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Olbermann Responds
May 14, 2009 at 06:35pm
Well, imagine someone was laughing at and ridiculing you all over the internet over a situation that involved the death of your mother. You might be moved to set the record straight if you happened to have the platform to do so. You may not like KO, but his program provides a necessary factual counterbalance to the lies spewed on Fox and the warmed over mediocrity seen on CNN.

Olbermann Responds
May 14, 2009 at 06:21pm
"we find it hard to believe that one of his colleagues at MSNBC—an Emmy Award-winning journalist, no less—would have deliberately misled the public and attributed his absence to the "flu/allergy season" if Olbermann had made the perfectly understandable decision to take a few days to mourn his mother's passing" unf****ing believeable. This is the sort of thing that bothers you? This is astonishing.

Olbermann Responds
May 14, 2009 at 06:17pm
Why should KO have to disclose TO YOU why he is taking the night off? What if he happened to be in mourning and also ill? Does he need to disclose both reasons. My mother was killed by a drunk driver, and take it from me, mourning is a complicated often convoluted process. The only motivation you have to continuing with this story after the clarification is that your are two smarmy to admit that you got your facts wrong. It is juvenile and amateurish. You should have printed a retraction and an apology and left it at that.

Meltdown With Keith Olbermann!
May 14, 2009 at 06:12pm
Had you bothered to consult KO or the MSNBC publicists, you would have learned the actual chronology of his mother's death, his illness, and his time off. And maybe something about the funeral and the interment. But of course, you can add yourself to the likes of Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, who never let the facts get in the way of a bit of disingenuous smear dressed up as "reporting" or "journalism." Television personalities are "absent" from television for all sorts of reasons, and sometimes things like deaths in the family or a biopsy are not precisely identified or described in full as the reason. It's called privacy. And though almost anyone can now be ambushed by one of Fox's juvenile hacks, and a microphone shoved in his or her face, even "celebrities" are entitled to have a life beyond television. Grow up.

Olbermann Responds
May 14, 2009 at 06:10pm
Had you bothered to consult KO or the MSNBC publicists, you would have learned the actual chronology of his mother's death, his illness, and his time off. And maybe something about the funeral and the interment. But of course, you can add yourself to the likes of Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, who never let the facts get in the way of a bit of disingenuous smear dressed up as "reporting" or "journalism." Television personalities are "absent" from television for all sorts of reasons, and sometimes things like deaths in the family or a biopsy are not precisely identified or described in full as the reason. It's called privacy. And though almost anyone can now be ambushed by one of Fox's juvenile hacks, and a microphone shoved in his or her face, even "celebrities" are entitled to have a life beyond television. Grow up.