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The Washington Free Beacon thought that since Rep. Lee and Rep. Schakowsky put out statements condemning Rush Limbaugh’s misogynist language, they might have something to say about Bill Maher referring to Sarah Palin by various vulgar terms for a woman’s reproductive organs. And what did these two stalwart liberals and champions of women’s rights have to say? (more)

Update: Click here. (more)

Conservative videographer James O’Keefe has filed a lawsuit against Al Gore’s Current TV and anchors Keith Olbermann and David Shuster, alleging they libeled him. (more)

Here’s yet another sign, if you need one, that Occupy has outlived its political usefulness. Via the Washington Free Beacon (welcome, by the way!): (more)

Courtesy of Lee Stranahan at Big Journalism, here’s a clip from Monday night’s broadcast of Olbermann’s community access program: (more)

It was early November when tensions between Keith Olbermann and Al Gore escalated into a crisis at Current TV. There had been a short honeymoon after Gore, the channel’s co-owner, had handed the notoriously temperamental anchor a reported $10 million salary and equity stake in February of last year, but the relationship soured quickly. Now, just five months after Olbermann’s show Countdown had resurfaced on Current, it looked as if he might walk away. (more)

This is a couple of days old, so it’s fitting that it took me until today to notice. TV Newser: (more)

It has been months since MSNBC regular Pat Buchanan has appeared on the network, leading many to believe that his days there are over.  These rumors were fueled when MSNBC president Phil Griffin hinted that their professional relationship could very well be finished, citing controversial passages from Buchanan’s book, “Suicide of a Superpower.” (more)

Whew! (more)

Keith Olbermann is currently engaged in a battle with his employers at Current TV. But through his Twitter account, the former MSNBC liberal talking-head has also declared war on baldness. (more)

If Keith Olbermann could make his onscreen temper tantrums as interesting as his backstage temper tantrums, people might start watching. It looked like his little tiff with Current TV might be over already, but fortunately for connoisseurs of Keith’s crankiness, he’s banging his spoon on his high chair even harder and throwing even more applesauce at the walls. The Wrap reports: (more)

1.) Goodbye Constitution, hello Obamastitution — “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” (more)

The broadcaster Keith Olbermann is famous for estranging himself from his bosses, be it at ESPN, Fox or MSNBC. (more)

1.) Eight is enough for Romney — Eight votes, that is. TheDC’s Alex Pappas and David Martosko report on Mitt’s molecule-thin margin of victory in Iowa: (more)

They’re mad as hell and they’re not going to take it anymore. But there’s just one problem: No one in the Occupy Wall Street movement seems to know what “it” is. (more)

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is a first-tier candidate in two separate polls in the race for the nomination, but comedian Janeane Garofalo says it’s just cover to hide the GOP’s racism. (more)

Perhaps inspired by the popularity of the hit show “Mad Men” or maybe just by a resurgence of all things dapper, the thick, horn-rimmed nerd glasses once worn by TV anchors of the ’50s seem to be making a comeback. (more)

Is Herman Cain a paid prop of conservative puppet masters trying to deflect charges of racism from the 2012 presidential field and the tea party? Comedienne Janeane Garofalo made that accusation last week on Keith Olbermann’s “Countdown” show on Current TV. (more)

On his Monday program, Keith Olbermann offered his Current TV platform to his network’s chairman, former Vice President Al Gore. According to Gore, both sides of the aisle finally hammering out a debt ceiling agreement is a signal that the American system of government is “in real trouble.” (more)

The name of his prime-time cable news program isn’t “Lessons in Civility” — and for good reason, based on the latest antics of Current TV’s “Countdown” host Keith Olbermann. (more)