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If someone told me five months ago that in early January I would pay over $1,400 for an incredibly inconvenient plane ticket and $120 for a 3 a.m. cab fare to get from sunny Los Angeles to Wasilla, Alaska, I would have told them there was a better chance the Dow Jones would be below 9,000 and a gallon of gas less than two dollars. If they would have told me I’d be glad to have made the journey (even with a seven-hour, weather-aided stop in Seattle), I would have told them Sarah Palin had a better chance to be...

It's that time again, time to look back at the year and ask you, our readers, who was the ultimate douchebag in 2008. Just like last year, we make the nominations and you cast your vote. Winner takes all - the Douchebag of the Year Award. (See the winner last year here.) Here are the nominees, and if we've missed anyone feel free to email us with why you think they deserve consideration. Post your choice or email your vote of nominee to contact@itsfirstfriday.com. The "winner" will be announced on the first Podcast of the year and here then. And...

Herr Olbermann and his MSNBC goons as expected were absolutely orgasmic as they slobbered all over the incident and video at a press conference in Iraq where President Bush was the shoe-target of a rogue member of the Iraqi Press Corp. If you study these two videos, you might note that there are parts of at least 25 replays (total) of the President getting shoes thrown at him; At one point during the second video with Howard Fineman MSNBC ran the video EIGHT straight times. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUItgEIfe-g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9-xlMWfqJM

Keith Olbermann, the anchor of "Countdown," will remain at MSNBC through the next presidential election season, the cable news channel announced Monday afternoon. The announcement came less than two years into Mr. Olbermann's current four-year deal. MSNBC essentially tore up his February 2007 contract (reported to be worth up to $4 million a year) and wrote a new one, according to two employees with knowledge of the agreement. The new contract is valued at about $7.5 million a year, one of the people said....

Keith Olbermann's e-mail response to Time about the Saturday Night Live sketch in which Ben Affleck parodied him this past weekend is so patently Keith Olbermann that it almost seems like the SNL staff wrote it. He begins lightheartedly enough: SNL and my Football Night In America show share adjoining studios, so upon my arrival yesterday, awaiting me was one of the cue cards from the bit, with Ben writing of the sketch: "Keith - Remember, a) I didn't write this; b) it took years of study - fondly, Ben." Right, so we are duly informed that (a) Ben Affleck...

Pretty funny One quibble: I've never seen Olby's guests push back as much as these do. Usually, Wolffe and the gang dive right into the crazy. But high marks overall, and long overdue.

Ben Affleck, who’s hosting “Saturday Night Live” this week, was rehearsing a skit this afternoon mocking Keith Olbermann when Olbermann himself got past security to watch, according to a source with knowledge of the incident. A source described the skit as “savage,” in portraying Olbermann as a deranged person living at home with his mother. Affleck, said a source, became uneasy with Olbermann in attendance at the 3 p.m., closed-set rehearsal. But Olbermann, through a spokesman, was complimentary on his first time being mocked on "SNL" — a position his MSNBC colleague Chris Matthews has been in over the years....

Olbermann crashes SNL set Ben Affleck, who’s hosting “Saturday Night Live” this week, was rehearsing a skit this afternoon mocking Keith Olbermann when Olbermann himself got past security to watch, according to a source with knowledge of the incident. A source described the skit as “savage,” in portraying Olbermann as a deranged person living at home with his mother. Affleck, said a source, became uneasy with Olbermann in attendance at the 3 p.m., closed-set rehearsal. But Olbermann, through a spokesman, was complimentary on his first time being mocked on "SNL" — a position his MSNBC colleague Chris Matthews has been...

Here is video of reaction to Barack Obama's 30-minute infomercial last night by his two biggest fans - Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews of MSNBC. At the 55-second mark of the video, Matthews begins his review of the infomercial by saying "it was Hollywood, it was romance....." There's more fawning from both if you want to hear it . . . . . (Watch Video)

RED HOAX BLUE HOAXOctober 29, 2008 As the case of Ashley Todd reminded us again last week, racial bias crimes are almost always hoaxes. Todd is the Republican volunteer who claimed that a black man in Pittsburgh had pummeled her and carved a "B" into her cheek after spotting the "McCain-Palin" bumper stickers on her car. A lot of people suspected the case was a hoax from the outset, including Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, who immediately said: "It could be bogus. I'm a little skeptical about this, but our duty ... is to report everything to you." The claim was...

