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Keith Olbermann Preserves Scrubbed Sarah Palin Tweet for Posterity/Mockery

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One of the best new features on Countdown, the Twitter Report, entered a new phase of usefulness last night, as Keith Olbermann used it to enshrine a Sarah Palin tweet that she later deleted. The former Alaska governor got the words “ravished” and “ravaged” mixed up, and hilarity ensued. While Keith immortalized the tweet, an unsung Twitter hero deserves credit for being the first to notice Palin’s mistake, which isn’t actually much of a mistake.

From last night’s Twitter Report:

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While Palin deleted the tweet from her timeline, it is still viewable in Twitterspace. I don’t know why. Here’s what she said:

Gov.Jindal:to avoid ravished coast, build the berms.Ask forgiveness later;Feds are slow to act,local leadership&action can do more for coast

While it is true that a Daily Kos diarist beat Olbermann to the punch by half an hour, the immortality factor there is akin to rolling a quarter down the side of the Hoover Dam. You know it’s there, but nobody’s ever going to see it. The first person to call out Palin’s gaffe was an “erotic event producer” (that’s definitely going on my resume´) named TheDarkLady:

@SarahPalinUSA Why do you sexualize everything? The Gulf coast is being “ravished?” Do you mean “ravaged?” What a ninny you are.4:04 PM May 31st via web in reply to SarahPalinUSA

While Palin surely did mean to say “ravaged,” the replacement with the word “ravished” isn’t entirely out of left field. As many have noted, one of the definitions of the word “ravish” is rape, and while I wouldn’t expect Palin to use a rape metaphor,  it is an apt one. The Gulf Coast certainly didn’t consent to the violation it currently suffers through.

“Ravish” is a weird-ass word, by the way. It’s one of those words that’s usually written, but that no one ever says, like “dappled” or “query.”

“Ravish” is also unusual because its meaning changes drastically when you use it as an adjective. In a twist of O’Reillyan logic, the verb form includes the rape definition, but the adjective “ravishing” simply means “Extremely attractive; entrancing.”

Personally, I’m against this kind of nit-picking, as fun as it is. Everybody makes mistakes, even ravagingly handsome writers, and most of us would appreciate a milligan on such occasions.

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  • writer

    Hey, Keith. Did hilarity ensue when you didn’t know the difference between Noah’s Ark and the Ark of the Covenant?

  • taxed

    Attacking someone for a typo in their twitter post? What a sad sad life Olby must lead. Countdown to a youtube clip from newsbusters highlighting all of Obly’s typos!

  • plep

    I’m still looking for the “hilarity that ensued”. Can someone point it out to me?

  • ImNotBlue

    Is this the best he’s got?

  • m

    >while I wouldn’t expect Palin to use a rape metaphor, it is an apt one

    Rape metaphors are never appropriate in my opinion. Ever played video games? “rape” is tossed out all the time. It devalues the word.

  • cindylei96

    Who cares!!! My boyfriend thinks the same with me. He- is eight years older than me, lol. We met online at an age gap dating site[_www. A G E R O M A N C E com_]—a nice and free place for Younger- Women and Older Men, or Older Women and Younger Men, to interact with each other. Maybe you wanna check out or- tell your friends

  • writer

    “It devalues the word.” Like the left yelling racism 24/7.

  • TROLLING4LIBS

    This story was posted on DailyKos Monday night, and Keith used for his show Tuesday night.

  • felixw

    This whole show — heck, the whole network — is built around mindless “gotcha” moments. The fact that Olbermann is so proud of this infantile stuff tells you quite a bit about this man, his show and his employer. While O’Reilly covers important stories about the economy, foreign affairs, and key domestic issues, Olbermann is parsing deleted Tweets. How pathetic!

  • Powerslave

    This is what Olbermann’s show has come down to? How pathetic. Crash and burn, Mav.

  • The Real Royal King

    axed says:
    June 2, 2010 at 10:38 am

    Attacking someone for a typo in their twitter post? What a sad sad life Olby must lead. Countdown to a youtube clip from newsbusters highlighting all of Obly’s typos!

    Of course, it wasn’t a typo. The woman doesn’t speak (or write) English as well as a 3rd grade ESL student. But, I’m not complaining. The chuckles and chortles are priceless. Keep ‘em coming!

  • writer

    And the fact that Olbermann and so many on the left dwell on something so petty is also priceless.

  • http://politicsofdestruction.com/ Bobomatic

    What is the point of all this? Liberals playfully trashing an individual who they disagree with. This says more about liberals and their childish antics than can be said for Palin. Your not converting minds, your merely displaying the arrogant contempt you have for others who do not believe in the same ideology as you.

