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Okay, that’s gonna get me in trouble with my ancestors.

Tie: Purple-ish lavender.
Segue Music: Haven’t a clue. Too few lyrics to google.

5. McCain still hasn’t fired Charlie Black for his remarks, and that story isn’t leaving quietly. Obama slammed McCain for the Republicans’ numerous foreign policy failures.

Richard Wolfe is around to talk about Black and Obama’s response. He says Obama’s being slightly cautious and not calling for Black’s resignation to give his own people some fudging room. But, hey, according to FOX News, Black’s made himself scarce anyway.

Karl Rove has some fun new Obama slams. He’s a country club elitist! He always has a hot date on one hand and a martini in another! He’s snarky! Howard Fineman points out that while the strike is funny to some, Obama’s camp seems concerned and even put out an ad about his roots in 18 states. Since McCain is losing on most issues, they’re attacking him on personality and how unknown he is, because what else can they do?

4. Bill Clinton has “endorsed” Obama. Or, hey, he says he’ll help out when he can. That’s…. great? I haven’t the foggiest. Hillary says she’s not seeking the VP spot. Chris Cillizza says you can’t say you want the VP spot, and he thinks she does want the spot. Keith wants to know if Obama even wants Bill Clinton’s help. Chris says that while Clinton hurt his credibility with some of his comments over the primaries, he’s still powerful enough to be useful.

Oh, and a new LA Times poll says Obama’s got a major lead over McCain. As Cillizza points out, though, this is June.

Oddball: The Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot scares the bejeezus out of me, I am not even kidding. A restaurant in Lebanon had an interesting theme.

Best Persons: Soleil Alfontent was born on NYC’s F train. Garry Micheal Wilson should have stolen an automatic. Alton, Texas inmates try to escape jail through vent system but fall through into police chief’s office.

3. Bushed! Special Edition. Job and Internship applications were rejected from the Department of Justice for having the gall to not be staunch Republicans. Here’s the report on it. The statistics are staggering.

Jon Turley is here! Hi, Jon! He is suitably upset over this. He sees it as a serious breach by the Bush administration, bringing politics into places they don’t belong. These policies were apparently set in place by John Ashcroft’s team. Allow this Missourian to remind you that Ashcroft lost an election to a dead guy in my state. Because life is one long Sorkin script.

Also, Professor Turley is off to testify on the Hill, apparently! I’m certain he will be great.

2. Worst Persons!
Bronze: Page Six is really crap at making things up. Also, the idea of putting ketchup in a Starbucks drink is sticking with me. Ew, Keith. Ew.
Silver: Bill-O and Newsweek having fisticuffs! Check out Newsweek’s awesome poll about Bill-O’s book title. I voted for option two.
Gold: Bill-O! Not funny this time. Carlin’s not even buried yet and Bill-O thought it was okay to remember the man by showing a clip that had Billy asking why the late, great Mr. Carlin used the f-word so much. Obviously, Bill-O has never watched a second of Carlin’s stand-up or is even aware of the infamous Seven Words sketch.

1. Mindless self indulgence time! God, Keith’s got a bunch Hollywood friends. Lucky jerk.

Anyway, Jason Bateman from Hancock is on to kibitz with Keith. And, can I say, I’ve seen all the trailers for the movie so far and either it’s going to suck or the ad campaign needs to decide whether it’s a screwball comedy or a heartwarming, heroic tale.

The interview is really cute, by the way. There is talk of hair pieces, this new unknown Will Smith, 12-sided dice, and Keith is invited to a Unitarian gay marriage. I almost hurt myself laughing and I’ve never seen Arrested Development.

That’s all folks! I’m going to go slap my laptop around until the right shift key starts working again.

Here’s the thing about Hancock — I was originally not vaguely interested (despite being a sucker for the superheroics), then I think after seeing Iron Man the antihero angle became more interesting (there’s a movie that far exceeded its source material, I gotta tell ya). And then I read a spoiler that made Smith’s character utterly unlikable (you’ll know it if you’ve seen it), and I decided to sit this show out. (And part of me is relieved, not wanting to see a surround-sound DLP-projected tornado quite yet.)

Arrested Development, though, was the best show nobody watched. Entirely too clever for its own good, I guess. (And if life were one big Sorkin script it’d be nine times funnier and I’d be walking while I talked all the time. And Clark Gregg would be my cable guy or something.)

Segue music was The Sweet Escape by Gwen Stefani.
Glad to see Chris Cillizza back. He’s got the same kid-in-the-candy-shop enthusiasm for politics that Matthews does, and talks just as much too, but I still like him.

How does Keith find out in advance what the headlines on Page Six will be?

David Cross looks disturbingly like my ex.

Holy crap! I about laughed myself silly when Cross came out and lint-brushed Keith’s arm hair!

I didn’t watch the last segment for “Hancock.” I watched it for Jason Bateman. He has the hair of a god. *sigh* to have 2 Hawt Men on my screen last night was heaven! When iTunes/MSNBC posts this episode (which they hadn’t this morning at 6 AM EDT, grrr) I’m keeping it just for the interview.

Thanks, Jove! I was going to post about “The Sweet Escape.”

