Drudge has been called " the Walter Cronkite of his era " by Mark Halperin and John F. Harris, " an idiot with a modem " by Keith Olbermann, " the country's reigning mischief-maker " by Todd Purdum of The New York Times, and Michael Isikoff of Newsweek said " Drudge is a menace to honest, responsible journalism.

Kaku has appeared in many forms of media and on many programs and networks, including Good Morning America, The Screen Savers, Larry King Live, 60 Minutes, Imus In The Morning, Nightline, 20 / 20, Naked Science, CNN, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Al Jazeera English, Fox News Channel, The History Channel, Conan, The Science Channel, The Discovery Channel, TLC, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Colbert Report, The Art Bell Show and its successor, Coast To Coast AM, BBC World News America, The Opie & Anthony Show, The Covino & Rich Show, Head Rush, Late Show with David Letterman, and Real Time with Bill Maher.

He has made numerous appearances on other television programs including Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Best Week Ever on VH1 and Live at Gotham on Comedy Central.

In 2006, Olbermann started delivering occasional " Special Comments " in which he has expressed sharp criticisms of members of the George W. Bush administration, including then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush.

The Media Research Center ( MRC ), a conservative media content analysis organization, has been very critical of Olbermann since he became the Countdown host.

In response, Olbermann has on a number of occasions named MRC founder Brent Bozell, whom he has described variously as " Redbeard the pirate ", and " humorist ", the " worst person in the world " for various comments he has made about Countdown and other topics, such as Bozell's criticism of the New York Times for sponsoring the 2006 Gay Games.

However, Howard Kurtz has written that Olbermann departed MSNBC the first time as a result of the Clinton-Lewinsky coverage, which he did not personally agree with.

In numerous appearances on Countdown with Keith Olbermann and The Rachel Maddow Show, he has called for criminal prosecution of Bush administration officials for war crimes, including torture.

His opinion-oriented format led him to ratings success and has led others, including Bill Maher, Keith Olbermann, and Nancy Grace to express their opinions on matters on their own programs.

Over the past decade, Korb has made over 1, 000 appearances as a commentator on such shows as Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Today Show, The Early Show, Good Morning America, Face the Nation, This Week with David Brinkley, the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, 60 Minutes, Frontline, Larry King Live, the O ’ Reilly Factor, and Crossfire.

* The broadcast commentator Keith Olbermann formerly of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, has nicknamed Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, " Sister Sarah.

In the past few years, Guida has filed reports for the Saturday Edition of the CBS Evening News, and for MSNBC where he has served as a backup anchor for Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

MSNBC, which along with other US news networks had been criticized of having a distorted and biased Media coverage of the Iraq War began from 2005 onwards to attract liberal and progressive viewers when host Keith Olbermann began critiquing and satirizing conservative media commentators in his program Countdown With Keith Olbermann.

Countdown began to attract liberal and progressive viewers in 2005, when Olbermann began critiquing and satirizing conservative media commentators.

FoxSports. com also ran an online-only Internet halftime show, Webcast live from South Beach Miami, and hosted by then-Fox Sports Net anchorman Keith Olbermann.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

In 2009, United States Representative Michele Bachmann ( R-MN ) was mocked by commentator Keith Olbermann and Maureen Dowd for incorrectly referring to the act as " Hoot Smalley ", and for incorrectly blaming president Franklin Roosevelt for the passage of the act.

In December, 2007, Keith Olbermann devoted the closing segment of an episode of his show to a reading of " Bill O ' Reilly's Very Useful Advice for Young People ," a two-page cartoon / cover story by Perkins for the Village Voice.

The 11 p. m. anchor team of Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann achieved great popularity in the late 1980s and the 1990s ( interrupted by Olbermann's brief move to ESPN2 at that channel's launch ).

During the 2008 Presidential election, MSNBC's coverage was anchored by Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, and David Gregory.