What do you get when you combine critique from a left-wing storefront and an off-base conclusion with a dose of overbearing hyperbole? A three-minute segment on MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann.” The Oct. 29 “Countdown” took a shot at conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, claiming he was “defending racism and he’s pro-slavery” in a segment on his popular radio show. Olbermann named Limbaugh the runner-up in his “Worst Person in the World” segment for the day because of Limbaugh’s commentary about remarks Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama made in a 2001 Chicago public radio interview. In the interview,...

Hugh Hewitt, conservative talk show host on the Salem Radio Network, doesn’t worry too much about the Fairness Doctrine making any sort of comeback. According to him, it simply couldn’t pass Constitutional muster. Yet, there are many conservatives who aren’t quite as assured as Hewitt – especially with the very real possibility of a filibuster-proof Democratic Congress tag-teaming with a White House occupied by the Obama-rama leftocracy. As Brian Anderson wrote in Monday’s New York Post: Yes, the Obama campaign said some months back that the candidate doesn't seek to re-impose this regulation … But most Democrats - including party...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvJciFtlF7k Video of Keith Olbermann in meltdown mode, before we all found out the "kill him" story was fake. Keith has not retracted this story, and I doubt he will! No wonder this guy has no ratings! What a HATEFUL MAN!

What happened to Keith "I can see Russia from here" Olbermann tonignt on Football Night in America?

Dr Mark Levin tries to reach out and touch someone: (Audio at link)

Congratulations to Jonathan Alter, he wins the Lighten Up Francis award for the week: Jonathan Alter: “Unleashing the furies of the dark side of American politics, perhaps risking some peoples lives if things get out of control. All of that is out the window in the service of winning an election.”Tried to embed the video, perhaps someone can do it, video at the link.

Just when you thought Keith Olbermann couldn’t go any lower, he plunges to new depths that seem almost unimaginable for someone pawning himself off as a journalist. On Friday, the "Countdown" host actually told his viewers that National Review editor Rich Lowry’s published opinion of Sarah Palin’s performance during Thursday’s debate "read like soft core porn." MSNBC’s leading on-air personality disgustingly concluded: "I don`t really care if you sat there last night during the debate and masturbated. But was it really necessary to tell America about it?"

It's not like we haven't seen this before. But this time it was so incredibly blatant that it raises the question: why have Olbermann on the air at all? Why not just let Markos Moulitsas be the guy who hosts Countdown and runs MSNBC?

If you've ever had the stomach to sit through one of Olbie's Special Comments you will enjoy this! Click source link above.

<p>David Letterman let his hair down and really exposed his liberal side. When John McCain canceled his appearance on the Late Show Letterman proceeded to mock John McCain with McCain’s replacement guest Keith Asswipe Olbermann.</p>

With two weeks under her TV belt, Rachel Maddow has become a bonafide hit for MSNBC. Last week the program was #2 in cable news in both the A25-54 demo and in Total Viewers at 9pmET, beating CNN's Larry King Live. FNC's Hannity & Colmes was the top-rated broadcast at 9pmET. On Friday, Maddow's was the #1 show in the demo at 9pmET topping a Hannity-less H&C. Last Tuesday and Thursday, Maddow's program was the #1 show on MSNBC. In the two weeks since Maddow took over the 9pmET slot, the program's nine shows have averaged 556,000 demo viewers and...

"...Getting to the bottom of evolution...Genetic study investigates the origin of the anus...research is opening a lively debate on the origin of the anus...Today, two evolutionary biologists have published genetic evidence in Nature1 that they claim refutes the leading theory of anal evolution..."

We learn this from Drudge: MOVE OVER, OLBERMANN, RACHEL MADDOW TOPS MSNBC RATINGS! [AND SHE BEATS LARRY KING, TOO] CABLE RACE, TUES, SEPT 16 HANNITY/COLMES 3,136,000 O’REILLY 3,060,000 GRETA 2,908,000 HUME 1,977,000 COOPER 1,828,000 RACHEL MADDOW 1,801,000 SHEP SMITH 1,724,000 KING 1,710,000 OLBERMANN 1,635,000 GRACE 1,166,000 DOBBS 1,156,000 HARDBALL 821,000 Poor Keith. Rachel Maddow’s got the juice. She just might be MSNBC’s Sarah Palin. Which would make Olbermann, presumably, Joe Biden?

Looks like Olbermann isn’t starting the week off on a good foot. The Edward R. Murrow Apparition was unable to claim his usual #2 spot at 8PM in 25-54 last night. (That's Olbermann's primal scream Rorschach inkblot). Placing fourth on Friday during a big night of news – Hurricane Ike, Olbermann was not able to climb back to his perch. Instead, he was #3 last night in his time slot, behind Nancy Grace. Monday 8PM 25-54 Ratings: FNC’s O’Reilly Factor: 773,000 in 25-54 demo (had 3.5 million viewers last night) Headline’s Nancy Grace: 586,000 in 25-54 MSNBC’s Countdown: 571,000 in...

