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Countdown with Keith Olbermann: Transcript for May 12 (5/12/08) by Keith Olbermann
Bill O'Reilly is named Olbermann's "worst person in the world"--again.Remember last year, the FBI asked the media in Seattle to publish a photo of two men seen, quote, acting suspiciously on a ferry? Fellow passengers saw them taking photos of the ferry.... The Seattle Post Intelligencer newspaper refused, noting there were no charges and that neither man was described as a suspect in anything. Naturally, Bill-O sent his little stalker-producer Jesse [Waters] to the home of the publisher of the Post-Intelligencer to demand to know if he was proud of that position, since the FBI had yet to find him. "So now we have a situation where some Americans are putting all of us in danger because they hate Mr. Bush so much. The man remains at large. The FBI is still looking for them. But the Post-Intelligencer remains unrepentant."
It turns out the two men in question—who "identified themselves to "a U.S. embassy several weeks ago"—were tourists engaged in nothing more "suspicious than taken photos of each others in front of the ferry. But, Olbermann notes, "of course, the possibility of that kind of innocent explanation never occur to you if your multi-million dollar salary depends on feeding paranoid fears."
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