Countdown's Worst Persons: Inhofe, McCain's Hezbollah Connection & BillO
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Senator James Inhofe took the Bronze in Thursday's Worst Person in the World segment on Countdown, for cutting and running on Senator Jim Webb's GI Bill after initially having the guts to co-sponsor it.
The Silver went to Senator John McCain for dumping a Dearborn Michigan man from his Michigan campaign after a right wing blogger informed his campaign that the man was a Hezbollah supporter, and the Gold went to ...BillO.
Mr. Orally wins the honor this time for sounding like an angry gym teacher during his interview with Senator Hillary Clinton which aired last night. BillO slammed his usual targets, Kos, George Soros, yadda yadda yadda, and then proclaimed the interview was a World Exclusive! -- except for Keith's World Exclusive! interview with the Senator some ten days earlier and others that preceded it.
O'Really? Again.
Like the villains who cannot commit crimes without leaving clues for Batman, Bill-O can't go 30 minutes without saying at least 1 easily refuted falsehood.
Countdown’s Worst Persons:
Anyone who makes quote marks in the air with their fingers.
That exclusive should garner him some emmys
Inhofe could win the gold every night as far as I'm concerned. His attitude toward global warming is offensive. He thinks the whole thing is a hoax that is being perpetrated on the American people.
How come Keith Olbermann didn't make Olbermann's Worst List for this?
Keith Olbermann's Idea For Beating Hillary: Literally Beating Hillary
(Remember, neo-progressives: if Phony Outrage Olbermann made a crack like this about Obama, you'd be screaming about lynching threats. So eat it and smile.)
He forgot Jon Stewart's "World Exclusive"
and Steven Colbert's "World Exclusive"
and WWE Smackdown's "World Exclusive"
Hillary-O'Reilly Part I — Best All Year
The ratings are in from Wed. night, and Sen. Hillary Clinton's first ever appearance on The O'Reilly Factor proved ratings gold for the FNC program. Bill O'Reilly saw his best ratings of the calendar year last night, and at least the best ratings since mid-November 2007.
In the A25-54 demo, O'Reilly's 939,000 viewers put him ahead of the rest of the three networks (CNN, MSNBC and HLN), totaling 768,000 viewers. The 11pmET repeat of The O'Reilly Factor was the second highest rated cable news program in the demo last night.
In Total Viewers, O'Reilly saw 3,664,000 viewers, compared to the three-network total of 2,435,000 viewers.
25-54 demographic:
8pm: O'Reilly 939
8pm: Countdown: 271
Nice showing, Keith.
Giving O'Reilly the WPITW award both nights- you stay classy.
Keith also thought Hillary's appearance was a sign of desperation.
Keith Olbermann:
"...But hasn't the most telling explanation about the surprisingly-yawny Billo interview struck anybody? She did it because it was serious free television time and if it costs much more than free, she can't afford it.
She was doing a freakin' info-mercial...."
"...And the desperation in this was not one way..."
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/2/115219/2226/754/507740
TheToonGuy @ 2:
Now you've just insulted Doctor Doom and the Joker by comparing them to Bill-O.
They God for Keith. If it wasn't for him, MSM would throw us another Beck and Billo. Like I need old rich, older Bush sycophants to tell me the news.
Bill O'Reilly is literally incapable of honesty.
Every sentence he utters MUST have some sort of deceptive bend to it.
He can not tell the truth, not even if his blood were drained and replaced with sodium pentothal, and he was grafted, mind and body, to a Truth Telling Machine.
A vibrating one.
I thought it was getting harder and harder to get people to join the military? The Gi bill hasn't seen any improvement for how many years? I guess some in congress haven't hear that at the current rate the military will not be able to continue to do it"s job ( whatever that is??) How do the rethugs plan to make the military bigger ( Mccrazy wants a bigger military) The only way to get enlistees is to draft them maybe the chicken hawks should offer up their offspring first no deferrments period that would stop most wars in a heartbeat.
How much does the military/industrial complex lose every day it has to be more than most social programs get every fiscal year- I guess we'll never know because unlike other government entitiies they do not have to do an audit
i think Bill O probably meat it was a World exclusive for hillary to be speaking with him, not him speaking to her. Once you embrace his narcissistic world view and throw reason and facts out the window, a whole lot more makes sense!
Milquetoast interview is right. Or perhaps Infomercial. Of course Orally uses is to try to marginalize Kos, MoveOn, and other progressives, and I'm sure Hillary doesn't give a damn.
