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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.
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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.
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