# Keith Olbermann should kill himself **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 17, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-olbermann-should-kill-himself/496756 "2009-05-17T16:36:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-olbermann-should-kill-himself/496756/21 "2009-05-17T17:41:46Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > How do you feel about Sean Hannity? A piece of shit. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-olbermann-should-kill-himself/496756/22 "2009-05-17T17:45:37Z")
[**Keith Olbermann’s scathing criticism of Obama’s secrecy/immunity claims**](http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/08/criticism/) OK I 've showed you mine, now you show me yours. Or to make it easier for you to understand, find me anything similar coming out of the mouths of Hannity or Billo that remotely approaches such level of criticism regarding Bush and his cabal of merry men. 'nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-olbermann-should-kill-himself/496756/23 "2009-05-17T17:47:05Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Olbermann’s nowhere near as smart as Limbaugh. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-olbermann-should-kill-himself/496756/24 "2009-05-17T17:57:39Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > “Barack Obama a puppy rapist?” I misread that as, “Barack Obama’s puppy racist?” Which is an even better faux-Fox headline. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-olbermann-should-kill-himself/496756/25 "2009-05-17T17:58:11Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > I no longer listen to Limbaugh though I did sporadically during Bush 1’s term, and Olbermann’s nowhere near as smart as Limbaugh. I think Limbaugh tends toward mean-spiritedness and arrogance, but say what you will about him he’s a smart sumbitch I will not concede that in any way. Limbaugh is truly stupid if he thinks that the current trend of the Republican Party will sweep them anywhere but the dustbin. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-olbermann-should-kill-himself/496756/26 "2009-05-17T18:02:29Z")
Well, I hear that its a Yurpeen dog, some kind of Portugeese water on the brain dog, wouldn’t have an American dog like a rottweiller or a collie, no sir! Gotta have them a Yurpeen dog! Says it all, so far as I’m concerned… ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-olbermann-should-kill-himself/496756/27 "2009-05-17T18:11:41Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > Oh, come on. You didn’t say Olbermann was **like** Limbaugh. You said he was the left’s Limbaugh, which your description doesn’t even assert, much less prove. He _is_ the left’s Limbaugh: a predictable, one-sided, boorish voice contributing a perspective appealing only to those already inclined to see one’s own side as virtually always right and the other side virtually always wrong. There is no real debate possible or encouraged with either. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-olbermann-should-kill-himself/496756/28 "2009-05-17T18:14:29Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > If two people are on opposite ends of a political spectrum, and the person on one side is a self-serving hypocritical blowhard, does that automatically make the person on the other side a self-serving hypocritical blowhard? No. The latter would also need to be a self-serving, hypocritical blowhard, if those are your points of comparison. I’m not sure Olbermann is a hypocrite, though. Only that he’s overbearing and idiotically one-sided, like many on both sides of said spectrum. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-olbermann-should-kill-himself/496756/29 "2009-05-17T18:18:04Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > It’s true that Olbermann is the left wing equivalent of Limbaugh, O’Reilly, etc. The OP is wrong that he’s a “terrible news anchor,” only because he’s not a news anchor, but a commentator. The frustration and incredulity the OP feels about Olbermann is exactly the way anybody wth a brain feels about pretty much the entirety of Fox News. At least MSNBC gives a show to a conservative in the morinings, and its actual news reporting is still minimally professional and accurate (unlike Fox’s clip cropping shenanigans, selective or false headlines and graphics and provacative and/or preposterous accusations and insuations phrased as “questions” (“Barack Obama a puppy rapist?”). > > Hannity is far worse than Olbermann, though. Olbermann is a self-impressed, one-sided blowhard, but he’s not as shallow, as dishonest or as flat out stupid as Hannity is. Olbermann is more akin to Bill O’Reilly (he and O’Reilly are virtual mirror images except Olbermann lacks the sexual harrassment and the rage issues) than to Hannity. Hannity is truly a vicious, repugnant individual. Probably the single worst human being on all of cable news. I agree, for the most part. I see Hannity as the radio equivalent of those “The Farmer Says” toys, the one where you point the arrow to a particular animal and pull the string. Once you pull it, you know exactly what sound is going to erupt. Hannity might as well be pre-recorded, with canned responses to anyone calling in, on any given topic. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-olbermann-should-kill-himself/496756/30 "2009-05-17T18:19:33Z")
