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Keith Olbermann is the host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC.

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Keith Olbermann
stated on July 6, 2010 in a comment on MSNBC's 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann':

"Subsidies for oil and gas companies make up 88 percent of all federal subsidies. Just cutting the oil and gas subsidies out would save the U.S. government $45 billion every year."

By Louis Jacobson • July 9, 2010
Keith Olbermann
stated on April 19, 2010 in comments on the MSNBC show Countdown :

The Treaty of Tripoli signed by President John Adams was "his outreach to Muslims."

By Alex Holt • May 11, 2010
Keith Olbermann
stated on November 23, 2009 in MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:

A new Republican litmus test "would have resulted in (the GOP) kicking out Ronald Reagan."

By Louis Jacobson • December 1, 2009
Keith Olbermann
stated on October 27, 2009 in 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann':

Sen. Joe Lieberman's "home state has a public option which covers about 10,000 of its citizens that was introduced by its Republican governor."

By Catharine Richert • November 2, 2009
Keith Olbermann
stated on September 16, 2009 in his television show "Countdown":

For middle-class families under the Baucus plan, "13 percent of what they make could be deducted directly from their paychecks . . . the so-called 'Max Tax.'"

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 17, 2009

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