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Keith Olbermann

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Keith Olbermann is a news anchor and commentator who currently hosts Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. The show is normally a tongue-in-cheek news program and includes a countdown of the worst people in the world. However in late Summer 2006 Olbermann began to include a Special Comments segment in which he persistently gives scathing reprimands to notable political figures. [1]

For persistently scourging the second Bush administration, Fox News, and American conservatism in general, Olbermann has not only won the Edward R. Murrow award but also has been called the Edward R. Murrow of the 21 Century.

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Special Comments

Re: Rumsfeld
MSNBC Video/Transcript | Crooks & Liars Video/Transcript
Re: Bush's speech
MSNBC Video/Transcript | Crooks and Liars Video/Transcript
Re: 9/11 5 years later
MSNBC Video/Transcript | Crooks and Liars Video/Transcript
Re: Bush's Rose Garden press conference
MSNBC Video/Transcript | Crooks and Liars Video/Transcript
Re: Bill Clinton's interview with Fox News
MSNBC Video/Transcript | Crooks and Liars Video/Transcript
Re: Difference between enemies and critics
MSNBC Video/Transcript | Crooks and Liars Video/Transcript
Re: Military Commission Act
MSNBC Video/Transcript | Crooks and Liars Video/Transcript
Re: Use of terrorists in Republican Campaign Ads
MSNBC Video/Transcript | Crooks and Liars Video/Transcript
Re: Kerry's joke
MSNBC Video/Transcript | Crooks and Liars Video/Transcript
Re: Checks and balances
MSNBC Video/Transcript | Crooks and Liars Video/Transcript
Re: Bush comparing Vietnam and Iraq
MSNBC Video/Transcript | Crooks and Liars Video/Transcript
Re: Gingrich
MSNBC Video/Transcript | Crooks and Liars Video/Transcript
Re: Sacrifice and Bush's surge plan
MSNBC Video/Transcript | Crooks and Liars Video/Transcript
Re: Bush's credibility and Iraq
MSNBC Video/Transcript | Crooks and Liars Video/Transcript
Re: Bush's claim to have stopped four terrorism plots
MSNBC Video/Transcript | Crooks and Liars Video/Transcript
Re: Rice's comparison of Hussein to Hitler
MSNBC Video/Transcript | Crooks and Liars Video/Transcript

"Keith number"

During the 2008 U.S. Presidential Primary season, Olbermann began using the term "Keith number" in reference to the sum of a pre-election opinion poll's margin of error and the percentage of respondents who are undecided. Olbermann believes this value tends to be predictive of the extent to which a poll may vary from actual election results, and also of the volatility of the electorate's leanings.[2]

To summarize:

On the January 11, 2008 episode of Countdown, Olbermann described the number as follows:

"What, you ask is the ‘Keith number‘? This is the margin of error plus the percentage of undecided—in this case, four-and-a-half margin of error plus five percent undecided. I thought of it so, I named it after myself. You think of a better caveat for polls from now on and we‘ll name it after you."[3]

Olbermann's "Keith number" is unrelated (mathematically or otherwise) to the more traditional (and arcane) use of the term, which refers to a Fibonacci-like sequence of numbers.[4]

Books


See Also

Keith Olbermann 24 controversy

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This page was last modified 06:20, 18 December 2009 by Ryan Clark. Based on work by Totally Awsome and dKosopedia user(s) Centerfielder, Ftvt, Step Beyond, Brudny, Roger and BartFraden. Content is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.


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