"don’t call me liz", countdown’s wtf moment
Yesterday’s revelation of the bizarre “don’t call me Liz” e-mail thread between a McDermott aide and an overly apologetic scheduler from JP Morgan Chase has made it from Politico’s “shenanigans” blog [#] across the internet and back. Today it crossed over into even stranger territory when Keith Olbermann ended Countdown [msnbc] with a staged reading of the messages. Adding even further to the oddity, the part of Elizabeth Becton was played by a man in a terrible wig. Watch for yourself:
![]() “don’t call me liz”, msnbc. |


