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His foamy-mouthed ranting managed to get him tossed out of MSNBC, Current TV, and ESPN twice!

Keith Olbermann apologizes for calling Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos a Mother***ker



WARNING, there's some crazed left-wing obscenity below. A long time ago, in a media landscape that is now far away, Keith Olbermann was a big deal. He was widely despised in both sports and political news circles, but there was no denying he was one of broadcast media's most famous names. Then, something happened. Slowly but surely, Olbermann started to burn bridges with the ferocity of a coked-up pyromaniac.

His foamy-mouthed ranting managed to get him tossed out of MSNBC, Current TV, and ESPN twice!

His foamy-mouthed ranting managed to get him tossed out of MSNBC, Current TV, and ESPN twice! These days, GQ Magazine has him sequestered in what looks like a basement closet. He sits at an old desk positioned in front of what we assume to be red and blue construction paper. There, the self-proclaimed "resistance leader" screams obscenities into a single camera. In much the same way that Alex Jones posts his deranged rants, this footage is uploaded to YouTube and shared among Olbermann's supporters. ...Yes, we're told they exist, and no, we've never met one. A few days ago, during Hurricane Sandy, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos tweeted the following:
Horrific, right? What's that you say? It's not horrific at all? Well... I didn't think so either, but it was enough to completely trigger Keith Olbermann. He took to his "GQ Special Correspondent" Twitter feed and let DeVos have it with both foul-mouthed barrels.

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I honestly didn't pay much attention to this. The longer he's in that GQ "studio," the more outlandish Olbermann gets. He's been so far off the rails lately that it wouldn't surprise me to see him setting fire to a limousine in the middle of an Antifa riot. However, apparently the folks over at USA Today did pay attention. They were uncertain about the relative level of damage DeVos may or may not do, so they wrote:
What is more certain is that the G in GQ, no longer stands for “Gentlemen’s.” My guess is that “Gentlemen’s” went out at the same time that the quarterly changed to a monthly publication, but I don’t know for sure. I tried to ask GQ Editor Jim Nelson about that, but he never replied. Nelson had plenty to say about Olbermann when the former MSNBC host was front-page news in The New York Times business section just weeks before President Trump’s election last fall. “I missed Keith’s rage,” Nelson said back when Olbermann’s GQ videos had only been downloaded 25 million times. “We wanted to add to our political and election coverage. … We felt that no one was meeting Trump at the temperature level that was needed.” Even a spokesperson for the Condé Nast-owned magazine didn’t have anything to say about GQ’s mysterious “G.” She emailed me: “GQ declines to comment.”

Of course not, because the meaning of the G in GQ is now a corporate secret of the firm that also owns Glamour, Vogue, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, a family of magazines “renowned for producing the highest quality content for the world's most influential audiences.” Flinging foul language at a member of the Cabinet must be some seriously high-quality content because nobody at GQ or Condé Nast said anything about the colorfully worded tweet even as it was shared 19,000 times and liked 52,000 more over 48 hours. A few Trump-friendlywebsites got all priggish, but not one mainstream journalist on the media beat bothered to write an article.
No one bothered, because these days no one views Olbermann as anything more than an amusing footnote. Still, Keith must like making videos in his closet. Either that, or he's desperately clinging to the bottom rung of the infotainment world ...because he's (sort of) apologized for his remarks:


Yeah, that's really just an ad for a book that not a single person you know has purchased. What does a person do when they're fired from making YouTube videos? ...Because you just know it's going to happen eventually. Olbermann can't help himself. Does he own a windshield squeegee?

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