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Olbermann’s First Words Back On Air: “Oh, Hi! …So, What’s New?”

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A camera lingers on a darkened, seemingly empty set. There are a few long seconds of tense silence. Then, from off-screen, we hear a familiar voice: “Oh, hi! …So, what’s new?”

That’s how Keith Olbermann opened his first show back after his four-day suspension from MSNBC. After thanking his audience for their support and reassuring them that he’d discuss all of “the issues of my little adventures later in the show”—that is, his network’s policy regarding campaign donations—he was ready to jump back into the saddle with a segment about President Obama in Indonesia.

Before the show really started, though, Olbermann made a reference to stories that speculated his suspension might have been an elaborate publicity stunt. According to Olbermann, such conspiracy theories are baseless… then again, he said, if he had known how much publicity he’d get from donating to Democrats without permission, “I would have done this years ago!”

Video of Olbermann’s opening is below. There’ll be much more to come, of course, as the show goes on.

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  • cjd ohio 1

    i am watching this guy now, free speech issues shit, msnbc should start drug testing this guy is tripping on some bad stuff

  • Kird

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    i am watching this guy now

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLrpBLDWyCI

  • PoliticalPAW

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  • cjd ohio 1

    wrong Kird, you have to know the opposition

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    wrong Kird, you have to know the opposition

    Or, as Obama puts it, your enemy.

  • cjd ohio 1

    i chose the word just because of that, seeing 2012

  • cjd ohio 1

    great show on now, hell olbermann has both sides on liberal, and progressive

  • rocky road

    I can’t watch him, I will read up on it here. It is just another example of the substandard cable network that MSNBC has become. Since election 2008 when the stooges were openly fighting on the air and removed in a most public way, the hits keep coming.

    Doesn’t NBC realize that these shenanigans impact their credibility? I am sure Tom Browkow is banging his head against the wall for being alligned with these morons.

  • http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

    K.O.
    (Sung to the tune of Peter Gabriel’s “Biko”)

    November 2010, Manhattan, Upper East Side
    It was business as usual, evil Phil Griffin lied
    Oh, K.O., K.O., because K.O.
    Oh, K.O., K.O., because K.O.

    He’s a liberal,
    He’s a liberal,
    The man’s a dick
    The man’s a dick

    When I try to preach at night, I spit and bare my teeth
    All my liberal sycophants, they must have their Keith
    Oh, K.O., K.O. because K.O.
    Oh, K.O., K.O. because K.O.

    He’s a liberal,
    He’s a liberal,
    The man’s a dick
    The man’s a dick

    You can suspend Chris Mathews, and O’Donnell you can fire
    But don’t mess with K.O., or the lesbian vampire
    Oh, K.O., K.O., because K.O.
    Oh, K.O., K.O., because K.O.

    He’s a liberal
    He’s a liberal
    The man’s a dick
    The man’s a dick

    And the eyes of the world are watching Fox, watching Fox

  • BlackWidow

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    great show on now, hell olbermann has both sides on liberal, and progressive

    I love it! Both sides!

  • http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

    Did he really just compare himself to the Chilean miners?

  • Kird

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    wrong Kird, you have to know the opposition

    come on man, learn to laugh.

  • Seeing 20I2 From My Window

    GTK how much you love dick Finch!

  • Pat Quinn

    Hell yes Welcome Back Keith!!! We love you especially cause you make teabaggers heads explode!

  • cjd ohio 1

    missed the joke sorry, not uptight just a little slow lol

  • http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

    AnonymousFinch said:
    Did he really just compare himself to the Chilean miners?

    Maybe it’s me, but I don’t really remember anyone rooting for the Chilean miners to stay trapped. Keith, on the other hand . . .

  • cjd ohio 1

    black widow we are still talking about the show ……… right? lol

  • cjd ohio 1

    he did finch, lol

  • rocky road

    Pat Quinn said:
    I love that Keith makes you crazy.

    He doesn’t make anybody crazy. However he has positioned himself as one of the most despised men in television. For someone with such a fragile ego, not sure this is what he intended. But besides the far far left, nobody likes the man. His namecalling, slander, vile, hateful language has turned even normal liberals off. I wonder about those that defend his antics. He may get a bit more of his 1 million viewers tonight due to the implosion of MSNBC but the ratings will flatline again soon. A chilean miner he is not.

