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Posted on 01/21/2015 1:09:15 PM PST by blueyon
Liberal icon and current ESPN host Keith Olbermann took to Twitter Wednesday night to callously mock Sen. Joni Ernst for her growing up in a poor working family in Red Oak, Iowa.
Ernst spoke of her childhood when she gave the Republican response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address:
“As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save for college, I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardees.
“We were raised to live simply, not to waste. It was a lesson my mother taught me every rainy morning.
“You see, growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry.
“But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet.
“Our parents may not have had much, but they worked hard for what they did have.”
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Olbermann was born January 27, 1959, in New York City, to Marie Katherine (née Charbonier),[13] a preschool teacher, and Theodore Olbermann, a commercial architect.[10] He is of German ancestry.[14] He has one younger sister, Jenna, who was born in 1968.[15] Olbermann grew up in a Unitarian household[16] in the town of Hastings-on-Hudson[17] in Westchester County, and attended Hackley School[10][11] in nearby Tarrytown.
http://www.hackleyschool.org/Page/Admissions/Tuition-and-Financial-Aid
TUITION - BASIC FEES
Tuition – Basic Fee
2014-2015
Covers tuition, lunch, library and laboratory fees, athletic uniforms, school newspaper and literary magazine, and certain mandated tests and trip fees for Grades K–8.
Kindergarten — $33,800 Grade 7 — $37,300
Grade 1 — $33,800 Grade 8 — $37,300
Grade 2 — $33,800 Grade 9 — $39,900
Grade 3 — $33,800 Grade 10 — $39,900
Grade 4 — $33,800 Grade 11 — $39,900
Grade 5 — $37,300 Grade 12 — $39,900
Grade 6 — $37,300
Olbermann is still around? He’s such a lame twit. I thought he was dead.
I was a kid in the late 60's in Illinois. We didn't have bread bags in our house because grandma baked bread. We did have rubbers to put over shoes so we must have been "filthy rich"
Did kids tease you based on the brand of bread bags you wore? or if they matched? Imagine the horror having white Wonderbread on one foot and whole wheat on the other!
Ann Coulter has made a career out of messing with Olbermann and his "phony" Cornell degree.
He has a tough time with her accusations but he doesn't deny any of it, just says it's inaccurate.
I was born 1960 - I remember the bread bags - but I was determined not to wear them - just steps outside I’d rip them off and run. The origins of a NO Nanny Stater!
My grandma lived in Michigan. Oooooooohhh...did she make GREAT homemade bread.
She's been gone 32 years. My cousins and I still talk about her bread, on a regular basis.
No one has been able to come close to making it, even using her hand written recipe.
We figure she used a special ingredient, no one else could replicate.
LOVE.
"...they(instead)want to throw ALL the immigrants out of the country and teach creationism...and all the other goofy stuff..."
...as stupid as he is ugly.
I love the fact Olbie wants to distance himself from his screwed up conceptions of poverty - what a little lord fauntleroy he is!
Full ride nearly half-million. Whew!
said poster had me confused.
Silverspoon-liberal-itis...
Keith OlbermannVerified account
@KeithOlbermann
@GandalfWithagun Hackley didn’t have Kindergarten when I arrived there. In the 8th Grade. What would you like to be wrong about next?
11:08 PM - 20 Jan 2015
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Keith Olbermann KeithOlbermann 17h17 hours ago
@GandalfWithagun My father grew up in apartments with no heat. I was the first in my family to go to college in a century. You know nothing
Gandalf Withagun @GandalfWithagun 17h17 hours ago
@KeithOlbermann So your FATHER grew up poor. And still had enough money to send YOU to college. Your tweet didn’t refute anything I said.
Keith OlbermannVerified account
@KeithOlbermann
@GandalfWithagun Because he and I each made ourselves. My first job paid $9000 a year - in New York. I thought you revered stories like that
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http://keitholbermann.mlblogs.com/2010/03/13/theodore-c-olbermann-1929-2010/
Theodore C. Olbermann, 1929-2010
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Though the financial constraints of his youth made college infeasible, he accomplished the near-impossible, becoming an architect licensed in 40 states. Much of his work was commercial, for a series of shoe store chains and department stores. There was a time in the 1970’s when nearly all of the Baskin-Robbins outlets in the country had been built to his design, and under his direction. Through much of my youth and my early adult life, it was almost impossible to be anywhere in this country and not be a short drive to one of “his” stores.
Cry me a river ...
wiki:
While at Hackley, Olbermann began his broadcasting career as a play-by-play announcer for WHTR. After graduating from Hackley in 1975, Olbermann enrolled at Cornell University at the age of 16.[19] At college, Olbermann served as sports director for WVBR, a student-run commercial radio station in Ithaca.[19] Olbermann graduated from Cornell’s School of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 1979 with a BS in Communication.
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Hackley School is a private college preparatory school located in Tarrytown, New York and is a member of the Ivy Preparatory School League.
http://www.hackleyschool.org/page
We weren’t all that poor but I remember plastic bread bags on real snowy days. It was pretty embarrassing because I was the only one.
Keith, her parents were married.
It’s funny how Olbermann ran to hide behind his father.
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