Keith’s Traintrum
By LisaB on June 25, 2008 at 8:30 PM in Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, Media
Today’s NYP had a Keith Olbermann item on its Page Six. If you don’t know, Page Six is the gossip page. And today Keith was the feature.
Network sources told Page Six Olbermann was furious last week when MSNBC didn’t get him a first-class ticket to Washington, DC, for a private service honoring the “Meet the Press” anchor’s passing.
The source said Olbermann was screaming into the phone on Tuesday because there were no first-class train tickets available for that day, and he wanted to make sure he would ride first-class on Wednesday. According to the source, Olbermann berated a staffer who was coordinating Wednesday’s Kennedy Center memorial by yelling, “You better hope to God there is a first-class train ticket tomorrow.”
That prompts us, once again, to write.
A Comment for Keith
Most people reserve a portion of civility for solemn events. You know, births, deaths. Usually people in polite society, or at least those pretending to polite society, find a way to take some time and recognize that sometimes it IS about someone else.
Unless you’re Keith Olbermann. Then it’s all about you. Always about you.
Keith, what made you think having a first class TRAIN ticket was your due for attending a colleague’s MEMORIAL? Most people would be reflecting on their friend and thinking of the family - and just happy to be alive to attend a memorial. Not screeching and threatening a staffer over a damn first-class train ticket.
That must be one dream train car. Maybe it has massage therapists inside or maybe lots of merlot and cute young chicks who don’t know the real you. Or maybe it’s just filled with mirrors so you can practice your remorseful face. That probably takes you a while. I can see where a pocket mirror wouldn’t cut it either. Other riders might see you holding a little mirror, trying to fit your whole mug into it, and think you were just another narcissist.
And that cannot be tolerated, sir. You are NOT just another narcissist. You are in a league of your own. And that means every trip must be first class, by god. Particularly if you are en route to a place where you might be expected to act like a human. We understand you need time and privacy to practice.
But I guess you just can’t pull off the “human thing” if you have to ride with other, more ordinary, humans. So, you didn’t show at the private ceremony. But don’t worry, I’m sure your absence was not a terrible loss. And it must have been a relief to you, Keith, not to have to muster up a facade of sorrow and empathy, because we’ve certainly never seen you show THOSE emotions. Or maybe, just maybe, you actually cared for your colleague, but you simply couldn’t stop your pathological narcissism, sense of entitlement and quite possibly a strong desire for ketchup.
EIther way, you Keith, are a total schmuck.
Although your handlers snap that these events never happened and that everything is a lie, there’s a lesson here for you regardless. When people are likely to believe stories like this about you, it says much more about you than about them. If your reputation as a journalist and human being was even a shade better, people would brush off these stories as totally out of character. Your problem is they are NOT out of character based on the face you’ve shown to the world in any variety of jobs, “special comments” and anecdotes about you personally.
You’ve brought this on yourself. Real or not, people think these stories could easily be true. And Keith, that’s a problem YOU made.
Now that we know Tom Brokaw will be taking over Meet the Press, it’s time for you to pack up. Time to move on. Time to resign, Keith. Go away. Jon Stewart is so much funnier than you anyway.
Man up, Keith. If you did this, you owe several people an abject apology. If this didn’t actually happen, change yourself so that people aren’t so willing to believe you’d scream at someone for not getting you a first class train ticket to a colleague’s private memorial service.
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Heh. He already has a first class ticket on the Obama soul train.
Olberman has long had a reputation for being a jerk among news station tech people. He’ll make a lot of people happy when he finally implodes for good.
Make that “explode”–his bulbous head is just ’bout ready to blow up real good.
Lord, I loathe the bombastic one.
Good ole Keith.
I’d pay to see him do a Howard Beale imitation, a la the movie Network.
Might be interesting to float a few copies of “A Face in the Crowd” (DVD or VHS) among the Tech Folks.
Give ‘em a few ideas.
Olbermann channels Arthur Godfrey, not Murrow.
Here’s a thought. Buy your own damn ticket for once.
Imagine, no first class ticket.
He was fearing he would have to ride with the rest of the train set comprised of Hillary supporters.
That’s what I was thinking, too, but not just Hillary supporters. That man has angered a lot of people during his career.