  • ImNotBlue

    The Real Royal King says:
    June 2, 2010 at 11:31 am

    Is this more of your “irrationality” when it comes to Palin? Instead of taking the common sense route, saying “it was a typo,” you’ll use it to insult and attack?

    And you want people to take you seriously?

  • miguy

    liberalism is a mental disorder

  • Moderate

    “I’m against this kind of nit-picking”

    Desperate people have desperate ways and Olbermann is getting desperate for material on Palin. Next he will be moving in next door to her.

  • The Real Royal King

    Well, INB, I certainly realize that I haven’t achieved the moral and ethical perfection that you have, and I fully realize that though you have been tempted in every was as I have, you have not sinned, as I have. I certainly hope you can find it in your big, benevolent heart to forgive me for insulting your moral and ethical equal.

  • The Real Royal King

    Moderate says:
    June 2, 2010 at 11:43 am

    “I’m against this kind of nit-picking”

    Desperate people have desperate ways and Olbermann is getting desperate for material on Palin. Next he will be moving in next door to her.

    I doubt it. Judging from his taste in clothes and his attention to appearance, I doubt he would want to live next door to a yard filled with snow machines, race cars and airplanes and boats. I think he’d be looking for something a bit more exclusive than that.

  • writer

    Boo hoo, King. You and Joan of Arc, huh?

  • Puter Boi

    Who cares!!! Her boyfriend thinks…..

    Oh never mind….

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Puter Boi says:
    June 2, 2010 at 11:53 am
    LOL I read one of those two. It almost looked convincing at the beginning

  • valkyrie101

    So what do you call Bill’s “pinhead” segment, Felix? Isn’t that pretty much like KO’s worst segment?

  • valkyrie101

    Sarah did not make a typo, she used the wrong word. The funny part was not the misused word, but the reference to the Feds being slow to act, which is interesting since her view is that the Feds are supposed to stay out of the way of everything, and that all regulatory agencies are a waste of tax payer money.

  • writer

    Yeah, valk. Bill’s pinhead segment is similar. But Bill has guests who disagree with him. Won’t see that on Olbermann.

  • BowenIsland

    writer says
    Yeah, valk. Bill’s pinhead segment is similar. But Bill has guests who disagree with him. Won’t see that on Olbermann.

    Actually it would only be the same if the pinheads O’Reilly mentioned were MSNBC , Olbermann , and Maddow , over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.

  • roxsteady

    Oh please! Yes, everbody makes mistakes but, not everbody was an old geezer’s heartbeat away from the Presidency. Further, when she wrote on her hand she was caught trying to appear smarter than she is. Perhaps she should read up on Jindal. If this idiot hadn’t given over 4,500 permits without proof that there was a back up plan, maybe this could have been avoided. She proves it every time she opens her mouth that she’s a moron. And all of these anti regulation types are now seeing the benefits of what can happen when a big oil company isn’t regulated. That entire coast has been sucking off the teet of big oil. Now they want the government to save their sorry asses? Well guess what? We don’t have the equipment or the technology to deal with this because while drilling technology has improved, maintenance just wasn’t their priority. That tweet proved one thing though. She clearly wrote that one!

  • writer

    So rox, the BP mess goes no farther than the local level? But after Katrina, the left overlooked Ray Nagin’s responsibility and blamed everything on the feds. Obama has been in for eighteen months. If federal regulations were lax, the feds bore no responsibility at all, simply because your guy is president now?

  • lonestar77

    Wow. I can’t think of many things much more pathetic. Poor Olby. This is the best he can do?

    Tommy: “Hilarity ensued”. Really? Did it? Among whom? Did hilarity ensue when your boy, Obama, said there were FIFTY-SEVEN freaking states? How about when he referred to Navy corp men as CORPSE MEN? Did hilarity ensue then? Olby is just a straight-jacket away from the nut house. The guy is craaaaaazzzzzyy.

  • timzank

    Rox…Jindal issued 4500 permits for what?

  • BowenIsland

    timzank says:
    June 2, 2010 at 12:21 pm
    Rox…Jindal issued 4500 permits for what?

    Yeah , I saw that too. I just thought it impressive that she got through a post with out cursing. I thought we could work on facts another day .

  • Barney

    From Queefy Uberdouche’s Twitter account:

    “And there is a House Tea Party candidate who claims he discovered the Ark of the Covenant … in Arizona.

    Hope all the animals had their papers with them!”

