Yay! Olberman gives it to KERRY, 12 rounds to 4 and 19 points to 2

[Rose Siding]

• 10:58 p.m. ET
Points Scoring: The Scorer's Table unenthusiastically reports this bout as going to Senator John Kerry by 12 rounds to 4, with 5 rounds even. On individual points, Senator Kerry is awarded a net total of 19 points, and President Bush a net of 2, having undermined his own effort with no less than eight points subtracted, three of them in a disastrous 12th Round in which the President had to be told time was up, answered a question with, in essence, 'all of the above,' and stumbled by inadvertently criticizing himself by claiming the borders of Texas were tighter than they'd been when he was Governor there. He also lost points for having twice invoked the 2000 election, and for once having given back at least a minute of time when the question hadn't really been answered.

The Scorer's Table acknowledges that the chief scorer was in a surly mood because he was kept from Yankee Stadium. New York leads Boston, 3-1, bottom eight, with Boston threatening.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

[Catch22Dem]

1. HAHAHAHA

"and stumbled by inadvertently criticizing himself by claiming the borders of Texas were tighter than they'd been when he was Governor there"

[Shopaholic]

2. Thanks Keith for blogging for us

Go Yankees!

[Politicub]

6. Yay Keith!

I caught that comment, too, and was hoping that the media would pick up on it.

:kick:

[gcomeau]

3. Urgent!

Olberman said he would be doing a post-debate rescore once the fact-check came back on whether Kerry passed 56 bills or 5.

Someone needs to make sure he gets the right info!

-Grant

[Fluffdaddy]

4. F'ing Great

[joshcryer]

5. Heheh.. :P

I had already made a post about this, but yeah. :D

[Rose Siding]

7. Sorry- "search" is turned off tonight (and here's FINAL SCORING)

11:25 p.m. ET
Final scoring: Reading round summaries, Scorer notes he failed to mark a point to Bush and subtract one from Kerry in Round Nineteen. Scorer wrote Bush's Answer strays back to 2000 election, mumbles away, now uses McCain against him, and Bush is suddenly angry, 'retreat and defeat in Iraq.'"

Scorer apologizes to both fighters. He intended to here give Bush a point, and take one point away from Kerry for leaving himself vulnerable here for leaving himself open to sucker punch. Bush had followed Kerry's two McCain invocation jabs by reminding audience McCain had endorsed him, not Kerry.

Nineteenth round scoring is thus adjusted from draw, to Bush, 2-0.
Rounds won now adjusted to Kerry 12, Bush 5, Even 4.
Net points now adjusted to Kerry 18, Bush 3.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

[Cha]

8. Thankfully, Keith is out there ..

scorin' the points!