And then, there's this from the occasionally-good Mediaite: Keith Olbermann Misses The Point Of Fox News’ Latest Ad.

Luis Gonzalez is arguably the best Diamondback player ever... nuf sed.

Oops! A few months after putting a Toyota dealer in WPitW, an ad for MSNBC.com videos, like those on the "Countdown" website is for...Toyota! What does the infamous, deplorable one have to say about that? Here's what he said on February 8:
"Now, it's their advertising money and they can spend it any way they want. But when you want to punish journalists for trying to keep the public from getting killed in your lame ass cars, try to keep that a secret, because otherwise every news organization in the country is going to pick it up and pick on it, and remind the country whenever possible that if you want a car that doesn't stop, visit Ed Sheehy, especially at his dealership, JM Toyota/Lexus of Margate, Florida, where the Toyotas are literally driving themselves out of the show room."
I know Olbermoronn has nothing to do with advertising on MSNBC.com, but you know where to visit him and pick on him.

In the present:
#5: The continuation of the politicizing of a disaster. Video title: "Oil disaster cools drilling fervor." The Wolffe Man was on hand.

#4: Video title: "Salvaging Arizona's immigration law." A progressive Arizona State House Democratic Caucus constiutional attorney was the guest.

Oddball: Pass.

#3: Video title: "A chicken in every crackpot." A full segment attack on Sue Lowden. Harry Reid's opponents must be stopped. Keith and Kos, the guest, will be damned if the Senator is dealing cards at Caesars Palace next year. He must stay in office and stay the Senate Majority Leader. Yes, OlbyWatch reader, I hate him, too.

#2: The Media Matters Minute. Worst was David Krikorian. Speaking of dealing cards, the race card was played again.

#1: Thurber Bowl V. I didn't watch, but I'm sure Keith concluded with a Bush/Iraq/"Mission Accomplished [Ding!]" attack. Why? The speech on the carrier was seven years ago tomorrow. Let it go, dude.

There were only three Olby-approved far-left partisan hack guests tonight.

If you're scoring at home, and even if you're alone, here are the repeat guests for the week:
Richard Wolffe: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday
Howard Fineman: Monday, Wednesday
Prof. Jonathan Turley: Tuesday, Wednesday

Blue suit interviews with far-left politicians: 5 (Gutierrez and Sh. Brown on Monday, Grijalva and Kaufman on Tuesday, Bob Menendez on Thursday)

Comedians/actors that flushed their credibility away: 2 (Paul Rodriguez and Dave Foley on Thursday)

Guests that are likely banned from OlbyPlanet for challenging King Olbermahn: 1 (Dave Weigel on Monday)

Don't expect this from me every night or week. I'm only one man.

Sorry, no abstract tonight. I went star gazing at the Barnstable-Brown party. It's derby eve here in Louisville and I gave myself the night off. God knows Keith does it enough. I walked in after seeing some c to b listers, tuned in to the repeat and SURPRISE! NO 10 PM COUNTDOWN! It's Who do you think you are (the one where Sarah Jessica Parker finds out she the decenant of a witch- Big suprise there). So it's straight to Docs for "The place for politics".

April is in the bag so I'll recap attendance numbers so far:

January: 18 out of 20 days worked
February: 18 out of 20 days worked
March: 4 out of 23 days worked
April: 19 out of 22 days worked

None of the above include holidays

As for April I think the number off was 3, one day spent at a Yankee's game and the other two soaking in the tub after donny deutsch compared him to glenn beck. If the april numbers are wrong let me know.

I too was planning on recapping by watching the 9PM CST replay, and instead was subjected to another MSNBC non-political special that nobody cares about (not to say that people care about Olbermann either). Luckily, Greta was going live and never takes a day off, so it wasn't a complete loss regarding cable news.

Are Olbermann's ratings really so bad that MSNBC just gives up on Friday evenings? I have never seen a cable network that works on a four-day work week schedule. Monday-Thursday, the PLACE for POLITICS. Friday-Sunday, your pedophilia/genealogy/violent crime super store! It's not like television news is expensive to produce either, Fox News is pumping out at least 10 hours of new programming every weekend, I don't think MSNBC can come close to matching that. Perhaps Olbermann should be nudging his host network towards actually putting in an effort on the weekends prior to claiming they are the #1 non-entertainment news channel.

