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Keith Olbermann made an exception to using current news as a qualifier for his Worst Person list when he ramped up the way back machine to take a swipe at Bristol Palin’s abstinence PSA.
From Mediaite
Two weeks ago called, Keith. They want their news back.
Viewers of Countdown might have thought they had tuned in to a rerun tonight, as host Keith Olbermann pegged his retrofitted “Worst Persons in the World (Not Really)” award to a two-week-old abstinence and safe sex PSA starring Bristol Palin and Jersey Shore’s “The Situation.”
Worse than that, though, Olbermann criticizes perhaps the only redeeming thing about the cringe-worthy spot, and makes a tone-deaf comparison to George W. Bush and 9/11.
Olbermann is seriously in need of some catchup. Not only is the PSA in question old-ish news, but after watching a clip from the spot, he exclaims “She’s the Candies spokesperson for abstinence?”
Actually, she has been for a year-and-a-half, now. Also, we have a black President.
Olbermann probably wouldn’t have bothered attacking the young Palin daughter had she flopped in her appearance on DWTS but she made it to the finals and helped the show to its highest ratings in three years. Her unexpected success and the attention surrounding her mother Sarah who made frequent appearances throughout the show was apparently too much for poor Keith to bear. So he did the only thing he could think of and that was to mock Bristol for her abstinence ad making her out to be a hypocrite.
But this wasn’t really about abstinence and any perceived hypocrisy but just another excuse so Olbermann could attack a member of the Palin family and in effect Sarah Palin plus throw in another rant about George Bush.
It’s this type of flawed judgment and overt bias that will keep Olbermann a distant second to his arch rival BIll O’Reilly for the foreseeable future.
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2 Comments for Olbermann Makes Old News New in Attack on Bristol Palin
I can’t believe olbermann still has a show.from what i understand his shows numbers are terrible. i have tried to watch but i just can’t no matter how hard i try. i don’t want to be one that dislikes him but yet never watches,much like people do to rush. he just doesn’t hold my attention,and besides that, i find him rather arrogant and crude. but it is his show and he can say and do what he pleases…for now.i can’t see that network keeping him around with such dismal ratings.
Olbermann is just a garden variety narcissist with a boatload of anger and resentment that he drags around for all the world to see. This bitter court jester will continue to plague the airwaves as long as the losing MSNBC allows him. Talk about reciprocal self destruction.