"Boxing Commission" reconsiders, names Edwards winner

[agates]

Last night, Keith Olbermann was live blogging the VP debate as a boxing match.

His final scoring gave a "marginal victory" to Cheney:

Cheney didn’t lose temper, but did leave questions open about why he mentioned terror or terrorists 23 times, and George Bush only a couple of times. Edwards said “Halliburton” six times but only scored with quotable line about Halliburton doing business with “sworn enemies of the United States.”

Overall impact of bout: a marginal victory, on rounds and intangibles, for Vice President Cheney, with window open on possible past Cheney-Edwards meeting.

Total Rounds: Cheney 8, Edwards 8, Drawn 5.

Total Net Points: Edwards 22.5, Cheney 11.


Today, Olbermann reversed his "decision."

The Boxing Commission (me) thus penalizes Fighter Cheney 10 points for untruthfulness, 10 points for forgetting his acquaintances, 2 points for snideness, and 2 points for hitting himself with his own jab. Republican spin doctors are penalized 10 points each for premature jocularity. This fight is awarded to Fighter Edwards on points.

Read the rest at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445086/

[Rose Siding]

1. A pundit with a brain?

Isn't there anything upon which we can depend?

[Ducks In A Row]

2. I almost email Keith last night to ask where his brain was

I recognize the Cheney lies AS they came out of his mouth. And Keith didn't? He only took off points when it came out that the lies were lies?

Oh Keith. I thought so much better of you than that.