Michelle Malkin is on Olbermann Watch and has a shot of the cover of his book due out in September, The Worst Person In The World And 119 More Strong Contenders. I predict it will sell well in the Michael Moore/Al Franken book market. My top guesses for his number one "worst person," based on the obsessions he displays in his commentary, are Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter and George Bush. (The cover of the book shows pictures of O'Reilly, Coulter and Rumsfeld.) Of course, it could also be a less high profile choice, like maybe the person he holds responsible for George Bush's win in Ohio. The "Republicans stole the election because Kerry really won Ohio" conspiracy theory seems to be one of his favorite. One thing I would just about bet money on is that the top of Olbermann's list does not include Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, or al Zarqawi. I would love to be proven wrong, but judging from the time Olbermann spends attacking O'Reilly and Coulter, I think they are pretty safe bets for higher spots than Saddam.
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Whose Ann Coulter's biggest... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Godless Liberal | June 16, 2006 10:08 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Whose Ann Coulter's biggest enemy..... That's what I thought.
1. Posted by Godless Liberal | June 16, 2006 10:08 AM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 10:08
2. Posted by Big Mo | June 16, 2006 10:13 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
godless liberal - good to see that you got things back under control today. You had just a little too much "wheee" yesterday.
2. Posted by Big Mo | June 16, 2006 10:13 AM |
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3. Posted by Godless Liberal | June 16, 2006 10:21 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I'm just offering a "litany of facts", you know, those hard, funnily shaped things you throw at people to make them believe you're credible. Sometimes you cook them up like a nice sauce, which the waif thin Ms. Coulter has a penchant for, other than being unmarried, 45, and generally unlikeable. Doubtless, she could top that list every year.
3. Posted by Godless Liberal | June 16, 2006 10:21 AM |
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4. Posted by Cousin Dave | June 16, 2006 10:48 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"other than being unmarried, 45, and generally unlikeable"...
Ah yes, well, the politics of personal destruction doesn't have anything to do with it, does it? As for Olbermann, putting aside the observation that can't be bothered to come up with his own book outline instead of ripping off an idea from Bernie Goldberg, I wonder if Saddam will be in the book at all.
4. Posted by Cousin Dave | June 16, 2006 10:48 AM |
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5. Posted by Justrand | June 16, 2006 10:54 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
once upon a time Olbermann was a reasonably competant SPORTSCASTER in Los Angeles.
At some point he morphed into one of the most illogical, nonsensical Moonbat Leftists on the planet (lots of redundancy there) and got warmly embraced by the mangiest mutt in the Cable News pound (MSNBC). From there he reaches out nightly to his VAST audience (upwards of 22 people on a GOOD night) and spews his conspiracy theories!
Makes me wonder if he was even getting the SCORES right, back when all he had to do was read 'em off the teleprompter!
God only knows what keep the MSNBC ship afloat...it sure isn't ratings, and it sure isn't honest reporting or clear reasonable commentary. Witness Olbermann.
5. Posted by Justrand | June 16, 2006 10:54 AM |
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6. Posted by tarheelcon | June 16, 2006 11:00 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I really like Olbermann when he did SportsCenter with Dan Patrick. I was told by a guy who interned at ESPN that Dan and Keith hated each other with a passion. Maybe it was the fact they both had huge egos or something like that but given Olbermann's subsequent behavior since leaving ESPN one has to wonder if it was because he was a jerk.
6. Posted by tarheelcon | June 16, 2006 11:00 AM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 11:00
7. Posted by Xavier Gonne | June 16, 2006 11:17 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
All conflict end with talk. But, the vitriol that flies back and forth from the far left and far right seems antithetical to a possible dialogue that would result in actual progress.
So Keith Olbermann has a book coming out. Sure, I'll probably read it. Probably enjoy it. Just as I read and enjoyed 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken Is #37) by Bernard Goldberg. His book didn't contain any mention of Connie or Rummie or Bush. Indeed, the oddity about Goldberg's book was that most of the derision was against low profile college professors and feminists.
As Goldberg had important things to say about the luncay of the left (such as one feminist stating something crazy like every second woman in the US suffered severe spousal abuse), Olbermann's book (if it follows the trend from Countdown) will show-up some of the rampant hypocracy of the right.
