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Olbermann awarded Coulter "Worst Person" bronze for anti-environmentalist comments

February 28, 2007 5:57 pm ET

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On the February 27 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann awarded right-wing pundit Ann Coulter "the bronze" in his nightly "Worst Person in the World" segment for claiming, as Media Matters for America documented, that environmentalists want to create a world "where they -- the beautiful rich people -- live in their homes, and there are a few maids. Well-tempered maids will come in and take care of them." Coulter made her comments on the February 26 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, during which she also maintained that proponents of energy efficiency "want to kill humans" and that energy-efficient refrigerators are "not new energy" but, rather, a sign that "humankind is dying."

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

OLBERMANN: That's ahead, but first, time for Countdown's latest list of nominees for Worst Person in the World.

The Bronze to Coulter-geist, snapping out of her winter-long slump to say something vaguely entertaining. She is one of the global warming deniers, claims it is a plot by environmentalists to create a world, quote, "where they -- the beautiful rich people -- live in their homes, and there are a few maids. Well-tempered maids will come in and take care of them." Maids, huh? Hey, Ann, you found your calling.

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    • Author by mr. l (February 28, 2007 6:10 pm ET)
         

      Only the bronze, eh? I will have to see the silver and gold...

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      • Author by pete592 (February 28, 2007 6:17 pm ET)
           

        Silver:  A guy who made bomb threats via e-mail to the president of the community college he attends.

        Gold: The Baseball Hall of Fame, having elected nobody for the Hall yet again.  Baseball is near and dear to Keith's heart, so it's not surprising. 

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    • Author by mefirst (February 28, 2007 6:53 pm ET)
         

      i think he needs another category. babbling incoherence. that rant on hannity is a lifetime award.

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      • Author by AshenShard (February 28, 2007 7:24 pm ET)
           

        I think that is why he gave fox its own nightly section in oddball... the 24 hour comedy hour.

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    • Author by mooner15715 (February 28, 2007 7:04 pm ET)
         

      One thing ya can't take away from KO; "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." Nobodies perfect but he comes pretty darned close. Give 'em hell!

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    • Author by RickinSF (February 28, 2007 10:47 pm ET)
         

      Hey! Show some respect for our maids! They work for a living, after all.

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    • Author by Kaleun (February 28, 2007 11:07 pm ET)
         

      *Snicker*

      Those environmentalists are soo, rich. They can hardly help themselves-they're drowning in cash, man. I mean, look at me: I'm writing from this great Dell Dimension 3000, with an almost working Verizon connection. And those energy saving refrigerators, well, thei're just bound to kill people--by dropping on them, or something...

      I'm really starting to like this Olbermann guy...

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      • Author by HuntingtonBeachLefty (March 01, 2007 12:32 am ET)
           

        I watched this skankyAnnie thing, and she is really out of gas.Her argument against solar power was that her parents bought some and they didn't work.(The panels, I assume, not her parents)

        The same sort of low- standard defeatism so prevalent in the GOP that makes them terrified of National health care because they've heard stories about another country that tried it and it wasn't perfect.

        I also liked that she kept responding by screeching about candles, when even Darryl Hannah could point out that nobody but AC had mentioned candles.

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    • Author by juliajayne (March 01, 2007 12:57 am ET)
         

      HBL, I think you were right..her parents probably don't work (as in function correctly). I mean, look what they produced.

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    • Author by pick of the litter (March 01, 2007 11:59 am ET)
         

      I am happy that our household was a participant in the Nielson's family ratings system this past week and we supported Keith Olbermann's show with our ratings (and we are regular viewers). I loved the latest "Special Comment" regarding Rice's recent comments.

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    • Author by rusty shackleford (March 01, 2007 12:59 pm ET)
         

      Could she actually be bronzed?  Please?

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      • Author by pick of the litter (March 01, 2007 1:05 pm ET)
           

        Let Jabba dip her for his ornament like he did Han Solo.  Then she could be a work of art instead of a piece of work.

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