Zap2it.com: Olbermann's Jacko Puppets Fetch Big Bucks on eBay

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Olbermann's Jacko Puppets Fetch Big Bucks
(Tuesday, May 10)



LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) On his MSNBC show "Countdown," Keith Olbermann gets around the ban on cameras in the Michael Jackson trial courtroom by offering up a regular feature called "Michael Jackson Puppet Theatre."

The extremely simple puppets -- faces of key figures in the trial attached to popsicle sticks -- help Olbermann re-create the events of the trial that day with an appropriate level of seriousness and a not-entirely-accurate representation of court transcripts (unlike, say, E!'s much more elaborate re-enactments).

Monday (May 9), Olbermann and the "Countdown" staff decided to put six of the original puppets, "hand crafted" by "Countdown" staffers and autographed by the anchor, up for auction on eBay. Then things really got silly.

Within 90 minutes of the first $5 bid's submission, the price of the six puppets -- of Jackson, Santa Barbara District Attorney Tom Sneddon, defense lawyer Thomas Mesereau Jr., Judge Rodney Melville, Jackson's pet chimpanzee and his early-trial crutches and pajamas -- had zoomed to $14,347. After an overnight lull, someone topped that with a bid of $14,400.02....

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Bidding closes at 9 p.m. ET Thursday. Proceeds will go to the Celiac Sprue Association, which aids people with celiac disease.

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1. Here's a link

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=554&item=7321763671

and be sure to check out the Q&A's at the bottom of the description page. The first one (so far) is the best.