* Video of John Dean interview by Keith Olberman on Countdown with Keith Olbermann about Dean's book Conservatives Without Conscience on July 11, 2006, at Crooks and Liars, YouTube

Their character known as " The Worst Person in the World " ( a reference to New York magazine theatre critic John Simon, who gave their stage show a negative review ) was, many years later, appropriated by MSNBC host Keith Olbermann.

He became well known for his use of unique catch phrases, following in the SportsCenter tradition begun by Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann, such as " holla at a playa when you see him in the street!

ET with the first edition of its sports news program SportsNight, originally hosted by Keith Olbermann and Suzy Kolberwhere Olbermann opened the show by jokingly quipping, " Welcome to the end of my career.

Though Barrett said that the updated STEP Act was in response to Fort Hood shooting and the failed bombing attempt on Northwest Airlines Flight 253, it was noted by Keith Olbermann that neither of the alleged perpetrators would have fallen under its restrictions.

On February 10, 2009 the financial writer Daniel Gross subsequently confirmed some elements of the story on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, but he prefaced his remarks by saying “ I don ‘ t know if his numbers are 100 percent correct ”.

The show joined Countdown with Keith Olbermann as the second news and opinion program on Current as the network continues to develop a new lineup of programming followed by The War Room with Jennifer Granholm in January.

A statement released by network founders Al Gore and Joel Hyatt explained the network's " values are no longer reflected " in Current's relationship with Olbermann, and that former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer would begin hosting Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer effective immediately in the time slot previously occupied by Olbermann.

Countdown with Keith Olbermann is an hour-long weeknight news and political commentary program hosted by Keith Olbermann that aired on MSNBC from 2003-2011 and Current TV from 2011-2012.

On his April 3, 2012 appearance on CBS's Late Show with David Letterman, Olbermann showed concern for his viewers and the production crew on Countdown, stating that " I screwed up.

* On MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Keith Olbermann ended most of the broadcasts by stating the number of days since " the declaration of Mission Accomplished in Iraq.

On January 21, 2011, Olbermann announced his departure from MSNBC and the episode would be the final episode of Countdown.

Its initial lineup featured studio programs such as SportsNight ( which host Keith Olbermann characterized as a " lighter " parallel to ESPN's SportsCenter that would still be " comprehensive, thorough and extremely skeptical.

* In April 2011, Olbermann announced that his nightly program would retain the Countdown with Keith Olbermann title from his time at MSNBC.

* On March 30, 2012, Current announced that Keith Olbermann had been fired and would no longer host a show on their network.

During the January 21, 2011, edition of Countdown, Olbermann announced that it would be his last appearance on the show, but gave no explanation why.

After being hired by Current TV, Olbermann announced on April 26, 2011, that his nightly news program on the new network would begin June 20, 2011, and would also be called Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

An online petition calling for his reinstatement received over 250, 000 signatures, and two days after the suspension began, Griffin announced that Olbermann would return to the air starting with the November 9 program.

On the January 21, 2011, episode of Countdown, Olbermann abruptly announced that the show would be his final MSNBC broadcast.

On February 8, Olbermann announced that he had been hired as the host of a new primetime show on Current TV, the cable television network founded by former vice president Al Gore and businessman Joel Hyatt ; in April, it was announced that the show would retain the Countdown title.

On May 11, Olbermann announced that Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas, filmmakers Michael Moore and Ken Burns, and comedian Richard Lewis would become contributors to the new Countdown.

During a June 16 interview on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Olbermann further announced that journalists Matt Taibbi and Jeremy Scahill, former Nixon administration official and author John Dean, actor Donald Sutherland, and astronomer Derrick Pitts would also be contributors.

However, Olbermann changed his mind and reverted the running time to the usual sixty minutes, realizing the move " would only serve to annoy fans of " both Countdown and Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show while not benefiting his own program's ratings.

Patrick would also preview what was coming up on the 6 pm ET edition of SportsCenter, while Olbermann previewed what was coming up on his MSNBC show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann.