Keith Olbermann’s Fall from Grace
Posted on 15 September 2008 by Michael Callaway
Back in 1992 when I graduated from high school and went to college, I fell in love with the best morning sports show in the world, ESPN Sports Center. This show not only gave me great sports coverage, it presented sports in a way that had never been done before. It was funny, it was engaging, and it was memorable. One of the key components of Sports Center was Keith Olbermann, and he was awesome.
I remember when Olbermann left Sports Center. While I still enjoyed the legacy he left behind, the show was not the same. Life simply was not as good without Keith Olbermann at ESPN. You might be wondering, how did Mr. Olbermann change from the greatest person in the world to someone that Mike wants to slap? MSNBC... that is how.
I never have liked overtly political commentators even when I agree with them. I especially cannot stand overtly political commentators when I disagree with them and they are simply wrong. I sure hope Keith Olbermann does not think of himself as a non-biased news reporter, because fair and balanced he is not. If I were Barack Obama I would get a restraining order on the guy, I worry that he may be his number one fan like in the movie “Misery”.
I could list out all the stupid things that the man has said, however I am afraid that the Internet would crash if I did that. If he were Lloyd Christmas, the limo driver from the movie “Dumb and Dumber” then his approach would be fine. He would be a harmless buffoon who could say anything he wants and only those people stuck in his limo would have to hear it. As it is, all of America has too.
If Olbermann is the President of Dumb then his Vice President would have to be Chris Matthews. Seeing those two cover politics has made me an unbeliever in MSNBC, this is the same network that brought me the great Tom Brokaw and Tim Russert. Keith Olbermann has tainted the legacy of NBC news and as well as his days doing Sport Center back in the 1990’s. Keith Olbermann is now a yellow journalist of the worst type.
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September 16th, 2008 at 8:27 am
I was glad to see MSNBC take Olbermann and Mathews off of live events. It was embarrassing watching Keith and contrasting his behavior during both conventions. If you have a point of view that you want to put out there on your own show, then God bless you. But when you’re covering news events, the viewers at home don’t need someone putting a filter over what is happening. Watching Olbermann and Mathews made me realize just how much Tim Russert will truly be missed.
September 28th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Keith Olberman is the worst kind of politically pandering Democommie partison hack I have ever had the misfortune to listen to. No More! I will not watch MSNBC nor will I ever watch NBC sports as long as he is one of the sportscasters.