Keith Olbermann suspended from ESPN(returning next week)

[3Rivers]

ESPN has suspended anchor Keith Olbermann for the remainder of the week over a Twitter spat that the anchor had with fans of Penn State University.

Early Monday, a Penn State supporter tweeted at Olbermann with the university's trademark slogan: "We Are!"


Olbermann, who has been critical of Penn State in the past, responded by finishing the phrase with "...Pitiful."


The original tweet, however, also included a link to a Penn State student newspaper story about the school raising $13 million in support of children and their families fighting pediatric cancer at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.


Penn State supporters chimed in and went after Olbermann: "So you have no opinion on Penn State raising over $13 million for pediatric cancer research?" one tweet read.

Olbermann didn't back down. "Good for you," he responded. "Doesn't change the school's reputation. Check back next century."

A wave of outrage followed on Twitter (TWTR, Tech30).

"@KeithOlbermann What makes us pitiful? The fact that we are smart college students raising money for a great cause? You are pitiful, sir," another person tweeted.

On Tuesday, ESPN suspended Olbermann.

"We are aware of the exchange Keith Olbermann had on Twitter last night regarding Penn State. It was completely inappropriate and does not reflect the views of ESPN," the network wrote in a statement on Tuesday. "ESPN and Keith have agreed that he will not host his show for the remainder of this week and will return on Monday."

Olbermann also apologized in the end.


"I apologize for the PSU tweets," Olbermann tweeted. "I was stupid and childish and way less mature than the students there who did such a great fundraising job."

Olbermann returned to the sports channel in 2013 to host the daily "Olbermann" show on sister network ESPN 2.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/24/media/keith-olbermann-suspended/index.html

 

[The Jewnited States]

He's such a smug fakkit sometimes

 

[Swiggy]

Left wing extremists are just as annoying as right wing.

 

[the cac mamba]

cant cosign this

 

[42 Monks]

He's such a smug fakkit sometimes

For this?

Man, fukk Penn State - Doesn't how many tax exemptions they put together through raising money for kids that they never see. They still openly supported children getting RAPED by employees of their institution on grounds that they paid for. When he's right, he's right. They are pitiful.

 

[killacal]

For this?

Man, fukk Penn State - Doesn't how many tax exemptions they put together through raising money for kids that they never see. They still openly supported children getting RAPED by employees of their institution on grounds that they paid for. When he's right, he's right. They are pitiful.

So every person on the campus is guilty of some shyt and anything they do is thrown in the bushes cuz some fakkit cac who worked there raped kids

 

[yoyoyo1]

Early Monday, a Penn State supporter tweeted at Olbermann with the university's trademark slogan: "We Are!"

Olbermann, who has been critical of Penn State in the past, responded by finishing the phrase with "...Pitiful."


the internet is hilarious tbh, so fukking meaningless. sports are already meaningless and fukk, this veers into parody

 

[The Jewnited States]

For this?

Man, fukk Penn State - Doesn't how many tax exemptions they put together through raising money for kids that they never see. They still openly supported children getting RAPED by employees of their institution on grounds that they paid for. When he's right, he's right. They are pitiful.

Shut up you dumb fakkit. There's like 50000 people on that campus and only one guy was outchea raping kids

 

[Bernie Madoff]

Lmao. Keith hit em with that shyt that burn slow.

 

[Bernie Madoff]

Lmao. Keith hit em with that shyt that burn slow.

 

[obarth]

Olbermann needs to spend more time studying tape instead of being on Twitter entertaining trolls

 

[theoretic]

Left wing extremists are just as annoying as right wing.

 

[thenatural]

Damn they got Keith. He shouldn't have let that pretentious tweet get to him but I can't talk. I'll argue on this board over much pettier stuff.

 

[42 Monks]

Shut up you dumb fakkit. There's like 50000 people on that campus and only one guy was outchea raping kids

The whole student body caped for Paterno - a man who knew kids were getting molested in buildings with his name on them and did nothing about it.

You donated some money to some people you never see - but the kids that you DID see? Well, that was just an 'isolated incident' and 'we all feel terrible about it'

 

[The Jewnited States]

The whole student body caped for Paterno - a man who knew kids were getting molested in buildings with his name on them and did nothing about it.

You donated some money to some people you never see - but the kids that you DID see? Well, that was just an 'isolated incident' and 'we all feel terrible about it'

The whole student body huh? You asked all of them?