{"id":2162,"date":"2005-12-14T23:09:25","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T03:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2006-07-04T00:52:45","modified_gmt":"2006-07-04T07:52:45","slug":"msnbc-names-diebolds-odell-in-worst-person-in-world-segment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2162","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC Names <strike>Diebold&#8217;s<\/strike> O&#8217;Dell in &#8216;Worst Person in World&#8217; Segment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002161.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/ODell_MSNBCWorstPerson_121305.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Yet another dubious distinction for Walden O&#8217;Dell, the <i>now-former<\/i> CEO of Voting Machine Company, Diebold, Inc. (The American Voting Machine Company that <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002156.htm\">hackers love<\/a> most!)<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, O&#8217;Dell was <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002149.htm\">forced to resign<\/a> from the company for&#8230;&#8221;personal reasons&#8221;. On Tuesday he was named in a <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002153.htm\">Class Action Securities Fraud<\/a> suit. And that evening, MSNBC&#8217;s <i>Countdown<\/i> included O&#8217;Dell in their &#8220;World&#8217;s Worst&#8221; segment alluding to &#8212; but not mentioning outright &#8212; our news of the suit on Tuesday afternoon. (We&#8217;ll give them the benefit of the doubt since we broke it just an hour or two before their air time. We&#8217;re just generous that way.) What will tomorrow bring?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ameratsu.com\/media\/vid\/msnbc\/msnbc_ko_odell_worst_in_world_051213a.wmv\">Windows Media Version of Video<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ameratsu.com\/media\/vid\/msnbc\/msnbc_ko_odell_worst_in_world_051213a.mov\">QuickTime Version of Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> similarly contributed to a &#8220;World&#8217;s Worst&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002115.htm\">segment last week<\/a> after Ann Coulter was <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002088.htm\">recognized for posting<\/a> the private, unlisted family phone number of one of our Guest Bloggers, Lydia Cornell, on her website. But more on that soon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i>(Hat tip to David Edwards whose TiVo machines are always on overdrive!)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another dubious distinction for Walden O&#8217;Dell, the now-former CEO of Voting Machine Company, Diebold, Inc. (The American Voting Machine Company that hackers love most!) On Monday, O&#8217;Dell was forced to resign from the company for&#8230;&#8221;personal reasons&#8221;. On Tuesday he was named in a Class Action Securities Fraud suit. And that evening, MSNBC&#8217;s Countdown included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ann-coulter","category-dieboldpremier"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}