You're right Norm, O'Reilly does really deserve it this time. He is the worst. But shouldn't Woolworths at least get ahead of Limbaugh's pretty benign misquote? It's kind of like all the regular bad behavior only comes off the bench for the world's worst if the right wing media is having a slow day.

I think O'Reilly prayed long ago that Al Franken would go away. As a curse for his ungratefulness he was blessed with Keith Olberman.

Hmmm, maybe O'Reilly will retire to Florida and will still be there for the swallowing up of the peninsula state.

But shouldn't Woolworths at least get ahead of Limbaugh's pretty benign misquote?

I was more amused than outraged by the Woolworths nomination. I found myself wondering if parents, since nobody reads anymore, name their daughters Lolita.

Well Lolita is the nickname for Dolores. I'm sure there are parents who name their kids Dolores.

It was a pleasure to listen to Keith cut down O'Reilly..... And, as far as Limbaugh's being a petty, benign misquote - he got the meaning exactly wrong on a very important topic. To me, not quite benign...actually pretty malevolent. Woolworth's was just embarrassing ignorance

"I was more amused than outraged by the Woolworths nomination. I found myself wondering if parents, since nobody reads anymore, name their daughters Lolita."

Yes it was just a mistake (no malice involved), but a particularly stupendous one.

There is a website where you can see the most popular baby names, according to the social security # records. The one cultural trend I noticed was that the name Brittney completely fell off the map in the late 1990s. So it's true people aren't reading, unless you count the tabloids. But at least they're taking the correct lessons away. I wonder about the name George...

Gosh Keith, so we should ban the work Lolita from the English language? Lolita is often used here in Japan, so referred to someone who likes young girls, and also as a label for a fashion style. Google "Gothic Lolita".

What is Keith implying about one of the best books ever written in the English language?

umm, hes merely suggesting that 'lolita' may be an inappropriate label for a bed marketed to 6 year old girls, considering the nakabov novel Lolita which contains paedophilic elements.

Dende,

I thought the same thing. For once, the Comedian didn't really deserve it. He was just number five or six in the echo chamber. That misquote/distortion actually came from ABC "journalist" Jake Tapper who was too dumb to understand a perfectly clear Clinton speech: http://mediamatters.org/items/200801310009

But, as always, Tapper was fiercely challenged by the blogs - and quoted by the so-called respectable media. That the Comedian jumps to the occasion is not worth the mention, I think. But I suspect handing the Worst person to Tapper would have been a liittle tricky for Olbermann.

The Worst, juvenile, and worn out segment in the World! --from the one and only self-presumptive heir to the mantle of real journalism Edward R Murrow.(vomit-hack-vomit!) What a fantasist! What a silly delusional, obsessively coifed and primped dolt who couldn't breathe or control his water-tight universe without gripping his script like a baby blanket.! He may hate O'Reilly, et al, but he'd be zero without that rogue's gallery of inflated heads mirroring his own bloviating ego's parallel universe.

It's symbiosis brothers!

The Worst, juvenile, and worn out segment in the World! --from the one and only self-presumptive heir to the mantle of real journalism Edward R Murrow.

Well, inasmuch as Murrow made his name by excoriating Joseph McCarthy for correctly identifying Soviet spies in our nation's administration - something history still does not correctly reflect as we are all still taught to shudder when we hear that great phrase 'McCarthyism' - Olbermann is certainly on track.

This is an interesting set. The Rush thing is pretty ridiculous, as he didn't misquote Clinton. He repeated Clinton's statement that in order to effectively fight global warming we would have to slow down our economy. There's no other way to do it, folks. Cutting emissions means cutting back production at least until new technologies can be phased in.

Olbermann just makes it worse with his weak summation: "He then bashed Clinton". Limbaugh actually bashed Gore, who is one of the prime movers pushing the Global Warming hysteria crowd. So who calls out Olbermann for lying?

The rest is just tiresome. Olbermann lives off O'Reilly, so complaining when he says something stupid is just hypocritical. And the Walgreens bit? Just an attempt to make himself look smart. You know how when someone who just needs you to know how smart they are hears a word, then makes a big show out of telling you where they heard that word before? Yeah. That's what this is. There's a book called Lolita! And it has sex!!! Don't you know that?!? Obviously we can never use that word again!

Liberal word games, so tiresome.

Energy guru Amory Lovins lays out his plan for weaning the US off oil and revitalizing the economy in the process.

calligraph, I agree with you about Olbermann. He's almost parasitic in his use of O'Reilly.

Re: Kieth "almost(?) parasitic", Hello? ...that was my point!

Olbermann is the ultimate conformist --he's a spokeshole, incapable of an original thought outside offering up easy red meat which he regurgitates from Daily KOS, Media Matters, etc. You likely agree with his point-of-view but it amazes me how really shallow the guy is and nobody ever says anything.

He's like the kid who wants to prove he's cool, not because he can actually add anything new to the mix, but for the sake of being noticed and belonging. Yech!!!