Just when you were beginning to think Keith Olbermann was completely out of touch with reality, he goes and makes sense.
While interviewing new MSNBC host Ed Schultz, Olbermann pigeonholed all the other role players at the network.
“Alright,” Olbermann said, “you’ve got the conundrum all of us have as this thing gets more and more successful. The show’s got to look like a relative of all the other shows right before it and right after it. But not too much. I mean, Chris is the political inside-baseball guy. Rachel is the affable, charming policy wonk. I’m the a-hole. What are you going to be?”
We don’t really know which is more surprising: Olbermann acknowledging his assholishness or his belief (despite ratings evidence to the contrary) that MSNBC is getting “more and more successful.”
Source: Finkelblog.com
This post was last modified on January 26, 2021
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Rachel is affable and charming...? O-K.
MSNBC the five and a half day a week news channel!!!!
Oberman is a Genius!! God favors him!
Clearly (Sl) Oberman is one of the most offensive and even repulsive individuals gracing the TV channels. Totally without talent, but nonetheless grandiose and full of himself, immutably convinced of the rectitude of everything and anything he so banally says--is there anyone more unappealing on cable news (other than perhaps the sneering and bizarre Rachel Maddike?)
"....credit for HIM on this..."
That is.
Many months on end of disrespecting and pissing-off your peers and workmates by imposing your self-grandiosity and self-importance upon them, sometimes right over a live mike. can not go on forever. I can actually muster up some credit for this but still it is only in the dim light within their narrow range of ideology.