Citing angry tone, Olbermann suspends ‘Worst Person in the World’ feature

Some Minnesotans — Rep. Michele Bachmann and GOP Senate District 56 webmaster Randy Brown, among them — are unlikely to mourn its passing: Liberal MSNBC host Keith Olbermann is halting his “Worst Person in the World” feature. The news comes just days after Comedy Central star Jon Stewart lambasted the increasingly negative tone of cable political shows at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington.

As state party protests, SD56 GOP webmaster earns ‘Worst Person in the World’ designation

As Randy Brown, the webmaster who posted a sexist video on the GOP’s District 56 website, is dubbed “Worst Person in the World” by MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, the Republican Party of Minnesota demands changes to reports on the incident by the Minnesota Independent, Gawker and Mothers Jones — changes that put distance between the state GOP and the local SD 56 party unit.

Bachmann on media stalkers and government help

While Rep. Michele Bachmann says she’s not afraid of MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, it’s curious that her next big media appearance following that statement wasn’t Olbermann’s show but the friendlier Bill O’Reilly’s. Something else she’s not afraid of:…

Bachmann: ‘I’m not going to fear Keith Olbermann’

WASHINGTON — At a briefing for conservative bloggers at the Heritage Foundation today, Rep. Michelle Bachmann dismissed MSNBC as a network neither she nor “most of the American people” paid attention to.
“Quite honestly I don’t even know anything…

Bachmann ‘hearing voices’ other than God’s, says top Dem

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s talk of stopping health care reform by fasting, praying and wrist-slitting has prompted not only lefty pundits but a top Democratic colleague to question what’s going on between her ears. Jim Oberstar, chairman of…

Franken reveals private pledge not to do national media … in the New York Times

Norm Coleman isn’t the only Minnesota candidate for U.S. Senate to exhibit a mild case of hypocrisy while pressing his case in the media lately. Here’s what Al Franken is quoted as saying in an interview in today’s edition…

The craziest interview in American politics? Michele Bachmann

So says MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. He spent seven minutes fact-checking Republican U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s recent interview with KTLK’s Chris Baker. Olbermann pulls in Chris Hayes from The Nation to add some analysis to the…

Will Palin shriek at sight of her new foe, Keith Olbermann-like Bob Poe?

Mix up the letters of two names in the news this week — “Bob Poe” and “Olbermann” — and I’m pretty sure you get “Doppelganger.” At least that’s the word that came to mind when I saw a…

Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight: Franken ‘may be prohibitive favorite’

Nate Silver, the fivethirtyeight.com political wunderkind whose prognosticating acumen landed him on the cover of today’s New York Times business section, breaks down the probabilities of who will survive the ongoing vote count in Minnesota’s U.S.…

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