Even though I’m a partisan, I can acknowledge the intelligence of those on the other side. Newt Gingrich, Condi Rice and Antonin Scalia are good examples of smart folks on the right side of the spectrum. Rush Limbaugh? It wouldn’t surprise me if his IQ was less than 110. Who on earth, besides **Starving Artist** , thinks that fool possesses above-average intelligence? ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-olbermann-should-kill-himself/496756/31 "2009-05-17T18:19:43Z")
Wow, watching the Rightards self-destruct sure is fun. Graphite rods are for pussies! -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-olbermann-should-kill-himself/496756/32 "2009-05-17T18:22:38Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Even though I’m a partisan, I can acknowledge the intelligence of those on the other side. Newt Gingrich, Condi Rice and Antonin Scalia are good examples of smart folks on the right side of the spectrum. > > Rush Limbaugh? It wouldn’t surprise me if his IQ was less than 110. Who on earth, besides **Starving Artist** , thinks that fool possesses above-average intelligence? He strikes me as pretty intelligent. A boorish megalomaniac, but intelligent nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-olbermann-should-kill-himself/496756/33 "2009-05-17T18:23:38Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Wow, watching the Rightards self-destruct sure is fun. > > Graphite rods are for pussies! > > -Joe Big Olbermann fan, are you? ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-olbermann-should-kill-himself/496756/34 "2009-05-17T18:25:51Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > …I’m not sure Olbermann is a hypocrite, though. Only that he’s overbearing and idiotically one-sided, like many on both sides of said spectrum. You keep saying that as if sheer repetition will make it true. Well, just in case you missed it the first time, [**it doesn’t**](http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/08/criticism/). ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-olbermann-should-kill-himself/496756/35 "2009-05-17T18:29:25Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > If two people are on opposite ends of a political spectrum, and the person on one side is a self-serving hypocritical blowhard, does that automatically make the person on the other side a self-serving hypocritical blowhard? Not necessarily. They can both be self-serving hypocritical blowhards despite being on opposite ends of a political spectrum. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-olbermann-should-kill-himself/496756/36 "2009-05-17T18:33:42Z")
> [@RedFury](#): > > You keep saying that as if sheer repetition will make it true. Well, just in case you missed it the first time, [**it doesn’t**](http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/08/criticism/). And Limbaugh disagreeing with Bush on immigration policy changed your perspective on him as well, right? A veritable monument to open-mindedness, I’m sure you concluded. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-olbermann-should-kill-himself/496756/37 "2009-05-17T18:46:59Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > And Limbaugh disagreeing with Bush on immigration policy changed your perspective on him as well, right? A veritable monument to open-mindedness, I’m sure you concluded. I think his point was to say that then is not right at all to say that: “I’m not sure Olbermann is a hypocrite, though. Only that he’s overbearing and idiotically one-sided, like many on both sides of said spectrum.” He is not one sided, as Rush shows from time to time, but that does not mean that Rush was still wrong in his position on immigration policy. Overall, since I can count with my fingers the few commentators that are in mainstream TV, that are completely unapologetic about being in the left, I will have to defend his right to have his say so as a weak counterbalance to the rivers of diarrhea coming from the right: ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/UFAa5aet0CI/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/UFAa5aet0CI?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque Michelle Backman and Virginia Foxx deserved Olberman’s tirades and more IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-olbermann-should-kill-himself/496756/38 "2009-05-17T18:49:08Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > And he’d be the same weight and height too, eh? And both would wear glasses. > > Here, I’ll try again, pay close attention: Olbermann is like Limbaugh in that both are…wait for it…fanatically one-sided, smug, repetitive, overbearing bores, who have lasting appeal only to the blindly partisan. How’s that for ya? Simple enough? But Keith’s better looking. How about that? He also never compared a 12 year old girl to a dog. (I had to stop watching Keith myself. I used to love him, but he’s gotten too rabid for me. But I still think he’s hysterical when it comes to Bill O’Reilly, if only because O’Reilly’s too damned chicken to answer him. And Keith’s sexier. Yeah, he’s an asshole. I’d still do him, though.) ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-olbermann-should-kill-himself/496756/39 "2009-05-17T18:53:33Z")
> [@auburntiger11](#): > > Squink, what a logic filled statement thats awsome. Thanks, I noticed your name and figured someone needed to say something awful about Alabama. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keith-olbermann-should-kill-himself/496756/40 "2009-05-17T18:53:42Z")
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