“Gunny” Bob awarded “bronze” in Countdown's “Worst Person” segment

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On the September 6 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann awarded Newsradio 850 KOA's “Gunny” Bob Newman the “bronze” in his “Worst Person in the World” segment for, as Colorado Media Matters noted, calling Olbermann “Olbermeinkampf” and criticizing MSNBC for not airing advertisements supportive of the Iraq war.

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During the September 6 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann awarded “Gunny” Bob Newman the “bronze” in his nightly “Worst Person in the World” segment for, as Colorado Media Matters documented, attacking Olbermann and MSNBC on his September 4 Newsradio 850 KOA show for not airing Freedom's Watch advertisements supporting the Iraq war. Olbermann stated: “The bronze to lunatic-fringe radio host 'Gunny' Bob Newman of KOA in Denver, demanding the NBC networks run these so-called Freedom's Watch commercials, the ones that insist more Americans must be killed in Iraq. 'MSNBC is the network,' he says, 'of the far-left, anti-American hate merchant Keith Olbermeinkampf.' ”

As Colorado Media Matters noted, Olbermann named Newman the “winner” of the “Worst Person” segment on August 3 for mischaracterizing comments that retired Gen. Wesley Clark had made on the July 26 edition of Countdown.

From the September 6 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:

OLBERMANN: The bronze to lunatic-fringe radio host “Gunny” Bob Newman of KOA in Denver, demanding the NBC networks run these so-called Freedom's Watch commercials, the ones that insist more Americans must be killed in Iraq. “MSNBC is the network,” he says, “of the far-left, anti-American hate merchant Keith Olbermeinkampf.”

He says he's been a guest on this network, but, quoting again, “I will never do so again unless MSNBC changes its policy and allows both sides of this argument to be heard. They do that, they call me again, fine.”

Hey, Bob, don't spend your lonely nights sitting by the phone. It ain't going to ring. Also, by the way, just to add to your evidently weak knowledge of 20th-century history, the guy who wrote Mein Kampf was a right-winger like yourself.