Either Relevant or True » “…the state of the Bush petulancy,”

(May I first state that I love that phrase and would marry it if person/phrase marriage became legal? Yes, that’s right, Senator Brownback, it just starts with the box turtles. On that note, to the recap. But, watch me steal it. Yoink.)

Tie: This one is the right green, but I’m missing the polka dots.

Segue:: Woody from “Cheers” serenading his wife.

Worst Person: Fascist Chatty Cathy doll Dana Perino for lying about global warming. Paraphrasing fictional American Hank Hill, I add “Ms. Perino, it gets to be 100 degrees in Arizona in the summer. If it gets one degree hotter, I’m kicking your ass.”

5. Apparently, this has not been a good week for President Bush, as he throws a hissy at the end of his press conference. Headlines like this probably make him miss those lazy rubber-stamp days, to say nothing of the black eye the GOP is continuing to take over SCHIP If this was a political blog, I’d probably pump my fist in the air. Since it’s not, how ’bout them Red Sox?
Also, Bush’s one remaining international ally, Vladimir Putin, is freaked out by the message sent by Iranian sanctions, but nobody can agree on how much because he backed away from his Cuban missile crisis metaphor and mentioned his “personal friendship” with POTUS.
4. Even as conditions improve in the wildfire area, FEMA takes more heat for using employees to fake a press conference. Washington Post reporter E.J. Dionne joins Keith.

3. The lovely and talented Rachel Maddow joins Keith in-studio to talk about Billo’s latest quest, punishing mega-author J.K. Rowling for “promoting homosexuality” despite not knowing the books. Rachel looked beautiful today…I could get a girl-crush on her. Should we blame Dumbledore? And poor Andrea Macris having to put up with “Ooh, can I watch?” Billo must be one of those sophisticated New Yorkers my mother warned me about. If you believed that, I have a bridge to sell you.

Best Persons ; My favoritepoll of any election. More people believe in ghosts than in Bush.

Keeping Tabs Nicole Kidman says her marriage is “beautiful” and “complicated” but not “happy”. Paris Hilton isn’t going to Rwanda.(Don’t be so bummed. We’d have to take her back, anyway.)

1. Is it too rude, considering some of Musto’s sources of comedy, to say he didn’t have his head in the game? He seemed off tonight, and I say that as one of the few Musto boosters on ERT. Maybe everyone is bored with the saga of “La Spears”.

What was that report about the names most associated with “putting out” one a first date (was it? I was nodding off). I thought I heard the #1 choice was Kelly, followed by Tanya…but weren’t Stef and Becky in the loop somewhere?

Stef and Becky…would you like to comment on KO’s investigative report?

I saw this on eBay this morning:

http://search.ebayexpress.com/ps/_Sports-Trading-Cards__keith-olbermann_W0QQ_nkwZkeithQ20olbermannQQ_fxdZ1QQ_ipgZ90

Enjoy.

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Houstonian, Stef and Becky were indeed in there at #5 and #4 respectively.

As for my comment, I will only admit that Miss Stef and I had a brief IM conversation that consisted almost entirely of capital letters and exclamation points. We may have been wearing aluminum headgear at the time.

Dammit, Becky, play it cool.

*clear throat*

Oh, yeah, that … happened.

Anyway, here’s the poll in question (See? “Steph” w/a “ph” - totally different).

And 2 things about the Maddow-Dumbledore-BillO segment: First is the crux of it, what I found most ridiculous wasn’t that BillO was accusing Rowling of promoting The Gay, but instead that she was trying to usher in a dangerous wave of tolerance for The Gay.

And secondly, chicating … it is ridiculously easy to develop a crush on Maddow. First you’re just enjoying her being engaging and awesome on Keith’s show, then you’re listening to her show, then you’re … watching old Campaign Asylum vids on the Youtube and converting your friends.

I mean … I hear that that can happen. I don’t … I wouldn’t know.

Even Keith is kind of giggly around Rachel Maddow. It was a delight to see him interact with her last night.

Also, “Fear Strikes Out” is on TCM tonight. Keith has referenced it several times during the course of “Countdown”:

http://www.tcmdb.com/title/title.jsp?stid=74701

The whole show was so fantastic, the first twenty minutes were brilliant and on-point and incisive, and then Rachel Maddow’s segment was hilarious and (sigh) adorable (Goddammit, Stef), and then … goddammit, Michael Musto, it’s not even Halloween yet, why have you crawled out of the sewers to terrify us?

Man, that was SO CLOSE. Olbermann pitched a perfect game right up to the last batter … and then threw a slow pitch right to the middle of the strike zone. Fucking Michael Musto. He brings the entire calibre of the show down into the muck with him.

Michael Musto and whoever on staff keeps inviting him on the show … tonight’s WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD.

While I got a good laugh about the Becky and Stef thing, my second thought was “how the hell do people get money to do this type of polling?” Followed by wondering if they just walk up to guys and say “so, what 5 names put out?” and then wondering if the guys don’t just laugh hysterically at the questioner thinking this must be a Daily Show interview?

Musto seemed fairly subdued for him. Keith needs to remove ALL mentions of lips in his questioning of Musto.

This is for The Clash/Joe Strummer fans:

http://www.myspace.com/ifcjoestrummer

Maybe Musto is partially my fault. I usually like it when he gets his bitch on, but something seemed off yesterday.(accepts Bronze as Worst Blogger in The World)
Stef, when I get a computer with better sound, I’ll make it a point to listen. RM is the bomb, especially compared to that segment from the fixed noise morning show where the woman’s blouse was so low she was falling out and stuff.Morning show is too early for cleavage.
My name has never made a poll like that, but it is in “Mambo #5.”

Olberfan, $249 for the Keith Card? Damn! Some people have more money that sense.

And Rachel Maddow has joined Emma Thompson on my if I was ever tempted list. Not that it works that way. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Dana Perillo: “Go ahead. Pull my string. I dare you.”

BTW, one-hour FNiA this evening, followed by Matt Damon in the Network TV premiere of The Bourne Identity and Dateline NBC. Something about the Boston Red Sox going for a sweep against the Colorado Pebbles.

WOW, where to start, other than GO SOX!!!

I so appreciate what is done here, all of the good writing and wonderful insights, and on those Keithless nights, a well done Worst Persons List, and it is hard to live without that.

This was a fantastic write up of Friday’s show, which had me chortling from the first sentence. Box turtles, indeed, naughty little amphibians that they are.

Until MUSTO showed up, and, yes, he was not his usual acerbic self, I had begun to think that with the move to the big city, the show was also being turned up a notch from its already high level, making a run for the so often tired Network newscasts.

I will add that after the names of the five female named most likely to put out, there was a warning: “Anyone named Tonya Kelly, stay home tonight.”

I also really appreciate Rachel Maddow and loved that she was the set of show instead of in a box. She is bright, fast, and always amused by the absurdity of whatever situation they are discussing.

I have spent the weekend trying to explain the fine points of baseball to an 8 year old who can quote every Patriots and Tom Brady statistic but persists in believing that if a runner crossed home plate, it is a home run.

Game 4 and a possible sweep coming up.

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