Sorry for this vanity, but I am about to explode. Yes, I have turned them off. I may even bleep MSNBC from my lineup. But, it galls me that these smug, condescending, arrogant airheads get the time that they get. It's criminal.

Call this the meeting of the minds - should it ever happen, but the host of CNN "Lou Dobbs Tonight" has a message for MSNBC's "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann. Lou Dobbs, a self-described ‘independent populist' that espouses his anti-free trade and protectionist viewpoints on CNN nightly, appeared at the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit. It was there that Dobbs revealed his disdain for Olbermann. "Did somebody mention Keith Olbermann?" Dobbs asked rhetorically. "By the way - I was delighted to hear that - well, let me say, let me put it this way just very clearly - I'm a...

Olberman is a GIANT GASBAG (remove G add S before B) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odb09esH8z4 Watch if you dare, prepare to be MAD.

by Chris Spangle ~ September 10th, 2008 Obama is apparently taking advice from Keith Olbermann these days. At 6:03 in this video, Olbermann implores Obama to start proclaiming ENOUGH, more. Start being angry So Obama took his advice, and proclaimed ENOUGH during his piggish press conference today. Go to the 1:45 minute mark.

But 9/11 has become a brand name. A Republican campaign slogan. Propaganda of the lowest form. 9/11 has become 9/11 with a trademark logo. 9/11 (TM) has sustained a president who long ago should have been dismissed, or impeached. It has kept him and his gang of financial and constitutional crooks in office without — literally — any visible means of support. The political party in office at the time of the attacks, at the local, state and national levels, the party which uniformly ignored the warnings and the presidential administration already through twenty percent of its first term and...

The executive suite at MSNBC is the last hardened corner of America to concede that maybe Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews are nowhere close to the textbook definition of detached, "straight news" anchor. Their decision to abandon what was tenderly called their anchoring "experiment" only acknowledges that the idea was a bust: MSNBC was regularly coming in dead last among the commercial cable-news and broadcast-news network covering the conventions. NBC News is coming to the realization that Olbermann and Matthews aren't only suppressing MSNBC's ratings on election and convention nights, they're ruining whatever credibility NBC's brand retained. When the boos...

BUSH 7, TERRORISTS 0September 10, 2008 Morose that there hasn't been another terrorist attack on American soil for seven long years, liberals were ecstatic when Hurricane Gustav was headed toward New Orleans during the Republican National Convention last week. The networks gave the hurricane plenty of breaking-news coverage -- but unfortunately it was Hurricane Katrina from 2005 they were covering. On Keith Olbermann's Aug. 29 show on MSNBC, Michael Moore said the possibility of a Category 3 hurricane hitting the United States "is proof that there is a God in heaven." Olbermann responded: "A supremely good point." Actually, Olbermann said...

The drama began on Sunday, Aug. 24, at a panel discussion in Denver among Sunday political talk show hosts. There Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell asserted that throughout the primaries MSNBC had favored Barack Obama over his preferred candidate Senator Hillary Clinton. Afterward, Tom Brokaw defended NBC News reporters but acknowledged feeling that certain anchor-pundits had crossed a line. “I think Keith has gone too far,” said Mr. Brokaw. “I think Chris has gone too far.”

....The Democratic convention was a disaster for MSNBC. With Olbermann and fellow Obama-lover Chris Matthews in the anchor chairs, the network became a glass case exhibiting a zoo of dysfunctional egos within. Olbermann and Matthews bickered all week. At one point, Olbermann made fun of Matthews by making a flapping-gums hand gesture, prompting Matthews to say, “You made that sound, Keith. I can do the same to you.” Olbermann also sparred with Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough. After Scarborough noted that McCain had gained in the polls, Olbermann muttered, “Jesus Joe, why don’t you get a shovel?” (the implication being...

At the risk of sounding agonizingly trite, let me take a moment to say that MSNBC's Keith Olbermann is a colossal jackass. He is, too, a liar and an undisciplined dullard. (The extraordinarily obvious is sometimes more beneficial than the simply obvious). Mind you, his opinions in and of themselves alone don't prompt me to this conclusion. Rather, it is his vile and disgraceful tendency to resort to disgusting personal attacks, unsubstantiated falsehoods, and a lack of professionalism that too often has him emoting like a pre-pubescent, foot-stomping little girl demanding a replacement light bulb for her E-Z Bake oven....

