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[[File:Olbermann2.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Keith Olbermann, liberal commentator]]'''Keith Olbermann''' is a political [[leftist]] commentator and , activist, anti-conservative propagandist,<ref>Keith Olbermann ... is notorious for anti-Bush, anti-conservative rants. [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth]</ref> high-profile [[Democrat]]ic donor<ref>https://abcnews.go.com/WN/keith-olbermann-suspended-msnbc-political-contributions/story?id=12074305</ref> and host of ''Countdown'' formerly on [[MSNBC]] and Current TV. Both stations have fired him, citing excessive absences and lack of support of the network in the case of Current TV. ''[[New York Times]]'' media critic David Carr has referred to Olbermann as "one of the most rabidly partisan figures in national news."<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/business/media/08carr.html?_r=1</ref> Olbermann's show is known for an extreme left-wing distortion of the issues, with [[conservatives]] rarely being invited to discuss news events. Colleagues such as former NBC News anchor Tom Brokow have complained Olbermann has badly damaged MSNBC's reputation for independence<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-11-14/keith-olbermanns-civil-war-with-nbc-executives-over-campaign-donations/?cid=hp:mainpromo3</ref> while the [[Media Research Center]] has characterized Olbermann's views as "beyond partisan....radically extreme and hateful."<ref>http://www.mrc.org/press/2006/press20061102.asp</ref> His nightly segment, ''The Worst Person in the World'' regularly [[demon]]izes any point of view at variance with Olbermann.<ref>[http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/05/05/2010-05-05_starting_in_left_field_keith_olbermann_hes_embraced_by_mlb_and_the_nfl_while_lim.html]</ref> It is a sportscasterclassic example of the role of [[propaganda]] in modern American discourse and has contributed to the coarsening of political debate in [[America]]. He currently Olbermann was also a co-host of NBC's ''Football Night in America''. After being fired as a political commentator on both [[MSNBC]] and [[Current TV]], Olbermann rejoined ESPN hosting a sports commentary show titled "Olbermann". Keith Olbermann like all [[race baiting]] liberals call everyone who is right-of-center "racist". Keith Olbermann is obsessed with race and diversity and calls the tea party "homogeneously white", and of course he never visited a Tea Party rally and never knew black tea partiers like [[Allen West]], [[Mia Love]], [[Tim Scott]], [[Herman Cain]] and David Webb. Olbermann was fired from ESPN again due to low ratings for his program, and he now hosts political commentary segments for the liberal magazine GQ's YouTube channel. These segments, thus far, have focused solely on bashing right-of-center politicians and [[Donald Trump]]. ==2020 Presidential election==:{{See also|Blue state civil war}}Olbermann, a prominent [[left-wing]] spokesperson, said 3 weeks before the [[2020 presidential election]]:{{quotebox|"[[Trump]] can be and must be expunged. The hate he has triggered, the pandora’s box he has opened, they will not be so easily destroyed.  So, let us brace ourselves. The task is twofold: the [[terrorist]] Trump must be defeated, must be destroyed, must be devoured at the ballot box, and he and his enablers and his supporters and his collaborators and the [[Mike Lee]]s and the [[William Barr]]s and the [[Sean Hannity]]s and the [[Mike Pence]]s and the [[Rudy Giuliani]]s and the [[Kyle Rittenhouse]]s and the [[Amy Coney Barrett]]s must be [[prosecute]]d and convicted and removed from our society while we try to rebuild it and to rebuild the world Trump has nearly destroyed by turning it over to a virus. Remember it, even as we dream of a return to reality and safety and the country for which our forefathers died, that the fight is not just to win an election but to win it by enough to chase, at least for the moment, Trump and the [[maggot]]s off the stage. And then try to clean up what they left. Remember it, even though to remember it means remembering that the fight does not end on November 3rd but in many ways will only begin that day."<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/10/10/keith-olbermann-trump-supporters-are-maggots-must-be-prosecuted/</ref>}}==Olbermann sees conspiracies==In a broadcast after the FBI made an arrest of four [[terror]] suspects for plot to attack JFK International Airport and plant explosives to blow up major jet-fuel supply tanks and pipelines,<ref>[http://newyork.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel07/plot060207.pdf Four Individuals Charged in Plot to Bomb John F. Kennedy International Airport], FBI Press Release New York Field Office, June 2, 2007.