My Nomination for a Best Persons In The World Award:
Oakland Teach-In Looks at Budget Cuts and the War
James inhofe meet the 28%ers,28%ers meet James Inhofe the energy bill he was behind was so full of hand outs to the oil industry maybe they should just give them the keys to the treasury and cut out the midleman.
The guy is a bought and paid for tool.
Mans not causing global warming yeah right go tell that to the pacific islanders that will have now home in a few years because of the rising oceans
Inhofe can head over to see his friends at the elite front group ..and pray with those in the Pentagon and at the Department of Defense... for stronger ties with businessmen in the oil and aerospace industries.
http://harpers.org/archive/2003/03/0079525
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pissed off patricia @ 5:
POP,
Slight addition: He thinks the whole thing is a hoax that is being perpetrated on the American people by the left.
Because, apparently the poles aren't melting where he lives. Has anyone mapped the planet Inhofe lives on yet?
Happenstance @ 6:
Okay.
Do you honestly believe for one second that Olbermann wants Hillary Clinton to be physically beaten, or even (gasp!) MURDERED, as some have charged??
I mean, really? Do you really???
It's beyond ridiculous.
And I think there's a tiny bit of difference in what Keith said, which, I assume is being pushed and pulled and interpreted into some sort of overt, sweeping promotion of violence-against-women in a predominantly male-oriented society, and someone coming out and saying a black man should be "lynched."
The backroom thing was a metaphor that could be applied to anyone, regardless of sex or race, while the other is very historically and specifically aimed towards blacks---black males, in particular. And I'm not sure how replacing the name "Hillary" with "Obama" in the same metaphor instantly mutates it into a lynching metaphor.
My guess is that if Keith HAD said the same thing about Obama, no one would even have noticed. And we all certainly wouldn't be reading post after post condemning Olbermann The Thug.
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Post #19 for a Hillary crybaby to come in with unprovoked attack. I am keeping an unofficial tally in my head how long it takes for each thread for someone to roll in with that stuff.
I supported Edwards, voted for Hillary, I like Obama, his style, his maturity and his message as well as I could like any politician, and still this kind of pants-pooping annoys me to no end. At LEAST save it for a Hillary or Obama thread, pls?
The North Pole is now the North Buoy
I haven't read the comments, but I'm willing to bet princess has posted....most likely something about ratings.
princess @ 8:
Wow, big surprise....Princess always sticking up for her man!
Can we start a fan club cajoling Keith Olbermann to turn off the snare drum background noise?
It splits my head and makes me turn off his show.
Please will someone join me in complaining about this?
Why is he doing it? He didn't used to do it.. I mean all show long he does it now.
Dr. Biitter Hussein (Mission Accomplished) Matt @ 24:
Ignore Dennis!
dennis @ 8:
Can you explain to me how this information benefits anyone except Billl O'reilly himself? All you are demonstrating is that you are someone how is easily bought and paid for. Milli Vanilli's debut album sold more than Beach Boy's Pet Sounds, does that make them better? Hell, American Idol out rates everyone. What is your point? Why do I get the feeling that I am not the first person to point this out?
Dr. Biitter Hussein (Mission Accomplished) Matt @ 24:
That's the second time you done that; acted like you hadn't read the previous comments and then pretended to be surprised that your suspicions were true.
Are you auditioning, perhaps?
Maybe Cusack still checks in here occasionally, who knows.
Put a Peter Gabriel CD in your boombox and close your eyes and wish real hard, maybe he'll surprise you with a response to one of your posts. :)
dennis @ 29:
You're very predictable Dennis.
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That had me in tears,... the air quotes around "Exclusive" -- I'm still laughing.
Thanks Keith. Once again, you skewer the inflated egos.
Keith is just jealous. Hillary wanted to go on a show people actually watch.
I can't stand Keith, I can't stand watching him, listening to him and even thinking about him. He has certainly turned into a monster.
Jay Severin Has A Small Pen1s @ 4:
PEABODIES! A THIRD one for his show! Way to go, Bill-O!
Yellowbird @ 26:
Or at least add bagpipes.
JC in Kentucky @ 32:
Hillary was on Countdown a couple of weeks ago. GOSH that must be another "WORLD EXCLUSIVE"
Olbermann is the worst person in the world.
dennis @ 8:
Note it took a Clinton for him to earn those ratings. Everyone knows BillO's so
full of itabrasive, a lot of them probably tuned in to see what kind of crap Papa Bear would throw her way and to see if any squabbling went down. Rather than tuning in out of any particular desire to see his show. Conflict makes for good ratings.That said, I do wish Keith would kinda back off BillO unless he does something especially heinous. We all know by now that the jankball does stuff to earn WPITW status everyday... move on to fresh material.