  • Kird

    Pat Quinn said:
    Hell yes Welcome Back Keith!!! We love you especially cause you make teabaggers heads explode!

    You got a hard-on now or something?

  • Kird

    rocky road said:
    His namecalling, slander, vile, hateful language has turned even normal liberals off.

    Yep.

  • MediaiteCensorsSux

    Kieth is such a knucklehead.

  • Seeing 20I2 From My Window

    Now Kird is wanting to know about hard ons, Oh goodness will we never be rid of these closet homosexuals.

  • Kird

    Seeing 20I2 From My Window said:
    Now Kird is wanting to know about hard ons, Oh goodness will we never be rid of these closet homosexuals.

    Nothing closet about it, socky.

  • Seeing 20I2 From My Window

    Here you are inquiring about hardons Kird and not a bit concerned that no one..NO ONE is exposing THE 34 WARSHIPS OFF THE COAST OF INDIA THAT BHO BROUGHT WITH HIM ON HIS 600 MILLION DOLLAR A DAY VACATION!!

  • cjd ohio 1

    philadelphia experiment shit…………………………..

  • Frankly My Dear

    It was the same kind of opening Rachel had. They have the same writers.

  • Kird

    Seeing 20I2 From My Window said:
    Here you are inquiring about hardons Kird and not a bit concerned that no one..NO ONE is exposing THE 34 WARSHIPS OFF THE COAST OF INDIA THAT BHO BROUGHT WITH HIM ON HIS 600 MILLION DOLLAR A DAY VACATION!!

    oh well, Pat.

  • Cancon2

    Mine would have been. “Jesus, dead you how badly they beat that dead horse on the weekend?”

    My second choice would have been a single word…… FART!

  • cjd ohio 1

    and he still thinks he is a journalist lol

  • WildMan

    What a damn publicity whore! This guy is a complete and total idiot. What’s funny though is the whole world knows he will never, ever catch Bill O’Reilly. Everyone of the prime timers on FOX have much better num,bers than Keith The Clown, even when you use their repeat show numbers. God, what a loser!

  • cjd ohio 1

    tax cuts-paid for, that is a oxymoron

  • rocky road

    So Bush’s book should be used as toilet paper. If a conservative said that about Obama Keith would call that person a racist. A few shots at Fox even though they barely mentioned the implosion at MSNBC. His delusional belief that this episode was earth shattering is pretty absurd.

    Does anyone at MSNBC care that he is making a mockery of them and the network? It’s sad that they don’t mind.

  • BlackWidow

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    black widow we are still talking about the show ……… right? lol

    Yes but what else did you think I meant?????

  • AntiHyperbole

    I rarely agree with Keith on anything. That being said this isn’t an attack on Keith for his politics. Keith has no clue what the word professionalism means. Yes, Fox has Glenn and Sean who can be pretty obnoxious at times (the word Dork comes to mind a lot), but even after you wade through the lame remarks (the “Annointed One” ) and silly faces (Glenn!) those two have some interesting points that even if you disagree with them and hate their antics, you are still able to see the substance in their arguments. Keith has none of that. All hate, arrogance, hypocrisy, self absorption, low tactics, and insane justifications. The personification of intellectual vanity.
    Have you ever heard the expression “the more you talk the less you know”? It’s kinda like that. They douchy guy at the party that runs his mouth about how badass he is, and you know he’s really just a puss. A real badass wouldnt need to try and convince everyone around him that he’s super hard core. That’s what Keith is. Constantly telling his audience and anyone who will listen to him, about all of his accomplishments and superior ideals. George Stephanopoulos may be a overly biased journalist with an agenda, but at least he has professionalism. Same goes for Williams, Couric, and Sawyer. For all of Keith O’s insistence that he is an “actual journolist”, it is sad that he doesnt realize that the more he keeps trying to remind people of that, the less people are going to believe him.

  • Kird

    rocky road said:
    His delusional belief that this episode was earth shattering is pretty absurd.

    it was earth-shattering at mediaite.

