• February 13, 2012

L.A. TIMES TEEVEE LISTINGS COPY EDITOR TO BE ‘WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD’ EVERY NIGHT FOR THE NEXT YEAR: A correction from the print edition of today’s Los Angeles Times: “FOR THE RECORD: TV listings: The Prime-Time TV grid in Thursday’s Calendar section mistakenly listed MTV’s ‘Jackass’ show on the MSNBC cable schedule at 7 and 10 p.m. where instead MSNBC’s ‘Countdown With Keith Olbermann’ should have been listed.” THIS ES OUTRAGE! [LA Times]

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McDuff August 21, 2009 at 3:38 pm

Hey, that “tips@wonkette” thing really works!

american mutt August 21, 2009 at 3:39 pm

I like that time Olbermann farted through a tube into his own helmet.

Redhead August 21, 2009 at 3:41 pm

Well, with Glenn Beck on “vacation,” the obvious choice was on…

TGY August 21, 2009 at 3:41 pm

[re=392691]american mutt[/re]: Smell the outrage!

Come here a minute August 21, 2009 at 3:43 pm

Why are you insulting Olberman’s dead mother again?

Canmon (the Inadequate) August 21, 2009 at 3:44 pm

The copy editor’s excuse is that his mother died, last May.

finallyhappy August 21, 2009 at 3:46 pm

[re=392690]McDuff[/re]: ya think so? Then where is my Mark Sanford story- almost 4 PM on a Friday and no weekend update on Sparkin Mark???

Rodney Badger August 21, 2009 at 3:58 pm

Andrew Malcolm is such a scamp. He used to be Laura Bush’s hairdresser, FYI.

Naked Bunny with a Whip August 21, 2009 at 4:01 pm

So Peggy Noonan is starring on “Jackass”? Or am I getting my posts mixed up again?

sezme August 21, 2009 at 4:01 pm

How would you tell the difference?

V572625694 August 21, 2009 at 4:02 pm

[re=392707]finallyhappy[/re]: How’s this?:

Columbia, SC, August 21, 2009—(AP) Jenny Sanford is in custody tonight after a three-hour shooting spree at the Governor’s Mansion this afternoon. She was captured at the airport, where she had attempted to board an aircraft bound for Atlanta and thence for Buenos Aires, according to a TSA spokesman. “The Glock in her bag lit up the metal detector like a slot machine,” Kip Hawley said.

Native of SL UT August 21, 2009 at 4:02 pm

Countdown with Johnny Knoxville has its appeal.

blinky_twinkie August 21, 2009 at 4:02 pm

Is that when KO staples his ball-sack to his thigh? ‘Cause yay ratings!

dum librul August 21, 2009 at 4:03 pm

Olbermann is like the guy ahead of you ordering at Wendy’s who makes mean spirited comments about the inept staff while sort of looking at you to laugh along at his abuse and leaving you stuck between insulting the people who are about to prepare your food and angering the extremely loud, gigantic man.

Fox n Fiends August 21, 2009 at 4:04 pm

Jackass has its moments too

New Wave Phlebotomist August 21, 2009 at 4:04 pm

[re=392691]american mutt[/re]: I liked it when the alligators clamped to his nipples made “BPITW”

Humpback August 21, 2009 at 4:05 pm

L.A. Times correction continues: “What we meant to say is that Keith Olberman is a big, fat idiot.”

SayItWithWookies August 21, 2009 at 4:05 pm

Jackass is an unfair characterization. I think of Keith as a mostly lovable but occasionally hypocritical theatrically indignant windbag.

uppercanada August 21, 2009 at 4:06 pm

They’re giving that editor a lot of credit by adding “MTV’s show”.

finallyhappy August 21, 2009 at 4:11 pm

[re=392733]V572625694[/re]: Well, I was just hoping for “Mark Sanford has resigned- even though he thinks he did nothing wrong because Tom Coburn and David Vitters said so”

Marla Singer August 21, 2009 at 4:12 pm

Finally, the L.A. Times has done some accurate reportage! PULITZERS ALL AROUND!!!!

hobospacejunkie August 21, 2009 at 4:13 pm

Some day you horrible people (see Atkinson, Kristin) will learn not to laugh at everything. Until then you’ll remain beneath contempt.

hobospacejunkie August 21, 2009 at 4:18 pm

[re=392743]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Yeah, truth be told I am a huge fan and grateful there are at least 3 hours, among the many hundreds of hours of hateful, lying right-wing blather, of left-of-center TV thanks to MSNBC.

Native of SL UT August 21, 2009 at 4:18 pm

[re=392754]hobospacejunkie[/re]: As long as Contempt is the named of one of Vitters whores, I’m good with that.

V572625694 August 21, 2009 at 4:24 pm

[re=392750]finallyhappy[/re]: Not quite as good, but there’s this, and it’s real:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/21/AR2009082101946.html

Kingbee August 21, 2009 at 4:26 pm

Does Vitter Twitter?

Rev. Peter Lemonjello August 21, 2009 at 4:29 pm

They made the same mistake with swapping Maddow with reruns of Ugly Betty.

Jukesgrrl August 21, 2009 at 4:32 pm

[re=392707]finallyhappy[/re]: Sparkin Mark will spend the weekend stalking his children’s lemonade stand in yet another lame effort to reconcile with the family who wishes he would die.

the lady MS. Sheila Dixon August 21, 2009 at 4:39 pm

Another black athelete goes to jail. This is great news for….KEN LAYNE!!!

