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

I don't think I can ever laugh at a guy I despise so much. He was an amusing sports pundit and despite his ultra-liberal views (few people like "ultra" anything) I watched his espn show sporadically. Then the Sandusky thing happened at Penn State. Obviously disturbing, obviously disgusting, and obviously covered up by the highest levels of the Athletic Department and the University Provost and President. Also obvious is that it had nothing to do with the professors, alumni, employees or students on campus.

The following was in the news and he was suspended for it, but in case you're not familiar with it.

Olbermann used the opportunity of a tweet about a Penn State student charity to declare that all Penn State students are pitiful and later stated that all Penn State degrees are worthless in his eyes (he only uses the word "mediocre" in the tweets). Apparently even those issued before anyone knew of Sandusky's crimes have no value to Keith the cow college graduate (whole other story). He later apologized specifically for his tweets concerning the charity, but has refused to apologize for and has repeated his views on the students and their degrees.

I am a hateful way-east-of-the-Asperger's-end-of-the-spectrum autist (and a bit of a powerlever) on this guy, so i'll leave you to it.

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FromaCorvairSix said:
Keith soo badly wants to be seen as a modern Walter Cronkite or Edward R Murrow .
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EVERYONE in the modern media wants Cronkite-level respect, blind to the fact that you need Cronkite level skill as a journalist to get it. You aren't entitled to it by being an op-ed writer with loud opinions and being passionate doesn't improve a bad idea.

Cronkite didn't call people he disagreed with Nazis without a whiff of irony, for starters.

Cronkite didn't have to raise his voice to make a good point.



CNN still doesn't get why being heckled is a symptom of their lack of trust with the public, and not the cause, and why whining and getting pissy-litigious about it won't help.
 
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AnOminous said:
It's still funny you fell for a fucking charlatan like this crazy douchebag, though.
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When you sit a child down in front of a TV in front of this kind of "programming," you end up with children who grow up with these ideas programmed into their mind.

Now that there's a much wider spectrum of political opinions with the internet than CNN and Fox news on TV, it's much easier to BREAK THE CONDITIONING.

 
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Zorge said:
Keith Theodore Olbermann is a political commentator making videos on GQ Magazine and author of TRUMP IS F'ING CRAZY coming October 17th and correspondent with The Resistance. Some can compare his behavior to Hirtes on Chris but in a different case. Olbermann's tantrums are well documented in every salt thread and produces content every day so why not contain all of it here in one thread? Why is Keith Olbermann a Lolcow? Well, let's look at some stories about him and some of his tweets:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...ermann-call-betsy-devos-motherf-er/610301001/ (http://archive.is/9qge1)
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All of his sperging can be found here every day: https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann
More about him in the Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Olbermann

How does Keith react on twitter? Screaming at and A-logging Trump:
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I recall a time when I had something resembling respect for this guy, back before he utterly lost his shit during the Bush administration in what appeared to be a quest to become left-wing Alex Jones.

DailyKos fucking loved the guy, and one thing I always found myself wondering was: "If this dude's such hot shit, and so critical to our discourse, why is it he's completely unable to find work as a pundit on a major channel after he was thrown to the wolves? Is it because he's saying shit nobody wants to hear, or is it because he's fucking crazy and hits exactly one note? Hell, if he's so important, why wasn't he offered a job at Air America, considering this is when that network was actually doing OK?"

Answer: Because he's fucking loony, and made some of the nutters Air America had look stable in contrast.

The guy was full-fledged conspiracy theory idiocy during the early Bush years and that's how he got popular in the first place, by screaming about how Diebold helped Bush got elected. This was followed by him absolutely losing his shit and looking like he was about to start either vomiting, throwing furniture, or crying depending on when in one of his videos you paused, as Null said.

As time went on, he swung wilder and wilder trying to get something... Anything, really, to make Bush look bad, and in so doing, kept looking stupider and stupider in the process. For one, the Bush administration didn't need the help, with every fucking minor thing his administration did being blown ridiculously out of proportion by a scandal-addicted press and the big fuck-ups just being really fucking depressing to cover. In that regard, Olbermann was sort of a perfect storm of pundit traits to appeal at the time. It's not like the Democratic leadership of this period gave anyone any hope of accomplishing anything in our liftimes given the impotent whining about a need to "keep the powder dry" amongst establishment dems. Before he went completely off the deep end (cutoff point seems to be around the time he got canned), he was pretty well-liked and I never really understood it, but I always enjoyed watching the spectacle.

