July 31, 2008

Mary Lou Sapone the Runner Up for Olbermann’s “World’s Worst Person”

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On Countdown last night, Mary Lou Sapone narrowly avoided being named the “world’s worst person” by Keith Olbermann. In the end, that distinction went to Fox & Friends for mistakenly showing a picture of Osama bin Laden when discussing presidential candidate Barack Obama. Though Sapone was dubbed “worser” than Olbermann nemesis Bill O’Reilly.

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