Careercow Keith Olbermann - A-logging commentator and writer with a massive hate-boner for Trump.

Josterman said:
keith talks tough but can be actually fight or just throw A tonka

ah opie and Antony never go wrong
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Oh I got no illusions about a skilled fight here. It's going to be hogs frying in the spotlight.
 
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ON 190 said:
Man, he used to be a decent guy until... who the fuck knows what happened to him.
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Keith's downfall is a long story, but the cliff notes version is this:

He got caught breaking one of the rules at MSNBC (you can't make secret off-the-books campaign contributions to politicians) and got suspended. Then his father suffered a major health crisis and he had to take time off to deal with that, as his father's condition then took a turn for the worse and he died. Keith was given bereavement time off, but immediately started milking MSNBC producers over it to miss work. This was in part due to the butt-hurt over getting suspended but also, due to the fact that A. Keith had gone to bat to get Cenk and the Young Turks a show on MSNBC only for Cenk to fuck it up and get blackballed from appearing on the network ever again and Keith taking Cenk's side in the debacle and B. Rachel Maddow, who was Keith's fill-in host, was given her own show only for Keith to kind of kneecap Rachels' ratings by constantly taking time off, which pissed Rachel and certain network suits off.

The last part was the big one, as MSNBC had a shift in management shortly after Rachel got her own show (the previous management didn't want Rachel to have a show but Keith went to bat for her getting it) and the new management was pro-Rachel Maddow and more to the point, came to the conclusion that Rachel was a safer bet than Keith, who was by that point constantly missing work (which in turn caused ratings to collapse on the prime time line-up) and demanding MSNBC pay money out for the right to read short stories of major authors on the Friday editions of his show.

The new management finally said "fuck that shit" and fired Keith. Keith recovered slightly in that the then rebranded network Current TV, run by Al Gore, offered to give him a new show as their flagship but he fucked that up because Gore screwed him over on the budget of his show and he started missing work, leading to them firing him and Current TV crashing as a result within about six months.

The last bit basically killed Olbermann's "legit" news career and he had to crawl back to ESPN. Keith is basically blackballed from MSNBC so long as Rachel is there and CNN ALMOST hired him when Trump got elected but backed off because they feared that he would be too fucking psychotic in his anti-Trump rantings even for CNN at the time. And it's been joked that his Youtube channekl was funded by Obama era agitprop money, which is why it abruptly ended (IE the money ran out).

He's basically an example of a guy who had it ALL then lost it due to arrogance and hubris.
 
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MirrorNoir said:
Keith's downfall is a long story, but the cliff notes version is this:

He got caught breaking one of the rules at MSNBC (you can't make secret off-the-books campaign contributions to politicians) and got suspended. Then his father suffered a major health crisis and he had to take time off to deal with that, as his father's condition then took a turn for the worse and he died. Keith was given bereavement time off, but immediately started milking MSNBC producers over it to miss work. This was in part due to the butt-hurt over getting suspended but also, due to the fact that A. Keith had gone to bat to get Cenk and the Young Turks a show on MSNBC only for Cenk to fuck it up and get blackballed from appearing on the network ever again and Keith taking Cenk's side in the debacle and B. Rachel Maddow, who was Keith's fill-in host, was given her own show only for Keith to kind of kneecap Rachels' ratings by constantly taking time off, which pissed Rachel and certain network suits off.

The last part was the big one, as MSNBC had a shift in management shortly after Rachel got her own show (the previous management didn't want Rachel to have a show but Keith went to bat for her getting it) and the new management was pro-Rachel Maddow and more to the point, came to the conclusion that Rachel was a safer bet than Keith, who was by that point constantly missing work (which in turn caused ratings to collapse on the prime time line-up) and demanding MSNBC pay money out for the right to read short stories of major authors on the Friday editions of his show.

The new management finally said "fuck that shit" and fired Keith. Keith recovered slightly in that the then rebranded network Current TV, run by Al Gore, offered to give him a new show as their flagship but he fucked that up because Gore screwed him over on the budget of his show and he started missing work, leading to them firing him and Current TV crashing as a result within about six months.

The last bit basically killed Olbermann's "legit" news career and he had to crawl back to ESPN. Keith is basically blackballed from MSNBC so long as Rachel is there and CNN ALMOST hired him when Trump got elected but backed off because they feared that he would be too fucking psychotic in his anti-Trump rantings even for CNN at the time. And it's been joked that his Youtube channekl was funded by Obama era agitprop money, which is why it abruptly ended (IE the money ran out).

He's basically an example of a guy who had it ALL then lost it due to arrogance and hubris.
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its the ultimate moral don’t be like Keith olberman.
 
