Olberman: Self-Generated Puff Piece?

I wouldn't put it pass this clown. I wonder if he cried?

September 27, 2006 -- MSNBC loudmouth Keith Olbermann flipped out when he opened his home mail yesterday. The acerbic host of "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" was terrified when he opened a suspicious-looking letter with a California postmark and a batch of white powder poured out. A note inside warned Olbermann, who's a frequent critic of President Bush's policies, that it was payback for some of his on-air shtick. The caustic commentator panicked and frantically called 911 at about 12:30 a.m., sources told The Post's Philip Messing. An NYPD HazMat unit rushed to Olbermann's pad on Central Park South, but preliminary tests indicated the substance was harmless soap powder. However, that wasn't enough to satisfy Olbermann, who insisted on a checkup. He asked to be taken to St. Luke's Hospital, where doctors looked him over and sent him home. Whether they gave him a lollipop on the way out isn't known. Olbermann had no comment.

Comments

[Kristy]

When you have psychotics like Ann Coulter ou there threatening everyone that disagrees with, icluding supreme court judges, you have to take it seriously. She's been Baker Acted twice in our county and she's getting dangerously close to a third sometime soon. Good for Keith! When you piss off whackadus like Coulter or Limbaugh, you know you're doing something right!! Ms (?) Coulter is now persona non grata at 4 high priced establishments here. We're bettimng we get it up to 8 by X-mas.

[ck]

kristy, quick,what color is the sky?

[Rhod]

Olberman in the presence of Clinton resembles nothing so much as a male dog truckling for his master; lying on his back, legs in the air, with a wet tongue dangling from his mouth. The man is clearly prepared to Monica the Bejeezus out of Clinton.

Anne Coulter is responsible for sending Olberman soap powder? Good for her. He needs it.

[Jim H.]

Whoever sent that envelope with the white powder in it committed a felony, whether it was really anthrax or not. Real funny.

[Monkey Faced Liberal]

Dan:

Do you have any proof that Olberman faked this? Or is this anyother example of your hyperactive imagination at work?

For a previous example of Dan's amazing ability to delude himself, example where he thinks that George Allen said neighbor not N******.

[Chuck the Lucky]

K.O.'s flip out over what was obviously a fake (call me crazy but I suspect people who have access to even partially weaponized anthrax and were freaky enough to use it would have bigger fish to fry than Olberman) was funny, especially after being told it was soap (HazMat teams are pretty good at making such determinations).

But faking such an attack is reprehensible It wastes huge amounts of taxpayer money and gives creepy Keith free publicity.

[mylena]

I don't think it is funny... the same thing that it isn't funny to yell bomb on an airplane. It's pathetic to play with people feelings or make fun of it no matter on whose side you are on.

[pj]

As one of the mail employees killed by the Anthrax killer actually went to see a doctor and told the doctor he thought he might have exposed to anthrax at work, only to be reassured and sent home to his death without treatment, I don't blame Keith Olberman for getting a second opinion.