Who’s “Worst” On Countdown? Conservatives

> Update: 8:32pm: Olbermann responds via e-mail: “I love this MRC study. If you read it in context, it really says that only 174 of roughly 591 ‘Worst’ nominees is Conservative. That means roughly 71% of the Worsts are non-Conservative. I’d like to thank the MRC for confirming my point that the segment is apolitical.”

The Media Research Center has added up “every person or group designated by MSNBC Countdown host Keith Olbermann as either the “Worse,” “Worser,” or “Worst Person in the World!” from the time he began the segment on June 30, 2005 through June 23, 2006, nearly one full year.” The organization found 174 conservative targets vs. 23 liberal targets, a “nearly 8-to-1 disparity.” Here’s the full list. Two of out three “worst” selections are not political, MRC notes. But of the ones who are political, “Olbermann has thrown nearly all of his punches at conservatives.”

Is it a coincidence that this ended up in my inbox today, too? SweetJesusIHateBillO’Reilly.com has published a list of all the people and groups O’Reilly considers “far-right” (about 14) and “far-left” (roughly 100)…