Keith olbermann where is he going

Get Yankees text messages: Cut through the clutter of social media and text during games with beat writers and columnists. Plus, exclusive news and analysis every day. Sign up now. Thank you for relying on us to provide the journalism you can trust. Please consider supporting NJ. He likely has a lot he wants to say that he simply couldn't at ESPN. So this may not be the last we've seen of him at the four-letter. ET on Wednesday. And while only once was it unpleasant, this time it is truly on happy terms.

Olbermann revealed on Oct. That project, which launched the day after his announcement, will free up Olbermann to return to left-leaning political musings that got him in hot water at some of his previous gigs. Everything else, particularly on health care reform, he was right and I was wrong. I thought he needed to be in there with a mallet, pounding away from Day One. Instead, he came in at the end and saved it.

Two years ago I attended an off-the-record lunch he held for columnists. It was like watching a great play—just masterful. Al is a big fan of that. It was a risky thing to do. The way it came about is a great story. I read to my father in the hospital, and the thing he enjoyed most was Thurber.

He was my public-relations agent and my biggest fan. One time, he said I should color my hair. My dad had a comb-over. The last person on earth I want to listen to about fucking hair is you. Were your politics close? He was much more cynical than I am. The first thing I remember politically is having a baby sitter, because my folks were going next door to eat with the neighbors.

And before I went to bed, they were already back in the house, and my dad was in a rage. They had been talking politics, and the neighbors called my father a communist.

You and Glenn Beck are both leaving your networks at the same time. What do you think of him as a broadcaster? People who think his leaving Fox News was some kind of change in tone caused by the Giffords thing are as wrong about that as they are when they apply it to me. Any broadcasters you admire these days? Within news, no. But David Letterman never gets the credit he deserves.

The other one who is tremendously relevant in terms of his grasp of reality and America is Craig Ferguson. His openings are marvelous, and often brilliantly insightful. Comedians are the only ones paid to tell the truth in public discourse. A good public-relations man keeps you away from the public, and if you have relations, he keeps that hidden. So you aspire to the honesty of a comedian?

I have the opportunity to rebuild it better and start looking for people to do the next hour and the next hour, the whole operation. Photograph by Ken Schles.