DIE DAILY OLBERMANN

Today's Cheap Laugh Keith Olbermann

I really have lately made an effort to ignore the daily Olbermann.  Generating laffs and/or outrage at his expense is, to quote C.  Montgomery Burns, "like stealing candy from a baby."  But this is too precious to ignore. He's written a book.  It consists entirely of transcripts from his television show.  That is watched almost entirely by conservative bloggers looking for tomorrow's Olbermann riposte.  The Daily Caller sums it up nicely in the first few paragraphs of its review. “ MSNBC host Keith Olbermann’s new book, “Pitchforks and Torches: The Worst of the Worst, From Beck, Bill, and Bush to Palin and Other Posturing Republicans,” has a lot in common with Olbermann’s daily television show: It’s built around the overwritten, overwrought meanderings of a smart but lazy man better known for anger than substance, who fancies himself an avenger for justice but is really just a thin-skinned tyrant in pundit’s clothing. Also, both feature hilarious images of Keith Olbermann’s face. (LMAO) There’s a reason “Pitchforks and Torches” so closely resembles “Countdown.” The new book consists entirely of transcripts of Olbermann’s tirades from “Countdown” — what the jacket copy calls “his most potent barrages,” which sounds vaguely disgusting.