Countdown's Worst Persons: Wally World, McCain's Myanmar Lobbyist & BillO
By Logan Murphy Monday May 12, 2008 2:45pm
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It now appears that the case between Wal-Mart and Jim and Debbie Shank will finally be settled, but Keith Olbermann still gives them the bronze award for good measure on his Worst Person in the World segment on Monday's Countdown. As of today, the Shanks should finally have control over Debbie's estate so that her husband can pay for her 24/7 care.
The silver goes to Doug Goodyear, John McCain's pick to run the RNC National Convention -- until it was revealed that Goodyear's lobbying firm netted several hundred thousand dollars for lobbying on behalf of the military dictatorship of Myanmar, which has been blocking cyclone relief aid from it's own citizens.
The gold went to...BillO. Mr. Orally went overboard about a Seattle newspaper for refusing to post photos of two men who were seen "acting suspiciously" on a local ferry, even sending his flying monkey-boy producer to the home of the paper's publisher to pressure him into publishing the photos. As it turns out, the two men turned up at a U.S. embassy a couple of weeks ago and identified themselves as European business consultants who were sight seeing while they had some time off for work. They even turned over copies of the pictures they took that day.
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Whatever happened about that hissy fit he had with Obama's security?
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ysbaddaden @ 1:
Oh, I thought the video hissy fit of Bill'O, which KO aired last night, was so much better. Bill'o even had hair then, or was it a rug.
I am not a man of violence but everyone once in a while I think that loud mouth bullies like O'Reilly need to a physical beat beat down so they remember to think before they talk.
There are only 25 weeks left until the election!
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Keith Olbermann is obsessed with Billo. Keith puts him on his Wost Person list every week. Nevertheless, Billo continues to kick Keith's ass in the TV ratings night after night, month after month, year after year. To add insult to injury, O'Reilly does not even acknowledge Olbermann's existence.
The link for the WMV file is bad, it has an erroneous "." period. Here is a working link.
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"To add insult to injury, O’Reilly does not even acknowledge Olbermann’s existence"
Hahahahahahaha
drago @ 5:
Appealing to the lowest common denominator always will net you more viewers. Those are the folks who tune in mindlessly to Orally, who can't acknowledge KO's existence because it will be admitting he has a critic in the first place. Just pretend he doesn't exist. Sort of like the Emperor who pretended his clothes existed. Orally is thus a perfect admirer for Dubya.
drago @ 5:
I guess in right wing land might makes right.
Following your ratings logic, what the panel judges at American Idol must be better than Billo. After all their ratings must be orders of magnitude whatever FOX News gets on their best night.
drago @ 5:
That's because O'Liely is a coward. And have you seen the ratings lately? Keith's ratings in the key demo (the only one networks really care about) show Keith right on that liar's ass.
Learn the truth.
jt @ 8:
I know I almost laughed my laptop to the floor when I read that one too.
Were they brown? Maybe BillO's Nazi-sense was tingling.
drago @ 5:
Possibly because BillO, for reasons that PT Barnum could explain, continues to have the largest cable TV viewership.
That's because Bill O'Reilly is an asshole.
This of course demonstrates Bill O'Reilly's moral and intellectual superiority, and has nothing at all to do with a corrupt Right-Wing media and a brainwashed, undiscerning populace.
Because Bill O'Reilly is a craven, bullying coward, as well as a sexual harasser, and a really bad porn writer...
drago @ 6:
Considering that Bill has been on the air longer in that time slot with the current format longer than Olbermann, we shouldn't be surprised. However, Olbermann is slowly creeping up on him.
O'Reilly doesn't do personal attacks. He just goes after the network. Olbermann is simply, in most cases, calling O'Reilly to task.
Off topic...breaking news @ the raw story
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rove_refuses_call_to_testify_under_0513.html
Oh crap, I mentioned Nazis. I guess this means I lose. :(
drago @ 6:
Here we go with that stupid ratings argument. Drago, the #1 viewed show in the U.S. is "American Idol". Second is "Dancing with the stars". I'm sure your show, "The Biggest Loser" is high on the ratings chart too. Keith destroys O'Racist in the most important category: factual information.
If O'Reilly is harassing the publisher of a newspaper, is he a terrorist?
Left&Left @ 18:
L&L, Drago thinks stupid people should be banned from voting, which would automatically disqualify him/her. Not to mention, s/he thinks 1989 was only 15 years ago, so consider the mathematical source-not worth the effort, is it.
That said, kudos to the PI. I quit buying Seattle newspapers in the early 90s after a hatchet job they both did on some family members (one with terminal cancer). I had no idea they were standing tall against JEdgar's boys. I may just have to start up again...
Am I the only one getting a 404 Not found error? Just wondering because I can't seem to get the download link to work and I'm trying to figure out if it's just me or what.... thanks!
I could care less what O'Redneck has to say.
"To add insult to injury, O’Reilly does not even acknowledge Olbermann’s existence."
You are full of it. Haven't you heard of the petition BillO started to get Olbermann fired? That's actually quite an acknowledge. Besides, everyone knows that BillO started saying "elements at NBC" to acknowledge Olbermann without having enough guts to say his name. Poor BillO, scared of a name. Bwaaaah!
None of the video links work for me.
Where would FOX, the GOP mouthpiece, be without News Bunnies and T&A ?
Funny how the party of "family values" chose the network of sin to be its propaganda voice.
