Here is MSNBC's Keith Olbermann's Special Comment to Sarah Palin on Oct. 21st, when news of her shopping spree came to light and the liberals jumped on that shit quicker than a picture of Bill Ayers french-kissing John McCain.

"Here's your running mate Senator. This is the hockey mom, connected to the small towns where the real Americans are, struggling and scrimping on a clothing budget that's just $18,000 a week"

And while it's fine and dandy to make fun of Palin's X-treme makeover, this is the same Keith Olbermann that denounced Sean Hannity when the Fox News anchor chided John Edwards on his $400 haircut in 2007.

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Say what you will about Keith Olbermann, but MSNBC will wholeheartedly defend the guy, if only because he's been printing ratings for the network, and provides the lead-in for new star Rachel Maddow. The liberal left loves the guy; they've got him on Hero Watch. And the conservative right can't stand him; they fear he wants to murder their first born. And then there's folks in the "center," like Campbell Brown, who thinks his whole shtick rings of ideology. Fine. But what's the real measure of a man? Like picking your president, it comes down to who you'd want to share a beer, or a nice glass of cab sav, with.

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The rotund gent you see at right is being indicted in the city of New York for snatching a McCain campaign sign from the hands of a middle-aged woman, snapping it in half and then punching the GOP supporter, who's been described as "small" and "quiet," in the face. Witnesses to the assault said the man gave no indication as to why he was attacking the lady, to whom he said only, "You people are ridiculous!"

What a crazy man. But what's even crazier is this…

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Early reports suggested ass-man and CNN "personality" Glenn Beck is finalizing a deal with Fox News, and now confirmation. The silver-haired bigot-y blowhard will snag the 5 pm spot on the "fair and balanced" news network beginning this spring, which pits him opposite Chris Matthews' Hardball (assuming his MSNBC contract gets re-upped next year). Can we try to determine an ass-timate for how much Rupert Murdoch will shell out for the opinionated Republican?

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What a perfect way to start off the weekend! Here's Alan Colmes' hate mail, which he has dutifully arranged for your reading pleasure so you can see how the lone liberal(?) on Fox News is treated by his "fans." Did we mention his cohost, Sean Hannity, just got a huge resign deal?

Some juicy items (all spelled correctly!) after the jump:

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'Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity has signed on for another tour at the top-ranked news channel. Financial terms of the multiyear deal were not announced. But it would keep him on "Hannity and Colmes" and "Hannity's America." It also follows a new radio deal he made with ABC Radio Networks, earlier this year, for a reported $100 million over five years.' [THR]

Political writer and former Clinton adviser Dick Morris has a little bit of history with Fox's preferred only liberal, Alan Colmes. The two sparred in August when Colmes called out the creepy foot fetishist for defending John McCain's hypocritical Iraq policies, and now the duo are at it again, this time over Sarah Palin's performance in the debate last night:

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As John McCain's campaign carefully orchestrates a tightly held press unveiling of Sarah Palin to the media, the interviewers allowed to ask Palin questions are carefully vetted not for their journalistic integrity, but by how well they will shape Palin's image with viewers.

McCain first chose ABC News' Charlie Gibson because he's known for not exactly asking hard (or relevant) questions. Then they pushed Palin to Fox News' Sean Hannity, where, following MSNBC's tactic with Barack Obama, the network offered to fluff her seat cushions before beginning the softball Q&A. And then came Katie Couric, whose womanhood was intended to lend a softness to Palin's ball-busting image.

So, in the eyes of media on-lookers, who came out on top? So far, just Gibson and Couric. While Hannity put out the tea and biscuits for Palin, Gibson and Couric completed friendly tete-a-tetes — complete with walk-and-talk segments — that earned them the respect of their peers by doing one simple thing:

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"I hadn't felt so queasy since the women of ABC's "The View" wriggled in their seats and giggled gleefully as Obama visited last spring." [James Rainey, LAT]

Sarah Palin gave her second public interview since being nominated as the GOP VP candidate, this time with Fox's Sean Hannity. It was all very yada yada yada, nothing as interesting as Palin's leaked email account got mentioned, and we already knew she likes her comedy like she likes her pro-choice advocates: on mute.

So was there anything revealed during this puff piece with America's next top VP? Well, vice president beauty queen does differ from grandpappy McCain on one major issue:

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Tonight, Fox News' Sean Hannity sits down with Sarah Palin for her second interview (and the pre-Katie Couric one). Among the tres important topics discussed? Tina Fey.

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Poor (but not really) Sean Hannity, dealing with his Alzheimer's like a brave little trooper, still reporting on air for Fox News, week after week.

Oh? He doesn't have a mind-crippling disease? Then it doesn't make sense why the jowly man-child would try to defend Bristol Palin, the pregnant daughter of McCain's VP pick, on his show by saying that nobody dragged Chelsea Clinton's good name through the mud.

Because that's not just "kind of" not true — it's totally not true.

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"Novel," "unusual," and "complex" are all ways you could describe Fox News personality and black man-maybe hater Sean Hannity's new radio deal that he just inked. It is all those things because it involves an arrangement between Citadel's ABC Networks, who currently broadcasts his show, and Clear Channel's Premiere Radio, which will broadcast the show on stations Citadel doesn't own. Oh, and also: Hannity, the second most-listened to radio personality after Rush Limbaugh, will earn $100 million over five years, plus a cut of profits. A huge payday for a conservative pundit. How novel. [WSJ]

Fox News anchor Sean Hannity might be a Neo-Nazi-loving white supremacist sympathizer. Or maybe Hannity just took some phone calls from a Jew hater on his radio show a few years back. Or, equally plausible, he was never friends with Hal Turner. But he is friendly with one crazy white lady. [HuffPo]

Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, Hugh Hewitt, and Janet Parshall were among those invited to the second annual closed door White House chat, aimed to "gauge the conservative talk-radio audience's feelings about issues and policies." And surprise: None of them told their audiences about it. [NYDN]

As Stereohyped points out, some right-wing talking heads seem to be ready and willing to ignore the DNA-based exoneration of a man who spent 25 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit. So how is a professional pundit like Sean Hannity managing to bow out on this one – when his coverage of the Duke rape case was borderline obsessive – and not even mention the case?

Perhaps it has a little something to do with the man, 48-year-old Jerry Miller, being black. No matter that Miller's release from prison makes him the 200th such person that DNA evidence set free, because we know how much the press loves big round numbers. But still not a peep from Hannity. Though there's always tonight's broadcast. (To be fair, it looks like Anderson Cooper didn't care very much, either.)

Before we get all excited about Fox's new morning show Mike & Juliet, there's time to get the kids juiced about Fox News' new Sunday show Hannity's America, hosted by – and stop reading now if you haven't figured it out – Sean Hannity. Though it premiered Jan. 7, it's taken the ever-tendentious Alessanda Stanley until this morning to come at ya with her thoughts.

Underneath the flag-waving swagger, Mr. Hannity’s show is riddled with leftist subliminal suggestion and degrading, un-American images of violence and pornography. Last Sunday Mr. Hannity toured the Bunny Ranch brothel in Nevada and stood over two prostitutes lolling on a bed in skimpy lingerie, their hands placed between their legs, and asked them if they believed in God.

Well, that's enough for us. We'll be tuning in next weekend.