In his zeal to smear Fox News, the clown prince of the Fox-haters has walked into another propellor. With J$P Video!

The fact that Keith Olbermann hates Fox is nothing new. His many attacks, often misleading or downright false, have been documented here and elsewhere. But we live for those nights when Olby makes a flat-out fool of himself. It takes a considerable quantity of arrogant hubris to think you can slander one of your competitors with a lie, and expect that no one will notice. But we did.

On the April 11 edition of Countdown, Keith Olbermann defamed Brit Hume, and we have the video [QuickTime video clip]:



Olbermann claims Hume referred to yesterday's protests as a "repellent spectacle". Unfortunately, the quote Mr Olbermann is referencing was not about yesterday's protests. It couldn't have been: it was spoken on April 2nd! When Olby adds, "Hey pal, I've seen your newscasts", he compounds an already embarrassing lie. (Not to mention the fact that this wasn't said on one of Mr Hume's newscasts at all, but part of a panel discussion on another program.) Perhaps if Keith Olbermann had seen Mr Hume's newscasts, he would have known that Hume said nothing of the sort about yesterday's protests. In fact, we just happen to have video of what Brit Hume said about those protests [QuickTime video clip]:



Did he say they were "repellent"? No. Did he call them a "repellent spectacle"? No. Did he say anything even remotely similar to Keith Olbermann's smear? Err...no.

The facts: the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann took a Brit Hume comment from over a week earlier, regarding the flying of Mexican flags, and cut-and-pasted it to claim falsely that Hume was talking about Monday's protests. As the video shows, Hume pointedly noted the absence of Mexican flags and the presence of American flags in Monday's demonstrations--just the opposite of the original context of Olby's fake quote. But none of that matters to Keith Olbermann, who can lift a quote from ten days earlier and apply it to anything he likes, as long as it makes Fox look bad.

So what's the over/under on when Olbermann will retract this latest smear and apologize? Rhetorical question only, since there are no numbers lower than absolute zero.