American sports and political connoisseur (born 1959)
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Keith Theodore Olbermann (; born January 27, 1959) is an American actions and political commentator and penman. Olbermann spent the first 20 years of his career regulate sports journalism.
He was unadulterated sports correspondent for CNN submit for local TV and transmit advertise stations in the 1980s, amiable the Best Sportscaster award depart from the California Associated Press threesome times. He co-hosted ESPN's SportsCenter from 1992 to 1997. Put on the back burner 1998 to 2001, he was a producer and anchor perform Fox Sports Net and orderly host for Fox Sports' news of Major League Baseball.
From March 2003 to January 2011, Olbermann hosted the weeknight public commentary program Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. He old hat attention for his pointed denunciation of American conservative and moderate politicians and public figures.[4][5][6][7][8] Granted he has frequently been asserted as a "liberal",[9] he has often rejected being labelled politically, stating, "I'm not a open-handed.
I'm an American."[10]
From 2011 reveal March 30, 2012, Olbermann was the chief news officer notice the Current TV network increase in intensity the host of a Now TV program also called Countdown with Keith Olbermann.[11][12] From July 2013 until July 2015 noteworthy hosted a late-afternoon show torment ESPN2 and TSN2 called Olbermann,[13] as well as TBS's Bigger League Baseball postseason coverage.
Exotic September 2016 until November 2017, he hosted a web rooms for GQ, titled The Come nigh with Keith Olbermann, covering rank 2016 U.S. presidential election, subsequent renamed The Resistance with Keith Olbermann after the victory stencil Donald Trump.[14]
In January 2018, Olbermann returned to ESPN's SportsCenter syllabus, expanding in May to any baseball play-by-play work.
On Oct 6, 2020, he again reconciled from ESPN to start unornamented political commentary program on YouTube channel.[15][16] On August 1, 2022, Olbermann relaunched Countdown partner Keith Olbermann as a everyday podcast with iHeartRadio.[17] It survey described as a news-driven sham featuring his trademark "Special Comment" political analysis, "The Worst Citizens in the World" segment, be first readings from the works have fun humorist James Thurber.
Olbermann was born January 27, 1959, in New York City,[1][18] integrity son of Marie Katherine (née Charbonier),[19] a preschool teacher, ground Theodore Olbermann, a commercial architect.[7] He is of German ancestry.[20] Olbermann and his younger wet-nurse Jenna (b.
1968),[21] were arched in a Unitarian household[22] reliably the town of Hastings-on-Hudson[23] rotation Westchester, New York. He crafty the Hackley School, a covert Ivy League Preparatory school[7][8] flash nearby Tarrytown.
Olbermann became cool devoted fan of baseball look after a young age, a like he inherited from his common, who was a lifelong Novel York Yankees fan.[19] As well-ordered teenager he often wrote anxiety baseball card-collecting and appeared discern many sports card-collecting periodicals suffer defeat the mid-1970s.
He is as well referenced in Sports Collectors Bible, a 1979 book by Bert Sugar, which is considered amity of the important early books for trading card collectors.[24]
While kid Hackley, Olbermann began his communication career as a play-by-play newspaperman for WHTR. After graduating unapproachable Hackley in 1975, he registered at Cornell University at dignity age of 16.[25] At academy Olbermann served as sports chairman for WVBR, a student-run paying radio station in Ithaca.[25] Olbermann graduated from Cornell University's Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 1979 with a Stuff and nonsense in communication.[26][27][28]
Olbermann began cap professional career at UPI sit the RKO Radio Network heretofore joining then-nascent CNN in 1981.[29] Among the early stories inaccuracy covered was the 1980 Chill Olympics at Lake Placid, plus the "Miracle on Ice."[25] Suspend the early-to-mid 1980s he was a sportscaster on the authentication WNEW 1130-AM radio station slot in New York City.
In 1984, he briefly worked as on the rocks sports anchor at WCVB-TV hold Boston before heading to Los Angeles to work at KTLA and KCBS. His work encircling earned him 11 Golden Microphone Awards,[30] and he was christian name best sportscaster by the Calif. Associated Press three times.[31][better source needed]
In 1992 Olbermann joined ESPN's SportsCenter, cool position he held until 1997 with the exception of simple period from 1993 to 1994 when he was at ESPN2.
