What is Keith Olbermann?
{{refimprove|date= August 2010}} [[File:Keith Olbermann - small.jpg|100px|right|thumb|Keith Olbermann]] '''Keith Olbermann''' (born January 27, 1959) is a former progressive<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30725.html|title=Keith Olbermann joins call to kill bill|accessdate=2010-03-11|last=Barr|first=Andy|publisher=Politico|date=2009-12-17}}</ref> male television talk show host and liberal political commentator on [[NBC]]'s and [[Microsoft]]'s cable news channel [[MSNBC]], where he was the host of the show [[Countdown with Keith Olbermann]]. On his show, he was often critical of conservatives such as [[Bill O'Reilly]] and [[George W. Bush]]. Some compared him to O'Reilly, except that Olbermann was to the left and O'Reilly is to the right. Before being on political shows, Olbermann worked for [[ESPN]] as a [[sportscaster]]. He once hosted the ESPN sports news show [[SportsCenter]]. He had his show on [[MSNBC]], but was fired shortly after Comcast's takeover of NBC Universal in January 2011. He then moved to [[Current TV]], partially owned by [[Al Gore]], but was fired after less than a year there. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://current.com/ Current TV Website] *[http://current.com/shows/countdown/ Countdown Page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110624233717/http://current.com/shows/countdown/ |date=2011-06-24 }} *[https://twitter.com/iAMOlbermann Keith Olbermann on Twitter] {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Olbermann, Keith}} [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:1959 births]] [[Category:Cable television personalities]]