  • BlackWidow

    I love how Obe can make your heads explode.

  • cjd ohio 1

    never mind lol

  • Kird

    BlackWidow said:
    I love how Obe can make your heads explode.

    ha ha

  • cjd ohio 1

    i am sorry, dirty mind

  • Kird

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    i am sorry, dirty mind

    careful, the sock puppets will come after you.

  • rocky road

    I think Olbermann has mellowed after his long suspension. His special comment tonight was pretty tame.

    “In NBC management we have irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude models, teabagging supporters of violence against women and against MSNBC employees with whom they disagree.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Allen/100000077637523 bohratom

    Keith definately has an egotistical and narcissistic personality…..

  • david r

    Worst schtick in the business.

  • BlackWidow

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    i am sorry, dirty mind

    No apology needed. My mind went where yours was but then it returned.

  • BlackWidow

    WildMan said:
    What a damn publicity whore! This guy is a complete and total idiot. What’s funny though is the whole world knows he will never, ever catch Bill O’Reilly. Everyone of the prime timers on FOX have much better num,bers than Keith The Clown, even when you use their repeat show numbers. God, what a loser!

    You people on here are the ones that are comparing Keith’s numbers to anyone/everyone on Fox. Maybe just maybe Keith doesn’t five a flying fuck. He seemed pleased with the attention he got this weekend and it was “only” 300,000 on one petition and numbers of other sources. The network must not care how many viewers he has or they would have fired him. I understand that most men think in terms of “big” but maybe he is just glad he has a job.

  • felixw

    Olbermann personifies the problems with the America left — namely in his

    (1) Ridiculing people who disagree with him, rather than responding to their positions on issues;

    (2) Constantly playing the race card, to the point that the card is frayed and illegible;

    (3) Telling people how smart he is, rather than demonstrating it with actual intelligent commentary on issues;

    (4) Putting his faith in character attacks and smears rather than in ideas and well-conceived positions;

    (5) Pompous preening of himself and smugness, based on a very little substance;

    (6) Never, ever getting around to explaining why we should borrow another $100 billion each month to prop up a bloated, inefficient government; or responding to other reasonable critiques of the Obama agenda;

    (7) Fearing any situation in which he might have to defend his views in the presence of an articulate conservative.

    These are the reasons why the ultra-far left LOVES Olbermann — since this audience is just like him. The typical MSNBC viewer is a Keith clone. And it’s why reasonably people, independents and moderates stopped watching his show a long, long time ago, and won’t ever go back.

  • ChrisNH

    The reason why you cannot buy ‘narcissism’ at any store is because people like Obama and Olbermann have consumed it all.

  • The Tea Weasel

    LOL. Now I know why there are so few conservative comedians. It appears conservatives are born without the ability to recognize and appreciate A) humor and B) irony.

    But it does sound like KO’s sense of self importance is very threatening to some other people’s sense of self importance. At least KO’s is (somewhat) tongue in cheek.

    I am sure you all are happy to have him back, as now you can again spend your day tweeting and posting your hatred of him. Without that….you would be reduced to actually doing something.

  • WildMan

    WildMan said:
    What a damn publicity whore! This guy is a complete and total idiot. What’s funny though is the whole world knows he will never, ever catch Bill O’Reilly. Everyone of the prime timers on FOX have much better num,bers than Keith The Clown, even when you use their repeat show numbers. God, what a loser!

    BlackWidow said:
    You people on here are the ones that are comparing Keith’s numbers to anyone/everyone on Fox. Maybe just maybe Keith doesn’t five a flying fuck. He seemed pleased with the attention he got this weekend and it was “only” 300,000 on one petition and numbers of other sources. The network must not care how many viewers he has or they would have fired him. I understand that most men think in terms of “big” but maybe he is just glad he has a job.

    Keith is the Queen Clown on msnbc. But there are plenty of clowns over there starting with Chrissy Matthews, followed by Fat Edie, Madcow, and Socialist O’Donnell. The place is nothing short of Comedy Central For First Graders. And apparently it goes all the way up to the bosses on top which tells me they know there is no way in hell msnbc will ever come close to FOX News.

