Pitchforks and Torches
The Worst of the Worst, from Beck, Bill, and Bush to Palin and Other Posturing Republicans
Published on 23. September 2010
272 pages
978-0-470-76962-1 (ISBN)
Description
An irresistible new collection from the New York Times bestselling author and host of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann
In his particular wit and style, Keith Olbermann skewers politicians, celebrities, and people behaving badly every weeknight on MSNBC's increasingly popular Countdown with Keith Olbermann. This book starts right after President Obama's election and collects all of Olbermann's acclaimed "Special Comments," a few of his "Quick Comments," all but one of his feature "WTF," selections of "Bushed" and "Still Bushed," and, of course, a healthy dose of "The Worst Person in the World."
- Covers everything from gay marriage to Sarah Palin and the Bush legacy-plus Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and, of course, Bill-O
- Olbermann is a frequent poster to the popular website DailyKos, where his audience has shown itself as fervid and highly supportive
- New from the New York Times bestselling author of The Worst Person of the World and Truth and Consequences
Showcasing Olbermann at his most controversial, outspoken, and entertaining, Pitchforks and Torches cuts to the truth in a world of lies.
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Keith Olbermann has won three Edward R. Murrow Awards for Writing, the first for his coverage of 9/11, the second for its anniversary commemorations a year later, and the third in 2010 for his tribute to his mother, "A Baseball Fan Named Marie." Now the host of MSNBC's Countdown, he was previously the coanchor of ESPN's SportsCenter from 1992 to 1997 and helped launch ESPN2 and the ESPN Radio Network. He has hosted prime-time news programs, moderated a Democratic presidential debate, anchored two World Series and one Super Bowl, and won a CableACE and eleven Golden Mikes, while his shows have won four Sports Emmys. He has written for dozens of publications, including the New York Times, Newsweek, Time, and Sports Illustrated. He is the author of The Worst Person in the World: And 202 Strong Contenders, Truth and Consequences, and other books.
Content
- Pitchforks and Torches: The Worst of the Worst, from Beck, Bill, and Bush to Palin and Other Posturing Republicans
- Republicans Shoot, Democracy Saves
- We, the People
- You, the Worst
- A Question of Love
- He Did Not Have Sex with That Page
- The Oxygen Is Not Getting Through
- Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
- Someone's Not Ready to Lead
- Ain't Pat a Shame
- Regrets, He Had a One
- The Comedian Doesn't Get His Own Joke
- Since When Does a Republican Want a Judge to Be Generous?
- What's a Good Résumé Word for "Disgrace" ?
- We Have Tortured People
- A Very Different Thousand Days
- Not Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader
- She Bought the Ruby Slippers during Katrina
- RushFAIL, HainesWIN
- In the Name of God, Go
- Standard Operating Procedures
- In a Station at the Bill-O
- Hannity's Bull-ion
- You Have Always Been My Unsafe Home
- There He Went
- Snow Jobs
- He Ought Not to Be in Fox's House
- Can't Win for Losing
- The Ministry Network of Love
- Enough!
- In Texas They Call That Hospitality
- What Can Brown Do to Bill?
- Having His Big, Fat Say
- Shouting Fire
- Not Since Coolidge
- Headslappers
- This Nightmare, the Torture Memos
- Cluster-Fox
- Mao-Maoing the Flack Catchers
- Made Us Think
- Foxx News
- Wearing Out the Shovel
- The New Emperor Has Clothes
- The Carrie Prejean Experience
- Stones from Water
- The Democrat Socialist Party
- The Human Equation
- Not Since Calhoun
- A Small Mind on Small Business
- What's the Co-pay at Gitmo?
- Rush, We Believe You Suck
- The Weakness the Terrorists See
- Putting the Mental in Fundamental
- Engineered Horribly
- She Looks Even Wiser by Comparison
- Republicans Whigging Out
- The Man Who Read Too Much
- Media Fairness Circus
- I Have to Punch You
- But She Wouldn't Let Them Have Fries with That
- Save the Date
- Are Not the Treadmill and the Poor Law in Full Vigor?
- 203rd Trimester
- Nuclear Fetish
- Freepers Creepers
- Country First
- Birthers of a Nation
- The Spirit of the American Corporation
- False Witnesses
- We Must Not Be Enemies
- It's Not a Lie If You Believe It's True
- Not a Great American
- Not a Great Spokesman
- Not a Great Congressman
- The Force Is Not Strong with This One
- The H Is for Hypocrisy
- The Line Joe Wilson Crossed
- Maybe Beck Knows Section 8
- Republican Doesn't Translate Well into Spanish
- I Know What You Did Last Summer
- Why Are We Making It Harder?
- It's Not the Chamber of Accounting
- The Fightin'est Man the Top 40 Ever Knew
- Beck, Shark, Jump
- Good Bet
- A Bundle of Interconnected Mistakes
- Think of the Children
- Fool's Gold
- Declare Victory and Get Out
- That's Not What Christmas Is All About
- It's Only a Joke When No One Laughs
- In Gold We Trust
- Not Health, Not Care, Not Reform
- Tauntin' the Christmas City
- Not Since Burr
- Who Are the Terrorists?
- U.S. Government for Sale
- Let's Talk about John Edwards's Love Child
- Summoning His Inner Bill-O
- Scott Roeder, Fraud
- Hot Air
- Ducking without Cover
- Shelby Throws Homeland Security under the Airbus
- Regular Business
- Where Are They?
- Something Is Wrong
- Even Their Ignorance Is Big
- Help
- 10,000 Men Fell
- Reaping the Whirlwind
- Not Too Swift
- Mob Rule
- And Sometimes a Blind Squirrel Doesn't Find a Nut
