In the NYT this morning, Bill Carter interviews MSNBC "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann, "little more than a dot in the rearview mirror of Fox News", (aka the B.Y.O.B. S.O.B., though Keller doesn't mention the gruesome--allegedly!--details.) Fox News spokeswoman Irina Briganti is quoted and puts Olbermann square in his nutty little nutshell:
“Because of his personal demons, Keith has imploded everywhere he’s worked,” Ms. Briganti said. “From lashing out at co-workers to personally attacking Bill O’Reilly and all things Fox, it’s obvious Keith is a train wreck waiting to happen. And like all train wrecks, people might tune in out of morbid curiosity, but they eventually tune out, as evidenced by Keith’s recent ratings decline. In the meantime, we hope he enjoys his paranoid view from the bottom of the ratings ladder and wish him well on his inevitable trip to oblivion.”
The references to personal demons and implosions touched on Mr. Olbermann’s résumé, which includes an array of positions over the last decade. At times he has been in public disputes with employers. More recently he landed in gossip columns after some nasty e-mail messages he sent were published. In one, he mocked the intelligence of the MSNBC host Rita Cosby; in others, he used vituperative language in responding to e-mail critics.
Mr. Olbermann apologized for the e-mail exchanges, saying he had been stupid and should have known better than to engage in such confrontations. He said he wouldn’t be e-mailing viewers again.
Ahem. More lies. He's still emailing female viewers like crazy, and his most recent wronged nemesis has proof just this morning over at her increasingly famous blog. Check it out.
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