Which Tweeter Is More Ridiculous? Dan Rather or Keith OIbermann?

December 30th, 2021 3:19 PM

It seems to be a contest this week for which disgraced "news" man can sound more ridiculous on Twitter -- Dan Rather or Keith Olbermann? Is it Rather on "Let's Go Brandon"? Or is it Keith whacking at Mitt Romney's family Christmas photo? 

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CNN Commemorates Biden Colonoscopy as First Time a Woman Was President

November 19th, 2021 2:05 PM

Most people do not commemorate other people's colonoscopies, but the Friday panel of Inside Politics on CNN is not most people. From host John King to chief political correspondent Dana Bash to Congressional correspondent Ryan Nobles, President Biden's procedure was a time to mark the fact that for the first time a woman held presidential authority.

WHAT: Olbermann Calls Trump ‘Whiny Little Kunta Kinte’ on Twitter

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November 3rd, 2020 2:39 PM

Election Day 2020 is sure to bring out all the crazies and getting things started is our resident crazy Keith Olbermann. In his final diatribe against Donald Trump on Twitter before the election, the former MSNBC host tweeted out that the president is a “whiny little Kunta Kinte.” If you think that already sounds bad, just wait.

ESPN Cracks Down On Olbermann's Attack on Hunter

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March 29th, 2019 6:00 PM
Tempestuous sportscaster Keith Olbermann is used to blowing a gasket, absolutely trashing people and getting away with it because employers look the other way. What he's not used to is employer disapproval. Earlier this week he urged people to make a hunter's life a "living hell," and ESPN chopped him down to size. Yes, that ESPN! President Jimmy Pitaro previously said his network should not be…

ABC Canned Roseanne? Good. Now, about Behar, Olbermann and Jones ...

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May 30th, 2018 2:36 PM
Within hours of her racist remarks towards Valerie Jarrett, Roseanne’s hugely successful sitcom was reduced to a pile of rubble. On Monday, ABC entertainment president Channing Dungey stated, “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant, and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show.”
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Anti-Trump Keith Olbermann Ridiculed on Hulu's 'Difficult People'

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August 24th, 2017 1:01 AM
In contrast to last episode’s expletive-ridden rant against President Trump’s supporters, Tuesday’s episode of Hulu’s Difficult People, “Cindarestylox,” took multiple swipes at avid Trump hater, Keith Olbermann. Olbermann, host of GQ’s liberal web series, The Resistance, has focused on several laughable anti-Trump topics, showcased in episodes such as “Let’s Take a Look at Trump’s Cabinet of…
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Dem Aide Falsely Accuses Trump of Snubbing Disabled Boy

July 29th, 2017 10:43 AM
In a since-deleted tweet, an aide to Washington State Democratic Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal claimed that President Donald Trump had ignored a "child in (a) wheelchair" who reached up "twice to shake the president's hand" after a Friday speech. It turns out that the aide, Ansel Herz, clearly engaged in the kind of "selective editing" critics claim conservative undercover journalists commit (but…
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Olbermann Demands Arrest of Kushner; Calls Generals 'Traitors'

June 2nd, 2017 2:56 PM
This week, Keith Olbermann, host of the GQ's web show ‘The Resistance’, launched into an unhinged rant and openly called for the arrest of White House adviser and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner for doing something that isn’t even illegal. Finally having found a home at GQ News after being fired from other outlets for breaking ethics rules, Olbermann has become a leader of "the…
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Comedy Central Debuts New Trump-Hammering 'President Show'

April 28th, 2017 11:21 PM
Someone needs to tell the folks at the Comedy Central cable television channel that in order to have the word “Comedy” in your name, you should actually be funny. A perfect example of this concept gone wrong aired on Thursday evening, April 27, when the low-rated channel debuted The President Show, which mostly consists of President Donald Trump impersonator Anthony Atamanuik sitting in the Oval…

Chelsea Handler has Mexican Children Beat Trump Piñata with Sticks

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June 17th, 2016 9:47 PM
In “Trump Mania & Kegal Exercises,” Netflix’s Chelsea used three Mexican teenage girls – ages 14-16 – in her quest to regularly bash Donald Trump. The attack ended with Chelsea hoisting a piñata made in the likeness of Trump in public so a crowd would gather and help the teens smash it. Talk about overwrought aggression!
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Scary Concept: Keith Olbermann in Talks to Return to MSNBC

October 6th, 2015 5:47 PM
With Halloween on the horizon, October is a month full of such scary things as ghosts, goblins and … a possible return to MSNBC by fire-breathing former anchor Keith Olbermann. According to an exclusive article by Joe Concha on the Mediaite.com website, NBC News president Andy Lack is looking for someone to solidify the network's prime-time line-up and may replace the low-rated All In With Chris…

MSNBC Finally Prepares to Change Its Current 'Death Wish' Schedule

March 19th, 2015 7:05 PM
As NewsBusters has often reported, MSNBC's line-up has led the cable news channel to a freefall in the ratings, with Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik blasting the schedule as “unwatchable” and “24 hours a day of mess.” In an article posted on Thursday, Politico columnist Dylan Byers reported that the channel's daytime year-to-date viewership “is down 21 percent overall and 41 percent in…

Jerry Springer Endorses 'Witty' Olbermann as Jon Stewart's Successor

February 11th, 2015 6:30 PM
Tabloid TV host Jerry Springer sang the praises of the supposedly "smart," "funny," and "witty" Keith Olbermann in a Wednesday post on Twitter, and proposed that the former MSNBC host should become Jon Stewart's successor at The Daily Show.

'Daily Beast' Puts Rand Paul In Big Red Bullseye

August 7th, 2014 9:31 AM
It's different when the MSM puts a Republican inside a bullseye, because, uh . . . Remember when in 2011 voices on the left from Keith Olbermann to Paul Krugman to the Huffington Post among many others suggested that Sarah Palin was at least partially to blame for the shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords because Palin had put out a map of House seats with bullseyes depicting districts, including…