Okay, I need to keep the *squee!* down in my cube. People will talk…

Oh, god, Jason and David killed me! David with his crazy beard and then the gay marriage bit had me rolling on the floor.

I really kind of don’t want to think about the movie until it is absolutely and for real publicly confirmed, though; I don’t want to get burned again!

HBO is honoring George Carlin:

http://www.hbo.com/events/george-carlin/tribute.html?ntrack_para1=feat_main_image

God, what kind of narcissist puts on a “remember the dead guy” interview where the clip is 90% the HOST talking?!?!?!?

I voted for option 1 in the Newsweek poll. Vote early, vote often!

PS, with some of the gaffes that President Clinton came out with while campaigning for his OWN WIFE, I’m not sure how hot I’d be to have him campaigning for me…

Last night’s music segue du jour: Gwen Stefani’s “The Sweet Escape.”

I’m 47 and even I could have identified it for you!

JamesCraven; If you play any song by Andrew Bird, Damien Rice, Coldplay, or Spoon, I could identify it by the first three seconds. So nyah.

Sig: I’m very interested about that spoiler now… Which is a shame, because I was considering going to see the movie now. Shame I cannot watch films with inherently unlikable leads.

And, man, I wish I still had HBO. I missed Recount and now Carlin’s tribute. :(

Hermione —
Both MSNBC and ITunes has the Countdown video soon after the show airs. I watched it about 8 pm PDT last night from ITunes. I’d go totally nuts if I couldn’t watch Countdown each night and while I’m here in “chimp land” the Internet is the only way I can get it!

Lucy: said spoiler is in the Wikipedia entry for Hancock. It’s eerily similar to one of the plot points that ruined the new Futurama movie for me — which featured David Cross. …Wow. That’s creepy. It all goes back to Arrested Development, doesn’t it?

Article:

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/06/paula_froelich_vs_keith_olberm.html

PS, also enjoyed Jason referring to Keith as “the savior of the union.”

How does Keith find out in advance what the headlines on Page Six will be? By Jove

I think they pretend they are journalists and call him in advance for comment.

Red Toots, I somewhat relate as I could not watch the Monday show and listened with my eyes closed as those black Buddy Holly glasses made Keith look appallingly like my X. Thank goodness for the height difference as in the incredibly unlikely event that we were all in the same room I would not mix them up.

Thanks to Erin, Becky, and Lucy for the recent recaps and other items of interest, including the Tumbleblogging Olbermann section, which is often hysterical.

My favorite Carlin act was STUFF, and I have traveled with one suitcase packed inside another so I can leave things at hotels I will be returning to and cut down on what I am taking along, but there is always some stuff (as Carlin noted such as eye drops) that cannot be left behind.

As for Arrested Development: So many people were writing about it that I tried it, and it had a number of actors I have really liked in other things, but…let’s just say that despite my best efforts, we did not connect. Same reason I never liked Taxi. One every man can balance a cast where everyone else is quirky, but not one where the entire rest of the cast is comprised of outright loons.

I found that last segment of the show last night extremely self indulgent. (Except for the laugh out loud attempt of the one man, who is apparently known to many of you, but not to me, to roll off Keith’s body hair with a lint remover. HINT to Countdown staff: Do not assume that your entire audience will recognize those who are obscure. I am still not sure if the man is an actor or a hairdresser or what.)

I could not help but compare it unfavorably to the wonderfully funny segment Stephen Colbert had later with Will Smith re the same movie.

Otherwise, they are really packing in some important and well done political analysis and discussion.

Keith’s campaign to get an Arrested Development movie is just one of a million reasons to like him.

Rafismom, I’ll admit, Arrested Development isn’t for everyone and it’s an acquired taste. I had never seen it until a couple years ago, when a friend pushed me to see it. I didn’t really like the first couple of episodes I saw, but then something clicked and now I say it’s the funniest series I’ve ever seen. However, my attempts to get others to watch have all failed.

Yeah, but did you hear about Will Smith and David Letterman kissing? How gay is THAT?

I’m glad you enjoy the Tumblblogging! There is so much about KO online these days and I have less time to devote to ERT than I used to, so it seemed a good compromise. I really do try to bring the best bits.

Rafismom, it was really weird watching the guy who looks like my ex slobber on Keith’s hand.

BECKY ~ I’m glad you enjoy the Tumblblogging!

Becky, absolutely. I often save it for weekends when there are no posts so I can get my KO fix. I have also been known to click on and read more at the links provided.

As you note, there seems to be so much written about Keith at present, and all over the place, literally and figuratively.

I really appreciate the work you do to collect all of this, most of which I would have no idea how to find.

RED TOOTS ~ it was really weird watching the guy who looks like my ex slobber on Keith’s hand.

Red Toots, Oh, my, I can imagine, (And how many degrees of separation is THAT!) and especially as they had just established that apparently it is a very hairy hand.

I think that I will settle for genuflection if I should ever meet the Big Guy.

Sig: Thanks for the heads up. Found the spoiler. It does turn me off, but reading that the studio forced a happy, friendlier ad campaign makes me happy. I like me some dark superhero movies (tho nothing will beat Iron Man).

Lucy: Hope you’re all aboard for Watchmen, then. Nine months and counting. And that’s as far as I’ll let my geek flag fly tonight.

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