The Worst Person In the World: And 202 Strong Contenders

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If you watch Keith every night but still can't get enough, this book will allow you to hear Keith's voice in your head. It is a collection of fun "Worst Persons" from his show and is especially great to pick up and put down, something to read if you expect a lot of interruptions.

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I have owned a copy of this book since it first came out (in fact, upon further review, I have a first edition copy), and I must say I found it rather okay.
True, it looked as though Olbermann published a volume of show transcripts, neatened up into a format that could sell on shelves, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
I must say I enjoyed his second compilation, Truth and Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration's War on American Values, much more interesting. I recommend that.

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Keith Olbermann, who seems merely pathetically earnest on TV, presents as smug and self-righteous in this book of lightly edited transcripts. Collecting a year of his "Worst Person in the World" bit in which he airs grievances to end his show, Olbermann charges money for his snide comments on what was old news when this book was new. Half a decade later, he thinks it's still worth most of an Andrew Jackson? Please, Keith.

Most articles in this book use about two-thirds of a page. Not surprising, perhaps, because the "WPitW" runs only ninety seconds a night. But that means that besides being out of date, out of context, and snarky, this book also has gobs of white space that you're meant to pay for. Only the mini-essays addressing events in more detail save Olbermann from utter failure. But even these essays are less informative or educational than Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber (q.v.).

The repetition is also grating. Olbermann berates Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News so reflexively that I suspect he has Tourette's. Okay, Keith, I get it: you don't like them. Neither do I, nor does anyone else who paid their own money for this book. But enumerating their every sin, day by day, turns into a list as vapid as those published by UFO societies. I expect better from a newsman.

I agree with Olbermann's politics. I, too, think O'Reilly and Coulter are nuts. But this book rambles on, preaching to the choir, offering nothing new or useful. He's less funny than Rachel Maddow, less pointed than Ed Schultz, and less charismatic in print than he is on TV. This is a book to check out from the library or borrow from your friend. Don't feed the beast by paying your own money.

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Honestly, can anyone listen or in this case, read this book to it's entirety? What a foul mouth, boring drone, this pseudo Journalist has turned out to be? He sells half baked truths, uses Soviet style propaganda tactics to dehumanize and devalue his opposition.
Chairman Mao and Uncle "Joe" Stalin must be really proud.

His rants are disturbing, and his MS-LSD show is hard to watch. There must be a psychiatric medication this freak can swallow to at least make him appear half normal. Then if that's not enough, the liberal femi-nazi Rachel Madcow, picks up where this buffoon left off!! Liberals are the scurge of America. He is a gleaming testimony to this FACT.

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With all of the lies and disinformation from the abusive self loving nuts in the world, it's nice to read something from somebody who calls them out. If anybody Keith Olbermann is as close to Edward R. Murrow as we have today. He takes on all of the right wing nuts, just nuts and media liars while most other broadcasters won't. I wish there would be more people out there that would do this if so people would wake up and notice that Fox News isn't really a news organization and dump them. Just a dream.