Unfortunately, I might undo all my good centrist work by edging towards the left for my closing statement. Most of Olbermann, Franken, and (to a much, much lesser extent) Moore do is counter the Coulters, O'Reillys, and Hanitys. They don't initiate. By that rationale, if Coulter and co. didn't get things factually wrong (malmidy, for instance), Olbermann and co. would be out of a job.
All conflict end with talk.
7. Posted by Xavier Gonne | June 16, 2006 11:17 AM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 11:17
8. Posted by Godless Liberal | June 16, 2006 11:20 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
But Cousin Dave, aren't those facts? It's incidental, tragic even, that her personal biography is true and sad. She is, if I recall, 45. She is, if I recall, unmarried. She is, it's obvious, generally unlikable. Again, the politics of personal destruction are very much embedded in her biography. She's a looker, I'm sure she'll snag someone by her Fiftieth.
And Justrand, Olbermann's show, especially for cable (which traditionally gets smaller audiences), and especially compared to O'Reilly's, is a ratings powerhouse. More people watch him than watch that perpetual curmudgeon, Mr. Falafel. Oh, and Olbermann went to an Ivy.
8. Posted by Godless Liberal | June 16, 2006 11:20 AM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 11:20
9. Posted by mak44 | June 16, 2006 11:25 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Cousin Dave
You wrote, in response to Godless Liberal's post:
"Ah yes, well, the politics of personal destruction doesn't have anything to do with it, does it?"
GL's comments on Coulter are DEFINITELY fair game when, in reality, Coulter only exists on a plain of making personal destructive remaerks about others.
When one is commenting on an acidic bitch like Coulter, only destructive remarks can be made about one who is not just the "worst person in the world," BUT THE MOST HATEFUL PERSON in the world.
9. Posted by mak44 | June 16, 2006 11:25 AM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 11:25
10. Posted by mak44 | June 16, 2006 11:32 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Godless Liberal
You refer to Coulter as a "looker." Have to disagree w/ you on that one. By the time she is fifty she will look like Dr. Laura w/ a giraffe's neck and when she is 60 she will be in about the same condition as Norman's mother in Psycho.
10. Posted by mak44 | June 16, 2006 11:32 AM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 11:32
11. Posted by McGehee | June 16, 2006 11:33 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Coulter only exists on a plain of making personal destructive remaerks about others.
And of course Mak44 would never do such a horrible thing himself.
11. Posted by McGehee | June 16, 2006 11:33 AM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 11:33
12. Posted by Master Shake | June 16, 2006 11:37 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Why the mystery over who is the worst person in the world? He's prominently pictured to the right of the book's title on the cover!
12. Posted by Master Shake | June 16, 2006 11:37 AM |
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13. Posted by Godless Liberal | June 16, 2006 11:49 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Even though I find her Shtick pathetic, I also find her oddly appealing. She grew up in New Canaan; she's not going to stay a conservative long. It was probably a bad liberal boyfriend, or something. She'll come back to the claque; and when she does, I'll be there to nurse her wounds like a young, injured fawn.
13. Posted by Godless Liberal | June 16, 2006 11:49 AM |
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14. Posted by Peter F. | June 16, 2006 11:50 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Dear Keith:
For Christ's sake, be original. Bernard Goldberg already beat you to the punch last year with his "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken is #37)". In fact, he has a secondprinting of the book, titled "110 People..."
And if you can't be original, then at least go back to ESPN where you belong. Your high school freshman won't annoy Dan Patrick and Stewart Scott.
14. Posted by Peter F. | June 16, 2006 11:50 AM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 11:50
15. Posted by jpe | June 16, 2006 12:12 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
ripping off an idea from Bernie Goldberg,
Yeah. It takes a freakin' genius to come up with the ida of a list of people.
15. Posted by jpe | June 16, 2006 12:12 PM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 12:12
16. Posted by Justrand | June 16, 2006 12:14 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Goddless Liberal: "Olbermann's show...compared to O'Reilly's, is a ratings powerhouse"
huh? I'm not the biggest O'Reilly fan, but his ratings always eclipse CNN and MSNBC combined!
I think you need to define "powerhouse"
and a major difference between Coulter and Olbermann is that she provides her opinions...labeled as such...and provides facts (yes, of her choosing) to back up her opinions. Olbermann states the most outrageous opinions AS fact...and provides NOTHING to back them up.
