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June 20, 2008 | celebrity | editor | 0 Comments
Tim Russert was widely admired in the world of journalism, and so when he died suddenly last Friday, his colleagues were understandably shocked and broken hearted. Except for MSNBC anchors Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann. For their reaction, replace that part about “shocked and broken hearted” with “squealing with delight”. Page Six says…
Matthews was heard loudly discussing what seemed to be his strategy for landing Russert's "Meet the Press" show at Wednesday's memorial reception for the NBC Washington bureau chief at the Kennedy Center in DC. After Brian Williams, Carl Bernstein, David Gergen, Barbara Walters and NBC brass eulogized their friend, Matthews huddled with an unidentified "agent type" and seemed to be plotting.According to our spy, "Chris, with his loud voice, was going over a pitch for Tim's job. He was saying, 'You know, Tim's thing was this, and my thing is that.' It was unbelievably tacky."Meanwhile, Matthews' MSNBC cable cohort Olbermann, who was also at the memorial, is "threatening to quit if he isn't installed as Russert's replacement," another insider said. "I know, it sounds ludicrous, but, then, Keith Olbermann is ludicrous."
Olbermann is a fuckin creep. I never missed a show when he and Dan Patrick did Sportscenter, but today he’s an insufferable jackass. And he looks like a pervert. Mark my words, one day you’ll wake up and there will be sketches of him on flyers and you’ll see the FBI confiscating his home computers.