Less than a week after Sarah Palin's vice-presidential acceptance speech allusion to the liberal media prompted chants of "NBC, NBC, NBC" from Republican convention goers, MSNBC has dropped Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as co-anchors of its major political coverage. The outspoken pair will return to their roles as spirited commentators, the network formally announced Monday - to be replaced for the duration of the campaign by NBC White House correspondent David Gregory. The move has become a political showcase of its own, however, with some observers blaming the proverbial "right-wing conspiracy" for the decision. "The right dictates MSNBC's programming...

MSNBC said Monday that it will replace the team of Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann as anchors of its live political coverage for the rest of the presidential campaign season. David Gregory, NBC News’ chief White House correspondent, will be the primary host of coverage of the presidential and vice presidential debates coming up over the next two months, as well as election night, said Phil Griffin, MSNBC’s president. The decision was first reported in Monday’s editions of The New York Times and The Washington Post...

The MSNBC cable channel has sidelined two Democrat-supporting presenters from coverage of major political events, after months of concern that their political leanings were colouring their work. Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews will now appear as commentators on big occasions such as presidential debates and election night itself on Nov 4, but will be kept away from the anchor's seats. The change reflects tensions that have erupted during the presidential campaign between the freewheeling, opinionated MSNBC and the established, impartial NBC News, its parent company. The tipping point appears to have come during last week's Republican convention, when Mr Olbermann...

MSNBC's announcement that it is replacing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews with David Gregory as anchors for its main political events (the upcoming presidential debates and election) vividly illustrates several long-obvious facts. First, nothing changes the behavior of our media corporations more easily than vocal demands and complaints from the Right, which petrify media executives and cause them to snap into line.

Meltdown at MessNBC Olbermann, Matthews relieved as co-anchor chairs during any more political coverage on MSNBC, the leftist network rated lowest during convention coverage.

In case you missed it, MSNBC has decided to replace its election coverage co-anchors Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann with David Gregory. Having followed Matthews career since his days with the San Francisco Examiner, and watched his ascendence at CNBC and MSNBC resulting from the success of "Hardball," I wonder why he got the boot along with Olbermann.[snip]..... [snip]..With the exception of Joe Scarborough's on-air squabble with David Shuster during the Democratic National Convention, the rest of the well-publicized bickering that week all involved Olbermann. These included two tussles with Matthews (here and here), one with Mike Murphy, and one...

Rachel Maddow is so Keith Olbermann's protege, she's supposedly trying to get people fired. Just like her mentor! "Maddow tried to replace all the staffers who work on the 9 p.m. time slot, which she takes over on Monday, but management refused," claims the indefatigable Page Six. This would be, of course, Dan Abrams' former team at Verdict. And ya know who Olbermann can't stand? A one Dan Abrams, who for a time played MSNBC general manager, and thus, Olbermann's boss, but the two never clicked, and neither wanted to pay mind to the other. You'd expect, then, that the...

click a picture to watch Keith, Chris and David fight for the "Big Chair" at MSNBC:... ..

MSNBC to drop Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chairs. To be replaced by David Gregory for debate coverage. Developing.

<p>MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair... David Gregory will anchor news coverage of the coming debates and election night.... Developing...</p>

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann was upset that they played video at the Republican convention that included the 9/11 attacks. Talk-radio host Mark Levin has a different opinion: This is the video that Keith Olbermann does not think we should see. Me.A friend of a friend took two photographs at 8:49 a.m., September 11, 2001, from about halfway up inisde the South Tower, 14 minutes before Islamic terrorists slammed United Airlines Flight 175 into it. Those photos are hard to look at. They show smoke pouring out of a gaping hole in the North Tower above, from where American Airlines Flight 11...

Mike Reagan says he is furious at Olbermann's dissing the 911 tribute at the RNC last night. Says he is going to play the tribute multiple times. Call him with your thoughts. 800 468 6453 You can listen to the stream at Reagan.com

Last night the RNC did a tribute to 911. It is a powerful video that will make you angry. You can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVtZGczFdpg Keith Olbermann took great umbrage at it. Frankly, I didn't know he could go any lower.

If you watched MSNBC on mute Wednesday night after Sarah Palin’s speech, it looked like the top story was that a hurricane swept through the North Pole and killed Santa Claus, so crestfallen were the network’s stars. It was the same with the sound up. Keith Olbermann’s first words after the applause in the Xcel Center finally died down were, “That appears to be the end of it.” He sounded relieved. The same man who literally couldn’t find anything wrong with Barack Obama’s speech in Denver last week — calling it “spellbinding,” “fully realized” and “tough” — found that the...

Activists say "Tropic Thunder" portrays a handicapped man in a denigrating light. But on that basis, shouldn't they also protest "Countdown with Keith Olbermann"?