000" showed up to see Obamanation "only", people only saw McCain at Sturgis because they were waiting for dumb sluts. In fact before Obamanation's Berlin disaster, there was a free rock concert by a popular German band. Oh, and last time I checked, people in Germany can't vote for President of the United States but bikers at Sturgis can despite what Olbermann wishes.

J$:
Dogs That Did Not Bark:
The one canine who will never be heard on OlbyPlanet is the one that makes corrections. You know, like Olbermann's recent lie about Bill O'Reilly, that he went out of his way not to correct. So it is that a few days ago, Herr Olbermahn was once again taking someone else's words and repeating them. And like the O'Reilly lie, it's another case of not even bothering to check the video to see if they're true! To wit:

OLBERMANN: That not only in that McCain ad were there two underdressed blondes mixed with the black guy in the ad, but there are also images of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Washington Monument, and the Victory Column in Berlin, as Bob Herbert put it, "phallic symbols"--three phallic symbols, two blondes and Barack Obama.

In this case, Edward R Olbermann was relying on Herbert's word. Who needs to actually look at the video anyhow? One slight problem. As The Daily Howler pointed out, it's not true!

Except that isn't the Leaning Tower of Pisa--and that isn't the Washington Monument. What you see is a structure at the Berlin location where Obama was giving his speech. Karl Rove will pay Bob Herbert good money to discuss phallic symbols in John McCain's ads. (There's a bonus for spotting the Leaning Tower of Pisa when it isn't actually there.)... Olbermann had twelve hours to check his facts--but he still was repeating these world-class blunders. For the record, no one had "noticed" those famous structures because they aren't in the ad.

We said it before, and we'll say it again. What a tool.

Katy Turic:
Olby and his tire(d) rotation
Every night there's no deviation
Bash Fox, Bush, McCain...
Sophomoric, inane
Just like Obama's nomination

And that's The Hour of Spin for this, the 822nd day since the declaration that "Karl Rove will in fact be indicted".

Great thanks to our OlbyWatch recappers who contributed!