If you are following the Larry Sinclair story he will be on the radio tonight 11 PM Eastern, 10 PM Central, 9 PM Mountain, 8 PM Pacific.
It will be streaming here. Click on Network 3.
We’re told Olbermann didn’t get to Tuesday’s ceremony, and went to Washington by car to broadcast from outside the Kennedy Center the next day. An aghast witness there said, “As guests were making their way into the memorial, Keith went apoplectic because there were no ketchup packets at the Kennedy Center.”
Olbermann was heard saying outside the service, “this place is going to hell,” because his Washington staff couldn’t find ketchup packets for lunch at the Center. An NBC insider claimed, however, “Keith did not have lunch at the Kennedy Center and was not eating on the set because he was anchoring a broadcast.”
A rep for Olbermann snapped: “Since whatever you’re going to print is an outright lie, you can go ahead and write whatever you want. That’s on the record and applies to all future items you might make up.”
Fair enough - Let the fabrication begin!
Item #1 - Keith Olbermann caught treating janitor and his entire family to lunch at Uncle Jack’s Steak House for doing an exceptional job.
Item # 2. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann did not embarrass most American adults in this evening’s CountDown broadcast
Item # 3. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann apologized to the starving blind crack baby from whom the fabulously compensated Olbermann took a Three Musketeers Bar outside of 30 Rockefeller Center last week.
Really, Keith. We don’t need to make this stuff up. You do a bang-up job providing bar-fodder to one and all!
If I could take any one person in the entire world and punch them in the face as hard as I could, it would be Keith Olberman, hands down. He is a 24-karat asshole. I hated him from the day he first broke in with ESPN 20 years ago. Now that he thinks he become some sort of enlightened spokesperson for the extreme left, he’s become absolutely insufferable. He reminds me of the spoiled little rich kid who always threatened to take his new football and go home if he couldn’t play quarterback. He’s a total pussy.
The line formed a long time ago, buddy
Please take a number…
Actually I thought his earliest Special Comments were quite good. But then Hillary came on the scene in this election and it clicked in all these mommy issues that he has. I mean, here is a 49-year-old guy who (while he does date) has never been married and has a major baseball card collection. This guy is seriously anal retentive… serious potty training issues here. And then Hillary — a woman with real authority — comes into the picture. It wasn’t ever really about Hillary, I don’t think. It was all just whining and resistance against his mother.
Yeah, Keith Obamamann dates, but only women young enough to be his daughter. His current flame is a 24 year old who (according to the invaluable Page Six) probably owes her job as a TV reporter to KO’s influence. His girlfriends get younger and younger as he ages ever so ungracefully. Soon he’ll be dating teenagers.
Why does Keith Olbermann rush out of the studio after his show? Because the sitter charges overtime if he’s late.
It’s a pity Olberman couldn’t go as he wished. Olberman is a former sportscaster/jock, Russert a tool of his network, no matter how jesuitical, no matter how he’s painted now. They deserved each other, regardless of obsequies or tearful obits. Who better to limn Russert? Tant pis.
And, in case anyone forgets:
No Obama. Not now. Not ever.
Finally! A KO - worst person in the world rant! Well done!And long overdue!
There are at least 2 more on this site by the same person.
Love me some Olbermann bashing.
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[...] 26, 2008 · No Comments LisaB at No Quarter finally turns the tables on KO and gives us a deserved rant: - re his tantrum on getting a first [...]
“EIther way, you Keith, are a total schmuck”
You said it and I absolutely agree!
Keith Olbermann is an inebriated bumblebee looking for a lilac pad that is big enough to hold his fat flying ass.
Olbermann and Matthews would like to have that special moment Sinclair had with BO in the limo.
Implosion among the Obama supporters.
Karma now befalls those who committed injustice on other people.
Tool. Complete and utter tool.
Keith Olbermann …
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
I read that KO is threatening to quit if he doesn’t get the MTP job. Could we ever in a million years be that lucky? (That he quits, I mean, he’s obviously not MTP material, but haven’t they told him that yet?)
Keith loves to rant…
Isn’t there an opening now that Rev Wright retired?