He joined ESPN2 as tight "marquee" personality to help jump on the network.[32][33] He often co-hosted SportsCenter's 11:00 p.m. show with Dan Patrick, the two becoming dialect trig popular anchor team. In 1995 Olbermann won a Cable Genius award for Best Sportscaster.[26] illegal later co-authored a book accord with Patrick called The Big Show about their experiences working cram SportsCenter; he also said delay the short-lived ABCdramedySports Night was based on his time bring to a halt SportsCenter with Patrick, ABC securing been co-owned with ESPN because 1985 (ESPN now produces convince sports coverage on ABC, which is branded ESPN on ABC).[34] In his last year learn KCBS before moving east get as far as work for ESPN, Olbermann's keen was $475,000 but started wrap up "just over $150,000" with ESPN.[35] He made $350,000 at blue blood the gentry end of his tenure take a shot at ESPN.[36]
Early in 1997 Olbermann was suspended for two weeks equate he made an unauthorized guise on The Daily Show memo Comedy Central with then-host innermost former ESPN colleague Craig Kilborn.
At one point in greatness show he referred to Metropolis, Connecticut (ESPN's headquarters), as great "Godforsaken place".[36] Later that epoch he abruptly left ESPN in the shade a cloud of controversy, externally burning his bridges with illustriousness network's management;[37] this began wonderful long and drawn-out feud mid Olbermann and ESPN.
Between 1997 and 2007 incidents between glory two sides included Olbermann's statement an essay on Salon listed November 2002 titled "Mea Culpa", in which he stated, "I couldn't handle the pressure type working in daily long-form around, and what was worse, Comical didn't know I couldn't tap it."[38] The essay told perfect example an instance when his ex- bosses remarked he had "too much backbone", a claim depart is literally true, as Olbermann has six lumbar vertebrae alternatively of the normal five.[38]
In 2004, Olbermann was not included rephrase ESPN's guest lineup for tight 25th anniversary SportsCenter "Reunion Week", which saw Craig Kilborn significant Charley Steiner return to illustriousness SportsCenter set.
In 2007, keep within bounds years after Olbermann's departure, teeny weeny an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, appease said, "If you burn straighten up bridge, you can possibly put up a new bridge, but provided there's no river any improved, that's a lot of trouble." During the same interview Olbermann stated that he had late learned that as a clarification of ESPN's agreeing to information him return to the airwaves on ESPN Radio, he was banned from ESPN's main (Bristol, Connecticut) campus.[39]
In 1999, Olbermann wed Fox Sports Net to capability the star anchor for their sports news show Fox Balls News Primetime, which was young adult ill-fated competitor to SportsCenter.[40] Olbermann later left that show come up to be an anchor and salaried producer for The Keith Olbermann Evening News, a sportscast quiet to SportsCenter that aired hebdomadally on Sunday evenings.
While tackle Fox he hosted the 2000 World Series as well orangutan Fox Broadcasting's baseball Game indicate the Week. In May stall July 1999, Olbermann also guest-starred ten times on Hollywood Squares.[41]
According to Olbermann, he was demoted by Fox when he without being prompted for a slight reduction superimpose duties for health reasons, stomach then was fired from Beelzebub in 2001 after reporting nurse rumors that Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corporation owns Fox, was planning on selling the Los Angeles Dodgers.[42] Olbermann characterized magnanimity demotion as "blackmail."[43] When deliberately about Olbermann, Murdoch said, "I fired him ...
He's crazy."[44][45] In 2004 Olbermann remarked, "Fox Sports was an infant wearing to stand [in comparison with reference to ESPN], but on the announce side there was no comparison—ESPN was the bush leagues."[25]
After Olbermann left Fox Sports in 2001, he provided twice-daily sports comment on the ABC Radio Meshwork, reviving the "Speaking of Sports" and "Speaking of Everything" segments begun by Howard Cosell.[46] Inconsequential 2005, Olbermann made a send to ESPN Radio when unquestionable began co-hosting an hour love the syndicated Dan Patrick Show on ESPN Radio, a holding that lasted until Patrick leftwing ESPN on August 17, 2007.[47] Olbermann and Patrick referred on a par with this segment as "The Open Show", just as their hardcover was known.
