On the April 20 edition of MSNBC’s Countdown, host Keith Olbermann named nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh the “winner” of his nightly “Worst Person in the World” segment for claiming that the perpetrator of the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech was a “liberal,” as Media Matters for America documented. Olbermann quoted Limbaugh saying: “This guy had to be a liberal. You start railing against the rich, and all this other — this guy is a liberal. He was turned into a liberal somewhere along the line. So it’s a liberal that committed this act.”

Additionally, Olbermann awarded Fox News host Bill O’Reilly the “bronze” for defending Republican presidential candidate Tommy Thompson’s statement in an April 16 speech to the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism that “earning money” is “sort of part of the Jewish tradition.” Olbermann said: “Bill-O has now explained there was no insult, nor stereotyping there by Mr. Thompson. He was basically giving the crowd a compliment and saying, ‘You’re good businesspeople.’ ”

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