The Worst Person In the World by Keith Olbermann

The Worst Person In the World by Keith Olbermann

Nightly on MSNBC, the controversial and outspoken Keith Olbermann counts down the day's top stories with satire and style on his show Countdown with Keith Olbermann. One feature of this increasingly popular newscast is his daily award for The Worst Person in the World, which is bestowed upon the careless, the clueless, and the just plain cruel.

Now, Olbermann brings these legendary offenders together in The Worst Person in the World: And 202 Strong Contenders. Awarding bronze, silver, and gold medals, Olbermann offers a brash appraisal of humanity at its lowest--politically, socially, and morally.

From Amber Frey to Ann Coulter, from Donald Rumsfeld to the FOX News Channel, from sports figures to schoolteachers to stupid criminals, no one eludes Olbermann's gimlet eye. Winners include: 22-year-old Ronald MacDonald, who was accused of theft at his place of employment . . . Wendy'sMario Edney, the bus driver who literally threw a woman under the bus when she complained he bypassed her stopU. S. Olympic skier Bode Miller, who revealed that he has often competed while drunk--and that he may do so againRush Limbaugh, who, among other things, admitted to taking some pleasure in the kidnappings in Iraq because I'm eager for people to see realityFEMA, for sending planes full of injured Hurricane Katrina evacuees to West Virginia when they were supposed to meet medical teams in South Carolina--not once, but twice

As the recipient of a bumper crop of medals, Bill O'Reilly receives special attention. Olbermann offers readers a handy O'Reilly Code of key terms to aid in the understanding of this generation's Joe McCarthy.

Olbermann also explains his methodology for choosing these unlucky winners, presents new honorary Worsts, and in the end names one person Worst in Show.

Keith Olbermann has won three Edward R. Murrow Awards for Writing, the first for his coverage of 9/11, the second for its anniversary commemorations a year later, and the third in 2010 for his tribute to his mother, A Baseball Fan Named Marie. Now the host of MSNBC's Countdown, he was previously the coanchor of ESPN's SportsCenter from 1992 to 1997 and helped launch ESPN2 and the ESPN Radio Network. He has hosted prime-time news programs, moderated a Democratic presidential debate, anchored two World Series and one Super Bowl, and won a CableACE and eleven Golden Mikes, while his shows have won four Sports Emmys. He has written for dozens of publications, including the New York Times, Newsweek, Time, and Sports Illustrated. He is the author of The Worst Person in the World: And 202 Strong Contenders, Truth and Consequences, and other books.

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ISBN 13	9780470173695
ISBN 10	0470173696
Title	The Worst Person In the World
Author	Keith Olbermann
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Wiley
Year published	2007-09-01
Number of pages	272
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