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Keith Olbermann Dropping "Worst Person in the World" Segment... [Jim Thompson denied 2nd award]
gather.com ^ | November 01, 2010 | Kevin Zimmerman

Posted on 11/01/2010 9:17:21 PM PDT by matt1234

Keith Olbermann announced Monday night that he's dropping the "Worst Person in the World" bit -- probably the most popular segment of Countdown with Keith Olbermann -- from the nightly MSNBC broadcast.

"As of right now, I am unilaterally suspending that segment with an eye towards discontinuing it," he said. "We don't know how that works long-term. We might bring it back. We might bring back something similar to it. We might kill it outright."

Olbermann acknowledged that the change was a direct response to Jon Stewart's remarks at the "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" that MSNBC and Fox News were essentially two sides of the same coin, saying that he agrees with Stewart that "the tone needs to change.

"Today, given the serious stuff we have to start covering tomorrow, we think it's the right time to do it short-term and then we'll see what happens," Olbermann said, referencing the Nov. 2 elections.

"The anger in this news hour was not an original part of it, nor was it an artifice that we added to it," he declared. "It was a response to a threat to this democracy posed by [former President George W.] Bush."


TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: humor; jimthompson; olbermann; person; worst; worstperson
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To: matt1234


41 posted on 11/01/2010 10:03:56 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: txroadkill

42 posted on 11/01/2010 10:06:41 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: doorgunner69

Yep. Return to civility. Doesn’t like being on the receiving end.


43 posted on 11/01/2010 10:08:34 PM PDT by Psalm 144
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To: Jim Robinson
Pizza and beer.

You rock. I'm not just saying that...

44 posted on 11/01/2010 10:11:54 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others)
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To: matt1234

Awwww. I’m upset that I never got a chance to earn this Prestigous Honor! I would consider it a medal of honor to be called Worst Person in the World by Olberman.....


45 posted on 11/01/2010 10:11:57 PM PDT by jakerobins
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To: jakerobins; matt1234
Awwww. I’m upset that I never got a chance to earn this Prestigous Honor! I would consider it a medal of honor to be called Worst Person in the World by Olberman.....

Isn't this the "Worst, Worster, Worstest" garbage? What would the left say if a conservative came up with the same routine? They'd claim it as evidence of poor grammar.

And they vote...

46 posted on 11/01/2010 10:16:13 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others)
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To: earlJam

Jim Thompson was married to Mrs Thompson


47 posted on 11/01/2010 10:20:53 PM PDT by woofie
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To: woofie; earlJam

and they begat little Tommy Thompson.


48 posted on 11/01/2010 10:24:50 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Darkwolf377; musicman; Wooly
suicide watch

ROFLMAO!!

49 posted on 11/01/2010 10:27:34 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Double your income... Fire the government)
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To: Lady Jag

50 posted on 11/01/2010 10:32:09 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Jim Robinson

Yeah, but will you show us your long-form birth certificate?
;p

(*ducks for cover*)


51 posted on 11/01/2010 10:32:18 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: matt1234
How amusing. The jockstrap sniffer and the jerkoff comic agree on something, and expect the rest of us to take them seriously.
52 posted on 11/01/2010 10:38:51 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Vendome
Who is the Father of the Thompson Twins.
53 posted on 11/01/2010 10:51:00 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (If Sarah Palin was President, you would have a job by now...)
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To: Kickass Conservative

And the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun.


54 posted on 11/01/2010 10:52:06 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: matt1234

“Oberman considers dropping the most popular segment of his show, what do think his audience will say?”

(crickets chirping)

“Won’t that alter the flow and nuance of his show?”

(dog barks in distance, wind blows forlornly)

“What do you think the critics will say?”

(door slams blocks away, police car siren wails many many blocks away)

“No,... no one cares, Keith.”


55 posted on 11/01/2010 10:52:48 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (Obama; our president has set the clock ticking again, minutes to Midnight.)
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To: Billthedrill
And we know how Liberals hate Thompson Machine Guns. Therefore, they hate Jim Thompson.

You may have solved the riddle of why Keith Overbite hates Jim Thompson and everything he stands for.

56 posted on 11/01/2010 10:55:25 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (If Sarah Palin was President, you would have a job by now...)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Argh!!!!

You beat me!!!

I had thought of that and didn’t post it, thinking I could use it later.

LOL


57 posted on 11/02/2010 12:08:14 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: matt1234

I enjoy FR inside jokes.
Especially when I ‘get’ them.
I ‘get’ this one.

Each day Olberwoman exhibits every single lack of virtue that we right wingnuts are accused of but do NOT exhibit.


58 posted on 11/02/2010 12:09:10 AM PDT by Notwithstanding
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To: matt1234

Someone now needs to update Freeper lore threads with this info.


59 posted on 11/02/2010 12:15:32 AM PDT by LowOiL (In Limbo)
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To: Vendome
That's all I've got. I'm out of Thompsons.

But I am watching the Red Eye Election Special. Ann Coulter, my favorite Democrat Pat Caddell and the always confused Juan Williams making his first, and hopefully his last, Red Eye appearance.

60 posted on 11/02/2010 1:00:37 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (If Sarah Palin was President, you would have a job by now...)
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