Keith Olbermann went after Senator McCain on Monday’s show after McCain had the temerity to blame President Obama for the earmark pork in the omnibus spending bill:

Keith Olbermann of MSNBC’s Countdown has a few reasons why blaming Obama for an earmark frenzy is ludicrous.
“Is this the change Mr. Obama promised?” Olbermann asks. “The bill was negotiated by Congressional Democrats and Republicans in December.”
“Mr. Obama’s campaign promise was that he would limit earmarks to the earmark total from 1994,” Olbermann adds. The earmarks on this bill fall short of Obama’s promised earmark spending by a hundred million dollars. But Olbermann has more evidence to refute McCain’s claim that this a record level of earmarks. “In 2006, the last of several years of Republican earmark orgies, Congressional earmarks totaled $29 billion.”
The $787 billion economic stimulus bill, passed by Congress on February 15, was completely free of earmarks. This was urged by Obama in the creation of the bill and enforced by top Democrats. “The Obama White House is already in talks with Congressional Democrats to reform the earmark process. An announcement is expected by the time Obama signs the ‘omnibus’ bill,” Olbermann declares.
If McCain has someone to blame for the 8500 earmarks in this year’s spending bill, it’s not Obama.

So, who does Chris Matthews blame for the earmark pork? President Obama, of course. HotAir has the video here.

Olbermann has one good point: About 40 percent of the earmarks in the current bill are from Republicans. Thanks, guys.