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THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD By: Keith Olbermann
And 202 strong contenders
Wiley
September 2006
On Sale: September 11, 2006
272 pages ISBN: 0470044950 EAN: 9780470044957 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
A collection of top-ranked stinkers, rascals, and reprobates, plus a few just-plain-dumb folks, as seen and shared on MSNBCβs Countdown with Keith Olbermann Controversial, outspoken, and wildly entertaining, Keith Olbermann hosts a popular nightly newscast on MSNBC. A key feature of Olbermannβs unique and witty countdown of the dayβs top stories is his daily award for "The Worst Person in the World." Honorees range from dumb criminals to the likes of Tom Cruise, Amber Frey, Geraldo Rivera, the Coca-Cola Company, assorted members of the Bush Administration, and FEMA spokesperson Mary Hudak. Bill OβReilly of Fox News has a bumper crop of gold medals. From sports figures to schoolteachers, no one is exempt from Olbermannβs ire. One hundred and twenty of these incisive presentations, featuring bronze, silver, and gold medal recipients, have been packed into this tongue-in-cheek treatise on the past yearβs events. Along with actual transcripts, Olbermann shares his methodology for selecting the winners from the vast pool of possibilities presented by each dayβs news. Finally, he selects his top pick for the "worst of show" and reports some of the fallout from his awards, such as the mysterious disappearance of certain remarks from a transcript on Rush Limbaughβs Web site after Olbermann called them out on Countdown. In the style of Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, and Al Franken, Keith Olbermannβs The Worst Person in the World presents a brash and scalpel-sharp appraisal of the depths to which humans can slide socially, politically, and morallyβand what fun it can be to find out.
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