Chris Buttars is just getting more and more famous these days.

Not that that's a good thing.

The Utah state senator from West Jordan made it on MSNBC's "Countdown With Keith Olbermann" on Tuesday. As a matter of fact, he was at the the top of the list of that show's No. 2 story — the daily "Worst Person in the World" countdown.

As you might guess, what got the Republican state senator on the list was his introduction of a resolution calling on Utah retailers not to "exclude Christmas from your holiday greetings." And, while Olbermann didn't quite get it right — he confused a resolution (which cannot be enforced) with a law (which can), the host attacked Buttars with his usual gusto.

Heck, Buttars beat out frequent Olbermann target Bill O'Reilly, who contradicted himself on whether there has been abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, and the Virginia Republican state chairman who told his people to compare Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden (and now has blamed the media for reporting that he did so) to finish on top of the "Worst Person" list.

"'I'm sick of the Christmas wars,"'Olbermann quoted Buttars as saying. "'We're a Christian nation and ought to use the word.' Mr. Buttars does not explain how the law would encourage store owners to have their employees use the phrase.

"He claims he has support from other Utah state senators but can't or won't name them. And he's apparently not realized that if he could somehow pass a law encouraging people to say, 'Merry Christmas' in stores, somebody else could pass a law encouraging people to say, 'Merry Christmas' in synagogues or mosques.

"Utah state senator Chris the-character-on-'Southpark'-is-just-a-coincidence Buttars — today's worst person in the world!"

One more example of how Utah and Utahns are portrayed in the national media.

All in all, it's rather predictable. Buttars' resolution is the kind of thing that's an easy target and provides the ammunition for Olbermann's gun.

Sigh.

OF COURSE, SOMETIMES people shoot at you for no reason whatsoever.

On Tuesday's edition of ABC's "The View," the women were discussing/mocking New York Giants star Plaxico Burress, who shot himself in the leg with his own gun at a nightclub.

The discussion turned to where he had the gun and how it came to fire.

"What kind of underwear you wearin' that your gun falls out your underwear?" panelist Sherri Shepherd asked.