Keith Olbermann makes 007 pun

Keith Olbermann, at the start of his nightly MSNBC program, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, teased a segment on Senator Arlen Specter’s bid to win the Pennsylvania Democratic primary after switching political parties last year. Specter, 80, faces a tough race on May 18 against Joe Sestak.

Olbermann’s tease? “Only James Bond did a better job of beating Specter!”

Of course, Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s organization spelled it SPECTRE, but who needs details when making a 007 joke?

Goldfinger’s 45th anniversary: even Keith Olbermann gets into the act

Even Countdown With Keith Olbermann will remind you this is the 45th anniversary of Goldfinger.

One segment of the MSNBC news/commentary show is the “World’s Best Persons,” a kind of sequel to the program’s “World’s Worst Persons” segment. Often, the “Best Persons” segment is actually an opportunity for Olbermann to criticize.

On the Oct. 8 program, one of the “Best Persons” was Fox News commentator Glenn Beck. As described in the segment, Beck was criticizing the Obama administration’s financial policies while saying people should buy gold. Olbermann said that gold sellers buy spots on Beck’s show, suggesting this may be a conflict of interest. As this unfolded, the title song from Goldfinger could be heard.

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QoS: Let the product tie-ins begin!

One reality of modern movie making is striking as many product placement deals as possible. That way, your “partners” have an incentive to promote your movie, integrating it into their advertising.

On Monday, from morning until prime time, Orbitz.com ran Quantum of Solace-themed advertising on MSNBC that included plenty of clips from the new James Bond film. Undoubtedly, this is just the start of Bond-related spots from QoS “partners” between now and Nov. 14, when the film goes into release in the U.S. That’s on top of plenty of ads for the movie itself. Columbia/Sony bought plenty of QoS spots during Fox’s National Football League coverage on Sunday.