Glenn Beck Is One Of The Devil’s “Media Spokesmen” And More Olbermann’s Twitter
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann has been tweeting up a storm since he joined the site earlier this month, and so far hasn’t fallen into any major David Shuster Twitter-traps.
But over the weekend he’s been busy responding to fans and enemies alike – about Glenn Beck, Lawrence O’Donnell and more.
In just the past two weeks, Olbermann has gained 16,000 followers, but he’s sent out nearly 1,000 tweets while doing it. (Rachel Maddow, who has been on Twitter for years, has just 579 tweets.) Most of these are @replies – interactions with fellow Twitter friends and haters.
The free-flowing, two-way conversation is impressive from such a well-known media figure (#42 on the Power Grid!), but will it ultimately be a recipe for disaster? All it takes is one tweet. Here’s a look at the conversation over at the Countdown anchors Twitter feed over the weekend:
• Glenn Beck was a major part of the conversation. One person thought he was “the Devil.” No, said Olbermann:
RT @Levityinbrevity: but Beck is the devil / Naaaaah, Beck’s just one of his media spokesmen
He continued tweeting about how much money Beck’s company made last year ($32 million), and responded to a writer who said he is writing a future Vanity Fair story on “Beckheads” and wanted to “get a draft in your hands.” Olbermann gave the writer, Allen McDuffee, the Twitter info for his publicist. “You could probably arrange something confidential by following + DM’ing her,” he wrote. So get ready for the Olbermann-screened Beck feature in Vanity Fair, coming soon.
• Speaking of Beck, Olbermann tweeted this column from OpposingViews.com which fought back against the Media Matters supposed-expose on Beck’s declining ratings. But one line at the end, “rest of us can take comfort knowing that 99.75% aren’t watching the all-white, predominantly-male MSNBC lineup,” irked Olbermann’s fans. Olbermann responded to a few, calling the line “plain carelessness about facts.”
• One Lawrence O’Donnell fan wanted him to get his own show. “Despite what you may have read this week, I do not run the network and don’t get to say who gets a show, so: I don’t know,” responded Olbermann.
• And how about a CNN reference. “Random question: did you ever have that arm wrestling match with Anderson Cooper from New Year’s Eve awhile back?” asked @KnobblyFruit. Olbermann’s response: “Who?”
—–
