Posted on 03/15/2010 2:13:08 PM PDT by Justaham
Keith Olbermann’s father, who in his waning days played something of an unlikely role in the super-heated health care debate, died Saturday in New York of complications stemming from a surgery last September.
Theodore C. Olbermann, who had worked as an architect and designed most of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlors built in the 1970s, was 80. On his prime-time MSNBC television show, Keith Olbermann cited his father’s health struggles and the medical care he received in urging Congress to overhaul the nation’s health care system — a cause the liberal host has championed.
In a blog post after his father’s passing, Olbermann praised the care his father received and called him “as much my hero now, as he was when I was 5 years old.”
On his show, Olbermann had argued that everyone should have access to the care his father did. And, in an emotional commentary last month, Olbermann revealed he had previously discussed end-of-life care with his father and that his father had recently asked to be killed, a plea Olbermann said he discussed with doctors caring for his father.
He blasted Republican critics of the health overhaul who labeled as “death panels” proposed Medicare-funded counseling in which patients discussed end-of-life issues with their doctors. “It‘s a life panel — and damn those who call it otherwise to hell,” Olbermann said.
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my condolences - even fools have feelings
Sorry about his passing, but look on the bright side, he doesn’t have to watch his prodigeny embarrass him nightly. So there is justice in the universe.
I didn’t know he had human parents, may his father R.I.P..
RIP, Father of KO. What you have wrought (spawned) is still a
jerk, he lives in his own Hell!
Did his Obit mention an apology?
“It‘s a life panel — and damn those who call it otherwise to hell,”
Is he sure his father died?
He might be hiding.
Sad story but I still can’t stand the wussy.
Using his father’s death to push socialism? Wow.
If his father was killed, shouldn't that be the headline?
You mean the wooz is Keith Oldbirdmann. :-)
Sorry your son used the occasion of your death as a disingenuous political soapbox. I'm sure you tried to raise him better than that.
....probably from embarrassment having sired such a freak.
Re the 80 year old father’s death — too bad about that.
Re KO’s continuing appearances on TV — now THAT’S a tragedy.
Well said
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I damn Keith Olbermann to hell for what he did with regard to his father.
When Keith Olbermann asks “to be killed”, he will not have to beg.
Yeah, at least this means we won’t be seeing KO on television for a while.
To bear such a burden as to have such a son.
My sympathies to the man, may he rest in peace.
May he rest in peace. (I didn’t know one could die of shame.)
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