    Oh btw….there are over 300 million people in the US of A and you are impressed with a 300,000 signature petition??? WOW, now I’m impressed…lol Anyway, Keith is a joke that I enjoy laughing at from time to time.

  • Pat Quinn

    rocky road said:
    He doesn’t make anybody crazy. However he has positioned himself as one of the most despised men in television. For someone with such a fragile ego, not sure this is what he intended. But besides the far far left, nobody likes the man. His namecalling, slander, vile, hateful language has turned even normal liberals off. I wonder about those that defend his antics. He may get a bit more of his 1 million viewers tonight due to the implosion of MSNBC but the ratings will flatline again soon. A chilean miner he is not.

    Not to burst Fox News viewers bubbles, but honestly just because Fox gets more viewers than MSNBC it doesn’t mean the entire country watches Fox, not by a long shot.

    http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/media/content/viewers-go-gop-election-night-handing-fox-news-three-four-times-ratings-rivals

    Here it says that 6 million people watched Fox on election night, it is a big number compared to MSNBC or CNN but really when you think about it only 6 million people out of our entire population watched Fox. It is a marginal number of people when you think about the entire population. While less people watch MSNBC, not very many people in general even watch cable news. So when Fox News viewers assume that the entire country is on their side they in fact aren’t, the majority of people in this country don’t watch Fox News, but Fox News viewers are by and large idiots and assume everyone loves them. They don’t.

  • Pat Quinn

    AntiHyperbole said:
    Yes, Fox has Glenn and Sean who can be pretty obnoxious at times (the word Dork comes to mind a lot), but even after you wade through the lame remarks (the “Annointed One” ) and silly faces (Glenn!) those two have some interesting points that even if you disagree with them and hate their antics, you are still able to see the substance in their arguments. Keith has none of that. All hate, arrogance, hypocrisy, self absorption, low tactics, and insane justifications. The personification of intellectual vanity.

    That is funny, I know you didn’t mean for it to be, but seeing someone so detached from reality is amusing.

  • Rogue-Comic

    BlackWidow said:
    You people on here are the ones that are comparing Keith’s numbers to anyone/everyone on Fox. Maybe just maybe Keith doesn’t five a flying fuck.

    Or maybe he fucking does, probably more than anyone on the planet.

    He seemed pleased with the attention he got this weekend and it was “only” 300,000 on one petition and numbers of other sources.

    OLBERMANN: “I’m popular! I’m popular! That’s all I really cared about cuz I never got laid until I was 39!”

    The network must not care how many viewers he has or they would have fired him. I understand that most men think in terms of “big” but maybe he is just glad he has a job.

    Or maybe he’s just a washed up pompous ass sportscaster who is so socially inept he’s not even married at 50.

  • Rogue-Comic

    Pat Quinn said:
    That is funny, I know you didn’t mean for it to be, but seeing someone so detached from reality is amusing.

    Yes it is. I’m currently laughing at your empty response to a well thought out objective analysis.

  • Pat Quinn

    Rogue-Comic said:
    Yes it is. I’m currently laughing at your empty response to a well thought out objective analysis.

    Well thoughtout objective analysis? Of a guy that yesterday said that Lawrence O’Donnell admitting he was a socialist on tv means that all the secret Socialists in the media and government are going to start revealing themselves and reveal their secret plot to take over the government and set up a Socialist state with Obama at the helm?

    You want me to comment on that and give you well thought out objective analysis of that, huh? I usually save cogent objective analysis for people that can handle it not paranoids.

  • Rogue-Comic

    Pat Quinn said:
    Well thoughtout objective analysis? Of a guy that yesterday said that Lawrence O’Donnell admitting he was a socialist on tv means that all the secret Socialists in the media and government are going to start revealing themselves and reveal their secret plot to take over the government and set up a Socialist state with Obama at the helm?

    AntiHyperbole said that yesterday? Please link that up for me.

    You want me to comment on that and give you well thought out objective analysis of that, huh?

    Yea.

    I usually save cogent objective analysis for people that can handle it not paranoids.

    Uh-huh.

