On last night’s Countdown, Olbermann teased in the opening segment that Chris Wallace was on the WPITW list for raising the flubbed oath as an issue. Here’s the excerpt from the opening:
Worsts: Oath of office—doubting presidential legitimacy because the chief justice mangled the presidential oath.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: I‘m not sure Barack Obama really is the president of the United States.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
OLBERMANN: Seriously.
And then, seconds later, Olbermann had to announce the breaking news that Obama had just had a re-do on the oath. Oops.
And here’s the announcement of Wallace as winner:
Our winner, Chris Wallace of Fixed News. The fumbling over the oath of office yesterday, participated by Chief Justice Roberts, led to that do-over tonight. But Mr. Wallace said, quote, “I have to say, I‘m not sure that Barack Obama really is president of the United States, because the oath of office is said in the Constitution, and I wasn‘t at all convinced that even after he tried to amend it, that John Roberts ever got it out straight and that Barack Obama ever said the prescribed words.”
Even though by the Constitution the new president becomes the new president at noon on January 20th, whether he is swearing the oath at the hour or taking a bath. Honestly, Chris, what are you, 11 years old? Chris Wallace of Fox Noise, today‘s worst person in the world.
Since Obama apparently was as worried about the oath as Wallace, shouldn’t the president be, at the very least, co-WPITW?





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