Pat Doherty says:

Wait, wait, wait… are you Mediaite folks suggesting a man who never allows different opinions, delivers redundant “Special Comments” that he teases with “as promised” (as if the audience is about to receive a gift), and makes up things out of whole cloth to attack even ideologically-sympathetic people who criticize his show in the least (cf. Mediate’s own Rachel Sklar), has severe ego issues? Because if you are, you’re absolutely right.

P.S. I wonder what ‘09 Olbermann highlights we’ll be talking in about in 2010:

5) Continued respectful treatment of women he disagrees with, exemplified by referring to Michelle Malkin as “a mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it” and a truly weird pathology concerning Carrie Prejean, devoting entire segments to discussing her breast implants and culminating in the 50-year-old “serious journalist” ending one national broadcast by giving the 22-year-old a “three-finger salute.”

4) Dogged pursuit of displaying the evils of waterboarding, to the point of being duped by a C-level shock jock.

3) Professionalism at all times, like in April when he threw a hissy fit and took three days off his show when Rachel Maddow refused to cede Ben Affleck to “Countdown,” or like in November when he didn’t want to report on the GOP gubernatorial victories and took off from his show after MSNBC had promised a live “Countdown.”

2) Somber understanding of what’s truly important, such as his retiring of the “O’Reilly caricature” in the wake of “the clear role Fox News had played in the murder of George Tiller.” Later of course, we find out it’s because Immelt told him to stop going after O’Reilly, and Keith, being Keith, torpedoes the deal once it becomes public knowledge.

1) Pushing back against the ever-growing, nefarious Twitter-verse. Unaware MSNBC had set up an account in his name, Olbermann accused Twitter of setting up a phony account, declared it “The Worst Person in the World,” and even implied that it was a plot by Fox News.