Breaking: FOX News Hires Olbermann

(h/t: Alan Burkhart)

An answered prayer...

The moment many of us have been waiting for...

...for a long, long, long time.

If you missed it, tonight was a "night of nights."

Keith Olbermann (aka: K.O.), said goodbye and went gently into that good night.

He won't be missed...

Truth in labeling...

Today's media fun...

Just when you think Keith Olbermann (aka: "Keith-O," "KO, Not OK") couldn't go off the rails anymore than he already has, he does this:

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From Mediaite: "Give Christine O’Donnell this: the controversies surrounding her haven’t been boring. From the line from way back when about dabbling in witchcraft to the more recent hand-wringing over whether her father Daniel did, in fact, ever play Bozo the Clown, O’Donnell’s name is consistently at the center of something bizarre. Tonight, Keith Olbermann decided to satirize these controversies – only in doing so, he upped the weirdness ante and created one of the strangest six minutes of television ever committed to the small screen. After an intro segment in which he explained the Bozo controversy and looked at O’Donnell’s new campaign ad in which she definitively declares she’s “not a witch,” Olbermann discussed O’Donnell with “Bozo the Clown” (played by comedian Angry Bob), and a “witch” (played by columnist Michael Musto). If you think this sounds like something one might normally imagine while tripping on acid…yes. You are correct."

(h/t: to Mediaite for catching this item...)

Question to KO: How hard did you bump your head?

"Recovery Summer" or "The Summer of George?"

The president and his team have declared this the "Recovery Summer," which is actually beginning to look a lot more like the "The Summer of George."

Upon closer examination, though, it does seem to be a period of recovery - perhaps, however, not in the way the term's originators had intended.

Maybe it's "The Summer of Keith"...

Redefining "success": Despite all of Congress' "accomplishments" (aka: jamming unwanted legislation down the public's throat), voters don't seem all that impressed. I wonder why?

Add Congress: Despite all the bad news and troubling poll numbers, Madame Speaker is not worried...

Great news from the administration's efforts in the areas of housing and lending: "Mortgage applications hit 13-year low, foreclosures spiking"...

Add great news: Over at Hot Air, we learn that, "Factory output dropped by the largest amount in the past year, the Commerce Department announced yesterday." I'm guessing that information wasn't manufactured...

Make up your minds: A New York Times story reports "“The Federal Reserve disclosed on Wednesday that its chief policy makers were divided on whether the weak economy faced a new, potentially dangerous threat in the form of deflation." Folks, please - this "Summer" thing is never going to get off the ground if you can't agree on this stuff...

Recovering from the spill?: According to the Washington Examiner, "Democrats refused to allow a vote today on an amendment introduced today by Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., to ensure press access to the gulf oil spill. Broun's amendment was a response to numerous reports that government authorities and BP are keeping the press away from areas affected by the spill." How's that transparency working for ya?

Recovery in the Gulf: The Associated Press is reporting out of New Orleans that, "The oil has stopped. For now. After 85 days and up to 184 million gallons, BP finally gained control over one of America's biggest environmental catastrophes Thursday by placing a carefully fitted cap over a runaway geyser that has been gushing crude into the Gulf of Mexico since early spring." Whew!

Finally!

(This was, by the way, supposed to be The Summer of George...)