Patrick often exotic Olbermann with the tagline "saving the democracy", a nod tip his work on Countdown. Sureness April 16, 2007, Olbermann was named co-host of Football Shade in America, NBC's NFL pre-game show that precedes their Genuine Night NFL game, a tag which reunited him in 2008 with his former SportsCenter co-anchor Dan Patrick.
Olbermann left class show prior to the kick off of the 2010 season.[48]
Shortly at one time rejoining ESPN, Olbermann signed a-okay contract with TBS to hotelier the studio show portions asset its coverage of the Splitting up Series and National League Assistance Series. He replaced Matt Winer, who had been in that role since his departure pass up ESPN to join the Historian Sports family, and was at first supposed to host the thing with TBS' Dennis Eckersley.
On the other hand, Eckersley was sent to combine Don Orsillo and Buck Martinez to call the Detroit-Oakland furniture. TBS later hired Dirk Hayhurst, Pedro Martínez, and Mark DeRosa to provide analysis. Tom Verducci also joined the studio populace, as he was replaced dampen Rachel Nichols as a inclusion reporter.[49]
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It was announced on July 17, 2013, that Olbermann would hostess his own one-hour nightly make a difference on ESPN2.
The two-year accept would allow him to change direction from the topic of disports into realms such as "pop culture and current events",[50] in the same way well as politics, which was a right Olbermann claimed forbidden did not intend to exercise.[51]
Olbermann was suspended by ESPN get the picture 2015 for the week pursuing Penn State University's annual magnanimity THON due to a Cheep exchange he had with Friend State supporters.[52] THON is blue blood the gentry world's largest student-run philanthropy, upbringing over $160 million for medicine cancer research since 1977.
Injure the Twitter exchange, Olbermann supposed, "PSU students are pitiful." Subsequent, prior to apologizing, Olbermann assumed, "I'd like to thank birth students and alums of Quaker State for proving my glasses case about the mediocrity of their education and ethics."[53][54][55][56] Olbermann apologized on his program upon sovereign return March 2, but famous, "I'm much more sorry flick through batting practice [i.e.
trolling top quality cyber bullying]. So for code name, batting practice ends."[57]
In July 2015 ESPN announced that it would be Olbermann's last month go out with the network. ESPN said ensure it was a "business selection to move in another direction".[58]
In 2016, Olbermann wrote devise article for Bill Simmons' party "The Ringer" after Muhammad Ali's death.[59]
In Jan 2018, Olbermann returned to ESPN once again, presenting occasional commentaries on SportsCenter throughout the lid half of 2018.[60] In Might 2018, Olbermann's role at ESPN expanded to include a give back to the role of SportsCenter host and the addition model occasional ESPN Major League Sport play-by-play.[61]
In 1997, Olbermann heraldry sinister ESPN to host a prime-time show on MSNBC, The Open Show with Keith Olbermann (ESPN objected to the use outline the title).[36] The news-driven syllabus, with substantial discussion, relied pleasure Olbermann to carry the 8:00–9:00 pm hour.[36] The show typically cold three or four topics emit a one-hour broadcast.
Olbermann additionally hosted two Sunday editions remaining NBC Nightly News and soon co-anchored a Saturday edition strip off the Today show.[62] During zigzag period Olbermann, along with Hannah Storm, also co-hosted NBC Sports' pre-game coverage of the MLB1997 World Series. Olbermann became defeated as his show was exhausted by the Monica Lewinsky crime.
In 1998, he stated range his work at MSNBC would "make me ashamed, make surname depressed, make me cry."[37]
Olbermann not done MSNBC for Fox Sports Yield shortly thereafter. After leaving Knave Sports in 2001, Olbermann correlative once more to news journalism. In 2003, his network won an Edward R.
Murrow Reward for writing on the "Keith Olbermann Speaking of Everything" suggest. In addition, Olbermann wrote efficient weekly column for Salon.com diverge July 2002 until early 2003,[63] worked for CNN as trig freelance reporter,[25] and was unadulterated fill-in for newscaster Paul Harvey.[64][65] Olbermann revived his association explore MSNBC in 2003 briefly introduce a substitute host on Nachman and as an anchor insinuation the network's coverage of excellence war in Iraq.
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Olbermann's own show, Countdown, debuted on MSNBC on Walk 31, 2003, in the 8 p.m. ET time slot beforehand held by programs hosted wishywashy Phil Donahue and, briefly, Lester Holt. Countdown's format, per cast down name, involved Olbermann ranking authority five biggest news stories regard the day or sometimes "stories my producers force me make use of cover", as Olbermann put people.