Suffice to say, I cherish this thread. It's been a long time coming, and Keith fucking deserves it.
 
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Saturday Night Live did a skit about Keith almost 10 years ago that seems strangely foretelling, in which "Keith" (played by Ben Afflick) goes on a rant about how John McCain is a "nazi".

Since you have to register for Hulu to see it, have the transcript:
Keith Olbermann: On our fourth story of the "Countdown": in his last and desperate moments, the McCain presidential campaign has decided to get its "Nazi" on. Asked at a Toledo rally yesterday to justify the invasion of Iraq, the Arizona senator said: [ image: McCain with quote and "Seig Heil" banner ] "When a brutal dictator threatens his neighbors, responsible democratic government simply must act. Hitler is a good example." So, let me get this STRAIGHT, Senator! Nazi Germany was a responsible democratic government and Hitler was not only GOOD, but, indeed, in your words: "a good example"? We're joined now by our own Richard Wolffe, senior White House correspondent for "Newsweek" magazine. Good evening, Richard.

Richard Wolffe: Hi, Keith.

Keith Olbermann: Richard, as you know, throughout this campaign, I have frequently called for Senator McCain's ARREST! But, with this latest celebration of all things NAZI, has not McCain crossed the line, and, for the good of the country, should he not straight away resign?

Richard Wolffe: Well, Keith, I, too, have been critical of Senator McCain. But to suggest that he has Nazi sympathies, I think, is rather outrageous.

Keith Olbermann: [ modestly ] Courageous? I suppose. It's certainly not the first time I've been called that. That started in high school, with my editorials for the school radio station, and my work as the equipment manager for the cross country team. So... courageous? Sure. Guilty as charged.

Richard Wolffe: Uh -- no. Outrageous. Not courageous. Outrageous.

Keith Olbermann: Richard Wolffe, senior White House correspondent.

Richard Wolffe: No! Keith, please don't cut me off! Please!

Keith Olbermann: Alright, thanks for your time.

Richard Wolffe: I didn't mean it!
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He's a lolcow even without politics. He just wants the attention that only dwindle as more and more people end up looking down on biased pundits like him. He lacks the self-awareness to realize it, like that one kid at middle school who keeps repeating a joke no one else finds funny anymore.
 
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Somsnosa said:
Physically he keeps himself very well. His brain is fuckin melted, though. What is with american leftist media and these good lookin filfs with very tard opinions? Is this the opposite of the blonde bimbo?
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People who grow up with no father-figure in their lives tend to be attracted to older men.
 
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The Great Chandler said:
He's a lolcow even without politics. He just wants the attention that only dwindle as more and more people end up looking down on biased pundits like him. He lacks the self-awareness to realize it, like that one kid at middle school who keeps repeating a joke no one else finds funny anymore.
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This. Even back when he had a point, he had a propensity for chimping that was fucking amazing.
 
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I miss the ESPN v 1.0 Keith, where they wouldn't let him politicize and his short-fuse high-energy ranting worked well with cuts of sports.

After he left for better (in his eyes) work as a pundit, and that bombed (eventually) he came back to ESPN and I was willing to give him a second shot. I thought could be fun, a return of goofy, bombastic, harmless Keith just how I remembered him from 1998... and it was for a while.

But even when he was ranting about sports stuff, you could kind of tell that every joke had a barb in it, and there was a, how can I put it? A seeming lack of self-depreciation, a lack of concession in his approach in trying to paint himself as smarter than you, more, ugh, how I hate to say this, "woke" than you, he knew it all, you didn't, so aren't you glad he's here to save humanity? Now if only the filthy cows would LISTEN.

Eventually it seemed like he wasn't trying to even have fun, but was lambasting you for being so stupid as to believe *insert common sports thing here*, now, sit back as he tells you what it REALLY is.

And the aforementioned dumping all over PSU student's annual charity drive.... because yeah, a kid in the engineering college who was in high school when Sandusky was on the loose is totally to blame for the failings of that institution's athletic department.
 
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