On the July 18 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann named nationally syndicated radio host Michael Savage runner-up for his nightly “Worst Person in the World” award for claiming, as Media Matters for America noted, that the “American left” are “the Nazis of our time.” On July 14, Savage responded on his radio program to the recent escalation of violence between Israel and Hezbollah by declaring that Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah is a “good friend of the liberal left wing, the [filmmaker] Michael Moore wing, the [Sen.] Barbara Boxer [D-CA] wing, the [Sen.] Ted Kennedy [D-MA] wing, the anti-American wing of the Democrat Party.” While discussing reports that noted Israeli casualties, Savage claimed that “Barbara Boxer should be real happy today.” Savage added that “the American left is cheering today. They'll probably break open the jug wine and cheer that Jews are dying, and that they're living and cowering in bomb shelters. One day, the 'Deutschland über alles' may be played in Jerusalem, and the American left can tear off their masks once and for all and show themselves to be what they really are -- which is the Nazis of our time.”

Olbermann remarked of Savage's statements: “This just in from hell: Satan has chosen the Michael Savage show to broadcast over the P.A. system to torture the souls of the eternally damned.”

From the July 18 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:

OLBERMANN: But first, time for Countdown's latest list of nominees for “Worst Person in the World.”

The bronze tonight goes to the college football conference, the Big Ten. It is withholding comment after one of its referees, James Filson, sued, claiming he was fired by the league because he only has one eye. Filson lost the other one in an accident nearly six years ago. He says he had gotten the full support of the Big Ten in the ensuing years and had even refereed without incident ever since, then been assigned to referee the Orange Bowl game. So what happened here? He says he was told one of the league's coaches, Lloyd Carr of Michigan, learned that the conference had a one-eyed referee and complained. Given the lackluster quality of football refereeing the last few years at all levels, it sounds like this guy should have gotten not a pink slip, but a raise.

Our runner-up tonight: Michael Savage. Now, the bar is higher for him because ordinarily we do not like to mock the insane. But get this from his radio show, quote: "[T]he American left is cheering today. They'll probably break open the jug wine and cheer that Jews are dying. ... [They] can tear off their masks once and for all and show themselves to be what they really are -- which is the Nazis of our time," unquote. This just in from hell: Satan has chosen the Michael Savage show to broadcast over the P.A. system to torture the souls of the eternally damned.

And our winner -- speaking of: Coultergeist, who has now responded to an inquiry from a columnist at Women's Wear Daily, who wondered if she might still think her comments about The New York Times were funny after that newspaper got sent another envelope full of suspicious powder, which fortunately turned out to be corn starch. Ann Coulter wrote back: “So glad to hear that The New York Times got my letter.”

What do you think? Could she have really done it, or does she just wish she had? Nah -- it's the woman who once ran away screaming when she was attacked with a cream pie. Coultergeist: today's “Worst Person in the World.”