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On his Countdown show Thursday night, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann devoted part of his "Worst Person in the World" segment to attacking former First Lady Barbara Bush over a donation she made to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund, a donation she required be used to buy education software for Houston schools from her son Neil's software company. Olbermann snapped that if you "make the charity give the donation to your son, it's not a damned donation anymore!" However, the Countdown host neglected to mention that the Bush family had also given other donations without any requirement as to how the money should...

Keith Olbermann should try the insanity defense. That might explain — though hardly excuse — the MSNBC anchor's nutty response to a small item in Monday's column regarding his comments during a C-SPAN interview. Olbermann was quoted accurately on the subject of his corporate bosses at GE and NBC — that "they do not like to see the current presidential administration criticized at all." And that MSNBC President Rick Kaplan — who spanked him last August for his repulsive account of spitting blood into a garbage can — "is a very emotional, very high-strung, gigantic man, also a very squeamish...

LAMB: I mean, is it fair to say you hate the man, or is this just an act? OLBERMANN: He’s so extraordinarily obvious and the antithesis of what I think broadcasters should do and what journalists should do and what people should do that he’s necessary, in some way... But, what he does on the air, everything is a simplification. It goes back to what we were talking about earlier, about inspiring fear in people, both in terms of what the world is going to be like, and also what the rest of the media is like. And I don’t...

Did MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" pull the plug on a guest because she refused to call for Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly's firing? The day before the election, O’Reilly interviewed Angela Alioto, former president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The topic: The city's Proposition I - a resolution declaring that "the people of San Francisco oppose the federal government's use of public schools to recruit students for service in the military." While O'Reilly was aghast over the proposition, Alioto complained the military was going into junior high school and "recruiting 12-year-olds." On his radio show the...

After Michelle Malkin's scoop on Al Franken's violent promotional video was picked up by a number of major websites, public focus turned to the latter's state of mind. Between the bizarre clip and jokes about executing Bush, Rove and Cheney, has Franken gone completely nuts? Or is it some kind of bizarre book selling strategy? In emails to the Radio Equalizer, readers thought that while it might help his Amazon sales ranking, these antics could hurt a potential 2008 Minnesota US Senate run. In the process of moving back to his home state, Franken has long been mentioned as a...

Keith Olbermann tries to pull a ‘John Stewart’ [and failed] by playing a montage of President Bush saying “Osama bin Laden” … four times during a 37 minute long speech about the War on Terror. Liberals complain Bush doesn’t speak about Osama bin Laden enough, yet when Bush does they also complain. I’m telling you, he’s damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t.Olbermann continues his segment, rather statement with a conspiracy theory that the Bush administration was behind the terror threat to distract the news about Karl Rove. Brad Wilmouth has more of what Olbermann said here.Transcript...

Leave it to Keith Olbermann to link the topics of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers and the 9/11 attacks. On his Countdown show on Tuesday night, the MSNBC anchor suggested that Miers was the person who handed President Bush a memo in August 2001 that warned of Osama bin Laden's desire to attack the U.S. This was the same memo that some on the left have used to justify their criticisms that the President should have foreseen and prevented the 9/11 attacks based on the memo's general warnings about bin Laden's intentions. Olbermann teased his Tuesday night show with a...

NEW YORK - There is nothing wrong with an unpopular opinion. Nor is there anything wrong with a subversive one, nor a crazy one. This country was founded on opinions that were deemed by the powers-that-were to be unpopular, subversive, and crazy. Dissent - even when that dissent strays from logic or humanity - is our life’s blood. But if you have one of those opinions, and you express it in public, honesty and self-respect require you to own up to it. Unless you’re Rush Limbaugh.

Newsweek retracts story but the liberal media says it's probably true anyway and points the finger at the bullies in the administration. Newsweek has rejected the resignation of Michael Isikoff, which is probably the correct thing to do. Although the fabricated story was written by Isikoff, it was Newsweek that published the libel and it is Newsweek that is responsible for the deaths in Afghanistan. But all the big shots at Newsweek were innocent. In the case of the Koran item, Newsweek Managing Editor Whitaker said he did not see the final version because he was traveling on personal business....

Left-wing conspiracy theorist/MSNBC host Keith Olbermann caused a stir around the office yesterday by telling the Hartford Courant that his conservative critics are a persecution squad: "There is a whole army of bloggers, radio hosts and TV people who have decided that any deviation from their political view is to be persecuted -- and the 'Olbermann Watch' and [Brent] Bozell jokers [of Media Research Center and Parents Television Council] are foremost among them. We made just as much sport of Kerry as Bush during the campaign, but neutrality is not what they want. They want conformity and a deliberate, institutionalized,...

