Olbermann Makes Thompson ‘Worst Person’ for ‘72 Virgins’ Joke

Carolyn Hileman* | January 15, 2008

Filed Under Liberal Media, Liberals, Moonbattery

Add Keith Olbermann to the list of MSNBC hosts offended by popular applause lines from Thursday’s GOP debate on FNC. On Friday’s Countdown, the same day that Hardball’s Chris Matthews had earlier compared Mike Huckabee’s words regarding the U.S. military defending itself from Iran to “talking like jihadists” (see #4 below), Olbermann named Fred Thompson “Worst Person in the World,” contending that the GOP presidential candidate had “pulled another whopper” because the former Senator joked that Iranian military members on speed boats who harassed U.S. Navy warships came close to meeting “those virgins that they’re looking forward to seeing.” Olbermann further mocked Thompson by suggesting that his candidacy was just part of a “Candid Camera” stunt.Because the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which is believed to have given assistance to terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Iraqi insurgents, is technically not the same group associated with the “72 virgins” promise to suicide bombers, Olbermann used this as a rationale to impugn Thompson’s intelligence. Referring to the U.S. Navy’s interraction with the Iranian boats as a “supposed confrontation,” Olbermann brought up a time when the former Senator mis-spoke in calling Russia the “Soviet Union.” Olbermann: “Asked about the supposed confrontation between Iranian speed boats and three U.S. warships in the Gulf of Hormuz, Thompson, who last year said we couldn’t count on the ‘Soviet Union’ to help us with Iran in the future, pulled another whopper.”

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