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Keith Theodore Olbermann is an American sports and political commentator and writer. He is currently the host of GQ's political webshow The Resistance with Keith Olbermann.

Olbermann spent the first 20 years of his career in sports journalism. He was a sports correspondent for CNN and for local TV and radio stations in the 1980s, winning the Best Sportscaster award from the California Associated Press three times. He co-hosted ESPN's SportsCenter from 1992–97. From 1998 to 2001 he was a producer and anchor for Fox Sports Net and a host for Fox Sports' coverage of Major League Baseball.

From March 2003 to January 2011 Olbermann hosted the weeknight political commentary program Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. He received attention for his pointed criticism of right-wing and conservative politicians and public figures. Although he has frequently been described as a "liberal," he has resisted being labelled politically, stating, "I'm not a liberal. I'm an American."

From 2011 to March 30, 2012, he was the chief news officer of the Current TV network and the host of a Current TV program also called Countdown with Keith Olbermann. From July 2013 until July 2015 he hosted a late-afternoon show on ESPN2 and TSN2 called Olbermann as well as TBS's Major League Baseball postseason coverage.

On September 12, 2016, GQ announced that Olbermann would become a special correspondent for the magazine. Olbermann hosted a web series for GQ.com titled The Closer with Keith Olbermann while covering the 2016 US presidential election and re-titled The Resistance after the victory of Donald Trump.

✵ 27. January 1959
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Famous Keith Olbermann Quotes

“I can read his lips, and he is not praying.”

Keith Olbermann

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“Mister Dictionary has failed us yet again.”

Keith Olbermann

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Source: http://www.sportscenteraltar.com/phrases/phrases.asp Sports Center Catchphrases

“If you make a decision in your life, even one as eminently logical and self-improving as "Why'd you start washing your hair every day?" and you start getting questioned hourly about it, you're going to start second-guessing yourself.”

Keith Olbermann

" Mea Culpa: My Apology to ESPN http://www.salon.com/news/sports/col/olbermann/2002/11/17/meaculpa," Salon.com (2002-11-17)

“Emulating Tony Bruno) Houston, hello! (or any other city”

Keith Olbermann

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Source: http://www.sportscenteraltar.com/phrases/phrases.asp Sports Center Catchphrases

“This is the exact definition of my ego. When Fox had my head 40 feet high at Shea Stadium they said to me, "We're going to give out 100,000 temporary tattoos of your face at the Super Bowl." And I just swallowed and said, "No. God. Don't. You're not going to, you can't possibly — what do you mean, temporary?"”

Keith Olbermann

" Angry Sportscaster Keith Olbermann has Piazza's Bat—and is Keeping it! http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=10667CA6AE16AADE&p_docnum=1" by Jason Gay, New York Observer (2001-03-19)

“When this quality sports product…”

Keith Olbermann

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Keith Olbermann Quotes about the world

“The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you're not good enough. On occasion, some may be correct. But do not do their work for them. Seek any job; ask anyone out; pursue any goal. Don't take it personally when they say 'no”

Keith Olbermann

they may not be smart enough to say "yes."
" The Way I See It http://www.starbucks.com/retail/thewayiseeit_default.asp," Starbucks Coffee Cups (2005-02-01)

“The terrorists have won… What was their goal 15 long, sad years ago? To strip from the world's greatest power, their traditions of growing tolerance. To hamstring the international interests of a country that barely stuck to the international double-white line of the moral road, but came closer than any other. To take our energies from trying… to help the world move forward, and instead make us direct those energies inward, at one another, within our own borders.”

Keith Olbermann

"The Terrorists Have Won" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYHEmzIJwo (November 2016), The Closer, YouTube

“It's such a simple thing, really. It's an awareness that the other people in the world are other people, and that you are one of them. That every time you have a chance to help somebody out, to do what's right instead of what you think you're supposed to do, you should do it.”

Keith Olbermann

" Senior Convocation Speech http://www.news.cornell.edu/campus/Olbermann_speech.html," Cornell University (1998-05-23)

Keith Olbermann Quotes

“He puts the biscuit in the basket.”

Keith Olbermann

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“A good craftsman doesn't blame his tools.”

Keith Olbermann

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“Oxycodone is a hell of a drug”

Keith Olbermann

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Source: http://current.com/shows/countdown/episodes/2012-01-19

Hell

“An uprising of the reasonable is our only chance.”

Keith Olbermann

[From Twitter, July 22, 2010]

Chance

“He beats him like a rented goalie!”

Keith Olbermann

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“It's deep, and I don't think it's playable.”

Keith Olbermann

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Thinking

“He hits the ball, real hard.”

Keith Olbermann

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“I do know without fear of contradiction what the definition of life is and it is 12 words long. 'Life is defined by how much you improve the lives of others.”