    Yes…Queefy Uberdouche had no idea of the difference between The Ark of the Covenant and Noah’s ark

    Yes…he is actually that fucking stupid….and he calls Palin and idiot…wow

    Queefy Uberdouche bringing light not heat…Jesus…what a fucking moron
    .

  • Fox News: We proudly pander to Teabaggers

    So Sarah Palin is again trying to employ big words in an attempt to show everyone how smart and well-read she is.

    And once again she fails miserably.

    For the sake of the country stick to wiping asses Sarah.

  • Barney

    Tommy Christopher was probably yelling “We got her. We got her” while watching this segment on his fantasy boyfriend Queefy’s show last night.

  • mproust

    Actually, Tommy Christopher is the KO’s only viewer…. How sad that Mediaite has come down to crap like this story.

  • Barney

    I wonder how embarrassed Dan Abrams is seeing the crap that Christopher and some of the others put out. They’re probably under contract so there’s nothing he can do about it for a while.

    The idiots here make the Media Mutters crew look honest and intelligent

  • Barney

    “That entire coast has been sucking off the teet of big oil”

    …and roxsteady actually calls Palin a moron in the same comment from which the sentence above was taken.

    I’ll bet the idiot cannot figure what I’m pointing out here.

  • ImNotBlue

    The Real Royal King says:
    June 2, 2010 at 11:45 am

    I certainly hope you can find it in your big, benevolent heart to forgive me for insulting your moral and ethical equal.

    I see no need to forgive someone who isn’t sorry for their actions.

    Are you sorry that you’re irrational? Are you going to try to become more rational? Are you willing to admit that you’re off your rocker when it comes to Palin, so you’re simply going to ignore the topic?

    No?

    Well, then who do I forgive you for? You have apologized for nothing.

    valkyrie101 says:
    June 2, 2010 at 11:57 am

    So what do you call Bill’s “pinhead” segment, Felix? Isn’t that pretty much like KO’s worst segment?

    9 out of 10 times, Bill’s segment is lighthearted… not nasty, like KO’s. There’s a difference in being a “pinhead,” and being the “worst person in the world,” no? Furthermore, Bill doesn’t simply use it as a platform to attack people he disagrees with politically.

  • RazorsEdge

    Reminds me when Olbermann uses “LOL” and “:)” in his tweets. As Lance Armstrong urges – Man code includes ban for men on typing those out.

  • MediaWhore

    Unfortunately when you coast through life relying on your tits….your vocabulary suffers.

    You betcha!

  • The Real Royal King

    9 out of 10 times, Bill’s segment is lighthearted ….

    I’d have to see statistical evidence.

  • notsofast

    This is it? This is an article?

    Try how Anne Curry gave a commencement speech to the wrong college.

  • ImNotBlue

    The Real Royal King says:
    June 2, 2010 at 1:20 pm

    I’d have to see statistical evidence.

    And here I thought you said you watch FNC all the time…

  • Penguin60

    Funny Tommy, an article written about a mistake and you request a milligan? Or do you really want a mulligan? Those who cast stones… :D

  • The Real Royal King

    Maybe, it’s a mulligan in the Republic, but a milligan in the northern counties.

  • Penguin60

    Maybe it’s pronounced gof without the l.

  • The Real Royal King

    Well, it is in West Texas. Everyone out there says he is going to go goffing.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ed-Durffee/1311278663 Ed Durffee

    Just cant tell you how happy I am every time I see KO slobbering over his hate of Sara Palin. KO is one scared and obsessed rabid Liberal. Yea it was a little thing but then KO needs every thing he can find to put in his gotcha file. AND hey King, not that I give a rats but maybe that “was” in one of your comments here was meant to be a “way” but then who cares… If I could ever give you some advise and I cant, but it would be “dont stand so close to KO, when he gets scared he spits all over the place”.

  • drex94

    SO SAD SARA PAY-LIN TRYING TO USE BIG WORDS IS LIKE BUSH TRYING TO WIN A SPELLING BEE…….IT AINT GONNA HAPPEN

  • Penguin60

    It’s a line from Caddyshack, but I’m glad to see it’s used in real life.

  • felixw

    The Real Royal King offers up a dozen comments on Sarah Palin’s Tweet. Maybe he could offer up a dozen words explaining how we can pay off the $100 trillion in unfunded future liabilities caused by entitlement Ponzi schemes put in place by the Left.

    Then again, for the Left, the bigger the issue, the less they have to say. And the stupidest gotcha moment is their idea of breaking news. So we will continue to get Palin parsing as the lead story on MSNBC and for the fellow travelers posting here.

