Countdown's Worst Persons: Hayden, Fixed Noise & <i>El Rashbo</i>
By Logan Murphy Tuesday Apr 01, 2008 6:11pm
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CIA Director General Michael Hayden won the bronze on Tuesday's Worst Person in the World segment on Countdown for his claim on last week's Meet The Press that torture is a "legal term" and seemed to be proud that the U.S. hasn't waterboarded anyone in over five years. The silver went to Fox & Friends' Steve Doocy and Gretchen Carlson for misrepresenting DNC Chairman, Howard Dean's statements about Senator John McCain being an "blatant opportunist" and the winner of the gold is perennial winner, Rush Limbaugh.
Limbaugh's Operation Chaos, a plan to get Republicans to cross over and vote Democratic in the primaries, may have backfired on the drug-addled comedian in Mississippi. According to state voting laws, Republicans who actually crossed over to vote in the Democratic contest were not allowed to vote in the GOP primary three weeks later which could cost the party as many as 3000 votes. To make matters worse, it may be just enough to get a conservative Mississippi Democrat elected to Congress! Very nice, Rush...well done.



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I love it when a plan comes together.........or is it fate?
Hayden's initial confirmation hearings foreshadowed his true character.
Sorry to interrupt. [That's OK. You won't mind me deleting this post as 'Off Topic,' I'm sure, since you were interrupting-Sitemonitor]
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The bit about Rush was especially funny:
Man, Rush Limbaugh....what a pimple! But hey, thanks, Rushbo!
Oh I love it when Keith has new faces on.
3,000 pinheads crossed over and can't cross back? Well, that's all part of the GOP's master plan. Isn't that what I get from the MSM? The GOP never fucks up...they're just laying a trap for the Dems.
If Olbermann had personal integrity he would at least once name himself Worst Person. Keith richly deserves the Worst Person award because he draws fat paychecks from MSNBC every two weeks despite the fact that he consistently comes in dead last in the nightly TV ratings. Olbermann is taking money from his employer under a false pretext. He is basically stealing.
About Rush Limbaugh and his operation against democracy...
All I have to say is, if you follow an idiot you are an idiot.
Gretchen misrepresents herself as a human.
GOTTA LOVE RUSH...
AND HOW ABOUT THAT GUY ON UTOOL.... JOHN "THE REPUBLICAN" MCCAIN
abob @ 9:
Back for more abuse hey abob? Aren't you missing Bill'O?
FYI: Keith Olbermann has named himself worst person in the world. What does his paycheck have to do with anything and explain how he's stealing? Cite your source for his ratings?
abob @ 9:
How delightfully unencumbered by logic and fact.
That whole thing with the "Pillsbury Doughboy - doesn't he or his listeners realize how...anti-American that his little plan is? Attempting to manipulate the electorate? Manipulating elections - the hallmark of every totalitarian regime and dictatorship.
Hm. Maybe I'll ask Yahoo answers why Rush Limbaugh hates America.
Pazuzu's Petals @ 12:
[nudge; whispering so as not to scare it away just yet]
Mus' be a republican.
StirFry @ 10:
Ha, Carlson is the show's mina bird.
Someone needs to explain to me how 3000 Republicans switching to the Democrat side for the primaries is going to lose them a seat in Congress. The claim is that 3000 Reps voting for Clinton as a Dem in the presidential PRIMARY race, won't be able to elect their own GOP Congressman but will instead have to vote for a conservative Democrat in the GENERAL election? This makes no sense unless 1) both the primary and the general election are the same election or 2) you can only vote for people in your own stated party.
Does Rush crush and snort his OXY, or just take the whole pill?
Thanks god for Olbermann.
Keith Olbermann is a blowhard.
Olbermann is at his best when he points out how Republican stupidity is turned against them.
