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What is OlberBlogging?

OlberBlogging blogs about Keith Olbermann, the MSNBC news program Countdown with Keith Olbermann, NBC Sports Football Night in America with Keith Olbermann and pals, plus other KO news and general minutia.

OlberBlogging spun-off from another Olbermann blog called Either Relevant or True that provided an excellent and witty summary of each Countdown broadcast as well as updated news about Keith. During its three years, ERT attracted a wide group of followers who enjoyed chatting about KO, society and life in general. 

OlberBlogging attempts to recreate the wonderful community of friends ERT brought together while keeping tabs on Keith Olbermann just for the heck of it.

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Who is Keith Olbermann?

Keith Olbermann is an enigma wrapped in a sportscaster inside a journalist (and a guy who appreciates Winston Churchill quotes).

Keith Olbermann hosts Countdown with Keith Olbermann which airs Monday through Friday on MSNBC. Both Olbermann and Countdown transformed the conventional television newscast by combining in-depth interviews on current issues, scintillating assessments of political foibles, and droll observations about our oddball society. 

Olbermann’s passionate and penetrating “Special Comments” unflinchingly and elegantly call out power brokers, politicians, and presidents for their hubris and points them toward their moral center. 

Often compared to another intelligent, bold and literary journalist Edward R. Murrow, Olbermann signs off each Countdown broadcast with his hero’s famous “Good night and good luck” in tribute. Olbermann won the prestigious Edward R. Murrow award for his coverage of the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001, as a reporter for KFWB radio in Los Angeles.

Olbermann first gained fame as a sportscaster. On ESPN’s SportsCenter, Olbermann and his cohort Dan Patrick pioneered a new, witty and entertaining sports broadcasting phenomenon complete with snarky popular catch phrases (“If you’re scoring at home, or even if you’re alone”) still popular today. Olbermann and Patrick recreate their legendary “Big Show” En Fuego during the seasonal Football Night in America, Sundays on NBC.

A respected baseball historian and enthusiast, Olbermann consults for Topps baseball cards and owns one of the most impressive historic baseball card collections. 

Olbermann wrote four books: The Major League Coaches: 1921-1973 (as a teenager); The Big Show: Inside ESPN’s SportsCenter (with Dan Patrick); The Worst Person in the World and 202 Strong Contenders; and Truth and Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration’s War on American Values.

Sadly, Olbermann is allergic to cats. 

 

Who is responsible for Olberblogging?

Our Editor: “The Olberblogger”

Don’t blame Keith Olbermann, the Countdown staff, MSNBC, NBC or anyone associated with him for OlberBlogging. They have no connection with this blog and no responsibility whatsoever for its comments or contents.

Call your blog host Olberblogger/Bodhiness/WinkingBuddha/Houstonian. A sufferer of multi-pseudonym disorder, your host is a writer whose articles have appeared (believe it or not) in books, the New York Times and Seventeen among other publications. In previous lives, she served as a journalist, broadcaster, corporate marketing executive as well as a strategic planner and media officer for NASA. She also authors The Winking Buddha Blog. When not writing, she trains animals, strings tiny beads on thin wires, and volunteers with at-risk youth.

Your blog host just knows the passwords for this site and types up the posts.  The true heart and soul of OlberBlogging are the readers, lurkers and, especially, the commenters and other participants. They are an eclectic bunch: academics, students, postgraduates, anthropologists, computer programmers, authors, lawyers, rocket scientists, photographers, philosophers, social workers, advocates, journalists, teachers, managers, and, perhaps, the occasional Leona Helmsley clone dressed in a muumuu (inside joke).

 

Our Contributors:

 

Samantha 

Samantha is a contributing author for OlberBlogging who believes Mae West when she said “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”  She is a recent graduate, who enjoys spends her free time fundraising for charities, traveling to unique destinations, and having good drinks and conversations with friends.

 

 

Judith Marie

OlberBlogging contributing author Judith Marie is a writer/photographer who lives in Phoenix, AZ. She has traveled the world photographing archaeological and sacred sites throughout Latin America as well as Egypt, Tanzania, Kenya and parts of Greece. Her mother’s cousin was Frank Herbert, author of DUNE. She joined legendary adventurer Thor Heyerdahl for a visit to his archaeological dig in Tucume, Peru, shortly before his death. A mother and pet lover, she attended her first civil rights march in her baby carriage.

 

Leesa ( aka Diogenes2008  )

Leesa frequently provides screen capture photographs for OlberBlogging as well as several Daily KOS diaries. We thank her for all the time she saves us daily!!!