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Keith Olbermann Wants Iraqi Prankster Show ‘Put Him In Bucca’ Put In Bucca

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by Frances Martel | 11:34 am, September 4th, 2010

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Some jokes are lost in translation. While it seems many in Iraq are laughing at celebrities that think they will be sent to jail for an attempted suicide bombing in the new hidden camera show Put Him In Bucca, Keith Olbermann muttered something about wives and families and extreme emotional distress on his “World’s Worsts” segment last night. What a wet blanket!

In fact, Olbermann went so far as to make them– not Bill O’Reilly, not Glenn Beck, but the creators of Put Him in Bucca– the Worst Persons in the World of the day. And, no, Put Him in Bucca does not air on Fox News– shockingly, none of last night’s “Worsts” were Fox News regulars, or even American media personalities– but is an Iraqi TV show modeled after Punk’d and Candid Camera where Iraqi celebrities are told by authorities that bombs have been found in their cars and they are either going to be sent to the American prison Bucca or be summarily executed. Olbermann objects on moral grounds (really? telling celebrities they will be executed and then laughing about it?) and makes the very valid point that the fact that these shows were shot as Ramadan “family time” specials is extremely disconcerting.

On the other hand, Ramadan point aside, the program seems to be, from the little that has made its way to America, hilarious given context. The fact that these Iraqi celebrities are anonymous to Americans humanizes them to a degree that makes the program unpalatable, but replace “anonymous poor Iraqi family man” with “Spencer Pratt” and you begin to see the appeal.

Evaluate the clip yourself and hear Olbermann’s commentary via MSNBC last night below:

Countdown, Iraqi Hidden Camera Show, keith olbermann, msnbc, Put Him in Bucca

JimBob

Maybe this obnoxious humorless nerd could try doing his show in a Berka !
Could help his anemic ratings.. Who knows.
greg454

Funny, if Bill O’reilly had attacked this show he would have been accused of being Islamophobic. Personally, I’m happy the Iraqis are developing shows that people want to watch.
StandUp

Olbermann’s just upset that an Iraqi hidden camera tv show gets better ratings than Countdown…to meltdown

Keith Olbermann – that man is an idiot.
notsofast

KO is obviously an Islamophobe.
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Some_Dude

Wow, how different our societies are. Their lives have been like that for so long, that they find humor in people being tricked into thinking they’re going to be executed – just as many people they knew or were related to probably were. And to think America has so casually taken the place of Saddam’s regime to them.
greg454

“And to think America has so casually taken the place of Saddam’s regime to them.”

—How can you say that? We’ve liberated from a dictator that used to wake them up in the middle of the night and torture them in ways that make the abuse at Abu-Ghraib look like child’s play. Watch “House of Saddam” from uber-liberal HBO and you’ll see what a monster Saddam and his family were.

Frankly, I’m proud of the Iraqis, I’d rather see them do their version of The Jersey Shore and rebuild their country instead of trying to kill us. If it wasn’t for George W. Bush these people would still be living under a dictator, they are lucky we saved them.
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