Professional angry person Keith Olbermann just ceremoniously unloaded his own contribution to the bi-partisan Donald Trump circle jerk.
Although it is doubtful anybody cares Olbermann announced in the Washington Post opinion section Tuesday he is moving from his Trump-owned building because the real estate magnate is so heinous.
“I’m getting out because of the degree to which the very name ‘Trump’ has degraded the public discourse and the nation itself. I can’t hear, or see, or say that name any longer without spitting,” wrote Olbermann, who has lived at Trump Palace in Manhattan since 2007. “Frankly, I’m running out of Trump spit.”
Well, Chris Matthews probably has not. But more importantly, how could WaPo editors possibly think readers would be interested to know that a resolutely leftist TV personality decided he can’t stand any connection to Donald Trump?
How many serious and interesting submissions were rejected to make room for what is basically a re-hash of the standard litany of Trump criticisms by an unemployed broadcaster who even liberals consider misogynistic and obnoxious?
Olbermann: “This is the campaign of a PG-rated cartoon character running for president, interrupting a string of insults the rest of us abandoned in the seventh grade only long enough to resume a concurrent string of half-crazed boasts: We’re gonna start winning again! We’re gonna build an eleventy-billion-foot-high wall! We’re not gonna pay a lot for this muffler!
“All this coarseness is largely masking the truth that the Trump campaign is entirely about coarseness. Take away the unmappable comb-over and the unstoppable mouth and the Freudian-rich debates about genitalia, and there is no Trump campaign.”
The only interesting thing here is that Olbermann, later in the piece, called Trump supporters “idiots,” exactly how the Republican and conservative establishment depicts them. If they are correct that Trump is vile and fraudulent what does that make the vast number of Republicans who keep voting for him?
Regardless, Olbermann should, for purely practical reasons, re-consider moving.
With his longstanding New York State tax delinquency possibly crapping up—or shall we say Wempling?–his credit rating, buying or renting another place could prove problematic.
