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Tie: Green
Music: Ray Charles - “What I Say”
Worst Persons: This is sick and sad and stupid, plain and simple.

Holy crap, hey you guys! Keith is back from his (much needed, much appreciated) break tonight! Did you see the: “Hard to believe, but the world didn’t stop without him!” MSNBC promo for tonight’s show? I gotta’ say, MSNBC, I’ve been keeping a casual eye on your ratings while the big man was away, and … they were pretty damn good for a solid two weeks with a guest host. Credit where it’s due to the fantastic (and seemingly hourly more visible in the press) Rachel Maddow. It’s a matter of “when,” not “if,” MSNBC, right? Don’t be coy, you know what I’m talkin’ about. Anyway. This isn’t bloggingmaddow. On to the show!!!

A McCain surrogate says McCain’s not the new Bush, Obama is. Just because you say it out loud doesn’t make it true, sparky. Meanwhile, Obama was in Indiana to talk war and foreign policy.

You know, we Tumbl’ed this past week the bit from Gawker about Keith on the subway with a “wild five o’clock shadow.” I’m glad Keith’s back, clean-shaven and … currently bouncing around as I type this, but man I would have liked to see one shot of him all scruffy land on the internet. And this brief foray into the fangirly ends … now.

The surge is over! It was SO SUCCESSFUL YOU GUYS. The 18,000 troops more than the pre-surge amount who are still there? They’re our … Victory Presence! Someone’s gotta’ stay behind to celebrate, friends! Rachel Maddow joins Keith (they just keep her in a little room and bring her out for Race/Today/Countdown), and they mention Josh Hamilton’s Homerfest and the Keating Five in the same chunk of dialogue. Then Keith calls her their very own “affable ninja,” which is kind of great.

Good news, everyone! Impeachment hearings have been scheduled! They just … won’t be followed by … oh. You know. An actual impeachment vote. Sigh.

The President used executive privilege again today to block information about the leaking of Valerie Plame’s identity as a covert agent. Jonathan Turley explains that what he (Bush) has done is acknowledge Congress’s right to look into this stuff, but also said that they could in no way have access to the evidence they need to see. No chance of impeachment at all, huh?

Oddball: Your camper’s too tall, your camper’s too tall, sir, stop, sir SIR YOUR CAMPER IS T- oh boy. ** Ah, the answer to Dan Rydell’s immortal question: “Who throws a haymaker?!” Turns out: teenage employees of pizzerias! ** Aaaaaaand the number one threat to the availability of electronics? BEARS. Maybe he was just trying to get his ~~hands~~ paws on a Wii Fit. Shed those last few hibernation pounds.

And the riddle of: “What’s the opposite of that New Yorker cover?” has been solved, in the form of a new JibJab video! It is … a JibJab video. McCain’s old, Obama’s a cockeyed optimist, Bush is a yokel, blah de blah blah. It’s evenhanded in its snark. So it’s got that going for it. Which is nice.

Hee. Keith says he “picked the wrong week to quit sniffing headlines.” Keith gives us a rundown of the stuff he didn’t get to cover whilst he was gone. Limbaugh calling Bill-O Ted Baxter, Jesse Jackson muttering about cutting Obama’s nuts off (Nuts, everyone in the media. Nuts. You can say it.), Obama forgetting to mention Clinton’s debt at a fundraiser to … raise funds to help her debt, James Carville driving the truck on which Cal Ripkin, Jr. rode in the All Star Parade (didn’t know that one!), and Billy Wagner being disappointing, because that is what Billy Wagner does. Also, Bobby Murcer passed away to the great sadness of me and my loved ones. We also lost Tony Snow, and some people tried to use that fact to sling more mud Keith’s way.

And that’s Countdown for tonight. We’ll see you next time.

Reading the summary was the nearest thing to seeing Countdown, as always. Great blog, Stef!

The highlight for me wasn’t in the show, though. It wasn’t even hearing that Keith’s most devoted one-man cheering section, Phil Griffin, was today made president of MSNBC and all interests, duties, and privileges pertaining thereto — although it had the novelty of being, for once, a management decision which made sense.

No, the highlight for me was the new sponsor. Anybody else notice?

Tonight, Keith’s backside actually was brought to us by UNITED VAN LINES!

Ooh, this makes me so nostalgic for the Big Show. ~sniff~ So hard to wait for football season…

Welcome back, Keith!

You were missed!

And thanks, Rachel, for your great job as sub!

Billo the Clown! HAH!

Add another insult to the file…

Actually, my feeling is, Welcome Back, Stef. Great to read the wrap up.

And, yes, for goodness sake, what is wrong with saying NUTS?

My local paper has a weekly feature on the Editorial page which features a current news photo and readers are to send in their funny suggested captions, most of which are not all that funny.

This week’s offering is a photo of Jesse Jackson, holding out his hands as if he expected someone to put a pair of cantaloupes in them. Naturally, after that comment, the obvious captions are all rather lurid and create mental images that produce a mind freeze. I am certain that the photo was deliberately selected for just that reason as there must be thousands of stock photos of the Reverend Jackson floating around..

Yes, I did see the promo for tonight’s show and found it funny, as well as that case of St. Vitus Dance Keith had with his chair early on.

But, all in all, I found the show a bit flat and missed Rachel, despite her all too brief appearance.

I thought of GM and her decision to step away from all of this and understand it.

I thought of a line I read long ago re Peter Pan, that Peter always remains a boy, but Wendy always grows up. Perhaps it is Wendy time.

The fantastic (and seemingly hourly more visible in the press) Rachel Maddow, INDEED!

This isn’t bloggingmaddow.

If it were, it would be my new favorite website.

I’m juuuust sayin’.

Photo:’Rachel Maddow on the “Countdown” set’

Interesting to see Keith’s weekday work perspective, no?

Oh, dude, believe me: the second she puts ink to paper on a deal? I am ON THAT BUSINESS.

This is for whoever wanted to see Keith at a ballgame.

http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/the_sporting_blog/entry/view/8842/keith_olbermann_is_stalking_the_hell_out_of_me

I only found it because it showed up on Tumbleblogging Olbermann

Redtoots, that series Mottram does at the Sporting News blog always cracks me up — seeing Keith being the stalker is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.

As there is no recap, at least not yet, of last night’s show, I am placing a big gripe here.

I realize that Keith often mocks the mispronunciations of the President and others by repeating their errors, but for the last two nights he has referenced the Bush Presidential LIBRARY several times, and each time that he treats the first R as a silent letter, I shudder.

Perhaps is it because for the past two months I have been trying to convince a very stubborn 8 year old, who would rather continue to mispronounce the word than to admit that he is in error, that it is NOT Lie Berry, but this just grates.

And, quite frankly, when Keith says Lie Berry, and I have heard him do so once before, it sounds as if he is not mocking Bush but also doesn’t know any better.

It also encourages the eight year old into a “See, your hero Keith Olbermann says Lie Berry” position.

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