Joe The Plumber Makes "Worst Person In The World" On Countdown (VIDEO)

Joe the Plumber made it back onto the political scene for, as Olbermann describes it, "fomenting violence against elected officials." According to the Wasau Daily Herald newspaper, Joe the Plumber, while speaking in Wisconsin, more than once asked about Senator Chris Dodd, "Why hasn't he been strung up?" Olbermann awarded Joe the gold in his "Worst Persons in the World" segment.

Joe also proved that his off-the-cuff public speaking needs a little more work when he told the crowd that the Founding Fathers "knew socialism doesn't work. They knew communism doesn't work." Alas, these ideologies did not exist yet.

An anonymous donor who funded ads urging atheists to reveal themselves to bolster the cause of atheism was awarded the bronze medal for, well, remaining anonymous. Rush Limbaugh took home the silver for interpreting a 5-4 Supreme Court decision reversing a case nominee Sonia Sotomayor upheld as not only indicting Ms. Sotomayor as a racist, but that the verdict, properly reflected upon, was actually a 9-0 decision instead of one that settled along rough ideological lines.

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Comments

[yankees]

News Flash - The worst and most boring commentator, Olbermann picks it right!

[jaschrod]

This is really not fair. My mother taught me to never pick on people who are not as mentally astute as others.

[I once had a Crysknife]

Well it's nice of you to not say anything negative about Keith then.

[VOTERremorse]

Its funny cause Rush may mention KO's name once a year while KO mentions Rush everyday. You see who has valid points to discuss. KO spewing hatred is why O'Reilly beats him 3 to 1 constantly. Maybe he should be a commentator for professional figure skating cause his show is in the tank. Rush meanwhile has 20 million listeners a day.

[Bobcaaat]

so it's quantity over quality to you? i suppose you think a ford escort is better than a ferrari because they sold more.

[biglover]

Great analogy but it's wasted on the unintelligent, undereducated, innerbred thuhgs like VOTERremorse.

[Bushwillresign]

The 20 million are hopefully not the bibel thumper - wing of the "values" party. We all know what wing they actually are... rhymes with someone who sprays mace...

[StanNotFromCA]

KO has never spewed hatred and certainly BO and RL have continuously done so. KO has always tried to give the facts as opposed to these other two tools. BO's ratings are based on attracting a certain element of society that really needs to get help, not further agitation based on falsehoods.

RL who?

[Bushwillresign]

20 million haters like you, wow, you should be proud.

[AprilPA]

KeithO beats BillO regularly in the 18-34 demo. 3/4th of Fox News audience is over the age of 55, not a key demo for advertisers. MSNBC has to rely on younger viewers. Plus, Fox News is available in every market, unlike MSNBC.

[ProudlyConservative42]

Offer a link before you put your foot in your mouth again.

If people actually watched MSNBC, it would be in every market, too.

[me4u]

You must have gotten these stats from Keith O or MSNBC.

[CynAnne]

Well, remorse, those listeners must enjoy being duped and doped daily by Mr. Bouncy-Bouncy: http://mediamatters.org/search/tag/the_rush_limbaugh_show ..TWENTY pages worth of duping, doping and all-around yellow-rag rhetoric, burbled and belched daily by Mr. B - B to his catatonic "..listene­rs.."! ;) ...

[GringoLingo]

I didn't even realize Olbermann was still on the air.

[htowncarrie]

I didn't realize you were still stupid.

[TuoulumneFlower]

I did.

[Raef53]

TOO SHAY. (republican spelling)

[Clavis]

Wow, a right-winger expressing pride in his ignorance. What a shock. How empty is your life that you feel the need to hate on people you don't even know, simply based upon your prejudices and weakness?

[DrLogic]

"need to hate on people you don't even know, simply based upon your prejudices and weakness"

This seems to be the basic philosophy of most Republicans these days.

[anti-phony]

Isn't Olbermann the guy that did the announcing for the World Wide Wrestling Federation ?

[ProudlyConservative42]

Yes, he went by the name of "Mean Gene" back then...

[JakeMontero]

Is he still on?

[StanNotFromCA]

If you'd watch him you'd discover what a person who understands the facts and deplores violence and hatred really is.

[cheisdead]

Just because every word out of his mouth is hatred doesn't mean anything..­.

[AnnfromCA]

Hanging by a thread, apparently.

[DBtv]

You hang yourself by every thread you participate in.

[audadvnc]

Olbermann makes some pretty amusing points here. But, I've got to admit, mean spirited diatribes like these don't really speak very well for the level of political discourse in the modern world.

[JoshuaLudd]

Wait... you pick out Olbermann for this????

[AnnfromCA]

He's no different than Joe the Plumber.

[stateretiree]

Quit insulting Plumbers, Joe is not a Plumber!!!

[kathy001]

Right - except for education, information and facts, Joe and Keith are just alike.

[DBtv]

"Mean spirited diatribes" like republick ha te speakers?

[gs425]

It is pretty apparent that Rush is the only reason left that could possibly be keeping KO employeed. Without his Rush Rants, nobody would watch.

