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Keith Olbermann Complained To Current That Car Service Drivers ‘Smelled, Talked To Him’
Mediaite ^ | 3/31/12 | Tommy Christopher

Posted on 03/31/2012 3:10:17 PM PDT by jimbo123

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To: USMCPOP

Awesome.


41 posted on 03/31/2012 4:38:25 PM PDT by sbMKE
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To: Lx
Oh, that's too bad (/s), but it does explain many things besides his lacking the ability to Drive.
42 posted on 03/31/2012 5:14:44 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (A day without Obama is like a day without a Tsunami.)
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To: jimbo123
Olbermann’s next job: He's starting a new television show on late night radio with Baghdad Bob.
43 posted on 03/31/2012 5:30:21 PM PDT by immadashell
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Being chauffered around doesn’t sound very eco-friendly to me, Olby. Why didn’t you use public transport and save the planet and stuff?


44 posted on 03/31/2012 5:42:33 PM PDT by DemforBush (A Repo man is *always* intense!)
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To: jimbo123
LOL!
I guess doofus isn't aware about the joke he is to everone else; a legend in his Own Mind.
45 posted on 03/31/2012 6:37:04 PM PDT by Publius6961 (ItÂ’s easy to make phony promises you canÂ’t keep. - Obama, Feb23, 2012)
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To: jimbo123
The peasants are revolting!

You can say that again.

46 posted on 03/31/2012 6:53:07 PM PDT by DaveyB (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. -John Adams)
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To: jimbo123
smelled
47 posted on 03/31/2012 8:14:34 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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More likely it's their diet heavy on lamb/mutton and the spices used to kill the stench to make it edible ~ e.g. thyme? Used to use it here to cover up the odor of death ~ still used in the rest of the world for that.

It's not the garlic ~ it's the sheep!

48 posted on 03/31/2012 8:14:40 PM PDT by muawiyah
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“DON’T YOU KNOW WHO I AM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’M KEITH F...... OLBERMANN!!! DON’T EVEN LOOK AT ME!!! KNEEL BEFORE ME!!!! ARRRRRGHHHHH!!!!!”


49 posted on 03/31/2012 9:01:03 PM PDT by driftless2
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According to someone he worked with on MSNBC Keith does not want anyone near him making eye contact with him when he’s on TV


50 posted on 03/31/2012 11:04:23 PM PDT by Larry381 ("Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.")
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22 posted on Sat Mar 31 2012 17:36:36 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by samtheman: “I thought that too. Who doesn’t drive? Maybe he could never pass the test. Whatever. I wonder how someone who doesn’t drive can have valid opinions of American culture.”

I'm no fan of Keith Olbermann.

However, I can think of three plausible explanations.

First, there are a fair number of upper-class or management-level people who, if they have long drives to work or have to spend a lot of time in cars during the day, prefer to hire drivers or use personal chauffeurs because they can get work done in the car if somebody else is driving. Think what it means to live in the wealthy suburbs of LA, Chicago, or New York City, and have to drive downtown to work every day through rush-hour traffic to get to a corporate headquarters. Losing two or three hours per day of potentially productive drive time doesn't make good business sense in some cases.

Second, I know nothing about Olbermann’s personal security situation, but high-profile people can attract threats. There are numerous business executives who consider it important to have a trained driver capable of defending them from potential attackers. Olbermann was hired to become the lead anchor for Current TV, and I would not be at all surprised if the top on-air people for NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, and FOX all have personal drivers with security training.

Third, this isn't just an upper-class phenomenon in some places. In some cities that have widespread availability of public transportation combined with extremely high costs to fuel and maintain and garage private cars, it's not unusual for lots of people not to drive. When I lived in New York City, I knew quite a few people who didn't drive, and as one of the few people in my church who owned a car, I spent lots of time helping people with trips for which they didn't want to take a bus or subway for some reason or other. Same for Seoul, where my wife didn't learn to drive until she came to the United States. Our local Korean PCA pastor's wife still doesn't drive because she never needed a car in Korea and is afraid of American roads, and with her limited English it's probably better that she not drive.

Of course, if the reports about how Keith Olbermann treated his drivers are true, the guy is a 1-percenter jerk who should be “occupied” by the 99 percenters. Wanna take bets on whether that will happen? Few things are worse than liberal hypocrites who abuse people around him who aren't well-off, or the leftist enablers who give them a free pass.

51 posted on 04/03/2012 4:36:39 AM PDT by darrellmaurina
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I think I saw recently (after I posted my question) that he has some serious vision problems. (Not talking about his moral vision, which is zero, but his physical vision, which is impaired.)


52 posted on 04/03/2012 8:16:00 AM PDT by samtheman
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Yep... didn’t know that information before, but then again I had no reason to find out. Free Republic can be a fascinating source of facts ;-)


53 posted on 04/03/2012 9:18:07 AM PDT by darrellmaurina
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