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Goodbye and good riddance to Olbermann
Token US media Letftie and MSNBC presenter Keith Olbermann had an abrupt departure from his show. But although Niall Stanange agreed with much of Olbermann’s politics, Olbermann’s pompous and narcissistic manner of late will make him hard to miss.
Video of the Day: Keith Olbermann on gun rhetoric in America
Responding to the weekend shooting in Tuscon, Arizona, American political commentator Keith Olbermann gives an impassioned speech about gun rhetoric, calling for an apology from all those who intentionally or otherwise have used violence inciting language for sloganeering and sound bytes.
Olbermann takes aim at Obama
MSNBC broadcaster Keith Olbermann usually ends each night with a countdown of how many days it has been since President Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech on the Iraq War. Now, it’s changed to a countdown from the BP oil spill.
Video of the Day: Olbermann: “Last Friday night my father asked me to kill him”
“Last Friday night my father asked me to kill him” says MSNBC correspondent Keith Olbermann, in an emotional plea on the state of health care in the US and his experience with the controversial death panels.
Keith Olbermann digs for dirt on Glenn Beck
Bill O’Reilly can relax for a while; his frequent verbal sparring partner Keith Olbermann has set his snark on another Fox News personality: Glenn Beck, issuing a call to his blog readers to dig up dirt on Beck and his producers.
Video of the Day: Olbermann defends Bill O’Reilly from his tyranical overlord
Keith Olbermann calls Bill O’Reilly a “racist clown”, but defends him against boss Rupert Murdoch’s oppressive ways. “How dare you muzzle O’Reilly, Mr Murdoch? How dare you, sir?!”
How two corporations silenced a media fued
The on-air media feud between MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and FOX’s Bill O’Reilly went on for years until a cease fire was called, but it wasn’t the two hosts who called a truce: it was a deal brokered between the stations’ parent companies, General Electric and News Corp.
Video of the Day: The ring that stopped a presser
A White House Press briefing is interrupted by a salsa ringtone. So Press Secretary Robert Gibbs takes action. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann has the story.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 6 July, 2007
Ladies and gentlemen of the Australian press, it’s time to say what you think, and say it with a sense of strident passion. Just like Keith Olbermann.
Gawker / Thursday, 28 May 2009
US radio shockjock “Mancow” tested waterboarding to prove it isn’t torture. He lasted six seconds, and now says it’s “absolutely torture”.