[htowncarrie]

Wrong. But I always enjoy reading the lame attacks on KO from the likes of you. Thanks for your irrelevance.

[gs425]

Ohhh ok

[AnthonyVolpe]

Joe the Plumber should be a trivia question. Stop mentioning him. Enough already.

[LucreziaBorgia]

Agree.

[lesterbud]

So Predictabl­e...
Every time KO gets play on HP, the TROLLS come crawling out from their bunkers, hold up their crosses and scream any of the following Rush-Puppet talking points:
1) KO has low ratings and thus is not credible (so why the fear?)
2) Obama + some fabricated ditty about higher taxes and BS about (make up %) of people do not pay any taxes, leaving the burden to GOPers with jobs
3) All Obama appointees paid NO taxes (again, facts don't matter)
4) How libs are so closed minded while Rushpublicants are the progressives (ok, except concerning EVERYTHING)
5) How the census is an invasion of our sacred privacy as protected by the constitution (unless it was a NeoCon administration tapping our phones, checking our library habits and magazine subscriptions, and generally discarding "That damn piece of paper" - that was OK)

Like clockwork.

[cheisdead]

Or it could just be because he's the "biggest idiot in the world".

[htowncarrie]

Ah, no, that would be you.

[lesterbud]

Pitiful.
I feel so very sorry for you.

[imfedup]

Keith actually quotes or even provides clips of people saying what he says they said. Rush interprets a 5-4 SCOTUS ruling as a 9-0. Just one of many examples of the difference.

[LauraD]

Says the guy who had zero clue what a previous poster was talking about, but still felt the need to comment and prove it.

[GreatTruthsSeeker]

Thanks again, Keith, for illustarting that Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny, a scientific law that accurately describes the development of all organisms, meaning that apples don't fall far from their trees. Organism development can be loosely interpreted as either surviving, thriving, or dieing. Kudos to Keith for the snapshots of propagated ignorance from two organisms in the shallow end of the gene pool.

In our world, ignorance is propagated and it's not bliss, it's malignant. Malignancy eventually affects the health of the 'host". Anyone notice how healthy the GOP is lately?

[Bude]

Moe is the patron saint of high school drop-outs and 35 year old's who live with their parents. Moe, you're a plumber for crying out loud, I told you to put the seat down when you are through. Sorry Mom.

[ChairmanOfTheBoard]

Keith O for the win, he always attract rightwing trolls, just look at the majority of the comments on this thread. for people who claim he has low ratings and no influence you seem to be pretty concerned

[WestofSabine]

Olbermann,­,,Olberman­n? Isn't that the talk show wannabe that comes in a distant last to O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, Van Susteren and Ren & Stimpy?

[DBtv]

Votes are ratings too.

[LauraD]

No, that's the talk show host who comes in second to O'Reilly.

Oh, I'm sorry...yo­u wanted to continue to live inside your own delusion, didn't you? My bad.

[JakeMontero]

i hear ya chairwomen. but it really bothers you that only h.uff pozers watch him... let it go.

[taxandspend1]

Joe sure had Obama pegged on taxes though.

[cyndie1030]

Sarcasm? Because I've gotten a tax CUT so far.

[MrPeebles]

One has to actually pay taxes first before receiving a tax cut , and don't worry you'll be paying more for all your consumables and energy thanks to the neophyte in chief ... yes that's also a tax ...

Wake up !

[Bude]

I think not.

[crablover]

Yes, Joe is indeed the wizard of economics. He can't even run a small business!

He's gotten much more than his 15 minutes of fame. It's time for him to get back to work under the sink.

[StanNotFromCA]

You mean the guy who asked a question based entirely on falsehoods? That he was thinking about purchasing a business that made over a quarter mil even though it didn't and even though he didn't have a dime to purchase it with? And that he just happened to be there as opposed to having came from a distance and pushed his way up to the candidate to ask this fictitious question.

[imfedup]

And that he wasn't a licensed plumber?

[DBtv]

Are you ever even remotely in touch with reality?

[rocketman69]

How could such brilliant journalism get such low ratings?

[ReMarker]

Brilliant jounalism like Fox? Freak shows have supporters, too. Maybe more than museums.

[timmmahhhh]

My wife and I discussed that, why Fox keeps beating MSNBC. The logical conclusion is that libs are more tech savvy and get their news on the internet where many of the FOXies are old people that watch the tube as they aren't that much into technology let alone the 21st century. I personally don't pay for cable so my kids (and admittedly I) don't waste away in fromt of the TV - I watch Keith and Racher on the internet.

[AKAchip]

That is exactly my take on the ratings game. Old, conservative wh.ite people who would not know a computer from a hole in the ground get their news via Faux Noise. I love Keith and Rachel in that order. I used to love Rachael more, but I' m not feeling her so much as I am Keith.

[crablover]

KO still consistently beats O'R in the key 18-34 age demographic. The average age of O'R's O'R's audience is 55.

[joanjourne]

timmahhh,
You're exactly right! My kid finally convinced me that paying for the internet AND cable was redundant.

[DrLogic]

I have long said it is the legions of slumbering Octogenarians, napping in front of their TVs, that drive Fox's ratings.