At least Obama and Clinton went on Fox, and in my estimation,
both got the better of the deal. I am pleased to see that Howard Dean will be on FOX this weekend. I have no doubt that he will give as good or better than he gets.
Its high time Dems. woke up and realised that Fox is here to stay,
and instead of promoting some phoney pathetic boycott of their network, went on at every opportunity and made their case as forcefully as possible. Kos, Move ON and HuffPO can whine all they want about it. The fact is a large number of people watch FOX to the exclusion of all other networks.
You don't win converts by preaching to the congreation, you win
converts by going into the lions den.
I am proud that at least a few Dems. understand this and are willing to fight the good fight. Maybe a few others will follow suite and this party will start to grow a spine. It is long over due.
Lion's den? More like "lying den". And Faux (as shown by Orally) has the ability to cut one's mike, shout over them, and even selectively edit what they stated in conversation. Also (as shown by Orally) they frame the interview in Repub terms. Look at the way Orally got Hillary to say that the energy problem was both parties faults equally, and she went right along with it. They plan these events out in favor of their agenda. Their agenda is for Hillary to win the nomination (as shown by Murdoch's support of Hillary). So Hillary had it easy. Not so in the general election -- Faux would rip her to shreds, and would have a much easier time destroying her chances than Obama's. Hence Murdoch's support of Hillary.
And Faux was adversely affected by the Boycott, before both candidates decided to break it. Look at Orally's ambush of Obama at that event a while back where he broke into the no-press-zone to nearly beg Obama to come on his show.
I am curious. How is a 'James Inhofe' created? And worse than that, how does a 'James Inhofe' get elected?
Love Keith, but his obsession with Bill O is getting tiresome. Bill is ridiculous and most thinking people now this. There are people with real power that do many, many worse things on a daily basis that deserve the gold. Yes, I know Bill has the power of his ratings behind him, but the anti-intellectual lemmings that watch his show are a lost cause, anyway.
Can't say I'm too upset that he slams Bill nightly, but Keith should pull it back a little. Is Bill really worthy of this much attention?
Keith Olberman has lost all credibility along with Rachael Maddow and Gene Robinson. His ego always has and always will overload his ass. Now he's just making himself look like a fool nightly.
Remember when he used to have Craig Crawford on his show? Crawford would not go along with all the Obama ass-kissing and Hillary bashing and was not invited back after he called Keith on it.
Otay @ 40
Are you aware that Murdoch's daughter held a huge fundraising bash for Obama? Maybe the agenda is to get Obama the nomination so they can rip him to shreads in the general? That is looking like it will be a whole lot easier for them to do than to Hillary. She's a fighter and won't back down - he will fold like a cheap suit and we will watch McCrazy win the presidency.
Bluesage @ 43:
I think you're wrong on this one. Here's Olbermann at Kos:
My very first diary here was in reply to a series of comments - it was only in January, for goodness sakes - that I was biased towards her, against Obama and Edwards.
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And because I have not been willing to agree that it would somehow be a good thing for a presidential nomination to be decided in a back room, in favor of a candidate whose nomination is now being transparently campaigned for by the far right - because I haven't done that I've been picketed as a sexist, described as less "fair" than Fox News, and gotten death threats.
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The ugliness you perceive in the coverage, emanates from the covered.
Perception: It's a helluva concept.
Bluesage @ 44:
Yeah, she sure fought FISA (translation: could not be bothered to even vote on it, let alone speak out against it), she sure fought LIEberman's attempt to pave the way to war with Iran with the Kyle/Lieberman act (by voting for it), she sure fought the banks attempt to take advantage of American consumers with the Bankruptcy act (by voting for it), she sure fought McCain in this presidential run (by praising him).
Granted, she has fought fellow Dems, MoveOn, eliminating the gas tax, so she's good at sticking the knife in her own team's backs.
By the way, liked the way you condemn Murdoch's daughter to the sins of her father. Nice work there.
At this point, Hillary couldn't win a position as dog catcher. And maybe not even that. Too many people and their dogs are sick and tired of Hillary lying, conniving, and backstabbing. And then grabbing the hanky every time anyone so much as criticizes her.
Andy K Jong Il @ 45:
This is one of the big reasons why many people will not vote for Hillary anymore, not even for dogcatcher.
Billo is such a liar and not much of a spinmaster, History will not remember him kindly.
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