  • TCinAZ

    So What’s New, Keithleen? Well You’re Not. You’re just the same, Arrogant, Pompous, Self-Absored, Self-Aggrandizing, Self-Serving J@goff, who’s gonna be laying down “Wordy” Special Comments again like Armageddon’s around the Corner, and you have a deadline.

    Ps.”..the person who put them (MSNBC) on the map and discovered fellow network anchors Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell.”

    SHUT..THE..HELL..UP, Vespucci !

    http://thecablegame.blogspot.com/

  • http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

    Pat Quinn said:
    Well thoughtout objective analysis? Of a guy that yesterday said that Lawrence O’Donnell admitting he was a socialist on tv means that all the secret Socialists in the media and government are going to start revealing themselves and reveal their secret plot to take over the government and set up a Socialist state with Obama at the helm?

    Tell me, do you think Lawrence O’Donnell is the only socialist in the country? Are there any other socialists out there who call themselves “liberals” or “progressives” because those terms are more politically palatable? How many do you think are in the socialist closet like O’Donnell was until last week?

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  • JamesA1102

    AnonymousFinch said:
    Did he really just compare himself to the Chilean miners?

    Actually he did just the opposite. How dishonest of you to suggest that he did.

  • JamesA1102

    AnonymousFinch said:
    Tell me, do you think Lawrence O’Donnell is the only socialist in the country? Are there any other socialists out there who call themselves “liberals” or “progressives” because those terms are more politically palatable? How many do you think are in the socialist closet like O’Donnell was until last week?

    O’Donnell’s point is that we are all Socialists and have been for decades.

  • Probably NOT wrong

    I wonder how many Martini’s Grifffin had to drink to get
    the taste out of hos mouth?

  • BlackWidow

    AnonymousFinch said:
    Tell me, do you think Lawrence O’Donnell is the only socialist in the country? Are there any other socialists out there who call themselves “liberals” or “progressives” because those terms are more politically palatable? How many do you think are in the socialist closet like O’Donnell was until last week?

    I take it you didn’t watch the show. O’Donnell said he came out as a socialist 10 years ago.

  • Cecelia

    JamesA1102 said:
    O’Donnell’s point is that we are all Socialists and have been for decades.

    Well, then that makes O’Donnell as guilty as Glenn Beck is in defining socialism so broadly as to be virtually meaningless.

  • Cecelia

    Banner day in his history of Keith Olbermann’s on-job relationships!

    He’s made his boss and his company look like servile rubes, and he’s still employed to joke about it!

  • writer

    Now that it’s been revealed that Keith supports Democrats, it sort of ruins it.

  • VRWC Destruction Machine

    KEITH OLBERMANN: I’d like to close tonight by discussing something that I’m sure has happened to you dozens of times in your own life. You know, when there is a petition supporting you and it winds up being signed by 300,000 people, and you get 21,000 tweets in a 72 hour period, and then you’re invited to be on television because you aren’t on television because they want you on to be the lead story on “Good Morning America,” and “Larry King,” and “Letterman,” and you break the traffic records on the Huffington Post, and you’re on the front page of the New York Times without being dead or in jail or Charlie Sheen or something. Well maybe you’re used to it, but for me it was a kind of a surprise, and all I can seriously say is I’m stunned and grateful and it still feels like a universal hug.

    It’s a shame Olbermann didn’t mention the dozen stories about him in Mediaite or that the online petition got a push from tweets by Michael Moore. Olmermann’s ego is bigger than Moore’s girth.

  • cjd ohio 1

    hell 300,000 people voted for alvin greene, so want does that tell ya

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    AnonymousFinch says:
    “And the eyes of the world are watching Fox,”

    That explains a lot of the ignorant opinions coming from the right in these comments.

  • Z_man723

    wow so the 300,000 people got their hero back…have fun

  • JamesA1102

    Cecelia said:
    Well, then that makes O’Donnell as guilty as Glenn Beck is in defining socialism so broadly as to be virtually meaningless.

    You have a point. So does that mean that you disagree that Social Security and Medicare are socialist?

  • PoliticalPAW

    Howard Kurtz attempts to instill some integrity in the MSNBC Dem fund raising lobbyist http://tinyurl.com/39f4hwt

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