Keith Olbermann: Bush administration unable to confront him on Valerie Plame story because they couldn't spell his name right; emails bounced back

Current TV

Against the backdrop of the June 20th premiere of Keith Olbermann's new Current TV show, the pundit's interview with Fresh Aire's Teri Gross aired today on NPR.

"Apparently, the people in the Bush administration who wanted to confront me on this could not spell my name correctly. They wanted to send a series of emails thinking that perhaps MSNBC was perhaps favorable to the Bush administration. They thought that they could send me a series of questions or talking points to disprove Joe Wilson with. So they apparently sent it to me several days in a row and it all bounced back because they left off the second 'n' or they left off the 'l' ... or goodness knows what.

"Finally, they sent these talking points to all of the people at NBC News who they considered friendly and said 'Would you pass this on to Keith Olbermann?' So I got this same email with talking points for Joe Wilson forwarded to me by seven or eight people at NBC News. And literally, I then had a list of all of the people at NBC News who the Bush administration thought were theirs."