rupert murdoch's vanity newspaper "the new york post" today reports has the countdown begun for the end of "countdown" and even olbermann's former supporters on the left are tuning out. "the post" got this, it writes, from blogs at national public radio and "the l.a. times" and uses the names of those organizations as if they are evidence of the supposed tune out on the left. the npr blog it turns out cites as a source "the l.a. times" blog. it describes "the l.a. times" blog as quote hardly a partisan forum except "the l.a. times" blog post was written by the former press secretary to laura bush, a man who was in fact the worst kind of partisan and he managed to write a column called countdown begins for the end of keith olbermann's "countdown" predicated on the relative ratings of this program to cnn as reported in yet another blog from a site called daily finance which cherry picked the january ratings to report that the 8:00 p.m. shows on cnn and headline news have narrowed the gap. so "the new york post" lifted from an npr blog which lifted from laura bush's ex-press secretary's blog which lifted from daily finance's blog which left out details that makes the whole thing nonsensical. this program's ratings actually grew from december to last month by 5% at 8:00 and 6% at 10:00. grew. in a month in which cnn did exceptional almost continuous