Keith Olbermann

"
" Senior Convocation Speech http://www.news.cornell.edu/campus/Olbermann_speech.html," Cornell University (1998-05-23)

Life , Fear

“The political whorehouse that is Fox News.”

Keith Olbermann

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/25/keith-olbermann-fox-news_n_1030169.html

“From way downtown…BANG!”

Keith Olbermann

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Variant: (Name of player) From way downtown... BANG!
Source: http://www.sportscenteraltar.com/phrases/phrases.asp Sports Center Catchphrases

Way

“You know the Art Rule: Do something that entertains/interests YOU, if you're lucky it'll do (the) same for others”

Keith Olbermann

[From Twitter]

Art

“I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.”

Keith Olbermann

" Making up hard to do for Olbermann http://www.jsonline.com/sports/gen/feb03/118189.asp" by Bob Wolfley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (2003-02-16)

Thinking

“They're…not…gonna…get him.”

Keith Olbermann

Catch Phrases
Source: http://www.sportscenteraltar.com/phrases/phrases.asp Sports Center Catchphrases

“Without humor, a sports fan is a religious fanatic. Without humor, a newscast is a terrible, depressing, unpalatable thing.”

Keith Olbermann

" News duo thinking young http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0%2C1249%2C565037325%2C00.html" by David Bauder, Deseretnews.com (2003-12-09)

Sport

“He pulled a groin. His own we hope!”

Keith Olbermann

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Hope

“The half-term Governor of Alaska”

Keith Olbermann

Catch Phrases
Source: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CountdownWithKeithOlbermann

“There has been a [name of player] sighting.”

Keith Olbermann

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Source: http://www.sportscenteraltar.com/phrases/phrases.asp Sports Center Catchphrases

“I'm not trying to win a popularity contest. If you're in a public media setting and you're not expressing something of yourself, turn it over to someone who will. Just get out. Just go away and put somebody on who has a point of view, because the most dangerous thing about TV is its equalizing factor, its lowest common denominator factor. And that's what I fight against all the time.”

Keith Olbermann

" Inside Story: Knowing It All http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/64665598.html?did=64665598&FMT=ABS&FMTS=FT" by David Davis, L.A. Times (2000-11-26)

Time , Fight

“(named Player).. did not finish/qualify/win, etc.”

Keith Olbermann

Catch Phrases
Source: http://www.sportscenteraltar.com/phrases/phrases.asp Sports Center Catchphrases

“The format of the nightly newscasts is still very much 1981 — "Tremble, onlookers! I am the anchorman and now here is a miracle: a report by satellite from many thousands of miles away. I will return to introduce another one in due course."”

Keith Olbermann

" As Rather signs off 'Evening News,' the 'voice of God' anchor era ends http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0309rather09.html" by Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic (2005-03-09)

“Without [hatred] Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick on it.”

Keith Olbermann

October 2009. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Who-You-Calling-Mashed-Up-Bag-of-Meat-204

“The Manatee (coined by John Cleese)”

Keith Olbermann

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“Courage is a mutual thing.”

Keith Olbermann

[From Twitter, November 13, 2010]

Courage

“He will drool the drool of regret into the pillow of remorse.”

Keith Olbermann

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Source: http://www.sportscenteraltar.com/phrases/phrases.asp Sports Center Catchphrases

“Comedian Rush Limbaugh”

Keith Olbermann

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Source: http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200703300001

“Brought to you by…”

Keith Olbermann

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“Miss Bendy Straws”

Keith Olbermann

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Source: http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3116806&st=7590

“The Big Giant Head”

Keith Olbermann

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Source: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CountdownWithKeithOlbermann

“That woman is an idiot.”

Keith Olbermann

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Source: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CountdownWithKeithOlbermann

“The Frank Burns of news”

Keith Olbermann

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Source: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CountdownWithKeithOlbermann

“Good night and good luck.”

Keith Olbermann

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Source: http://videosift.com/video/Keith-Olbermann-reduced-to-minute-Olbermann-catchphrases

Night

“The Human Oil Slick”

Keith Olbermann

Catch Phrases
Source: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CountdownWithKeithOlbermann

“He's frozen pizza.”

Keith Olbermann

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Source: http://www.sportscenteraltar.com/phrases/phrases.asp Sports Center Catchphrases

“Half-Governor Palin”

Keith Olbermann

Catch Phrases
Source: http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/10/olbermann-reviews-new-terms-spawned-by-republican-scandals/

“Billo, the Clown”

Keith Olbermann

Catch Phrases
Source: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bill%20O%20The%20Clown

“Redbeard the Pirate”

Keith Olbermann

Catch Phrases
Source: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CountdownWithKeithOlbermann

“Phinneas T. Bluster”

Keith Olbermann

Catch Phrases
Source: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CountdownWithKeithOlbermann

“You are a liar.”

Keith Olbermann

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Source: http://videosift.com/video/Keith-Olbermann-reduced-to-minute-Olbermann-catchphrases

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