Not-fast news day wrap up

Long accused of cheating at hair, Donald Trump was caught cheating at golf yesterday during a round at the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA.

I don't usually condone cheating, but golf is very hard. Also, think of all the stuff they've named after Trump over the years. The guy isn't even dead yet! If George Washington was caught cheating at golf you wouldn't hold it against him. Would you? (I know, the cherry tree...)

The only thing named after Keith Olbermann is his news show on MSNBC. Recently, Olbermann has been able to increase the show's ratings from minute to deficient by casting himself as the nemesis of mad-as-hell-and-not-going-stop-bloviating-about-it-anymore big-ratings talk show host Bill O'Reilly. Among the kinder of Olbermann's pet names for O'Reilly is "The Big Giant Head."

I once saw Olbermann in a bar in Ithaca, New York. It was right after he quit his gig at Sportscenter, breaking up the greatest sports anchor duo the world has ever known, and shepherding in the dark, sometimes rhyming era of Stuart Scott. The night I saw him, Olbermann clearly wanted to blend in and not be the guy in the middle of a well-publicized falling out . Unfortunately his giant head made this impossible and slightly dangerous, in the narrow bar.

O'Reilly's head must just be humongous for Olbermann to call him out on it. It used to bother me when O"Reilly was able to intimidate his guests by leaning in and shouting -- What's with the deer-in-the-headlights look? Weren't they prepared for this treatment when they agreed to do the show?

I had that same deer-in-the-headlight look when I saw Olbermann's giant noggin for the first time in person . So I do know how intimidating the heads of television personalities can be. There was nothing I could have possibly done to prepare myself for that fateful night in Ithaca.

It turns out Olbermann also has giant ears (and some time on his hand.) He actually responds to the hateful emails he gets from viewers. I don't mean respond in the smug, on air, ha-ha I got the last word in way O'Reilly and others do during the waning minutes of their shows. Olbermann goes as far as establishing email correspondence with these malcontents and even makes suggestions such as "Go f*** your mother," and "Kill yourself."

Olbermann is a very smart and almost influential guy, but I don't think any of his new email-pals will be taking his advice.

Just like I don't think George Bush will be converting to Islam anytime soon. But that didn't stop Indonesian Al-Qaidi leader Abu Bakar Bashir from suggesting Bush should take multiple phrophets into his heart, because it was "the only way to save (his) soul."

Imagine if Abu Baker Bashir wasn't a firebrand cleric but instead member of the White House Press Corp. Bush would have to think of a goofy pet name for him. I'm guessing it would be some reference to the children's tale Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Thievie, maybe.

Oh that Bush, he likes to "needle." But today he went too far. Bush asked Los Angeles Times reporter Peter Wallsteen if he was going to ask his questions with his "shades" on. Bush then went on to chuckle, and explain to the television audience there was no sun out.

Wallsteen wears the glasses because he suffers from Stargardt's disease, which causes progressive vision loss.

When Bush found this out, he called Wallsteen immediately to apologize. The President also offered Wallsteen a round of golf with Donald Trump.