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Forget Best: Colbert Wants to Be Worst

Demands title from Olbermann over sweet-talking email to Mark Sanford

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(Newser) – Stephen Colbert is a glutton for punishment. Keith Olbermann dished some out to conservative media outlets Tuesday, spanking them for plying Gov. Mark Sanford with email offers of friendly treatment, and awarding them “Worst People in the World” honors. But he omitted Colbert, despite Colbert’s email offering Sanford “a friendly place to make light of what I think is a small story that got blown out of scale.” Colbert, in turn, demanded Olbermann give him full credit.

“I wasn’t just offering Sanford some journalistic stroke job. In my next email, I offered him a literal stroke job,” Colbert asserted last night. “Why not hold me to the same standards as others in the conservative media? Keith Olbermann, I demand you name me the worst person in the world.” He then hit a baby with a puppy to prove his point.

Stephen Colbert on his email to Mark Sanford aide seeking access to the governor
Stephen Colbert on his email to Mark Sanford aide seeking access to the governor   (colbertnation.com)
Stephen Colbert on his show July 16, 2009.
Stephen Colbert on his show July 16, 2009.   (colbertnation.com)
Keith Olbermann on his show, July 15, 2009
Keith Olbermann on his show, July 15, 2009   (colbertnation.com)
In this May 3, 2007 file photo, Keith Olbermann of MSNBC poses at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif.
In this May 3, 2007 file photo, Keith Olbermann of MSNBC poses at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif.   (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
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www.colbert-show.info Paul Rieckhoff Founder, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans for America Paul Krugman Author, Nobel Prize-Winning Economist   (cropeki)
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Jayster999
Jul 16, 09 12:01 PM CDT
This country is laughing its way into extinction. Its going to be a real gut-buster when we all wake up in the New World Order: "Oops, we've all been duped. Our money has been stolen by the banksters, we've been taxed into the poorhouse, our Constitutional republic has been destroyed and we live in neo-serfdom. How utterly hilarious." Har-dee-har indeed.
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Ioptout
Jul 16, 09 12:15 PM CDT
KornHole_Queen: I don't get the the reference to the bark like a dog? Fascists? Is this all nonsense?
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npkimmey
Jul 16, 09 12:30 PM CDT
Liberal fascists? What? Where did that even come from?
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Caps
Jul 17, 09 3:38 PM CDT
C-K each comment get more stupid. Are you smoking the strong stuff, or off your medication? Each post I read get more stupid than the one before.
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drgonzo12321
Jul 19, 09 1:49 PM CDT
Ya, and Corona King always says liberal fascist. ALWAYS. No one likes reading the same stuff over and over again.
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