Also claims that there is a right wing jihad out to get him He made his national name more than a dozen years ago as an anchor on the 11 p.m. edition of ESPN's "SportsCenter," a much-copied mix of sports news, commentary, pop culture and humor. Keith Olbermann has since been on the radio, worked as an anchor for NBC Sports; hosted prime-time news programs; written books; contributed pieces to newspapers, magazines and television; and served as a model for a character on a sitcom based on "SportsCenter." In his latest incarnation, on MSNBC's news program "Countdown With Keith Olbermann,"...

The DUmmies are in a tizzy today. Why? Because the ONE person in the major media, Keith Olbermann that they truly trusted has apparently gone “traitor” on them. And what was this treacherous act of betrayal by Olbermann? I believe the title of this DUmmie THREAD explains it all: “Olberman: Bush Doctrine Seems to be Working in the Middle East.” So let us watch the DUmmie howlings in Bolshevik Red at their former hero while the commentary of your humble correspondent. watching the DUmmies casting Olbermann into Purgatory, is in the [brackets]: Olberman tonight said that Bush's doctrine to...

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann insisted on Monday night that the case of Armstrong Williams taking money from the Bush administration combined with the CBS panel finding no political bias behind CBS's hit job on President Bush, discredits the idea of any liberal media bias. Olbermann also portrayed CBS as a victim compared to the perpetrators at FNC since CBS News "played within the journalistic rules" while "you're not going to see Fox News appointing an independent investigation into its own journalistic ethics or lack thereof" for running the Swift Boat ads which were "full of distortions." At the top of the...

SECURE UNDISCLOSED LOCATION —I’m on vacation again. It is at once touching and scary that I should have to explain why I’m not posting or on television on a given week. Scary, of course, because the latest Gallup Poll which closed Sunday reports that 19% of Americans believe “incidents of fraud” decided, or helped to decide, last month’s election. The most intriguing part of that number is that more than a month ago, 18% of Americans believed there was something illegitimate about the vote. What was and wasn’t legitimate is now difficult to sort. The most, and least, credible stories...

The bitter Civil War over Keith Olbermann vs Bev Harris is becoming quite protracted since SIX DUmmie threads have been devoted thus far to this epic battle. This edition of the DUmmie FUnnies covers the latest DUmmie THREAD of this Civil War. Oh, it is ever so much fun watching my DUmmie Ant Farm lately since, in addition to building Vote Fraud tunnels that lead nowhere, the ants are viciously attacking each other. DUmmie Leader Skinner has promised some sort of a statement concerning this Civil War soon and we are waiting for it with bated breath. Also of note...

DUmmie Civil War has broken out again! Like the previous Dummie Civil War covered in the DUmmie FUnnies this one also involves Bev Harris of BBV scam fame. This time, however, the DUmmie antagonists are gathered around general Bev Harris vs general Keith Olbermann who unexpectedly attacked her last night on his MSNBC show. You can view the internecine warfare on this DUmmie THREAD titled “Olberman/Harris.” As usual the DUmmie battlefield attacks are in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble war correspondent is in the [brackets]. And now let us join the opening shot of this war as...

A day after browbeating Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell for supposedly standing in the way of a recount which would prove fraud in the Buckeye state's presidential vote, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on Tuesday compared Ohio with the situation in the Ukraine, an analogy he called "obvious," and then tossed softballs to Jesse Jackson which reflected Olbermann's presumption that Jackson is pursuing a worthwhile quest in pushing for a federal probe of the "fraud." Olbermann teased the segment: "U.S. citizens have as much reason as those in Kiev to be concerned that the fix was in. So writes Jesse Jackson...

When Senator John Kerry finally came out of hiding on Friday, Nov. 19, and posted a new message on his Presidential campaign Web site, who was holding their breath? An army of barefoot, pajama-wearing bloggers—and their general, the host of MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann. "Regardless of the outcome of this election," intoned Mr. Kerry in a video clip linked to the site, "once all the votes are counted—and they will be counted—we will continue to challenge this administration." "It looks like an M.C. Escher drawing," Mr. Olbermann said in an interview the following Monday. "Is it past or future...

On Friday, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann cited a study by Professor Steven F. Freeman called "Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy" to prove voter fraud in Ohio. This study is now making the rounds on many Democrat conspiracy websites. What Olbermann neglected to say was that Professor Freeman is an anti-Bush liberal activist and member of an anti-war group.

Image Link In case you missed it, here is the inspiration for the photo:Olbermann Rues "News Blackout" of "Cascade" of Voting Problems Olbermann Pursues Contesting Vote: "Did Kerry Concede Too Soon?" MSNBC's Olbermann Indulges in Paranoia About Pro-Bush Vote Fraud