I am never "entertained" when I watch MSNBC. Nor am I ever "informed". So in that case, it's the #1 "non-entertaining, non-informative news channel on TV!

syvyn11:

Wait. Isn't Olbermann still crying "RAAACISMMMMM!!" like a broken record sans substantiation? Maddow? O'Donnell? Schultz?

Make that the "#1 non-entertaining, non-informative, STALE-news channel".

I'm watching the Fox News the Annual Journalism Dinner. Obama took a swipe at Keith. Commenting on his honorary first pitch that he threw at the Washington Nationals game, he first took a swipe at Fox News, but then he said that MSNBC--and showed Keith's face--had a screen saying, "President throws a no-hitter." I wonder if J$ might use that as a basis for the his next post here.

Time once again for the Olby Week in Review.

(Not titled as such)

http://tinyurl.com/2cq7x6b

Keith has started on Friday his "Twitterexclusive: The Tworst Persons". On this, he provides his own sources.

Here's my abstract: "Tworse: Meet Axel G., The Demon “A$$bomber” Of Wartberg, Germany" (My censor)

http://tinyurl.com/29cv9gh

Not worh commenting on.

Silver: Tworser: House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) for wanting to repeal the entire Health Care bill, except for the GOP ideas that Keith claims weren't GOP ideas.

http://tinyurl.com/3xd86v3

Comment:
His source and its sources say nothing about what Boehner said were GOP ideas not being GOP ideas. However, either way he does deserve this award, but the correct reason is because he should instead want the entire HC bill repealed--period.

The Winner and "Tworst Person,"--says you, Keithy poo--Dr. Pat Betroche, because of saying off the cuff that we's for advocating microchiping Illegal Immigrants.

http://tinyurl.com/35vmpcu

http://tinyurl.com/325twwp

Comment: I say that this is an idea worth debating.

And the Countdown to Keith Twittering his way off the air continues....

Correction: "we's" should read as "he's".

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/01/new-york-city-police-close-times-square-investigation/

We dodged a big one tonight, my friends. Tonight (or this morning) let's pray for our Police and Fire Departments accross this nation that this is only one bomb.

I'm going to say IF this gets covered on Countdown, Olby will blame either Bush, Cheney or Rice.

Just for the record, FNC and MSNBC (I'm shocked they stopped airing docs) are covering this live at 12:50 am. CNN is running a rerun of Larry King Live.

the worst part about his twitter comment was not the mixed sports & politics, but that it was factually incorrect. One of the biggest baseball nerds & card collectors doesn't even know the rosters well enough to know that PIT/OAK/SF/TOR do not have any "prominent" Hispanic players.

the worst part about his twitter comment was not the mixed sports & politics, but that it was factually incorrect. One of the biggest baseball nerds & card collectors doesn't even know the rosters well enough to know that PIT/OAK/SF/TOR do not have any "prominent" Hispanic players.

sorry for the double post. IE is extremely buggy with this site....

syvyn11,

I was at the Kentucky Derby this year too. Went down Thursday night with some friends. It was my 12th Kentucky Derby and I love it every time I go. We partied at 4th Street Live Friday night and went to the Derby on Saturday. We ended up seeing Julius Erving and Denny Crumb after the race. Pretty good Derby this year (except for the weather)...but I won a little money on Ice Box so the weekend wasn't a total loss.

Hey there brad90956 and syvyn11

Do you 2 live in Ky? We're up here in Northern Ky about 25 miles south of Cincinnati.

Submitted for your approval, Fox Haters Week in Review.

http://tinyurl.com/29pt9tp

Lived in Louisville all my 41 years. Born bred and at the end, I'll be dead here too.

Never been to Derby (5 miles around is a mad house Derby Day). I go to Churchill about 3 times a year.

And Brad, it's "Denny CRUM". Saying "Crumb" could get you killed in some parts of town. Me, I'm a UK fan.

And now for on topic stuff. Here's a story about the Depolrable One at biggovernment.com

http://bigjournalism.com/mopelka/2010/05/02/is-keith-olbermann-actually-the-worst-person-in-the-world/

Is Keith Olbermann Actually ‘The Worst Person In the World?’

