He only had brothers.
I’m not really qualified to comment, so instead I’ll just paste this quote I found:
I rise in defense of assholes! I am peculiarly qualified in that regard, I descend from a long line of such.
Somebody had to do it, and nobody was willing. All the rest of our media punditti were captivated by even-handedness, when such prevarication had long since been moot. The case for war was weak to begin with, by the time Obermann spoke out so baldly, the case for war was revealed to be the utterest horseshit. And yet still, our media waves were full of “on the other hand” when there was no other hand.
The kid who cried out that the Emperor wore no clothes, and had a shriveled weenie to boot, was a fledgling asshole. Most kids are, until we beat it out of them. Tom Paine was most likely an asshole.
Let us use them and cast them aside when their function is completed. Thanks, Keith, you are dismissed, with the thanks of a grateful nation. We can hope that is sufficient comfort for you, but we are not obliged to care.
I remember seeing him on Letterman when the Current Tv thing was announced. He had a more than usual too cool for the room attitude and seemed to not be very happy with the whole thing. I remember thinking it did not bode well for the show.
Oh baloney. I suspect he keeps getting fired because he is an asshole, not because he “speaks the truth”.
And to take it a bit further. I also suspect you have to be one hell of an asshole to work with to be so famous and have a solid following (and therefore be one hell of a potential cash cow) and your employers STILL decide your behavior ain’t worth putting up with.
If things are like I suspect they are, I have zero sympathy for the idiot.
I’d love to see a movie with Olbermann fuming in the back row of an anger management class, and then going off with a rant against The Man.
Vinyl, I love you! That quote you ‘found’ is so good.
Yep – I doubt he was fired from ESPN for “speaking the truth”.
Oh… and the implication that someone could get in big trouble for speaking that “truth” to the “powerful”.
Sheesh … I suppose the next thing will be a reference to Thomas Paine. What a joke that would be !
It sounds like the people Olbermann worked with got tired of having tingles running down their legs.
Apparently there is a difference between being an Effective Asshole For The Cause and just being an asshole.
He was a voice that spoke bravely against the evil of the age, alone and unsupported and fighting for truth
He was a voice (paid millions of dollars) that spoke (broadcast by various cable networks into virtually every home in America) bravely (knowing that he had complete freedom to do so) against the evil of the age (politicians, elected by about half of his fellow-citizens, whom he disagreed with), alone and unsupported (except for his many fans, and the billion-dollar corporations that gave him jobs) and fighting for truth (politicians whom he agreed with).
Also, according to virtually everyone who ever worked with him, he’s a huge dick.
I would dislike him even more, but I’ve always suspected he goes home at night and cries at the bathroom mirror after painting his face with lipstick.
We could use some loud assholes on the Democrat side, because we do a shitty job of getting our message out and we need to do better. We might not be able to bring the crazy like they do and as a party we need to start kicking ass. Bill Maher is a dick too, but he makes some good points.
CBS released part of his new interview with Letterman. Not sure if it aired yet or will air soon. His attitude is much different than I have seen him lately.
http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/04/03/keith-olbermann-on-letterman-i-screwed-up-really-big/
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I happened to catch that interview last night. He still came off as pretty jerky. I think without knowing anything about him, one might have watched the interview and could think he was an okay guy. But knowing his history, it really tainted everything he said and made me interpret most of what he said in the worst possible way.
And Letterman worrying that Olberman might not “get paid” didn’t exactly sit well with me either.
Just like the right wing fails with attempts at satire, the left fails at Orwellian sustained rage. You can’t take something that works for one side and make it work for the other. What people on the left and right respond to is truly different.
Really, Olbermann thinks he’s a 10 million dollar chandelier without a home? Current Television was not a good enough venue for his talent?
Wow.
I’m not a big Olbermann fan and did not watch him much- he’s just too bombastic for my taste- but I’m not sure there are all that many jobs available for someone with skill set.
He should never have left sports. He was good at that.
I can’t believe his stupid remarks to Letterman. His apology amounted to, “I’m sorry I was too good for Current TV. I should have realized that I was much too good to work there in the first place.”