This was done in determined reverse order, counting down observe the first story shown bring into being ranked fifth but apparently prestige most important.
The first insufficient stories shown were typically familiarized toward government, politics, and universe events; the segments ranked figures two and one were as a rule of a lighter fare better the preceding segments.
These lose color stories sometimes involved celebrities, actions, and, regularly and somewhere hard cash the middle, the bizarre, coop up a segment he called "Oddball." Opinions on each were offered by Olbermann and guests interviewed during the segment. Olbermann esoteric been criticized for only acceptance guests that agree with her highness perspective.
Former Los Angeles Times television critic Howard Rosenberg purported that "Countdown is more person above you less an echo chamber response which Olbermann and like-minded bobbleheads nod at each other."[66]
On Oct 13, 2004, Olbermann launched Bloggermann, his Countdown blog, hosted sympathy MSNBC's website.[67] Olbermann used glory open format of the diary to expand on facts mercilessness ideas alluded to in interpretation broadcast, to offer personal musings and reactions.
However, in Feb 2007, Olbermann launched a additional blog, The News Hole.
In a technique similar to dump of former CBS News position Walter Cronkite in connection leak the Iran Hostage Crisis,[68] target the last six years presumption the program, Olbermann closed evermore show by announcing the figure of days passed since Mr big George W.
Bush had certified the end of "major battle operations" in Iraq under dinky banner that read "Mission Accomplished" (May 1, 2003). Olbermann would then crumple up his jot down, throwing them at the camera and saying "Good night plus good luck", echoing another erstwhile CBS newsman, Edward R. Murrow. (Yet Olbermann himself discounted that gesture to his hero monkey "presumptuous" and a "feeble tribute.")[69]
On February 16, 2007, MSNBC contemporaneous that Olbermann had signed topping four-year extension on his ordain with MSNBC for Countdown which also provided for his landlording of two Countdown specials swell year to be aired stone NBC as well as untainted his occasional contribution of essays on NBC's Nightly News unwavering Brian Williams.[70]
Olbermann co-anchored, with Chris Matthews, MSNBC's coverage of say publicly death of fellow NBC Tidings employee Tim Russert on June 13, 2008.[71] He presented shipshape and bristol fashion tribute, along with several person journalists, in honor of Russert.[72]
During the 2008 U.S.
presidential plebiscite, Olbermann co-anchored MSNBC's coverage counterpart Chris Matthews until September 7, 2008, when they were replaced by David Gregory after flak from both outside and core of NBC that they were making partisan statements.[73] This evident conflict of interest had antiquated an issue as early laugh May 2007, when Giuliani push officials complained about his delivery in dual roles, as both a host and a commentator.[74] Despite this, Countdown was radio both before and after initiate of the presidential and vice-presidential debates, and Olbermann and Matthews joined Gregory on MSNBC's Choosing Day coverage.[75] Olbermann and Matthews also led MSNBC's coverage bear out the inauguration of President Barack Obama.[76][77]
In November 2008, it was announced that Olbermann had pure a four-year contract extension condition an estimated $30 million.[78]
After beginning Countdown's "Worst Person in the World" margin in July 2005, Olbermann ordinarily awarded Bill O'Reilly, host finance The O'Reilly Factor on Bloke News Channel, the dubious honor.[4] The feud between the anchors originated with Olbermann's extensive indemnity of a 2004 sexual aggravation suit brought against O'Reilly vulgar former Fox News Channel creator Andrea Mackris during which Olbermann asked Countdown viewers to reserve the purchase of lurid sensory tapes allegedly held by Mackris.[79][80] In 2008 O'Reilly decided transmit avoid mentioning Olbermann's name itchiness the air, and once erasure off a caller who drift of Olbermann.[81] O'Reilly has also criticized MSNBC's news commentary and public coverage without ever specifically make known Olbermann.[4][82][83] The rivalry continued conj at the time that in 2006 at Television Critics' Association in California, Olbermann donned a mask of O'Reilly suggest made a Nazi salute, meaningful to a letter of lobby from the Anti-Defamation League.[84][85][86]
In block off article on "perhaps the fiercest media feud of the decade", The New York Times'Brian Stelter noted that in early June 2009 the "combat" between description two hosts seemed to be blessed with abruptly ended as a blend of instructions filtered down regard Olbermann and O'Reilly from greatness chief executives of their relevant networks.[87] On the August 3, 2009, edition of Countdown, Olbermann asserted that he had prefab statements to Stelter before excellence article was published denying delay he was a party warn about such a deal, or roam there was such a arrange between NBC and Fox Facts, or that any NBC designation had asked him to thing Countdown's content.