NoName @ 17:
Uh, maybe you should go back and actually, you know, LISTEN to Olbermann's WPITW segment. He specifically mentioned that under Mississippi law, if voterscross party lines to vote in a Democratic Primary, they can't cross back and vote in the SPECIAL
geneHUSSEIN214 @ 22:
Continued:
GOP Primary. Attention deficit disorder - sure is a bitch, huh?
PS Sorry for the truncated post
abarts @ 18:
He crushes it up, puts it in those big brown dicks that always has in his mouth, and smokes it.
geneHUSSEIN214 @ 23:
oooo, I like this info.tanx 214
mudshark @ 25:
but define 'special'
mudshark @ 26:
I must admit I don't have a clue about Mississippi Politics, but apparently there is a special primary being held in that state. Keith referred to it, I'm going to have to look up the details. Just yesterday, Yahoo! News ran an AP piece about how Pennsylvania GOP voters were bragging about how they were going to cross over and vote for Hillary and then switch back to vote for McCain in the General election (I'll see if I can find the link). To the legions of dittoheads, this is all just a big game; they don't give a shit about this country. There are times I hope their little game fails and McCrazy does get elected. Let's see how much fun it is when they (or their kids) get a draft notice in the mail.
geneHUSSEIN214 @ 27:
great,thanks I'd like to read that info,but know hurry.On that draft thing,
it's comin.
you know it is.
pretty soon there will be no option,thanx to shit head.
mudshark @ 28:
If we stay in Iraq, it's inevitable. There are just no more troops available. Now, if the Defense Department wants to fill the ranks with highly paid Blackwater mercs, then they're gonna have to explain to all the loved ones of all the dead and wounded troops why there is no money left in the till to take care of the people who sacrificed everything for this country.
Is Wretched Carlson related to Tucker? Oh my god, you mean his parents actually had children that lived???
geneHUSSEIN214 @ 30:
I'll see ya next time 214.gn.
Open mouth insert foot, Open mouth insert foot, Open mouth insert foot
Wouldn't the rush thing be in some other segment. Sounds to me like he did a good thing. Mayhaps KO should start a best person in the world segment also. The contrasts could be interesting.
I'm confused. Rush's antics may end up getting another Democrat elected so how does this make him the world's worst person? I think the better (and more amusing choice) would've been to give him a world's best person selection instead.
SK @ 20:
And you, SK, are ...
Well, define yourself.
I suspect it wouldn't be complimentary.
Here's a mismatch: You and the reich-winger of your choice against Keith and yours truly.
I laugh just thinking about it.
Wasn't Gretchen Carlson Miss America a few years back?
Damn, one of Minnesota's lesser exports.
NoName @ 17:
Republicans who crossed over can have no say in their primaries, so if there is a close race on their side, they can't have their say. Also, no voting in any runoffs that may arise. Thus, some completely wacky wingnut could get on the ballot, or conversely a very centrist Republican who might not compare favorably to a conservative Dem in a general election.
D.G. Bowman @ 35:
Sorry, I'm not a right-winger. I just think that KO is an ego-tripping blowhard who loves the sound of his own voice and I find him hard to listen to.
He's a lightweight, too. The heavies are Tariq Ali, Eric Alterman, Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, Howard Zinn. These folks egolessly lay the heavy shit on the people, sans theatrics. They also don't demand our attention the way KO does.
So that's why I posted what I posted.
Also, I don't compete with people when it come to things like this. I think, just laughing and thinking about it.
Namaste.
blow·hard (blhärd)
n. Informal
A boaster or braggart.
According to the dictionary. Haven't ever heard Keith boast or brag. Did you have a point to make, SK, or are you just another moron?
Yep. Operation Chaos was a resounding success...for the Democrats!
If this is Rush's big plan, I can't wait for him to give out a plan for the general election.
With him on their side, is Obama looking at a 50 state avalanche/mudslide victory?
Comfortably Hussein numb @ 39:
KO's braggartism is implied. I guess I'm the only person who can see it....
If I can call him a blowhard, then I guess it's fair for you to imply that I'm a moron. Fair enough.
I'm not actually a moron, though.
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