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In his latest great Bob Lee Swagger thriller, I Sniper, author Stephen Hunter has a character state sarcastically, “Someone once defined a newspaper gun story as ’something with a mistake in it.’” You’d think that if Keith Olbermann was going to mount his high horse, do a superior act and be sarcastic about someone he would at least have the provable facts straight. Sure, he twists the truth out of all proportion every night, on his “Worst Person in the World” segment, and slanders anyone who disagrees with him in unconscionable ways—but usually it takes more than a simple Google...

On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann delivered a "Special Comment" aimed at Tea Party activists in which, rather than rhetorically bludgeoning them with his usual name calling, he came across as trying to reason with Tea Partiers, appealing to them to admit to having racist motivations against President Obama as the Countdown host suggested that he felt sorry for them. Before a commercial break, he plugged the segment, relaying that he would ask questions to Tea Party activists "sincerely and with sympathy." At one point, Olbermann even seemed as if he were on the verge of expressing remorse...

Here is video of Keith Olbermann saying that "Deniers" are showing "ignorance" by citing the recent winter storms as evidence disproving global warming. (Video) Olbermann said, "the record snowfall has exposed just how ignorant leading deniers are...they think it's disproved by snow." He continued to mock people for saying that snow is evidence that there is no global warming, despite this video showing Democrats Robert Byrd, Barbara Boxer, Amy Klobuchar, and Diane Feinstein in the past all making an argument for global warming by citing warmer winters and little snow as evidence.

Not really, but Keith Olbermann’s latest conspiracy theory rivals having Republicans under his bed. During last night’s Countdown, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann attacked those “crazy” conservatives for what he perceives as a right-wing conspiracy to convince Americans his show’s ratings are plummeting and his popularity is fading. Of course, the origin of his latest fanaticsm is none other than the uber-liberal L.A. Times. This particular piece appears to have Olbermann bent out of shape: Where they are, as Jeff Bercovici points out over at Daily Finance, is way behind the big boys over at Fox News, Bill O’Reilly and gang....

On Wednesday, President Obama had something of a Howard Beale moment. Speaking to a group of Democratic senators, the President exhorted his listeners -- and, by extension, all Americans -- to break the cable news habit. "If everybody here turned off your CNN, your Fox, just turn off the TV, MSNBC, blogs, and just go talk to folks out there, instead of being in this echo chamber where the topic is constantly politics," Obama said, things would be an awful lot better in Washington. His appeal threatened to alienate some of his loyal supporters in the media -- MSNBC actually...

Well, perhaps Keith is at the helm of a rapidly sinking ship. He did hit an iceberg, and it’s name is reality. Keith, being a lefty, is reality impaired, leading him to make statements such as this.

Stuart Schwartz excoritates bovine college grad, Keith Olbermann for, among other things, his venomous misogyny: “Olbermann does not like women, especially attractive and/or accomplished women. Nor is he particularly fond of men. He is forever the awkward, angry teenager of his high school days who mystified psychologists, the überdork whose cruel taunts of the athletes he covered as a sports broadcaster were legendary, even as he yearned to be thought of as the stud that covers studs. Give it up, a Philadelphia Inquirer sports columnist suggestedafter watching Olbermann ridicule the appearance of an overweight athlete. He noted that the hefty...

Remembering this self-deluding rant last year when Bill O’Reilly dared to mock Keith Olbermann’s ratings? OLBERMANN: I hate to intrude with the facts, but ours is the highest rated cable news program [among] viewers 35 and younger, and the highest rated cable news program for all viewers not on Fixed [i.e., Fox] News. And since Fixed News has now migrated completely over to serving propaganda to tinfoil hatters, conspiracy theorists, paranoids and racist, it’s not a news organization, making THIS [Olbermann's] show the highest-rated cable news program, period. Here’s tonight’s big number, as Chris Matthews would say– 44! That’s right,...

Here is video of Keith Olbermann claiming that "Countdown" has "the highest rated actual cable news show." (Video)Olbermann said that since "Countdown" is beating CNN and HLN "it's the highest rated cable news show not on Fox News, meaning you know, it's the highest rated actual cable news show." Olbermann was responding during his "Worst Persons in the World" segment to Glenn Beck's mocking of his low ratings.

