Olbermann Can 'Countdown,' But Can He Count Up?

Ann Coulter takes a hard look at MSNBC and, in particular, Keith Olbermann. They have a math problem over there. Here's another math problem at MSNBC. Seems they have less viewers than the number of letters in their name. Now and then, I take a peek at Chris Mathews and Hardball, but sometimes the bias is way too evident.//JW sends.

On Fox News's "Special Report," Brit Hume raised the nut conspiracy theories circulating on the Web about Republicans' stealing the presidential election. The liberals on the panel responded by quickly pointing out that no national Democrats--not even Terry McAuliffe!--had suggested that there had been any systematic vote theft. Hume admitted the rumors of vote fraud were limited to nutcases on the Web.

Like most Americans, apparently no one at Fox is watching MSNBC!

In a major report on "Countdown With Keith Olbermann" last Monday, Olbermann revealed that Bush's win in Florida--and thus the election--was "attributable largely to largely Democratic districts' suddenly switching sides and all voting for Mr. Bush at the same time"! You know Keith Olbermann is heart-attack serious when he starts using "largely" twice in the same sentence.

Somberly reporting that "all this data here is from the office of Florida's secretary of state," Olbermann listed five Florida counties where the registrations are majority Democratic--and yet (!) the counties went for Bush.

A quick glance at the Almanac of American Politics indicates that all five counties in Olbermann's conspiracy theory are in the Florida Panhandle, where most people have been registered as Democrats since their grandfathers registered them to vote shortly after the Civil War. This is in contrast to Broward and Dade Counties, where the vast majority of voters entered their party registrations when they moved to Florida from New York a few years ago.