Sometimes, Worst Person status isn't enough. In last night's Countdown, Keith Olbermann not only named Chicago Tea Patriots organizer Catherina Wojtowicz his Worst Person, but condemned her and her followers to hell for mocking a pro-health reform husband and wife who had lost their daughter-in-law and unborn grandchild to untreated double pneumonia.

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"Child abuse in politics? It is a right wing requirement. Lonesome Rhodes: 'When we do it it's cool, when you do it, you're Hitler.'"

—Keith Olbermann shockingly declares Glenn Beck (a.k.a. 'Lonesome Rhodes') his "Worst Person in the World." He ridicules Beck's claim that someone should call a "department of health and children's services" over the media treatment of a 13-year-old Palin supporter's shirt. (the girl was actually 17.) (more...)

Now that Fox News is going just the slightest bit softer on the White House, there are signs that they're turning their attention to their favorite whipping boy, MSNBC. But MSNBC's not taking it lying down: in last night's Countdown, Keith Olbermann slammed Rupert Murdoch, neatly summing up everything that's dubious about the Fox newsroom. So much for baseball diplomacy. (more...)