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-burress-weaponscharges&prov=ap&type=lgns

ante meridiem August 21, 2009 at 4:42 pm

Where’s the KFC sandwich made of two jackasses with a bacon in the middle?!
I was promised a big-sandwich commercial!

Lionel Hutz Esq. August 21, 2009 at 4:48 pm

This is nothing compared to their listing for O’Reilly’s show as “That Show with a Guy with a Big Sparkling Dildo Up His Ass.”

Min August 21, 2009 at 4:50 pm

What was listed instead of “Jackass” on the MTV line-up? “Fox & Friends”?

Nerdalicious August 21, 2009 at 4:53 pm

Should we start worrying about our prince? Wee, Wee’d Up? As in bedwetting? Voodoo Ouija Board reference? Ginned up? Dunno?
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=15164159&ch=4226716&src=news

shadowMark August 21, 2009 at 4:58 pm

[re=392754]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Whenever I walk into Twitter all the cool people stop talking and thumbing then point at me then burst out laughing and yell “Wonkette is the laughing stock of this place!”

Brendan M. August 21, 2009 at 5:12 pm

It has to have been an honest mistake. Republicans aren’t that clever, and I can’t imagine a liberal would have used that zinger against a somewhat obnoxious Keith Olbermann whilst truly repugnant individuals like O’Reilly, Hannity, and Beck go unmolested (since childhood).

azw88 August 21, 2009 at 5:12 pm

[re=392733]V572625694[/re]: sorry, but we pre=empt this report to tell you that they have changed the date that they will finally put Michael Jackson’s rotting corpse into the ground. For around the clock, talking head coverage and analysis of this event, stay tuned! In-depth coverage of how a corpse rots will accompany this story. Those of you with Smell-a-vision, please hold your nose, unless of course like Michael Jackson, you lost yours.

The Cold Sea August 21, 2009 at 5:49 pm

LEAVE KEITH ALONE!!!1111!!!

Snarkalicious August 21, 2009 at 5:51 pm

[re=392796]Min[/re]: Well played. That’s an extra sausage for you, old chap!

Neilist August 21, 2009 at 7:02 pm

Like many in here, Keith Obermench reminds me of Edward R. Murrow.

That is, if Edward R. Murrow had lived out of a shopping cart that he pushed around, while swatting at imaginary flies, ranting at the top of his lungs about how the “Junior Senator from Wisconsin was controlling [his] brain by microwaves . . . . ”

Have you no decency, sir? At long last, have you no decency?

JoeMac August 21, 2009 at 8:19 pm

Gee I had heard the Times was run by right wing loons, I guess this confirms that rumor. Too bad there isn’t a show on called Right Wing Douche Nozzle, to confuse with Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, or Lou Dobbs. How about In Treatment for Glenn Beck as he is off this week.

thebeatgoeson August 21, 2009 at 11:55 pm

[re=392763]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Yeah – I agree. While he may be a theatrical indignant windbag at times, at least he has the decency to get indignant about important things.

SayItWithWookies August 22, 2009 at 5:38 am

[re=392763]hobospacejunkie[/re]: [re=393114]thebeatgoeson[/re]: Oh sure — he’s our theatrically indignant windbag by all means — but we shouldn’t have to put up with that just for show. To me, you don’t advertise your integrity if you don’t have it. And Olbermann was told not to show the Jon Stewart vs. Jim Cramer smackdown, and he complied. If you watched Olbermann for your news, you never would’ve known it happened.

And I’m saying if you set that bar for decency for others, you must clear the same bar. Keith has shilled plenty. He has absolutely no business berating others for whoring themselves out. He does it. I do it. We all do it. I’d love it if he was above reproach — but until he lives by the standard he sets for others, he should just relax.

masterdebater August 22, 2009 at 12:56 pm

Should have just lisred it every hour, marathon style, on Fox, I think.

Marla Singer August 22, 2009 at 3:09 pm

Maybe Olbermann’s pathetic little teenage fanclub would like to remember (fat chance) that he made one of his “Special Comments” a while back wherein he accused Obama and AG Holder of Nazi-like tactics because they choose to focus on building a real prosecution of Cheney’s use of torture rather than re-creating the Keystone Kops and calling out the paddy wagons to incarcerate low-level CIA workers. Olbermann’s big, sweaty, fake-outraged face was right up there screeching “Nuremburg!” Of course, he didn’t put this “special” comment on in the usual final segment because there was something much more important that night — a tribute to John Madden. Ooh. He and Rush and Glenn Beck are all the same person, quick with those big Nazi references to whip up the morons.

Mr Blifil August 22, 2009 at 7:50 pm

Har Har <>

zhubajie August 24, 2009 at 12:22 am

Isn’t this an insult to jackasses around the world? They always do hard useful work, whereas I doubt Olbermann has ever been useful or done any work.

zhubajie August 24, 2009 at 12:30 am

[re=392733]V572625694[/re]: Shoulda gone for the plastic gun, invisible to x-ray. Either that or flown to Paraguay (where you can buy anything) and carried across the bridge to Argentina (no customs in Paraguay).

zhubajie August 24, 2009 at 12:33 am

[re=392743]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Also, jackasses are by definition male; Olbermann looks like a eunuch.

zhubajie August 24, 2009 at 12:34 am

[re=392763]hobospacejunkie[/re]: You don’t have to watch TV.

zhubajie August 24, 2009 at 12:57 am

[re=392729]Naked Bunny with a Whip[/re]: Is that one of those live-sex things where a human female has sex with a equid male? I didn’t know the WSJ was that entertaining!

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