His show is utter tripe...as is pretty much all of MSNBC. They continue to fund this money-losing venture, though no one can quite figure out why!
16. Posted by Justrand | June 16, 2006 12:14 PM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 12:14
17. Posted by virgo1 | June 16, 2006 12:35 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Mak sucks, Olberwoman is a waste of sperm, Ann Coulter is a beautiful woman!!
not necessarily in that order..
17. Posted by virgo1 | June 16, 2006 12:35 PM |
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18. Posted by MikeSC | June 16, 2006 12:49 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I find it hilarious that Olbermann will whine about receiving "mean" email (so much so that he'll write email to people telling them to die), then will write this idiotic crap.
See, Michelle Malkin --- who truly receives some viciously nasty email --- doesn't tell people to drop dead and act with an air of all-around doucheness as Mr. Olbermann does.
I'll also GUARANTEE you that the same people who whined about Goldberg's book on Amazon will APPLAUD this book.
And Justrand, Olbermann's show, especially for cable (which traditionally gets smaller audiences), and especially compared to O'Reilly's, is a ratings powerhouse. More people watch him than watch that perpetual curmudgeon, Mr. Falafel. Oh, and Olbermann went to an Ivy.
Funny, considering O'Reilly's ratings trump is. Have for years. I think Olbermann's first-run show is now drawing better ratings that O'Reilly's 4A replay.
-=Mike
18. Posted by MikeSC | June 16, 2006 12:49 PM |
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19. Posted by Bob Jones | June 16, 2006 1:03 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
My latest book, "The Worlds Biggest Dickheads" has Keith Olbermann's face on the cover. It's a coffee table book, cause I couldn't fit his head on the cover of a normal book. It goes well with the previous book which also has Olbermann on the cover, "Giant Pricks and the MSM"
19. Posted by Bob Jones | June 16, 2006 1:03 PM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 13:03
20. Posted by Big Mo | June 16, 2006 2:21 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"Olberman when to an Ivy." ooooh.
20. Posted by Big Mo | June 16, 2006 2:21 PM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 14:21
21. Posted by jp2 | June 16, 2006 2:31 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"One thing I would just about bet money on is that the top of Olbermann's list does not include Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, or al Zarqawi."
I am sure you felt the same way about Goldberg's book, and Horowitz's as well. They received a ton of media attention. I'll check the archives for your response, Lorie.
21. Posted by jp2 | June 16, 2006 2:31 PM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 14:31
22. Posted by MikeSC | June 16, 2006 2:50 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Seeing as how Goldberg dealt with people in the US and Horowitz dealt with professors --- while Olbermann deals with the "whole world" (according to the title) --- that is a nice, irrelevant point ya made there.
-=Mike
22. Posted by MikeSC | June 16, 2006 2:50 PM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 14:50
23. Posted by jp2 | June 16, 2006 3:10 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
By Goldberg: 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America
Wrong. Again.
23. Posted by jp2 | June 16, 2006 3:10 PM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 15:10
24. Posted by Cousin Dave | June 16, 2006 3:11 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
mak44 and GodlessLiberal (or LiberalGoodman, or whatever your name is), thank you. Your unwillingness to address the substance of Coulter's words, and your insistence on attacking her on an appearance-and-relationship-status basis (which flies in the face of your own supposed principles) proves my point exactly. Had I said it, you wouldn't believe me. But it came from your own keyboards. There is no need for me to say anything further. The prosecution rests.
24. Posted by Cousin Dave | June 16, 2006 3:11 PM |
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25. Posted by MikeSC | June 16, 2006 3:12 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"Who are Screwing Up America". Thus, WITH THE UNITED STATES ONLY. Unless you wish to argue that the world is our concern.
Saddam didn't. Zarqawi didn't. We cleaned up from OBL and his damage to this country has been fixed.
You're still wrong.
-=Mike
25. Posted by MikeSC | June 16, 2006 3:12 PM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 15:12
26. Posted by jp2 | June 16, 2006 3:17 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"Who are Screwing Up America". Thus, WITH THE UNITED STATES ONLY.
lol
Interesting logic. You put a thus in there and suddenly you prove your point.
You're right about Horowitz though. Good point.
