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Printing Date: September 10, 2007
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The stinkers, the rascals, the reprobates. . . and the just plain dumb.
(Yes, Bill, he's talking about you.)
Geraldo Rivera. The Coca-Cola Company. Victoria Gotti. Tom Cruise. Various members of the Bush administration. All have earned the dishonor of 'Worst Person in the World,' awarded by MSNBC's witty and controversial reporter Keith Olbermann on his nightly MSNBC show Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Now, he brings all his bronze, silver, and gold medalists together in this wildly entertaining collection that reveals just how twisted people can be—and how much fun it is to call them out on it. Plus, he reveals the winner of the most coveted award of all: 'Worst in Show.'
From tongue-in-cheek observations to truly horrific accounts, Olbermann skewers both the mighty and the meek, the well-known and the anonymous for their misdeeds, including:
Ann Coulter, for, among other things, calling Muslims 'ragheads' in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington
22-year-old Ronald MacDonald, who was accused of theft at his place of employment . . . Wendy's
Barbara Bush, for making a generous donation to the Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund earmarked exclusively for the purchase of computer software . . . software sold by her son, Neil
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The stinkers, the rascals, the reprobates. . . and the just plain dumb.
(Yes, Bill, he's talking about you.)
Geraldo Rivera. The Coca-Cola Company. Victoria Gotti. Tom Cruise. Various members of the Bush administration. All have earned the dishonor of 'Worst Person in the World,' awarded by MSNBC's witty and controversial reporter Keith Olbermann on his nightly MSNBC show Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
Now, he brings all his bronze, silver, and gold medalists together in this wildly entertaining collection that reveals just how twisted people can be—and how much fun it is to call them out on it.
From tongue-in-cheek observations to truly horrific accounts, Olbermann skewers both the mighty and the meek, the well-known and the anonymous for their misdeeds, including:
Ann Coulter, for, among other things, calling Muslims 'ragheads' in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington
Barbara Bush, for making a generous donation to the Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund earmarked exclusively for the purchase of computer software . . . software sold by her son, Neil
The staff of Your World with Neil Cavuto, for the story about the murders of Iraqi civilians that was accompanied by the on-screen graphic: 'All-out Civil War in Iraq: Could It Be a Good Thing?'
Olbermann also reports on some of the recent fallout from his awards, such as the controversy with John Gibson and the mysterious disappearance of remarks about Cindy Sheehan on Rush Limbaugh's Web site. Plus, he reveals the winner of the most coveted award of all: 'Worst in Show.'
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I couldn't finish the book. I don't like his show since he lacks the courage to have a guest w/ an opposing view. Therefore, it gives the perception he is competent since every guest says, "I agree w/ you %100 Kieth". Its boring and filled w/ rump kissing platitudes. Just like this book. I picked it up at a used bookstore for .99 and thought I would give it a spin even though the sight of him makes me want to vomit. I wasn't disappointed, it was filled w/ recycled material. Old news from the perspective of a mental patient. His criticisms are filled w/ hypocrisy. He needs to turn his critical eye on himself. If you like his show, you will love this book. You have my sympathy.
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Boy, is this book bad. I had seen that MSNBC had just given this guy (Olbermann) a raise to 7.5 million a year and wondered who he was. Then I saw the title of this book here on Amazon (and it cost a penny) and thought this would be a good way to learn about Mr. Olbermann. I thought that either this book would be serious or satirical or something but at least informative and entertaining. I was wrong.
Now you might think that Osama bin-Laden or Putin or Ahmedinejad or Chavez or Morales or Ortega or Kim or Chinese communists or drug lords or anyone of a number of murdering thugs would be in this list. You would be wrong. Or maybe some wacked out, doped up sports star or hollywood slut. You would again be wrong. Nope, in page after page Olbermann thinks Bill O'Reilly, whose show happens to be on at the same time as Olbermann's and has much higher ratings is the world's worst person. Um, don't you think that this might just be sour grapes, Keith?
As an example of how bad this book is I randomly opened this book to page 261 where O'Reilly is evil because (and I'm not making this up and who could even come up with such inanities and idiocy) O'Reilly doesn't like the Dixie Chicks! Dude, you need to get out more and maybe read a paper or watch the evening news. Besides calling O'Reilly the most evil person in the world for disliking the Dixie Chicks he also managed to include a slur about Ann Coulter actually being a man. Dude, put down that doobie, turn off the male porn and maybe go on a date - with a girl.
Another typical Olbermann - three sons of a man, one of whom was a policeman, turned in their father - a gun-toting bank robber - and were the worst people in the world. Because, you see, in Olberworld, it doesn't matter what you do or how many people you hurt - what matters is supporting your own no matter how evil they are. You know, like the Mafia. Yep, Keith, that's real entertainment.
To be fair (something that Olbermann rarely was), sometimes Olbermann picks inept criminals as his runner-ups. But usually it's some Republican politician or conservative talk show host. The only conclusion I came to was that anyone who disagrees with Olbermann is the world's worst person. Uh, Keith, that's the same way Hitler and Mao felt. You're not keeping very good company, dude.
