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Keith Olbermann: I can’t stand to live in a Trump building anymore
Washington Post ^ | March 8, 2016 | Keith Olbermann

Posted on 03/08/2016 2:59:30 PM PST by TroutStalker

Okay, Donnie, you win.

I’m moving out.

Not moving out of the country — not yet anyway. I’m merely moving out of one of New York’s many buildings slathered in equal portions with gratuitous gold and the name “Trump.” Nine largely happy years with an excellent staff and an excellent reputation (until recently, anyway) — but I’m out of here.

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. Frankly, I’m running out of Trump spit.

And, yes, I’m fully aware that I’m blaming a guy with the historically unique fashion combination of a cheap baseball cap and Oompa Loompa makeup for coarsening politics even though, out of the two of us, I’m the one who has promulgated a “Worst Persons in the World” list for most of the past decade. That’s how vulgar this has all become. It’s worse even than Worst Persons.

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. Donald Trump’s few forays into actual issues suggest he is startlingly unaware of how the presidency or even ordinary governance works.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: delicateflower; derangement; ismellfear; sensitive
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To: TroutStalker

“degraded the public discourse”

One of The Most Laughable Statements Ever

Esp considering who it’s coming from

Hey Obie, taken that blue pill lately?


41 posted on 03/08/2016 3:18:56 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Racial pandering really worked well for Jebbie)
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To: TroutStalker

The Washington Post published this??


42 posted on 03/08/2016 3:18:59 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: TroutStalker

Keith who?


43 posted on 03/08/2016 3:21:28 PM PST by Wilderness Conservative
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To: TroutStalker

Get him outa here. Confiscate his deposit.

44 posted on 03/08/2016 3:22:52 PM PST by McGruff (Trump should sue the Republican Party for Breach of Contract.)
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To: TroutStalker

Liberals make ALL their economic decisions based on their politics. Idiots.

“Won’t eat at Chick-fil-A, they treat gays badly.”
“Won’t ... because ....gays.”


45 posted on 03/08/2016 3:22:58 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Fired by ESPN


46 posted on 03/08/2016 3:23:30 PM PST by scooby321
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To: TroutStalker

I thought Olbermann moved to Canada in 2001?


47 posted on 03/08/2016 3:24:32 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: TroutStalker

I’m sure he would like living in an Islamic hellhole instead. /sarc


48 posted on 03/08/2016 3:26:01 PM PST by Jean2 (ox)
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To: scooby321

Fired by ESPN for being too conservative?


49 posted on 03/08/2016 3:26:21 PM PST by Wilderness Conservative
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To: TroutStalker

I want coarse...I want rude.....
But most of all I want effective....
Trump is all the above....

Destroy the Federal lobbying machine pandered to by both sides...Gut the Federal government and get rid of the bloat.....Tear the M.F. down!

I despise the GOPe more than the Democrats... at least the Democrats have been honest as to what they are.... The Repubs have been lying and manipulating us for years....

Get rid all the Repub leadership from Mitch McConnell to Paul Ryan on down! They are liars, cheats and just general scumballs who have sold their electorate and this country down the $hithole to maintain power and enrich their own pockets...

Enough already! Let’s get the tar and feathers ready!


50 posted on 03/08/2016 3:26:36 PM PST by nevergore
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To: TroutStalker

Bye bye KO - we never liked you anyways.

Don’t let the screen door hit ya on your way out.


51 posted on 03/08/2016 3:28:14 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

absolutely


52 posted on 03/08/2016 3:29:10 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: TroutStalker

Keith who?


53 posted on 03/08/2016 3:29:11 PM PST by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe)
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To: TroutStalker
Keef seems to be spewing some more of his usual garbage but, for some reason, it is hard to hear him clearly.


HeadUpMy photo head-up-ass1_zpsa0939324.jpg

54 posted on 03/08/2016 3:29:18 PM PST by Col Freeper (Liberals: Devoted members of the "Church of the Eternally Offended".)
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To: TroutStalker

It’s great when you can get rats to deport themselves.


55 posted on 03/08/2016 3:29:47 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are. Go Ted.)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Katy Tur is still a leftist biting at Trump’s heels. I watched her in action a month or two ago.


56 posted on 03/08/2016 3:30:30 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: CodeToad
How to throw away a $200,000/yr job in one easy video.


57 posted on 03/08/2016 3:32:14 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: TroutStalker

He can move to Detroit, a democratic paradise.


58 posted on 03/08/2016 3:32:46 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: TroutStalker

So did Olbermann lose his lease and is trying to make lemonade out of lemons? (No idea if this is true so it must be MSM ready.)


59 posted on 03/08/2016 3:34:52 PM PST by Truth29
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To: TroutStalker

MSNBC found him unemployable... That says it all.


60 posted on 03/08/2016 3:38:56 PM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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