"The Fat Lady Sings for Keith Olbermann"--that's the headline atop Stuart Schwartz's detailed piece on Olby, appearing in American Thinker.
It's quite a tough piece, covering all aspects of KO's professional and personal life, but here's a taste:
Rage. When Olbermann left ESPN, "he didn't burn bridges here -- he napalmed them," as one male colleague described it. And when co-anchor Suzy Kolber attracted attention for her stylish sports reporting, a jealous Olbermann attacked her with such venom that she simply sat down and cried.
Rage. Massachusetts elected "a bad joke" in Senator Scott Brown, "an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, teabagging supporter of violence against woman and against politicians with whom he disagrees." Even an MS-NBC colleague recognized Olbermann for what he has become -- "sad and pathetic" -- while New Yorker magazine, which sympathizes with his politics and whose executives participate in life at Trump Towers, headlined its profile of him "One Angry Man."
In the end and in Olbermann's eyes, life is what it has always been: hostile. The viewers are disappearing, and all that remains is a Krakatoa of rage, of poisons spewing forth from a shell of a man on a shriveled network into the homes of a shrinking audience.
And he reacts as always with howls of rage, the chief wannabe on the wannabe network: I wannabe an athlete, I wannabe a power, I wannabe a stud, I wannabe Bill O'Reilly, I wannabe loved, I wannabe the center of attention...a deranged diva who has yet to decide whether his jockstrap is half-empty or half-full.
TCG thinks that the point that Schwartz is getting at is correct: Over the long run--and not too much of a long run from now--Olbermann is simply too unstable to make it in a corporate environment, alongside colleagues he is supposed to work with. That's simply not KO's MO. And so he will, indeed, disappear, one day, in a Krakatoa of rage.