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Josterman said:
its the ultimate moral don’t be like Keith olberman.
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People may be jealous of the millions he's made in his career but they can take satisfaction in knowing that, like every lefty out there, he's incapable of experiencing genuine joy. So all that money has brought him zero happiness, only infinite smugness.
 
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Starscreams Cape said:
People may be jealous of the millions he's made in his career but they can take satisfaction in knowing that, like every lefty out there, he's incapable of experiencing genuine joy. So all that money has brought him zero happiness, only infinite smugness.
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Also brought him to the brink of insanity or at insanity
 
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Someone in a Tree said:
If you ever wondered how a professional broadcaster could be fired from every job he ever had and burn every bridge he ever crossed, Olbermann’s Twitter feed would provide you with enough evidence for thirty lifetimes.
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It would prove your point right many times over
 
22 on trending let’s make this number 15

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malice FTW

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also I like this tweet from MM which I agree with CFDC73D3-DB31-4397-BD3F-F84351522454.jpegthe quarter pounder7BA35E6A-D421-4758-90AD-3E8FDCA90DA9.jpeg29894FBF-AC0A-4269-9763-66F06E8C77F8.jpeg
and the man who created the list siraj hashmiA54110A8-B09B-4AED-AD53-4A87F8E9576E.jpeg
 
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MirrorNoir said:
Keith's downfall is a long story, but the cliff notes version is this:

He got caught breaking one of the rules at MSNBC (you can't make secret off-the-books campaign contributions to politicians) and got suspended. Then his father suffered a major health crisis and he had to take time off to deal with that, as his father's condition then took a turn for the worse and he died. Keith was given bereavement time off, but immediately started milking MSNBC producers over it to miss work. This was in part due to the butt-hurt over getting suspended but also, due to the fact that A. Keith had gone to bat to get Cenk and the Young Turks a show on MSNBC only for Cenk to fuck it up and get blackballed from appearing on the network ever again and Keith taking Cenk's side in the debacle and B. Rachel Maddow, who was Keith's fill-in host, was given her own show only for Keith to kind of kneecap Rachels' ratings by constantly taking time off, which pissed Rachel and certain network suits off.

The last part was the big one, as MSNBC had a shift in management shortly after Rachel got her own show (the previous management didn't want Rachel to have a show but Keith went to bat for her getting it) and the new management was pro-Rachel Maddow and more to the point, came to the conclusion that Rachel was a safer bet than Keith, who was by that point constantly missing work (which in turn caused ratings to collapse on the prime time line-up) and demanding MSNBC pay money out for the right to read short stories of major authors on the Friday editions of his show.

The new management finally said "fuck that shit" and fired Keith. Keith recovered slightly in that the then rebranded network Current TV, run by Al Gore, offered to give him a new show as their flagship but he fucked that up because Gore screwed him over on the budget of his show and he started missing work, leading to them firing him and Current TV crashing as a result within about six months.

The last bit basically killed Olbermann's "legit" news career and he had to crawl back to ESPN. Keith is basically blackballed from MSNBC so long as Rachel is there and CNN ALMOST hired him when Trump got elected but backed off because they feared that he would be too fucking psychotic in his anti-Trump rantings even for CNN at the time. And it's been joked that his Youtube channekl was funded by Obama era agitprop money, which is why it abruptly ended (IE the money ran out).

He's basically an example of a guy who had it ALL then lost it due to arrogance and hubris.
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"Never believe your own hype"

This rule applies not just in sports, but broadcasting.
 
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Last I heard, Keith was openly flaming baseball commissioner Rob Manfred on Twitter for the latest baseball lockout implemented by the owners this week. So, Olbermann really didn't learn a lesson from the public reaction to his latest public meltdown, or he just decided to stick to more familiar and comfortable territory when he started criticizing Manfred and Major League Baseball. If anything, he'd rile up a bunch of annoyed baseball fans and get them on his side.

Then again, Keith has been very critical of each commissioner of baseball dating back to Bowie Kuhn in the early eighties, so it's nothing at all new for him.
 
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Muncie Anderson said:
Last I heard, Keith was openly flaming baseball commissioner Rob Manfred on Twitter for the latest baseball lockout implemented by the owners this week. So, Olbermann really didn't learn a lesson from the public reaction to his latest public meltdown, or he just decided to stick to more familiar and comfortable territory when he started criticizing Manfred and Major League Baseball. If anything, he'd rile up a bunch of annoyed baseball fans and get them on his side.

Then again, Keith has been very critical of each commissioner of baseball dating back to Bowie Kuhn in the early eighties, so it's nothing at all new for him.
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Maybe he shouldn’t have a Twitter account
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also the Russia gating needs to stop2135332B-D702-4D8E-A092-49F3BD44EA05.jpeg
and fascist baiting
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also you should be put in a gas chamber lol
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also Jews are white according to your side
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