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• Pat Buchanan: the true haters

• The cocky, gibbering hosts on MSNBC, who had chortled over the "end of an error" last January, were reduced on Tuesday night to hesitant silence, though Rachel Maddow did summon the energy to furrow her brow censoriously at Scott Brown's "weird" remark about the "availability" of his daughters that he made during his victory speech.
  
  Scott Brown had feminists and avant-garde liberals so turned around that their idea of a late hit was to talk about his improper photo spread decades ago in a magazine they have long championed. That they had helped to create and spread the Cosmo culture didn't seem to faze them or figure into their analysis of why voters didn't care. A female anchor on CNN mumbled something about "double standards," though it would be safe to guess that a copy of Cosmopolitan still arrives in her mailbox.
  
  MSNBC, doing its part to help get out the vote for Coakley, ran a streaming headline at the bottom of the screen on election day which said that Brown supports "waterboarding." Apparently, ignorant viewers were supposed to see that, gasp, and then rush to the polls.
  
  It didn't seem to occur to MSNBC's hosts that what they considered grim warnings about Brown -- if he wins, ObamaCare dies, they said repeatedly -- would serve instead as open invitations to vote for him. The lunges at him were a measure of their extremism, not his: If a moderate Republican like Brown qualifies as a "reactionary" in the eyes of MSNBC anchors, then the entire nation is out of touch with their superior wisdom.

Short version: "You went full whomod, man. Never go full whomod. You don't buy that? Ask Sean Penn"

• Has the countdown begun for the end of "Countdown with Keith Olbermann?"
  
  With his ratings in free-fall, and his hateful histrionics reaching new highs, even Olbermann's former supporters on the left are tuning out.
  
  Bloggers at the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio noted the uberdork's 44 percent drop in listeners ages 25-54 from January 2009 to last month.
  
  "Olbermann's showboat is sinking," one LA Times blogger noted. "Listing in you-know-which direction."
  
  Jon Stewart ridiculed him on "The Daily Show" for calling Massachusetts Senator-elect Scott Brown a "racist."
  
  "There are creeping indications that the world may not have quite as much need of -- or patience for -- Olbermann and his shtick as it once did," Jeff Bercovici wrote on DailyFinance.com.
  
  Olbermann struck back at Bercovici, naming him as one of the "Worst People in the World" and mischaracterizing the Web site as "right-wing."

• Keith Olbermann "is despised at MSNBC," Tucker Carlson tells Mediaite.com.
  
  "He's the most disliked person in the building by a factor of 10."
  
  Carlson bought the Web site KeithOlbermann.com just to drive him crazier. The site redirects to Carlson's site, DailyCaller.com, saying, "We Own You, Keith." Carlson also owns Keith@keitholbermann.com, which he uses as a personal e-mail address.
  
  "We were confident that Keith knew so little about the Internet that he wouldn't notice," Carlson told Page Six.
  
  But he did, and started tweeting Thursday morning about taking legal action against Carlson for buying the domain name.
  
  Olbermann told us, "If I were Tucker Carlson, I'd pretend to be somebody else, too."
  
  Carlson said, "I don't have any malice toward Olbermann. I feel sorry for him. I feel sorry for him because of his various phobias. He won't drive a car. He's obviously a sad guy, in elastic-band jeans."