Olbermann named Hannity (on Edwards) "Worst Person," with Bay Buchanan (on Clinton) as runner-up

[DeepModem Mom]

Media Matters for America: Olbermann named Hannity "Worst Person," with Bay Buchanan as runner-up

On the May 29 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann named Fox News host Sean Hannity the "winner" in his nightly "Worst Person in the World" segment for stating that Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is " 'not really viewed as somebody that is up to the task of understanding the nature in the battle in the war that's being waged against us' because he got a $400 haircut," as Olbermann put it. As Media Matters for America noted, Hannity made the remark on the May 24 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes. Hannity pointed to a video of Edwards fixing his hair prior to a televised interview and the fact that Edwards recently spent $400 on a haircut, and then asked Jane Fleming, executive director of Young Voter PAC, "You don't see inherent weaknesses here in this campaign?"

On Countdown, Olbermann responded: "Couldn't stand up to Al Qaeda because he gets his hair done? Right, Sean, and your own hair just looks like that right out of bed every morning? And Mitt Romney's gets to looking like that for free? And President Bush cuts his own hair? What does he use, a Flowbee?"

Also on May 29, Olbermann awarded Bay Buchanan, a Republican strategist and senior adviser to presidential hopeful Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), the "silver" in the "Worst Person" segment for falsely claiming that "after 9-11," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) "went on national television and fabricated where her daughter was, talked about her daughter out jogging that morning and stopped near the Towers, heard the planes crash. It was all fabricated. It was all made up. Chelsea herself says she never left the apartment that morning."

But as Media Matters documented, Buchanan's own assertion in a May 24 appearance on CNN was inconsistent with the statements of both Hillary and Chelsea Clinton regarding Chelsea's whereabouts on the morning of September 11, 2001. In the interview Buchanan was referring to, Sen. Clinton did not claim that Chelsea was "out jogging that morning and stopped near the Towers, heard the planes crash"; rather, she said that Chelsea "was going to go around the Towers." In addition, Buchanan's assertion that Chelsea said she "never left the apartment that morning" is contradicted by a November 9, 2001, UPI article about a piece Chelsea wrote in Talk magazine....

http://mediamatters.org/items/200705300008?f=h_clips

[LaPera]

1. Republican's want Edwards gone as soon as possible.

The republican owned mainstream corporate media keeps throwing Hillary and Obama down our throats day after day...those are the candidates the republicans want us to choose to be the democratic nominee for president, certainly NOT John Edwards...

Edwards is a progressive, he has an excellent social & economic platform as well as a coherent liberal foreign policy... Edwards is also a very seasoned and skilled politician, Edwards is very charismatic and extremely smart, and the dude has the good looks, as well as being a liberal.

Surely the republicans do NOT want Edwards to be the democratic nominee, one can see planted stories about Edwards every week, republicans hoping one of the stories will take and ruin Edwards and hopefully get Edwards out of the race as quickly as possible or at the very least, severely damage Edwards chances.

Not so fast republicans, you lying greedy sick assholes...Edwards is a fighter!!

[Catchawave]

2. Keith clearly sees through the bullsh*t spin

Then again, he's a real journalist in a sea of talking stupidheads :D