Posted By Mike Opelka On May 2, 2010 @ 1:57 pm In MSNBC | 1 Comment

Did MSNBC’s prime time clean-up hitter go crazy in the locker room last week? That’s the story bouncing around the web and even the New York Times [1]. Olbermann has denied derailing the Donny Deutsch train, but he admits doing nothing to stop Deutsch’s early dismissal from the 3 p.m. time slot. As the Left likes to say, silence is consent, Mr. Olbermann.

What could be so offensive that would have Keith Olbermann (allegedly) going “full diva,” demanding Deutsch get put on double-secret probation? Simply this: the most famous graduate of Cornell Cow College [2]’s name was mentioned in a segment about some of the loudest media voices on the first episode of “America The Angry.” Remember, Keith Olbermann is the guy who spends an hour a night, calling other people names, on a show featuring a segment where he nominates and crowns someone the “Worst Person In The World.”

Perhaps Olbermann’s rage is fueled by fears of his own demise? According to the ratings, Mr. Olbermann’s spot atop the MSNBC Star Chart is in danger [3]:

“During the month of April* MSNBC’s Countdown With Keith Olbermann trailed the Rachel Maddow Show in primetime adults 25-54 ratings, the demo group that news advertisers target.”

Star performers acting like divas and throwing temper tantrums is nothing new in the world of entertainment and sports, worlds where Olbermann has spent considerable time. Many pro sports teams put up with this kind of behavior. However, tantrums are only accepted by ownership/management when the team is winning. And MSNBC is not winning, unless you consider “winning” to mean regularly earning half the ratings of the leading cable news channel [4]. (That would be FOX NEWS, for the record. But they’ve only been #1 for the past 100 months in a row.)

History also teaches us that Olbermann may have started to see his own end coming a year ago when Maddow apparently aced him out of a much-coveted Ben Affleck interview [5]. He stomped his feet, demanded the interview be moved into his show, Maddow and company reportedly said “no” and Keith took some much needed time off, without warning. Gawker.com [6] reported the story, Olbermann denied it, Gawker stands by their story.

In June of 2008, the New York Post printed a story about Mr. Olbermann’s [7] alleged berating of MSNBC staffers when he did not get a first-class seat on a train to DC and ketchup could not be found at the Kennedy Center. Again, Olbermann denies the allegations, the Post stands by their reporting.

Anyone seeing a pattern here?

Angry anchors and testy TV hosts are not breaking new ground. We’ve all seen the YouTube clips of Bill O’Reilly ranting at his staff – Bill even addressed this on his show [8]. However when a network devotes so much time to pointing out the anger of those opposing the current administration’s plans, and how that anger could possibly, maybe, just might have a ghost of a chance of fomenting some sort of domestic terrorism ala Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing… you have to wonder about MSNBC and their apparent, unquestioning support for Keith Olbermann.

Here's another story from the same website on Keith Olbermann.

"Have Even 'Progressives' Finally Had it with Keith Olbermann and MSNBC?"

http://tinyurl.com/2e7yojt

syvyn11...My apologies about misspelling Denny Crum. Sometimes the spell check gets the better of me. I'm also a UK fan all the way back to the Joe B. Hall era.

SoCalRightist...I live in Toledo, Ohio but I grew in Elizabethtown, Ky. A teammate of mine in high school got a basketball scholarship to Northern Kentucky University so I've been there many times.

In one word,yes!

http://bigjournalism.com/mopelka/2010/05/02/is-keith-olbermann-actually-the-worst-person-in-the-world/

TinyURL version: http://tinyurl.com/2by64sc

@tmfa: Exactly. I had to spend a few minutes thinking about one on the Pittsburgh Pirates, since they're my favorite team. The only one coming close is closer Octavio Dotel. And Dotel is 37 years old and well past his prime. He's not an All-Star and he isn't a future HOFer. Then there's Ronny Cedeno, who is still relatively young but probably isn't going to an All-Star game any year soon. Usually guys who hit 8th or 9th just don't go to All-Star Games. And finally, Jose Tabata and Pedro Alvarez are still in AAA and considering their pedigree, they could be All-Stars some year, but since they're not on the Major League roster, they don't count. Keith Olbermann, the laziest fact checker ever.