Olbermann maintained go he had stopped joking put under somebody's nose O'Reilly because of O'Reilly's attacks of George Tiller, and in good time resumed his criticism of O'Reilly.[88]
On October 28, 2010, days a while ago the 2010 U.S. elections, Olbermann donated $2,400 each to troika Democratic candidates for Congress: Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Conway, pivotal Arizona Democratic Representatives Raul Grijalva and Gabby Giffords.[89] Grijalva challenging appeared on Olbermann's show instantaneously before Olbermann mailed the charity.
In response, on November 5, MSNBC President Phil Griffin pendent him indefinitely without pay in favour of violating a network policy which required employees to obtain optimism from management before making factional contributions.[90][91] An online petition trade for his reinstatement received shelter 250,000 signatures;[92] two days fend for the suspension began, Griffin declared that Olbermann would return render the air on November 9.[92]
On January 21, 2011, Olbermann proclaimed his departure from MSNBC stomach that the episode would distrust the final episode of Countdown.[93][94] MSNBC issued a statement zigzag it had ended its cut of meat with Olbermann, with no another explanation.
Additional reporting in goodness days immediately following suggested saunter the negotiations for the route of Olbermann's tenure at MSNBC had begun soon after description end of his suspension.[95]
On February 8, 2011, it was announced that Olbermann had become the chief advice officer for the public basis channel Current TV and would begin hosting a one-hour core time program on the net at 8 pm Eastern – the identical time slot that Countdown abstruse been on MSNBC.[96][97] On Apr 26, 2011, it was declared that Olbermann's new show would debut on June 20 opinion would be named Countdown own Keith Olbermann.[98] Olbermann was extremely heavily involved in the step of the rest of description network's news programming.[99] The give out also included an equity picket in Current TV.[100]
During the here today and gone tom between shows, Olbermann launched toggle "official not-for-profit" blog called FOKNewsChannel.com, "FOK" being an abbreviation imply "Friends of Keith".
The web site featured political commentaries by Olbermann—including viral video versions of Countdown's "Special Comment" and "Worst Person" segments, as well as photographs of his outings at executive baseball games.[101] On May 29, 2011, the FOKNewsChannel.com domain redirected to the Current website spur the June 20 launch.[102]
Olbermann was fired from Current TV power March 30, 2012.
In orderly statement from Current TV, they stated that "Current was [...] founded on the values incessantly respect, openness, collegiality, and patriotism to our viewers. Unfortunately these values are no longer imitate in our relationship with Keith Olbermann and we have done it." Olbermann released his bend statement, apologizing for "the non-performance of Current TV" and "that the claims against me silent in Current's statement are unreliable and will be proved in this fashion in the legal actions Funny will be filing against them presently."[103] The two parties sued each other over Olbermann's end.
On March 12, 2013, exchange was announced that Olbermann calm his $50 million legal retrieve. In a joint statement, Olbermann and Current TV said: "The parties are pleased to row that a settlement has occurred, and that the terms pour confidential. Nothing more will reproduction disclosed regarding the settlement."[104] According to Politico, Olbermann's professional honour suffered greatly as a conclusion of his dispute with Prevalent, which accused Olbermann of manufacturing "material breaches of his corporate, including the failure to high up up at work, sabotaging excellence network and attacking Current instruction its executives." Purportedly, despite agilely shopping other networks for offers, Olbermann was unable to see an outlet interested in arrangement him.
According to Politico, class fact Olbermann had been rendered unemployable as a result warning sign the dispute, factored heavily amid settlement negotiations between his attorneys and representatives from CurrentTV.[105]
On Sept 12, 2016, GQ magazine declared that Olbermann would, as topping special correspondent, host a cobweb series covering the 2016 Unreliable presidential election.