When O'Racist turned out to be on the wrong side of yet another issue, he replied: "F*ck it! F*cking thing sucks!"
drago @ 6:
O'Racist is obsessed with: Olbermann (but is too cowardly and afraid to say his name), NBC, MSNBC, the NYT, Vermont, Denver, CBS, the ACLU, MMFA, Thinkprogress, Soros, Rosie, Dr. Dean, the DNC, Hillary, Obama, Wright, Mr. Clinton, gays, Mark Cuban, Arianna Huffington, DKos, John Edwards, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.,
Mizz K - just cuz I haven't ingested enough coffee yet this morning and my brain synapses are firing in random patterns - you recall an old episode of Quantum Leap where JHoover's FBI agents were running around in kilts, because, well... JEH liked women's clothing...?
Maybe it's because I lived so near to Scotland for so long, but... I kinda liked the idea...
Apropos of absolutely nothing, sorry, totally OT, must. drink. more. coffee....
The Billo Worst Person obsession is getting a whole lot of stale. We all know Billo is a jerk. We all know Billo lies. We all know Billo can't separate fact from fiction. But incorporating that nightly into the mix is as much of a turn off as the constant Hillary bashing he insists on giving out. When KO decides to invite someone with an opposing opinion onto his show and finds another battering ram other than Billo for Worst Person (and there are more out there), then maybe I will return. Until then I will leave KO with his standard group of yes men, Maddow, Wolffe, Alter, Fineman, to reinforce his singular view of things. Sexism is alive and well at MSNBC.
anybody else having problems with this link?
ckukahiko @ 30:
it's not working.
ckukahiko @ 30:
Ditto
Pat J @ 29:
this portion of your post i agree with (but only this portion). i think it's time we put Billo back where he truly belongs: the land of anonymity.
Rachel Maddow = sexist? Not seeing it, Pat J.
No can D/L.
Blue Lensman @ 34:
Not sexist but another but another guest who echoes his point of view. Never does he have a guest who has an opposing opinion. Just he usual bobbleheads who simply agree.
Sorry for the repetition on the above comment.
Pat J @ 36:
In other words, have a show that's like every other show on cable. Very original.
I think Keith has serious OReilly envy.
JC in Kentucky @ 39:
So, using that "logic", O'Racist has serious envy of: Olbermann (but is too cowardly and afraid to say his name), NBC, MSNBC, the NYT, Vermont, Denver, CBS, the ACLU, MMFA, Thinkprogress, Soros, Rosie, Dr. Dean, the DNC, Hillary, Obama, Wright, Mr. Clinton, gays, Mark Cuban, Arianna Huffington, DKos, John Edwards, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.,
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S'il vous plaît!
Albatross @ 7:
Fixed the above link, as it was redirecting to the broken version. :P
Same for the Quicktime Version.
drago @ 6:
Many more people, night after night, month after month, year after year drink MD 20/20, rather than Romanée Conti. Had you been consuming the ol' Mad Dog before pressin' those keys o' yours?
Myanmar produces quite a bit of rubber and the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company I'm sure buys a lot of that rubber. Is Doug Goodyear of the Goodyear fortune?
drago @ 6:
A while back, if someone mentioned KO's name on his radio show, BillO would hang up on him. Which is fine...the problem is that BillO would then have someone from 'Fox News Security' call the listener who mentioned KO on his radio show. It eventually had to stop because it was tantamount to harassment. It got so bad, though, that an expert on radio entertainment weighed in. Howard Stern sided against BillO by mentioning that, while his show is a privately owned show, it solicits calls from the public and while they shouldnt be fined by the FCC if they say something stupid (like the F-bomb), they had no right to threaten or intimidate listeners at their homes for saying somethng that BillO didnt like.
Here's my question: Did somebody send a representative to Jesse the PA's house to ask him questions about the story? Cause I'll guarantee you that wouldve been a hit on youtube at least.
Bill O' needs to be taken off the air for this bullshit.
Getting people all worked up over a non-issue...
Look at it like this; what if some hyper-patriot dittohead took O'Fascist's statements at face value and determined that the newspaper was 'protecting the terrorists'? The dittohead might attack the newspaper or start hunting around the area for the 'suspects'. So that might lead to innocent people getting injured or killed because this radio bigot went off the handle.
I think Bill O' wants to relive the glory days of '95 and see another Federal Building get bombed by a right wing nut. People like him get off on that nonsense.
Keith Olbermann:
Uh, I've got news for you, Keith. Bill Orally really believes these paranoid explanations, impossible as they seem. Really. The "Inside Edition" video where he freaked out just confirmed what we already knew -- Bill Orally is batshit insane.
"flying monkey-boy"
That ... is ... Awesome! I'm probably behind the times, but I hadn't heard that one before. Someone is standing up for Democracy! Fly monkey's fly!
Does he also apply poppies to make them sleep?
Every book he writes is a # 1 bestseller. Don't you get it? It's his anger at gutless liberals that makes him so popular. And his hugely popular status is obviously what makes liberals so angry at him. This latest video and all the liberal outrage will only help push his cable ratings higher and higher. Right on O'Reilly !
dailycoast @ 49:
Yeah, sure dumbass. You keep lying to yourself and maybe someone besides yourself will believe you.
That's right - its not because Bill lies with nearly every breath he takes and tries to shill out paranoia to keep Americans under suspicion of each other. Its because he's successful. Sure idiot.
Oh he's successful alright.. if one were to define being "successful" as working for a network that actively promotes the same kind of irrational fear and paranoia over actual research and takes its cues directly from the conservatives in government.
Oh and if you still think selling X number of books or having X number of viewers is somehow equivalent to being philosophically correct, then let me remind you that the #1 newspaper in America back in the 1980's was the National Enquirer. I guess the white trash in the country had to switch to something when cable TV took over the culture. Congrats O'Reilly
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