  • Phocus2

    What is he…12? He and both his viewers really miss grade school and it’s obvious. And to think, he always comes in last in viewers…go figure.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    President Obama said ‘CORPS’ man a couple of times and the teabaggers (and Hannity) have a field day..
    Sarah says ‘ravished’ and pointing it out is nothing more Sarah Palin Derangement Syndrome..

    Teabaggers are funny.

  • Tommy Christopher
  • Penguin60

    Yes, Tommy, being an avid golfer I could not let that one slide. Punishment will be to watch KO until the show is canceled, then reruns. May God have Mercy on your soul.

  • Rusty Shackelford

    Does Tommy Christopher have a man crush on Keith Olbermann? Or is he just an Olbermann jock sniffer?

  • sarainitaly

    MediaWhore says:
    June 2, 2010 at 1:19 pm
    Unfortunately when you coast through life relying on your tits….your vocabulary suffers

    Actually, man boobs are called moobs. And lordy, Olby does have big moobs – blech!

    He’s just trying to make up for the time he called her an “idiot woman” but had a typo on the graphic that was insulting her.

    KEITH OLBERMANN: Idiot-woman speaks. In front of a big flag, sponsored by a sump-pump company, quote: “somebody told me, you know your [sic] going into enemy territory. I said, it’s Chicago, it’s not MSNBC.” Yah, like you had the courage to come to MSNBC.

    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2010/05/13/echo-chamber-olbermann-calls-idiot-woman-palin-coward-refusing-com#ixzz0pjIInHCi

    His obsession is reaching stalkerishly insane levels.

  • kit9

    You’ve got to be effing kidding. This is what Olberduche has been reduced to? Really scraping the bottom the Palin hating barrel. You know what’s much more amusing? When Olbermann didn’t know the difference between the debt and the deficit. I’m not sure who is more pathetic-Olbermann for talking about Sarah’s twitter typo or idiot Christopher for reporting Olbermann’s idiocy. A real toss up.

  • The Real Royal King

    sarainitaly says:
    June 2, 2010 at 4:30 pm

    MediaWhore says:
    June 2, 2010 at 1:19 pm
    Unfortunately when you coast through life relying on your tits….your vocabulary suffers

    His obsession is reaching stalkerishly insane levels.

    —–

    What an extraordinary thing to be so jealous about, Sara N. Italy, or should I “say” Sarah (N) Italy?

  • sarainitaly

    The Real Royal King says:
    June 2, 2010 at 5:11 pm

    Your obsession is reaching stalkerishly insane levels. That’s what happens to people suffering from little dick syndrome.

    Now wipe the Cheeto dust off Little limpy king jr. and put on some pants. Your mom will be home soon.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Teabagger shit don’t get much funnier than this….

    Gov. Brewer claims her father ‘died fighting’ the Nazis — but he actually passed away 10 years after WWII….

    Actually the death of Wilford Drinkwine came 10 years after World War II had ended. During the war, Drinkwine worked as a civilian supervisor for a naval munitions depot in Hawthorne, Nev. He died of lung disease in 1955 in California.” Brewer’s spokesman justified the governor’s statement, claiming Drinkwine “eventually died from the toxic fumes he inhaled” while working at the factory.

  • Fox News: We proudly pander to Teabaggers

    ” Brewer’s spokesman justified the governor’s statement, claiming Drinkwine “eventually died from the toxic fumes he inhaled” while working at the factory.:

    Oh, it makes perfect sense now.

  • jrcmi

    If Simple Sarah only made occasional gaffes, and didn’t present herself as such a profound thinker, she wouldn’t be under such scrutiny.

    “The idiots here make the Media Mutters crew look honest and intelligent”

    Cite an instance of MM reporting something that was inaccurate. Only a REAL idiot would willfully ignore documented facts.

    “liberalism is a mental disorder”

    Yeah, libs and progressives are crazy for wanting a better world for all of us – the bastards!

    Bring back the good old days of feudalism – vote Republicant!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Durwin/608226610 Michael Durwin

    I hope Olberman caught Palin’s Tweet “If we weren’t meant to drill for oil God would let us know.” I saw it as I logged into twitter, then went to Palin’s stream and it was gone. Maybe she just saw on CNN that another oil rig exploded in the Gulf and realized God IS letting us know? Or maybe she just misspelled “oil”. Considering she has a journalism degree, you’d think her grasp of the English language would be better, or that she’d have time to use spell check since she quite her job as Governor and now has plenty of time on her hands.

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