Keith Olbermann Makes Triumphant Return To Daily Kos: “I’m Back”

by Steve Krakauer | 5:18 pm, June 22nd, 2010

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Last Wednesday Keith Olbermann left one of the new media platforms he has frequented – blogging at the Daily Kos.

Well rejoice, liberal blogosphere! He made his triumphant return this afternoon in the “full flower of the pomposity that always strikes me at midday.”

Tommy Christopher predicted this over the weekend – a very quick return. In a post titled “So, uh, this looks like a nice site” one of the leading liberal voices was back in the mix at Kos:

Needless to say, the overwhelming number of comments to my last diary divided into agreement with support, disagreement with support, or anger/frustration/namecalling – still with support. I did not write what I wrote to provoke a reaction but if I had, that would have been the spectrum I would have hoped for.

There’s something in there about “in the full flower of the pomposity that always strikes me at midday,” and how this feeling is “metaphorical for progressives and other centrists,” but really you’ll just have to read it to get the full flavor of the return.

Meanwhile, the reason for his departure can be traced to his initial, strong, negative reaction to Obama’s address last week, and in discussing these turn of events, he revealed an interesting bit of information:

I haven’t been in contact with anybody there since my comments on the President’s speech, but I sure as hell was in contact with them after every single one of the criticisms I mentioned above. Nobody ever called me up to complain. Nobody ever called me up to dissuade. Nobody schmoozed me, and nobody threatened me. They seem to assume it comes with the job. And they correctly assume that if I’m critical of them, they’re entitled to be critical of my criticism

So he was in contact with the White House every time he criticized the administration? It’s a nice position to be in as a cable news host – with incredible access to air out your concerns directly to the top. But is it too close?

Olbermann closes his diary entry with a joke (that surely will have the Olbermann haters taking seriously and going all ‘I told you so’): “I’ll have to stop writing all those fake I-Hate-Olbermann diaries under aliases to drum up sympathy.”

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felixw

KO and Kos — they deserve each other.
C0nstant

markos must have taken both nuts in his mouth.
Puter Boi

My beautiful niece throws tantrums too.
She’s 4 years old.
murf

Six days ago
Waaaaaaah ! * Stomps Feet *

Today

Hey guys I really DONT have any other friends can I come back in the tree fort ?

* Hugs *
Rogue-Comic

“There’s something in there about “in the full flower of the pomposity that always strikes me at midday,” and how this feeling is “metaphorical for progressives and other centrists,” but really you’ll just have to read it to get the full flavor of the return.”
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Progressives aren’t centrists and centrists aren’t welcome at Kos. The vibe at Kos is hostile and very far to the left.
http://politicsofdestruction.com/ Bobomatic

Who cares…
http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

Hey. I haven’t commented to this site for at least fifteen hours. Do I get a party?
notsofast

Totally predictable.
Bunny

Was there ever any doubt that he’d go back? I’m surprised he was able to hold out as long as he did. Must’ve been excruciating for him.
Rusty Shackelford

Whew…I was losing sleep over him leaving.
Ninja

Darnn, I guess Tommy C’s attempts of licking KO’s balls fell short and he won’t be one of the five guests on that trainwreck of a show.
http://none pyrope

I believe overbite has copied Mr. Glenn Beck in sticking out his tongue for the camera. Got to admit overbite’s strategy is solid; he’s BOUND to pick up all the kos followers. (Hey, 14 new viewers would double his current audience!)
ChrisNH

The angrier and unhinged Olbermann gets–in the midst of single-party Liberal rule in government (which should make him smile)–the more pleased I am. If Liberalism worked and if Obama was doing well, we’d see a happier Olbermann. That we’re not seeing that tells us all we need to know: Obama and Liberalism = epic fails.
MichelleF

Via the daily kos:

I hope the Secret Service strip searches this monstrous thug before his meeting with Obama in the White House Wednesday. For the humiliation, mainly. But you can’t be too careful with this devil.

Hastings’ article reveals that sometimes, America’s military is not made up of our best and brightest, but of our sickest and most pathological criminals. Half frat boy, half eighth-grader, half murderer and all evil, McChrystal is a sad remnant of Donald Rumsfeld’s dysfunctional Pentagon who should have been kicked out of the military in West Point rather than be allowed to slouch his way through a brutal career and find his way into the White House.

Read more: http://www.newsbusters.org/#ixzz0rgzdUNtV
writer

Keith had to go back or his show wouldn’t have any guests.
jrcmi

“markos must have taken both nuts in his mouth.”

He left one out. Take a bow.

“:Who cares…”

You do; thus your comment.

“Totally predictable.”

Your crystal ball is cracked . . . among other things.

“Must’ve been excruciating for him.”

Hardly. He probably felt some loyalty to the larger group of decent people at the site.

“Whew…I was losing sleep over him leaving.”

THAT explains why you’re always so punchy!

“Tommy C’s attempts of licking KO’s balls fell short ”

You – of all people – shouldn’t use the word “short.”

“14 new viewers would double his current audience!”

14 points would double your IQ.

“If Liberalism worked and if Obama was doing well, we’d see a happier Olbermann. ”

If Republicants worked rather than digging in their heels and squalling like babies we’d have a happier nation. Why do they hate America?

“I hope the Secret Service strip searches this monstrous thug ”

You want pictures to press between the pages of your diary, too?

“Keith had to go back or his show wouldn’t have any guests.”

Keith has to stay on-air or you wouldn’t have any pointless posts.

Kos appears every few weeks – not exactly a co-host – but don’t let facts (which you accuse others of ignoring) get in the way of, well, one of your pointless posts.
http://none pyrope

Now I know what “kos” stands for: “Keith Olbermann SUX.”