A lot of leading thinkers on the right have warned about this, but now with President Barack Obama no longer enjoying high approval ratings and many of his defenders with their back against the wall, the race card is being deployed as one of the last lines of defense. And one of the most bizarre and egregious examples of this desperation to defend the President at all costs came from MSNBC "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann. On his Jan 28 program, he singled out Erick Erickson of RedState.com, John Stossel, host of the Fox Business Channel's "Stossel", Jay Nordlinger of National...

Last week, Keith Olbermann infamously broke into MSNBC’s coverage of Scott Brown’s acceptance speech with the exclamation “My God, he’s still talking!” Brown dared to talk for about 20 minutes to gathered supporters who had helped him pull of a historic victory which changed the landscape of the nation, politically. To a large extent, we can probably blame Scott Brown for the extreme length of Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address, which was undeniably shaped by the shellacking the President took last week—not to mention, last Fall. Despite the fact that it seemed to drag on like one...

Serious question: was Keith Olbermann this upset over Umar Mutallab's attempt to kill everyone aboard NWA 253? Olbermann predictably led this evening's Countdown with the James O'Keefe story—the arrest in connection with the apparent attempted interference with Sen. Mary Landrieu's phone system of the young man who exposed ACORN. Faith-based readers should actually be encouraged, because Olbermann appears to have gotten religion. Keith is clearly praying—fervently—that this will turn out to be, as the Countdown graphic suggests, "Watergate Jr.," with Republican officials revealed to be behind O'Keefe's latest venture. Read more:

Remember how ESPN forced Rush Limbaugh out of his analyst gig back in 2003 for having criticized the media for the way it had promoted - to him unreasonably - a black football quarterback? No? Well, here's what got him canned: "I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. There is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn't deserve. The defense carried this team." Ugly? Hardly. Vicious?...

Keith Olbermann’s recent transformation from a harsh but reasoned critic of the right, to a hyperbolic caricature of bluster was best exemplified by his recent run-down of Senator-elect Scott Brown. Many media critics noticed it, but most notable was Jon Stewart, who eviscerated his shtick Thursday night. Even Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher asked yesterday “Is Olbermann losing it?” So many of us were shocked by his response last night when he agreed with the critique, and even said “sorry.” Kudos! Video: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/olbermann-to-stewart-point-taken-i-have-been-a-little-over-the-top-lately/

Watching coverage of the Massachusetts senatorial election Tuesday night, I wondered if MSNBC was getting ready to cut off its cable signal to the state. Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, positively enraged that Massachusetts dared to elect a Republican, delivered two hours of nonstop bilious rage toward the state's voters, calling them "irrational" and "teabaggers," engaged in "a total divorce from reality," and hinting that they're vicious racists to boot. If you watched CNN or Fox News last night, you got a balanced analysis of how Republican Scott Brown pulled off the political upset of the century (or, if you...

Jon Stewart mocks Keith Olbermann for his attacks on Scott Brown and other conservatives, including Rush Limbaugh and Michelle Malkin.

In his hysteria over the Democrats losing “the Kennedy Seat” on Tuesday, Keith Olbermann, like Mary Jo Kopechne’s chauffeur, may have gone a bridge too far. While there is no doubt that NBC (over) pays Olbermann to be provocative and to be outrageously leftwing to fill a (shrinking) market niche; it will be interesting to see if Keith’s new employer, Comcast, is going to stand for deliberate slander of a prominent public figure. Today, the invaluable and venerable Media Research Center does a devastating job of disproving every one of Olbermann’s “factual” assertions in his slanderous rant against Massachusetts Senator-Elect...

This is a two part YouTube "mockumentary" poking fun at the dinosaur media and their treatment of the Tea Party. Enjoy. Starring veteran character actor Basil Hoffman and the head of Hollywood Republians, Mell Flynn.

Watching MSNBC last night was a good deal of fun. Rachel Maddow lost her smirk and went glum all night, Chris Matthews babbled incoherently and engaged with some Democrat activist woman at the bar he broadcast from all night—and Keith Olbermann decided he wasn’t quite crazy enough of the election eve. While Fox News played BOTH concession speeches in their entirety without comment, Olbermann broke into Brown’s victory speech with this rant: OLBERMANN My God, he’s still talking! Senator-elect Brown is still giving his victory speech tonight in Boston. Howard Fineman will help me wrap it up — if he...

[Video] "In short, in Scott Brown we have an irresponsible, homophoblc, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, teabagging supporter of violence against women and against any politicians with whom he disagrees. In any other time in our history, this man would have been laughed off the stage as an unqualified and a disaster in the making. Instead, the commonwealth of Massachusetts is close to sending this bad joke to the Senate of the United States."