Is there a college somewhere that trains the kind of suck-up it would require to work for Olbermann? He must have a constant chant going on around telling him how he and he alone has figured this all out.
Yes, he is a schmuck.
Google that word.
Keith should have been able to get first class on the Obama bus……oh, forgot, there are so many people under it, it is out of service.
I used to watch that shithead! I can not for the life of me can not tell you why I did, as I knew him to be a world class scumbag!
Oh well, no ones perfect. lol
Get Lost Olbermann.
http://www.obama-wire.com
I’m with ya there RedDragon…
Now I leave Fox’s “Bill-O” on even if I’m out in the yard….
just so he kicks Keith’s ass in the ratings
Good one!
I was a fan of KO not too long ago, when he started losing his mind over Hillary I had to stop and rethink my opinion. He’s small and petty.
It’s as I explained in further detail below, KO has, I believe, serious mommy issues. As time went on it wasn’t even really about Hillary anymore. It was just… increasingly embarrassing.
“He’s small and petty.”
Actually, he’s all puffy and bloated and petty.
Heh…Ditto that Schmuck and add to it…a Putz!
Watch…Noquarter will be on the worst person list tomorrow
I’m sure the KOS boys will start a petition and everything
It would be an Badge of HONOR! Screw him.
Keitho’s headed for a brick wall. BOOM. Haha.
But a petition from Daily Kos carries some real weight…
about 98 lbs.. (the little weaklings anyway)
I used to look forward to his show, would make sure it was on 2 TV’s to help his ratings. Then he Lost His Mind!
And now I feel really stupid for ever watching him.
And you can add Ed Schultz, Randy Rhodes and others on Air America.
Mmm, Mmm, love me some Freeper Chow.
This site is project of the same CIA division who dreamt up the name “Viet Cong” right? C’mon Larry, fess up: You thought up the whole bit about Noriega’s red undies and shrine to Hitler, dintja?
Be proud of your work, man!
Please take a complimentary tinfoil hat on your way out the door.
huh?
Troll you arent even trying tonight.
Keith-O went round the bend with terminal BDS around the time the surge started working and his salive-flecked Special Comments went from from Ed Murrow to Adolf Hitler in NO TIME FLAT!
The people at ESPN can attest that K-O is the biggest asshole in the world—only Dan Patrick is a buddy & got K-O a Sunday night football gig. Even KO’s high school buddy Chris Berman can’t stand this raving-egomaniac monster any more.
MSNBC is about 40th in the cable ratings with FoxNEWS at sixth & CNN about 16th. NBC is a train wreck about to happen, and GE had better unload before NBC becomes another CBS—ruined by Larry Tisch’s micromanagement & Dan Rather’s garbage & lies.
The news organization (such as it is) at NBC/MSNBC has become a very unfunny joke. If you read the article about Doberman in the New Yorker–”One Angry Man”–it’s obvious that the only person who gives a damn is Tom Brokaw.
They think all the Hillary supporters Keith has alienated will be back, because “they have nowhere else to go.” Sound familiar? They must be getting their talking points from the Democratic Party. Another joke organization.
Well, O’Reilly is a model of restraint compared to KO. I’m more than happy to bump up his ratings at Keith’s expense.
I was watching MSNBC during an early primary wrap up, they had Tom Brokaw on and he stumbled a bit verbally. It was nothing. Especially when you consider how many events Brokaw has anchored for hours on end, and the fact he doesn’t sit in front of a camera daily.
However, Keith couldn’t let the moment pass without noting it somehow. It was a weird because it wasn’t even graciously helping out a colleague with the direction they are going. It seemed more like a subtle dig that pointed out the gaffe, and did nothing to help.
Sorry so vague. It made me wince and change the channel, otherwise I could offer more details.
Thanks for the article suggestion.
Heh, if he doesn’t watch that ticker, he’ll have a first class one way ticket to meet his maker and join Timeh.
Here is a 49-year-old man who has never been married (though he is dating) who is still collecting baseball cards with — as his comments on Hillary clearly indicate — SERIOUS mommy issues. Honestly, every time he went into another rant or made another childish snide remark about Hillary, I could hear him whining about his mother. Over time it grew more and more obvious to me that it wasn’t about Hillary at all. So much of it made no sense.