</ref> Olbermann charged the [[Bush adminstration]] with [[conspiracy]]. JFK handles, on average, over 1,000 flights daily. The plotters were assisted by an international network of Muslim extremists from the United States, Guyana, and Caribbean, including senior leadership of [[Jamaat Al Muslimeen]] ("JAM"), which was responsible for a deadly coup attempt in Trinidad in 1990. In Olbermann's mind:  {{Cquote|the so-called plot happens to be revealed the day before the second [[2008 Presidential Election|Democratic presidential]] debate and, as the scandal continues to unfold over the firings of U.S. attorneys and their replacements by political hacks. The so-called plot is announced by the Bush-appointed U.S. attorney for Brooklyn, New York, and by the police chief of New York City, the father of a correspondent for [[Fox News Channel]]." Olbermann further theorized that President Bush was "fomenting yet another war...a new Cold War with Russia, possibly to obscure the unending nightmare in Iraq.<ref>[https://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/06/05/publiceye/entry2886646.shtml Olbermann Overstates?,] Matthew Felling, ''CBS News'', June 5, 2007.</ref>}} Matthew Felling of ''CBS News'' noted in the same piece, "Hammering away at things that aren’t there – or barely there – is a surefire way to dilute your message." ==Nazi salute controversy==In July 2006, the [[Anti-Defamation League]] filed a complaint to MSNBC because of Olbermann's repeated use of the [[Nazi]] salute while attacking popular commentator [[Bill O'Reilly]] on his television show and in public.<ref>[http://www.adl.org/media_watch/tv/20060728-MSNBC.htm Anti-Defamation League Letter to MSNBC], July 28, 2006.</ref> ==''24'' controversy==In January 2007, Olbermann attacked the popular FOX television series ''[[24]]'' with rather bizarre claims. On the January 16, 2007 edition of Olbermann's show, ''Countdownwith Keith Olbermann'',he accused the widely acclaimed '' 24'' of "fearmongering" and being "propaganda designed to keep people thinking about domestic terrorism to keep us scared," asking, "is it a nightly program-length commercial for one political party?" Olbermann also asked the rhetorical question, "if the irrational right can claim that the news is fixed to try to alter people's minds or that networks should be boycotted for nudity or for immorality, shouldn't those same groups be saying ''24'' should be taken off of TV because it's naked [[brainwashing]]?" This was in response to the January 15 broadcast of ''24'' in which a low-grade nuclear weapon is detonated in the [[Valencia]] community of [[Los Angeles]] by a [[terrorist]] group. Fox Commentator [[Cal Thomas]] had written an editorial in which he advised, "Watch the TV drama 24 for what could be our prophetic and commentary program imminent future, with a nuclear device exploding in major cities." On the February 2, 2007 edition of ''Countdown'', Olbermann gave the show the "bronze" in his nightly "Worst Person in the World" segment. ==Suspension== On 5 November 2010, Olbermann was temporarilly suspended from MSNBC for ethical violations of the company's policy on campaign contributions <ref>http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/05/olbermann-donated-to-three-dems-in-apparent-violation-of-nbc-policy/</ref> and reinstated three days later. ==Fired From MSNBC== Less than a week after Comcast was approved to purchase MSNBC, Keith Olbermann was fired January 21, 2011. Official word states Comcast has nothing to do with the firing. He was their top-rated host so the statement is likely false. [[MSNBCGlenn Beck]]predicted his firing months before it happened, which led Olbermann to mock Beck as not knowing anything about television and made him his ''worst person in the world''.<ref>[http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-keith-olbermann-is-the-biggest-pain-in-the-ass-in-the-world/ Glenn Beck: “Keith Olbermann Is The Biggest Pain In The A** In The World”, Mediaite, January 24, 2011]</ref>[[Stephen Colbert]] made laughs at Keith's expense. A clip of Olbermann saying ''this is the last edition of Countdown'' for which Colbert replies "Well we finally know what they were counting down to." <ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2011/01/25/colbert-channels-keith-olbermug/ Colbert channels ‘Keith Olbermug’, KeithOlbermann.com, January 25, 2011]</ref> ==Reaction to Supreme Court ruling of removing Trump from Colorado ballot==On March 4, 2024, after the unanimous Supreme Court ruling that [[Donald Trump]] cannot be removed from the Colorado state ballot as he has not yet been convicted, Olbermann started melting down on social media and calls for the dissolution of the federal government's judicial branch. He also trashed the three liberal Supreme Court justices.<ref>[https://www.mediaite.com/news/keith-olbermann-calls-for-scotus-to-be-dissolved-in-tantrum-over-trumps-victory-in-ballot-case-those-arent-tears-fascist-theyre-urine/ Keith Olbermann Calls for SCOTUS to Be ‘Dissolved’ in Tantrum Over Trump’s Victory in Ballot Case: ‘Those Aren’t Tears, Fascist. They’re Urine.’]</ref> ==See also==*[[Olbermann Watch]]*[[Bush derangement syndrome]]*[[Liberal hate speech]]  

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