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Keith Olbermann has been babbling for the past 20 minutes, although it's starting to feel like hours.

Yeah, Geraldine Ferraro was pretty much out of line, but did we need an ultra-tight shot of Olbermann followed by a long segment of him showing off his ability to use a thesaurus just to say "you need to denounce and deject" her?

I approve this rant. I used to watch and enjoy Countdown regularly until he had a "special commentary" one night most likely around one of the war's landmark anniversaries. That commentary criticizing Bush (at the start of Bush's plummeting popularity) was so popular that Olberman now feels compelled to interject his opinion on EVERYTHING. It's not just an occasional this is what I think and why, he is arrogant, sarcastic, demeaning and snide in his delivery. There is no longer news on that program, it is now Olberman's world according to him and how the rest of society should strive to be.

In becoming the anti-O'Reilly, he has become as intolerable as those he routinely mocks.

Radbird wrote:In becoming the anti-O'Reilly, he has become as intolerable as those he routinely mocks.

I somewhat agree. I can watch his show, but a couple of years ago, he was on ESPN Radio with Dan Patrick, and they were discussing their feud. He basically said that he was going to be the better man and stop responding or commenting on O'Reilly. I guess that wasn't as much fun as the alternative.

He's about as pompous as they get, even if I agree with him sometimes. In his favor, I enjoy him on Dan Patrick because he generally sticks to sports and has an impressive amount of baseball history stored in his brain.

ghostrunner wrote:He's about as pompous as they get, even if I agree with him sometimes. In his favor, I enjoy him on Dan Patrick because he generally sticks to sports and has an impressive amount of baseball history stored in his brain.

Yeah, he had an absolutely hilarious take on Coco Crisp a couple years ago. I've never seen someone let their popularity go to their head as quickly as Keith O.

I wish him, Dan Patrick and Craig Kilborn still did SportsCenter regularly.

Leroy wrote:

Radbird wrote:In becoming the anti-O'Reilly, he has become as intolerable as those he routinely mocks.

I somewhat agree. I can watch his show, but a couple of years ago, he was on ESPN Radio with Dan Patrick, and they were discussing their feud. He basically said that he was going to be the better man and stop responding or commenting on O'Reilly. I guess that wasn't as much fun as the alternative.

I still watch "Countdown" and KO is pretty entertaining in comparison to a lot of other cable news hosts, but he's a bit over the top with the perpetual Bill O smackdowns. It's gotten old. And the "special comments" are really annoying, pompous and intolerable.

cardsfansince82 wrote:I wish him, Dan Patrick and Craig Kilborn still did SportsCenter regularly.

I had no idea they were a threesome. I can imagine how funny that would be. Much funnier than anything Kilborn does on his own, especially.

docellis wrote:

cardsfansince82 wrote:I wish him, Dan Patrick and Craig Kilborn still did SportsCenter regularly.

I had no idea they were a threesome. I can imagine how funny that would be. Much funnier than anything Kilborn does on his own, especially.

I don't think they were a threesome.