Olbermann awarded Savage "silver" in "Worst Person" for blaming Columbine shooting on transgender surgery

On the March 27 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann awarded nationally syndicated radio host Michael Savage "the silver" in his nightly "Worst Person in the World" segment for "attributing the school shootings at Columbine in 1999 to transgender surgery. Quoting him, 'The capital of it is somewhere in Colorado, of course, near Columbine. You wonder why the kids shoot each other there with black raincoats.' " Media Matters for America noted Savage's comments in a March 26 item.

From the March 27 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:

OLBERMANN: The silver -- speaking of 3-year-olds -- Michael Weiner Savage, now attributing the school shootings at Columbine in 1999 to transgender surgery. Quoting him, "The capital of it is somewhere in Colorado, of course, near Columbine. You wonder why the kids shoot each other there with black raincoats." We'll skip the last imagery about shooting with raincoats for a moment.

That so-called capital of sex-change surgery? It's Trinidad, Colorado, 194 miles from Columbine High School in Littleton. You know how meaningless the geography is in this case, exactly? You know what's 154 miles from Columbine, 40 miles closer than the capital of sex-change surgery? The University of Wyoming, Dick Cheney's alma mater.

—A.I.