Olbermann is so addled that sometimes he even calls people who agree with him names. For example, Glenn Beck commented that the media seemed to be showing a few dysfunctional people in New Orleans after Katrina as if they were representative of the victims. Olbermann was too stupid to see that Beck is saying that most of the victims aren't dyfunctional and complained that Beck was calling the victims of Katrina scum. No Keith, your buddies at NBC were doing this, Beck was trying to say they were wrong. This kind of thing was not isolated.
Anyway, this book was so bad, so bereft of information OR entertainment that I threw it away after reading - something I never do with a book. Gouge your eyes out, drink drano, find that lost hari-kari sword, but DO NOT READ this insult to mankind. Yes it's that bad. Prior to this book, my nominee for worst book I ever read was "To the Lighthouse" by Woolf (see my review). It was light years better than this.
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I'm a big fan of Keith Olbermann. Although, I found this book to be entertaining, I found it was not the best political satire book on the shelf.
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I belive if idiots like Oberman had their way, we would now have drugs like cocaine legelized. Porn shows would be shown on television all the time(actually they already are but we can still stop that), and every republican president would be tarred and feathred by an angry mob. We laugh at right wing book writers like Coulter and Michele Milkin, but the left wing writers like Oberman are no better.
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Take humor, sarcasm, news, refinement, intelligence on one side (that's Keith) and mix with human error, egoism, sheer stupidity, crass acts, outright evil, corruption on the other side. What you have is Keith Olberman's jugular approach to people in the news for the wrong reasons, or Keith puts them in the news for the right reasons--to skewer their audacious acts. He selects three per newscast (Keith Olberman's Countdown on MSNBC) each evening as the Worst Persons in the World. This book is a collection of 202 worst persons from July 1, 2005, through June 1, 2006.
To give just a hint of style, here is my favorite nominated "worst person in the world" from the collection: July 6, silver, O.J. Simpson, whose girlfriend attacked him and he just stood there and took it. He did nothing wrong so why was he nominated? "Because our panel holds a grudge" (13). Yes, my favorite!
*Jason Brahim, bronze, charged with disorderly conduct for beating a goose to death on a golf course. "And he lied about how many strokes it took him" (29).
*Austin Community College in Texas, silver, for denying residency to Carl Basham, charging him $2,600 a semester instead of $500. He spent too much time living out of state. "Well, it's true. Carl has been away, serving, he says, two tours in Iraq" (32).
*Rush Limbaugh, Worst Person, for his comments about Cindy Sheehan, who lost a son in Iraq. Said Limbaugh, "I'm weary of even having to express sympathy. We all lose things." Keith has this to say: "Like your career, Rush. You're finished. Credibility spent. Get lost."
*FEMA spokesperson Mary Hudak. She defended the agency for assigning 1400 firefighters from around the country to handing out fliers with toll-free FEMA numbers to residents, most of whom didn't have working phones. Fifty of the volunteers were sent to Louisiana to stand subsequent to the president during his tour of the area. Worst Person in the World! (45).
*FEMA! $100 million worth of ice was trucked to victims of Hurricane Katrina, but they had enough ice. This ice was routed and rerouted for days and weeks, some ending up in Nebraska (63). Tax payer dollars at work.
*Elaine Chao, Secretary of Labor, for making a deal with Wal-Mart, giving 15 days' notice before checking for child labor violations. Bronze. (93)
*Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, for owning $5-25 million in Gilead Sciences, the company which will get one billion for its bird flu vaccine, a deal the president signed (93).
*Sharita Williams, Homa, Louisiana, bronze for calling 911 to report cold onion rings and demanding hot ones from a restaurant (106).
*Bill O'Reilly, for claiming to be the cause of lowered gas prices. "I have guys inside five major oil companies...they got scared because of my reporting...." (122) Bronze.
*Bill O'Reilly, Worst Person. Concerning the anti-Christmas campaign: Bill said, "I'm going to use all the power that I have on radio and television to bring horror into the world of people who are trying to do that." (125)
*Judge Edward Cashman in Burlington, Vermont, Bronze. Mark Hulett was found guilty of repeatedly sexually assaulting a girl over four years beginning when she was 6. The judge sentenced him to only 60 days in jail because Hulett is a "low risk for commiting a similar crime" (142).
*Bill O'Reilly. Worst Person. Mike Farrell, a guest on Bill's show told him he lost credibility when he used personal attacks. "I don't do personal attacks here, mister," he told Farrell. Keith lists these "personal attacks": Neal Gabler, "rabid dog," Ralph Nader, "a loon," Bill Moyers, "a fanatic," Jimmy Carter, "a fool," and John Kerry, "a sissy."
I wish I could include more, but space is out. You could read this book or watch Keith Olbermann nightly on Countdown on MSNBC. Keith is like jazz to me, he is better, richer, more personable, more potent with more riffs on television than on paper.
But if you want to savor Keith's incisive wit and zestful jabs, then this book will certainly do.
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