Olbermann: Bush Returns To Make "World's Worst Person" (VIDEO)

The 'Worst Persons in the World' tonight on "Countdown" included Republican Senator Judd Gregg, Newt Gingrich, and former President George W. Bush.

Gregg took the bronze for introducing a bill in Congress that would ban signs identifying projects as funded by the stimulus, criticizing them as "simply for political self-interest." Gregg neglected to mention, however, the $500,000 earmark which led to the Judd Gregg Meteorology Institute or two other places, a library at Plymouth University and a "hall" at New Hampshire University, named for him after he pushed money the institutions' way.

Gingrich took home the silver for launching ads against a clean energy legislation funded by his 527 group when that 527 group has received $250,000 from a giant coal company that would be forced to clean up its pollution if that legislation is passed.

Bush returned to the scene to claim the gold for the emergence of yet another memo, resulting from a British government investigation into the Iraq war, that showed Bush determined to invade that country whether there was reason to or not.

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Comments

[BOin08]

Countdown needs to stick to the tabloid news ...Olbermann is all over the MJ coverage...finally found something he's good at.

[noradunn]

Why do we need tabloid news when there's Fox?

[Balzac]

Good man. Keith Olbermann is hanging tough.

[BIG JOHN]

YOU MEAN HE BEAT OUT SANFORD. OMG. BUSH MUST REALLY BE BAD.

[AtheistUS]

I think Bush beats Buchanan and Hoover as worst US president in history.

It may be a bit early for final conclusion, but it looks like he gets the title.

[Lam56]

I always knew that there was so much that the Bush Administration did not do to protect America from what happened on 9/11, but I really had no idea until I recently watched a documentary called
"9/11: Press for Truth" about the families of the victims who pushed for an investigation into what happened. If you see the time line of the warnings and how specific they were, you cannot help but see the culpability of Bush and his minions. It is absolutely horrifying to realize that 3,000 lives could have been saved if they had acted on all the intelligence they were given. For those who have Netflix, you can watch this documentary instantly on your computer; warning: it will make you mad.

[Zeugitai]

One thing that I have long disliked is the tendency to pick out one and only one person as THE ultimate in any way. It makes no sense in a world of seven billion people all of whom are "created equal" (albeit, along a vertiginous scale of privilege and deprivation). There is no one "worst" person; there are legions of them, from the petty tyrants that surround us all each and every day, to the soulless creatures that run the banks and corporations, to the soldiers who kill without the least moral compunction, to those that hate and agitate against community and cooperation in the name of capital, to our so-called "leaders," to the irresponsible madmen who spew their vile ideological toxins into our public media, to all those who lie, cheat, steal, and rob others as a way of life, and to all those who live by hate for "reasons" of race, gender, or flag. No one individual deserves publicity for being bad, worse, or the worst. It is simply a mob impulse to lynch someone to give a false sense of purging. The real criminals are swarming all around us in the local, national, and global communities, running our lives, robbing us, lying to us, and the real criminals are inciting this lynching to divert attention from themselves. Go ahead. Lynch GW in virtual effigy. Nothing in the universe could be more futile. Enjoy yourselves.

[rbrinega]

Wow...

Keith did no lynching. He only shone a spotlight on an unpleasant dark corner of the world: the worst that he could find for that day. There is validity in your argument about focusing on one issue, making the "scapegoat" for all of our ills, but lynching doesn't strike me as what was done here. He has made his own worst persons list, so Mr Olbermann is not intending lynching, but focus.

[noradunn]

You must be the life of every party.

[gconners]

We still have 130,000 troops in Iraq. Two soldiers were just killed a couple of days ago. Osama Bin Laden has NOT been caught "dead or alive." How's YOUR life George W. Bush???

[Mikeeee]

The largest single crime (death toll and damage) scene on US soil and Bushco didn't want it investigated. Sure smells bad to me. A two-seater plane landing in the forest with two people on board gets a more in depth investigation than 9/11?

[peacegurl48]

You'd have to go some to top what Bush/Cheney did. They deserve a place in Keith's WORST Hall of Fame.

[scat]

The worst politcal hack pretending to be a journalist in the world! Olberman

[wayicit]

As opposed to Billo the Clown!!! No one asking you to watch!

[scat]

Apparently nobody else watches either.

I flip for comic relief.

[Torsin]

Olby, what else is new Sherlock???? Sheesh!

[Dantana]

Bet the Nixons are glad Georgie Brush came along...

[LMPE]

I'd name him worst person in history.

[Mikeeee]

It's a family tradition.

[Whitley2009]

Amen, going all the way back to his family supporting the third r*eich before and during WW II.

[Passenger57]

George W. Bush :
Now there's a "World's Worst Person" whose number should be retired!
Does Olbermann have a wall or rafter he can hang a big Bush banner from?

[dezzertguy]

Olbermann is a television version of the magazines you see at the check out of a grocery store. He is so dramatic and funny. I guess he had to find something to entertain the zombies.

[Merckx]

Do you not find it interesting that this second memo clearly indicates Bush W. led us into a war of choice with no clear need other than Bush's ego? Hundreds of thousands of people died because of George W's decision and the he brought the world to the edge of total financial collapse and made it less safe for most everyone. And yet, all you can do is comment on Olbermann's style. If you were a true American and even just a little bit human, you should be thanking Olbermann for being just about the only American in the media to bring us the truth.
Dessertguy, ask yourself why you deserve to suck oxygen. You certainly don't live to make the world a better place.

[cheisdead]

And these btard's along with him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs

[Proletarian101]

Wow... that was a leep.