olbermann and bill o'reilly straight ahead. >> keith olbermann has a knack for talking himself into trouble and he was in trouble with students at penn state, who raised $123 million for cancer research. after the suspension, he said he was sorry. i apologize for the p su tweets i was stupid and way less mature than the student whose did such a great fundraising jobs texting us now to the hollywood reporter. he has a history of picking fights with ordinary people on twitter and the kids were raising charity money. >> look, he admitted it was stupid and it is pretty hard to win that battle when these are students doing something so selfless as raising money for cancer research. he knows that he was wrong. espn hired him because he is a person with strong opinions, he is very scaled at relaying them to an audience. he is going to occasionally go over the line. they have a lot of people like him if their stable. they get suspended too, i am not surprised. >> that is true. i thought that some of the controversy was being hut behind him at msnbc and he was involved in litigation but he a

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they're the keith olbermann of congresses. [laughter] which brings us to our new segment meet the [bleep] so the scarity branch of our government the house of republicans are the ones who will shut down the homeland security. but their leader john boehner treats the house republicans obstinance with the seriousness it deserves. >> if fans and buts butts were candy and nuts, every day would be christmas. [laughter] >> jon: okay. number one obviously i grew up jewish and not completely fluent in the rituals of you're christmas holiday but i'm pretty sure nobody wakes up at 5:30am and sneaks downstairs to make sure santa brought pea cans and jujubees. i think you got christmas mixed up with halloween and some holiday where people bring you nuts. second of all, this dismissiveness is somewhat disconnected from the seriousness of that question. so i'm going to let you try again. >> it's going to be a clean funding bill. have you going to vote on it, have you had this discussion? [laughter] >> ifs and butts are terrible answers to q

i used to take pride by keith olbermann. >> guest: right. i was regarded as the third of president person in america by the communist newspaper at 30-years-old. >> host: that would've put a pet in my step. >> guest: that's exactly right. can i say something important? the active ingredient that gets you high in the 60s and 70s average about 3%. it is 12% and i just looked at some adds a friend from denver sent me about sales this weekend, 30% some of it 40 45% they talk about a glass of vodka. when maureen dowd went to colorado to experiment and she took two to three bytes of a candy bar and she called up and she said she had died. the candy by the way is a whole another thing. it's much more insidious so they take more. she thought she had died. it's american ingenuity. we are good at it and we are making powerful strains. that's starting to show up at emergency rooms and in the visits to the pediatrics in denver and so on. you talk to the clinical people they will tell you now with the body count is and how it's grown grown. i agree with h

. >> meanwhile o'reilly back at work tomorrow but keith olbermann has been suspend add few days. he's going to be back tomorrow but he was suspended last week due to tweets he posted about penn state students. there's a famous rivalry between the two of them. let me show you what olbermann said, longish story. he called the students pitiful and sent this tweet. i'd like to thank alums proving the point about mediocrity of education and ethics. espn said that was completely inappropriate. he apologized. he returns to espn tomorrow. in some ways are these two guys peas in a pod, olbermann and o'reilly? >> yes. even at espn if you divide the audience offend a portion of the office that's problem. at fox news if you divide the audience and offend a portion of it, that's not a problem, that's a programming strategy. >> programming strategy. thanks for being here. appreciate talking with you. appreciate the time. there was yet another media personality in the news this week. that's al sharpton. a new lawsuit claims his deal with parent company is keeping other african-american companie

>> host: i used to take pride in being the worst person in the world a keith olbermann. >> guest: right i made that, too. i was regarded as the third most repressive person in america by the revolutionary communist newspaper when i was 30 years old. postcode i would put a spring in my step. that's a goal for me. >> guest: just because it's important. but tetrahydrocannabinol which gets you high, thc in the 60s and 70s average about 3%. seized marijuana today in thc is 12%. i just looked at them as my friend from denver sent me about sales this weekend. 30% some of its 48, 45%. talk about drinking a glass of and then drinking a glass of vodka. when marine dowd famously went to colorado to experiment, she took two or three bites of a candy bar. she said in her hotel room she curled up and thought she had died. candy by the way is another whole and because the argument this is not about children. it is about children if you look at the advertising. the candy takes longer, so much more insidious. she thought she had died because of the catcher hedger cannabinoid o. we are better at this. it

olbermann. so what you're looking at now in the air that bird is the west. the weasel fill in the blanks. it could be iran russia cat stevens. and as played by nature's remorseless hand they're doing exactly what you'd expect them to. and as we watch we realize that naivety is a luxury when you're far, far away from the threat you know nothing about. it's one thing for iran to eat our lunch. it's another thing if that lunch is you. >> oh, wow. i thought they were mating. >> that's disgusting! not in my world, k.g. they're separate. once that happens i'm moving to texas. where you'll get shot for that sort of thing. weasels and woodpeckers together? huh-uh. i'm okay with gay marriage, okay? don't get me wrong, but weasels -- i draw the line at weasels and woodpeckers. >> it's a slippery slope, you know. >> i've been saying this forever, it's a slippery slope. cats and dogs. all right. >> wow. >> wow, where am i? i know where to go. dana. it seems to me that the message here is that president obam

keith olbermann used to be on opposite him with his show countdown. he later wrote a book all the segments in his show called the worst person in the world. >> right. right. o'reilly was the worst person dozens of times. >> yes. but every time he was, there was a charge that was made by olbermann about something o'reilly had said or done that was a complete fabrication. yet -- i got ahead of myself there. a complete fabrication. and it was also a completely substantiated, olbermann had all the evidence possible. >> you're saying this is not new. >> no it's not new. >> it's getting attention now, mother jones and other media outlets covering o'reilly's background but some hidden in plain sight. >> for a long time. >> how do you handle it? you used to be on fox covering media, how do you handle working in the same building as bill o'reilly? >> well since he was so unfriendly it was easy to handle. i would run into him occasionally. i would say, "hi, bill." without deigning to call me by name he'd say hi. >> that was it. i sensed the media program was go

. >> "countdown with keith olbermann." >> finally to providence, rhode island, where no holiday season would be complete without tony lapore directing traffic as the dancing traffic cop. >> and the "today" show. >> it's the return of tony lapore, the dancing traffic cop. he's entertained them for years with his fancy footwork. >> i love that guy, sarah. >> isn't he great? >> and since providence is still buzzing about the dancing cop, we decided to check out his act. [ whistles ] [ whistles ] >> tony is, in fact, so well known around providence that he credits his celebrity status with helping to fight crime. >> i've caught bank robbers, guys with guns down here because people actually knew who i was by my first name. and they would tell me, hey, something's going down in the outlook garage, or something's going down at the bus station. boom, boom, boom, i would go. >> you think i didn't recognize you? how you doing, buddy? >> they may not have gone to another police officer. >> tony finds dancing provides stress relief during a hard day's work. and he turns an intersection into a stag