I wanted to say Keith, Keith, you’re losing it. This isn’t about you and your mommy and her excessive poty training. Come on, get a grip. Drag your old Cornell bong out of the closet and hold a few deep breaths.
Actually I think some of his first Special Comments were quite good. Then Hillary came into the picture with this election and something snapped inside poor Keith. After that it became a frequently embarrassing battle between Keith and the Great Mother. Unfortunately, because he had already built himself a following, I fear he did damage to Hillary’s chances. Sad really. His tantrums were never even really about Hillary.
To think I used to watch this over-the-top jackass. Shame on me. He treated Hillary with disdain. On his show there are two people he has treated to his special over-the-top special comments, George W. Bush and Hillary. Oops, he gets very angry when you just mention Hillary and not her full name. He has shown no professionalism. He only interviews people who agree with him. I have more respect for the turd I flush down the toilet then this clown.
“Or maybe it’s just filled with mirrors so you can practice your remorseful face. That probably takes you a while.”
heeee.
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Ugh, can someone please take that arrogant, ranting, bad lay of a pathetic ex-sportscaster off the air by SUNRISE!
The poor man wasn’t even on a stretcher when good ole Keith was already screaming for his job, or he’s going to quit. Does Keith have any friends? Is there any other network that would even hire him? Has he done anything for MSNBC ratings? I mean besides drive people away? I quit watching MSNBC when he came on the scene. He’s not pleasant to look at. Once he opens his mouth it’s nothing but vile. At first I thought I was getting an ulcer, once I started watching another station I realized it was him.
Keith Olbermann: the overdue New York State Tax Warrant, Chinese American Trading Company the buyers of his real estate, the corporation
Keith Olbermann: the address from 2001 of his, the parents of Katy Tur and the civil actions
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OMG I KNEW Olbermann had issues! What a total JERK! ROFLMAO! And I heard about this on FOX, so he made national news!
I thought it was just me, that maybe I thought Olbermann was repulsive, incredibly ugly and petty just because he has been spewing his hate against Hillary.
I am so grateful to see that I my instincts were right on, it wasn’t just that he loathes Hillary. He REALLY is a total freak-ball! WOW!
And it’s true, he is incredibly putrid to watch. I can’t stand him almost as much as I can’t stand watching BO. BO is SOOOO fake, but Olbermann has serious anger issues.
Keith is a jerk:(
When a political opponent tells you “Get over it” — NEVER GET OVER IT.
Amen to that!
who would have thought anyone could make Bill OReilly seem like a journalist?
Remember when the Goopers kept screaming “GET OVER IT!” after the last election. Is anyone over it?
Me watch Keith Olberman? PUHLEEZE. What a wuss! Someone should give him a first class ticket to the Obama hdqtrs.
HE IS ALREADY AT OBAMA HEADQUARTERS!
This story was BS. It page six in the Post for Christ sake.
Keith made me perfectly happy when his nightly attacks were only upon everything not totally alligned with the Democrat Party. Apparently he went insane overnight and decided to attack a Democrat, namely Hillary Clinton. Keith is now an asshole.
I wonder what Keith is going to talk about once the O-train finally careens off the tracks–which could be anytime it’s determined that BO wasn’t born on U.S. soil, is voted down at the convention over some last-straw scandal, or when he loses in a GE landslide. KO can’t continue to spit and squawk over Hillary forever. Maybe he and Fr. Pfleger could take it on the road.
Ah, Keith Sweetie, don’t fret! Donald Young, the murdered gay choir master at Trinity House of Hate left his memoirs of his gaily confident encounters with Barack at the bus-class section. Hillary’s supporters would be happy to show you a few knock-out punches for the travelogue….Your histrionics will be soundproofed whilst there traveling, but watch it dearie! You better not tell them hefty Hll supporters of the fair sex persuasion to “go to the back of the bus”….And please sweetie, you don’t have to prepare your own eulogy. We’ve done that for you.
I USED TO THINK THAT BARACK OBAMA WAS THE MOST POMPOUS ASS IN THE UNIVERSE,BUT THEN ALONG CAME OLBERMANN TO OUT POMPOUS HIM,WHAT A JERK!