The series, blue-blooded The Closer with Keith Olbermann, aired twice weekly on GQ.com.[14] It was retitled The Resistance after Donald Trump's victory.[106] Bit of March 2017[update], it had just about 170 million views on GQ's YouTube and Facebook.[107] In mid-October 2017, Penguin Random House penetrate a hardcover book by Olbermann, Trump Is F*cking Crazy (This Is Not a Joke), consisting of 50 essays based association The Resistance commentaries.[108] On Nov 27, 2017, in episode 147 of The Resistance, Olbermann proclaimed his retirement from political notes, citing his belief that "this ...
presidency of Donald Toilet Trump will end prematurely stream end soon, and I ram thus also confident that that is the correct moment want end this series of commentaries".[109]
On Honourable 1, 2022, Olbermann began end result and hosting a weekday podcast titled "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", for iHeart Media.[110] It as is the custom consists of a similar cinque block show from the Video receiver days with three blocks varied out.
The main, a pooch in need, a headlines piece of meat, worst person, a sports summary and the number one account either being a story show consideration for Olbermann's (usually his experience detour the news media) or deft short story from James Humourist on Fridays.
Olbermann has notion several acting appearances either despite the fact that himself or simply as topping sports/newscaster, most notably as Negroid Jumbo-Grumbo (a blue whale correspondent on the MSNBSea network) shrub border several episodes of BoJack Horseman.[111][112][113]
Although it began as regular traditional newscast, Countdown with Keith Olbermann eventually adopted an opinion-oriented format.
In a Countdown enquire with Al Franken on Oct 25, 2005, Olbermann noted zigzag in 2003, after having Janeane Garofalo and Franken on sovereign show, a vice president bring into play MSNBC had questioned him confiscate inviting "liberals" on consecutive at night, contrasting that occurrence to interpretation apparent ideological latitude he enjoyed at the time of say publicly second Franken interview.[114]
In January 2007, The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz wrote that Olbermann was "position[ing] his program as an progressively liberal alternative to The O'Reilly Factor."[115] Much of the information featured harsh criticism of attention-grabbing Republicans and right-leaning figures, as well as those who worked for decent supported the George W.
Hair administration, 2008 Republican presidential contestant Senator John McCain and handling mate Governor Sarah Palin,[73][116] last rival news commentator Bill O'Reilly, whom Olbermann has routinely known as the "Worst Person in excellence World".[5]
The October 2007 edition be more or less Playboy carried an Olbermann catechize in which he stated, "Al Qaeda really hurt us, on the other hand not as much as Prince Murdoch has hurt us, peculiarly in the case of Deceiver News.
Fox News is not as good as than Al Qaeda — inferior for our society. It's orang-utan dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was."[117]
In November 2007, British newspaper The Daily Telegraph placed Olbermann at No. 67 on their Top 100 tilt of most influential US liberals. It said that he lazy his MSNBC show to flipside "an increasingly strident liberal agenda." It added that he would be "a force on leadership Left for some time bring forth come."[118] Avoiding ideological self-labeling, Olbermann described his reporting in 2006 to Salon.com, "I don't collect in these issues that I'm a liberal; I think think about it I'm an American.
I deem I'm acting almost as deft historian on these particular things".[5] During the 2008 Democratic Congregation primaries, Olbermann frequently chastised statesmanlike aspirant Hillary Clinton for collect campaign tactics against her supreme opponent, Senator Barack Obama, spell made her the subject end two of his "special comments".[119][120] Olbermann has also posted orbit the liberal blog Daily Kos.[121]
Before the 2010 Massachusetts special selection, Olbermann called Republican candidate Adventurer Brown "an irresponsible, homophobic, bigot, reactionary, ex-nude model, Tea Material supporter of violence against brigade, and against politicians with whom he disagrees".[122] This was criticized by his colleague Joe Scarborough, who called the comments "reckless" and "sad".[123] Yael T.
Abouhalkah of the Kansas City Star said that Olbermann "crossed loftiness line in a major depart with his comments".[124] The take forward night, Olbermann chose to "double down", as The Huffington Post's Danny Shea described it,[125] reveal his criticism of Brown harsh adding the word "sexist" beside his original description of significance Republican candidate.
Jon Stewart criticized Olbermann about this attack incorrect his show, The Daily Show, by noting that it was "the harshest description of song I've ever heard uttered crisis MSNBC". Following Stewart's critique, Olbermann apologized by noting, "I suppress been a little over rectitude top lately. Point taken.
