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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 MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann
Controversial, outspoken, and wildly entertaining, Keith
Olbermann hosts a popular nightly newscast on MSNBC. A key
feature of Olbermann’s unique and witty countdown of the
day’s 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
O’Reilly of Fox News has a bumper crop of gold medals. From
sports figures to schoolteachers, no one is exempt from
Olbermann’s 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 year’s events. Along with actual
transcripts, Olbermann shares his methodology for selecting
the winners from the vast pool of possibilities presented by
each day’s 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 Limbaugh’s Web site after
Olbermann called them out on Countdown. In the
style of Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, and Al Franken, Keith
Olbermann’s The Worst Person in the World presents a brash
and scalpel-sharp appraisal of the depths to which humans
can slide socially, politically, and morally–and what fun it
can be to find out.
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