Keith Olbermann Tweets About David Shuster, Responds To Haters

by Steve Krakauer | 8:57 am, April 12th, 2010

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After Twitter’s previous stint as Worst Person, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann gave in, joined the social networking site Thursday and has been busy tweeting all weekend.

There are the correspondences with celebrities and a lot about baseball – but Olbermann has also taken to addressing the Twitter hate directly (and talking about David Shuster).

With nearly 34,000 followers, Olbermann’s tweet total reached 175 last night. The image in this post was a Twitpic he put up yesterday afternoon (and is likely to show up elsewhere on the internet…forever), with the caption: “Venturing out for tea. Expression owes to vehicle on your right.”

Olbermann later tweeted he knew the van was for the local New York FOX station and not Fox News, so when someone made the point again, Olbermann responded strongly: “Dumbass Doug: I tweeted that two minutes before you bitched. Be seeing you.”

One of his non-haters asked him to begin incorporating a few new vocabulary words on Countdown sure to piss off conservatives. Although he vetoed “Paliban,” expect to see “Tea-hadists.” As in: “Let’s see: you threaten violence, deny valid elections, and distrust people by race and religion. Yep: Tea-hadists!”

Ultimately, the Olbermann fans got nervous about all the “flaming,” and one (“Cat Lover”) brought David Shuster. “Look where flaming RW idiots got @davidshuster . Why answer them instead of loyal fans who want to hear from you? :-(”

It was in this context Olbermann became another MSNBC employee to address the situation with the indefinitely suspended anchor.

Nooo, that’s not what happened. It was silly of him, but he survived it. OTHER things were the problem.

I know. Nobody liked that but ultimately it smoothed over. Then he did the… you know…

Follow Keith Olbermann. This will be fun.

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http://www.sailrabbits.com Magister

I’ll preface this by saying that I mean no offense to anyone, but…

As I’ve dipped in and out of Olbermann’s twitter feed over the past few days, without actually counting, I’ve thought about joking how he appears to have eclipsed a certain new media personality, whom I follow on a private prolific tweeters list.
http://www.sailrabbits.com Magister

Oh and don’t forget the multiple tweets on Saturday night, where he took swings at Mediaite because someone tipped him about one of Frances’ posts. All appearances are that he didn’t actually read it and I’d say the tipster confused the comments with the post, but that didn’t stop him from taking a few jabs at the site and its founder.
Olby Sucks

Stay classy, keefy.
http://twitter.com/CRZ CRZ

Follow Keith Olbermann. This will be fun.

This must fall under some definition of “fun” of which I’m not aware.

(Not that following ME would be any kind of picnic – err, I mean, EVERYBODY FOLLOW MEEEEEE)
SteveMG

I’ll go with May 6, 2010. That’ll be the day that Phil Griffin suspends Olbermann’s Twitter account after Olbermann smears somebody’s grandmother or family member (dog, cat, whatever) because the person said something or wrote something he didn’t like.

Isn’t it really strange though? Olbermann never invites someone that he attacks on his show to defend himself or herself? Never. He’ll have some sycophantic journalist from Newsweek or the Nation (but I repeat myself) to join in his two minute hate segment. But have that person on to respond? Nope. Classy, real,classy.

And yet he’s always complaining about reporters doing stories on him and never contacting him about the matter.

Hey Keith, go tweet yourself.
dhg

Is anyone really surprised Olbermann would go all Olbermann over Shuster?Shuster played himself as “Olbermann light” during his time at MSDUNCE.Of course it now appears Shuster was using that as a career device since he has now tried out at CNN,the only news network left with any sense of unbiased news.

I will never really understand why anyone wants to watch an angry borderline psychopath rant about people who don’t like him on TV.And it’s pretty obvious that he will never gain viewership beyond his faithful followers,everybody else is pushed away by his vitriol and foolishness.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Gary-Stewart/1032630109 Gary Stewart

Though you’ll NEVER hear Olbermann say a bad word about any of the MSNBC active benchers, he has had no problem unleashing what even this fan would have to call ‘vitriol’ on colleagues that have been cut loose. I thought Shuster was easily the best Countdown sub-host and will never forget his parody of the Teabaggers, back when they were calling themselves that.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jean-Ryan/729995296 Jean Ryan

I’m not sure how Twitter savvy that Mr Krakauer is but #TEAhadists has actually been a twitter hashtag for quite some time now. It began shortly after the HRC threads on Twitter and has been used to report violent or malicious events and occurrences believed to be perpetrated by Tea Party Activists.

P.S I’m Canadian and I’m not picking sides in this comment (ie; whether or not Tea Party people are raising hell) I’m just the messenger so please, nobody attack me for my “partisan views” Thanks.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Gary-Stewart/1032630109 Gary Stewart

@Jean, You’ll have to wait for the Palin administration before we start attacking Canadians.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Gordon-Bloyer/537945868 Gordon Bloyer

Olberman is mighty arrogant. He seems to think that being the highest rated show on MSNBC means something. That is like being the best player on the Washington Nationals.
There are at least 30 million people with a mental problem in this country and he can even get a million most of the time.
Anyone with a degree from Cornell Ag school should be able at least get some animals watching him.
TylerDurdin

“He seems to think that being the highest rated show on MSNBC means something.”

More like being the tallest Pygmy.
writer

All these ‘idiots’ who disagree with Olbermann, and yet he won’t debate any of them. I guess they’re just too far beneath him. Yeah, that’s it.
Cecelia

Calling Keith Olbermann an eternal adolescent would be overstating the case.

He’s more the eternal ten year old.
TylerDurdin

The ever arrogant and self-important KO is going to be outraged that so few have interest in a post about him. Kind of like his show’s ratings.
SoCalGal1

I mean really how old is he? Arrested development much Keith? Give it a rest and try reporting on real news instead of the hallucinations battling inside your head.

The man is such a loser.
J Baustian

If more people hate Olbermann that watch his TV show, there’s a good reason for that.
atretrioeciii

I love haters! I really like the ones who keep saying how irrelevant KO is. He is so irrelevant they won’t shut up about the guy. I’ll bet some are fans of hannity, who are upset KO took whatever manhood the MIGHT have had, and the rest are oreally disciples still searching for billo’s brain.But hey, keep em coming, let’s see what else you can force yourself to say, but not believe.
kieronnpollard

One of his enemies asked him to begin to integrate some new vocabulary words you shit countdown conservatives.
memory card reader
WildMan

Goofball Keithy Olberwoman, may be the only idiot on the planet who washes his hands before using the john and NOT after. o wonder there are no women who’ll date this nutcase. Why does msnbc have so many nut cases as their on the air people?

Worse person in the world — Chrissy Tingle
Worser person in the world—-Fat Edie Schultz aka The current Minnesota Fats who can’t shoot pool.
Worst person in the world——Keithy Olberwoman
Anonymous

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