26. Posted by jp2 | June 16, 2006 3:17 PM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 15:17
27. Posted by Lorie Byrd | June 16, 2006 3:18 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
jp2 - I don't think Saddam was in America at the time, or any of the others I mentioned, for that matter, so I am sure I didn't make a similar statement about Goldberg's book. It was an excellent book, by the way, although I did not agree with all of his choices. The book was about those screwing up America, like judges making ridiculous rulings setting bad precedent and people suing for crazy things clogging up the courts. It was not about people threatening the security of America, or chopping off innocent people's heads or waging jihad against America. It was about people "screwing it up." Olbermann uses the word "worst" which gives a different connotation in my mind.
27. Posted by Lorie Byrd | June 16, 2006 3:18 PM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 15:18
28. Posted by jp2 | June 16, 2006 3:35 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"It was an excellent book, by the way,"
I know. Someone really, finally, has to stand up to Barbara Streisand. Thankfully he had the courage to do it. Why he didn't get a Pulitzer nod astounds me.
28. Posted by jp2 | June 16, 2006 3:35 PM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 15:35
29. Posted by mak44 | June 16, 2006 4:02 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Cousin Dave
I once had many occasions to discuss politics w/ a wise old man in his 80's who would remark from time-to-time." There are 2 things I cannot tolerate: intolerance & Rpeublicans." On the surface, that may appear contradictory, but upon reflection not always quite so.
To the extent that Coulter is the poster-girl for both, one cannot aim too low in commenting about her. When the Bitch of Hate dishes it up, she generates hate in response.
29. Posted by mak44 | June 16, 2006 4:02 PM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 16:02
30. Posted by MikeSC | June 16, 2006 4:07 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Mak44, you obviously don't get the concept of intolerance.
-=Mike
30. Posted by MikeSC | June 16, 2006 4:07 PM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 16:07
31. Posted by RatherLite | June 16, 2006 6:39 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Keith,
So which is more rewarding...being a second rate sportscaster or a third rate "journalist"? Please just quit and free-up the bandwidth for someone else.
31. Posted by RatherLite | June 16, 2006 6:39 PM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 18:39
32. Posted by SCSIwuzzy | June 16, 2006 6:52 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
MikeSC
He has a fine grasp on intolerance...
Or rather, it is the other way round... ;)
32. Posted by SCSIwuzzy | June 16, 2006 6:52 PM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 18:52
33. Posted by virgo1 | June 16, 2006 7:00 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Yes little jape2.. but the question remains? do You have the guts to stand up to Yourself?
33. Posted by virgo1 | June 16, 2006 7:00 PM |
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Posted on June 16, 2006 19:00
34. Posted by rich | June 17, 2006 12:28 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Is this pertinent?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/12/14/wterr14.xml
34. Posted by rich | June 17, 2006 12:28 AM |
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Posted on June 17, 2006 00:28
35. Posted by MikeSC | June 17, 2006 12:41 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
No, because EVERYBODY knows Saddam never had ANYTHING to do with terrorists. :)
-=Mike
35. Posted by MikeSC | June 17, 2006 12:41 AM |
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Posted on June 17, 2006 00:41
36. Posted by scotty | June 17, 2006 4:09 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Who let all these moonbats in here anyway?
Olbermann's narcissism is out of control. Doesn't he realize just how stupid it is to put your big dumb horse face on the cover of a book next to the title "Worst Person in The World"?
Idiot.
36. Posted by scotty | June 17, 2006 4:09 AM |
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Posted on June 17, 2006 04:09
37. Posted by Baggi | June 17, 2006 6:08 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hmmmm,
Why does Nnamreblo use 911 in the title of his book?
37. Posted by Baggi | June 17, 2006 6:08 AM |
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Posted on June 17, 2006 06:08
38. Posted by Eon the terrible | June 17, 2006 9:10 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Do these terrible persons live in hollywood,san francisco or washington D.C. or do they belong to the demacratic party? or PETA or are they one of those 70 peace freaks
38. Posted by Eon the terrible | June 17, 2006 9:10 PM |
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Posted on June 17, 2006 21:10
39. Posted by mlong | June 18, 2006 12:17 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I wonder if Olbermann should of re-thought his book cover after all it looks its saying He's "The Worst Person In The World"...Which isn't to far from the truth...but still what was He thinking when They made that cover?
39. Posted by mlong | June 18, 2006 12:17 AM |
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Posted on June 18, 2006 00:17