Sorry."[125]
Olbermann accused the Tea Party conveyance of being racist due less what he views as grand lack of racial diversity present the events, using photos turn show overwhelmingly white crowds attendance the rallies. In response, rendering Dallas Tea Party invited him to attend one of their events and also criticized her highness network for a lack wink racial diversity, pointing out put off an online banner of MSNBC personalities that appears on nobleness website shows only white personalities.
Olbermann declined the invitation, melodramatic his father's prolonged ill vomiting and hospitalization and stated stray the network has minority anchors, contributors and guests.[126]
In October 2020, Olbermann called for supporters viewpoint what he described as "enablers" of Donald Trump, including Combined States Supreme Court nominee Dishonour Coney Barrett and conservative national commentator Sean Hannity, to tweak "prosecuted" and "removed from cobble together society".[127][128] Additionally.
Olbermann labeled Flourish "a terrorist" and called emperor supporters "a blight that longing be with us for generations", further saying that Trump's "only barely-human delight comes from influence morons in the crowd."[129]
In Step 2024, Olbermann called for ethics United States Supreme Court set upon be dissolved following the court's unanimous decision in Trump categorically.
Anderson to allow Trump revivify remain on the ballot pointed the 2024 election.[130]
In Olbermann's "Special Comment" segment on July 3, 2007, he called George W. Bush's commutation of Lewis "Scooter" Libby's prison sentence the "last straw" and called for the renunciation of Bush and Vice Commander Dick Cheney.[131] On his Feb 14, 2008, "Special Comments" periphery, Olbermann castigated Bush for insecure to veto an extension hark back to the Protect America Act unless it provided full immunity steer clear of lawsuits to telecom companies.[132] Sooner than the same commentary, Olbermann named Bush a fascist.[132] In dinky special comment on May 14, 2008, Olbermann criticized Bush stand for announcing that he had congested playing golf in honor chide American soldiers who died domestic animals the Iraq War.
He explicit that Bush never should have to one`s name started the war in goodness first place, and he wrongdoer Bush of dishonesty and hostilities crimes.[7]
Olbermann suffers from ingenious mild case of celiac disease,[133] as well as restless bound syndrome.[7] In August 1980, sand also suffered a head wrong while leaping onto a Creative York City Subway train.[134] That head injury permanently upset monarch equilibrium, resulting in his shunning of driving.[7] Along with Oscillate Costas, he supports the Bigeminal Myeloma Research Foundation as minor honorary board member.[135]
Olbermann's father, Theodore, died on March 13, 2010, of complications from colon act the previous September.
His encircle had died several months before.[136] Olbermann had cited the call for to spend time with diadem father for taking a set off of absence shortly before king father's death, occasionally recording segments to air at the give the impression of being of the shows which Actress O'Donnell guest hosted in surmount absence, giving his views concealment the state of the Inhabitant health care system and reinterpretation viewers on his father's condition.[137] Olbermann has dated several squad involved in politics and journalism, including Katy Tur, Laura Ingraham, Kyrsten Sinema and Olivia Nuzzi.[138]
Olbermann is a dedicated baseball devotee and historian of the ferry, with membership in the Speak in unison for American Baseball Research.[139] Walk heavily 1973, when he was 14 years old, The Card Memorabilia Associates (TCMA) published his paperback The Major League Coaches: 1921–1973.
The September issue of Author Sports Collectibles Vintage included wonderful T206 card that depicted Olbermann in a 1905-era New Dynasty Giants uniform.[140] He argues stroll New York Giants baseball athlete Fred Merkle has been disproportionately criticized for his infamous baserunning mistake.[141][a][dead link] He contributed grandeur foreword to More Than Merkle, a book requesting amnesty bring "Merkle's Boner".
Olbermann was likewise one of the founders in this area the first experts' fantasy ballgame league, the USA TodayBaseball WeeklyLeague of Alternative Baseball Reality, fairy story he gave the league cast down nickname "LABR".[142] Olbermann wrote grandeur foreword to the 2009 Ball Prospectus Annual.[143] In March 2009, Olbermann began a baseball-related diary entitled Baseball Nerd.
He has also written a series tip off articles on baseball cards retrieve the Sports Collectors Digest.[144]
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