Countdown: Monday and Tuesday Worst Persons

WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Tom McClusky, Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin vie for tonight's top honors.

The winner: The grift that keeps giving...

Another scandal hits the Palin clan

Jan. 6: Levi Johnston, the father of Gov. Sarah Palin’s grandson, has quit his job in the oil fields of Alaska’s North Slope because he didn’t have a high school diploma which is a requirement for an electrician apprenticeship. In Worst Person in the World, Keith Olbermann points out that Palin may have pulled some strings to get him the job originally.

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WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Joseph Farah, the proprietor of World Net Daily, radio host Bill Cunningham, Alaska's state Public Safety Commissioner, Joe Masters.

The winner: A flaming liar...

World Net Daily caught in own lie

Jan. 5: World Net Daily's Joseph Farah denies that his Web site verified the questions surrounding Barack Obama's birth certificate even though Countdown managed to dig up the page that proclaimed an investigation into the matter.

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UPDATED: For the record, Barack Obama was born in the USA.