MSNBC finally has some ratings! And how did they do it? Not with their usual roster of bitter, mostly-incoherent malcontents and stalkers, but with good ole American pride in the Olympic team. Last week, the USA-Canada match-up was the most watched item on all of cable television.

So, for the very first time the America-bashing network has anything remotely pro-American on it, people finally discover that they even have that channel! I know that MSNBC must have come to it grudgingly, and it must have been painful for most of the staff to host such a jingoistic, nihilistic enterprise as the Olympics. As a concession, I guess they could have rooted for the peace-loving, gun-hating, health care utopia that is Canada.

But it didn’t last long…

Keith the Stalker was at it again Monday night. This time insulting the entire state of Texas. With his usual brand of arrogant drivel, he attempted to put together a response to the Dallas Tea Party. They had artfully pointed out the lily white line-up of MSNBC’s anchors despite that network’s constant search for minorities at tea party rallies:

Maybe you can find all the diversity at MSNBC, but not us! But back to Keith. With his back against the wall, he went where always goes. He is the king of the cheap shot. Instead of addressing the issue, he thought he would just slander 24 million people.

And now, the second of tonight’s “Quick Comments,” and a mind may be a terrible thing to waste, but if you waste 15 million of them, apparently you get Texas. If a University of Texas poll is correct, that is how many Texans – 60 percent of the population – either believe humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time, or are not sure. Oh, this gets much worse. Evolution does okay in Texas – 68 percent believe in it with or without the, quote, “guiding hand from God.” Human evolution? Not so much. Fifty percent with or without.

I’d love to be able to pin this on political affiliation, but it’s almost a tie – 51 percent of Democrats said they either never go to church or only go once or twice a year; 45 percent of Republicans said they either never go to church or only go once or twice a year. When pollsters asked Texans if they disagreed or agreed with the statement, “God created human beings pretty much in their present form about 10,000 years ago,” 38 percent of Texans agreed. Okay, the joke that goes with that statistic is so obvious, I’ll just skip it. Conclusion: Ultimately, Texas may not have to secede from the union, it may just collectively drop off like a vestigial tail.

Jerk.

If that wasn’t despicable enough, the Stalker hid once again behind dead or dying parents. Prompted by Politco, he said:

“I appreciate their invitation but with my Dad still in intensive care all this time, I have been only able to leave New York one night in the last six months.”

Hmm. Where have we heard this before? How about when he forgot to divulge that he had a corporate shill masquerading as a news analyst? Even Gawker pointed out that he was playing “the bereaved son card.”

Further:

As you may recall, back in May Keith Olbermann lashed out at Cityfile, Wonkette and Gawker for reporting that he’d angrily walked out on MSNBC after losing a Ben Affleck booking to Rachel Maddow. Olbermann claimed that the reports of his hissy-fit were greatly exaggerated and that he’d actually taken a few days off to mourn the death of his mother, which had occurred two weeks prior.

Come on Keith. Come out and fight like a man.