If Keith Olbermann is going to engage in violent fantasies about Sarah Palin, can't he at least come up with some original material?  On tonight's Countdown, Olbermann drooled at the prospect of Palin remaining in national politics, saying:

She might stick around to be the slowest-moving target imaginable for comedians and commentators. It would be like shooting moose from a chopper.

Despicable, yes.  But also a "borrowing" of Bidenesque proportions.  As we noted here, Bill Maher plumbed those noisesome depths weeks ago, imagining Palin being "shot from a plane" like a wolf.

Olbermann got off his loathsome line in a conversation with Chris Kofinis, a former John Edwards aide.

Hat tip bigtimer.

Joe Scarborough has estimated that 95% of the elite media will pull the lever for Barack Obama.  Even so, evidence continues to mount that the MSM is beginning to view the Dem candidate with a more discerning eye.  The latest example comes from an unexpected corner, that occupied by NBC correspondent Martin Savidge.  As NewsBusters has reported, on everything from climate change to Jesse Helms to the Jena Six, Savidge has consistently toed the liberal media line.

But on MSNBC this afternoon, interviewing an Obama supporter, Savidge surprisingly suggested that Obama was "a bit of a liar" on the subject of oil industry donations that he and John McCain have accepted.  

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Of all the qualities Hillary might have emphasized to her advantage, can you imagine basing her campaign on her "warmth" and "likability"? Chris Kofinis can. The former communications director of the John Edwards campaign appeared on Tucker Carlson's show this evening.

Kofinis offered his only-slightly premature post mortem of the Clinton campaign.