Olbermann Worst Person Ted Nugent Will Not Be At Glenn Beck Rally

On the heels of a Media Matters item highlighting allegedly racially charged comments at an Idaho bar, rocker Ted Nugent was named Keith Olbermann‘s Worst Person in the World tonight. In bestowing the honor, Olbermann mentioned that Nugent is a scheduled speaker at Glenn Beck‘s 8/28 “Restoring Honor” rally. Unfortunately for Olbermann and Media Matters, they have the story wrong.

Nugent is no longer scheduled to appear at Glenn Beck’s rally, but in this case, Media Matters can’t claim credit. The Duge Nuge is booked at the Boise Knitting Factory on 8/28, a conflict that arose about a month ago (although, to be fair, this Facebook update appears to be the only news of the change).

Also, Media Matters has updated its story to include a disputed version of Nugent’s comments. Here’s Olbermann’s Nugent segment, in which he notes the glacial pace at which news of the Nuge’s comments broke:

Initially, Media Matters reported, via the Telegraph Herald, that Nugent had said, “”There’s a lot of white people in this crowd — I like that! (Dubuque) is a white town.”

To their credit, they have updated the story to include a conflicting account:

Although the Telegraph Herald seemed to be reporting that Ted Nugent put on a racially biased show last night, what I head him say in his opening monologue was this: “Hey there sure are a lot of white people in this crowd. You need to do something about that.”

He later said, heavy on the sarcasm, “Dubuque is a white town.”

As Olbermann notes, Nugent news seems to break slower than the scenery in a John Woo movie.

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