Danny White
09-02-2008, 01:09 PM
SECRET SERVICE DUE FOR KEITH?
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08292008/gossip/pagesix/secret_service_due_for_keith__126549.htm
MSNBC's increasingly paranoid Keith Olbermann is threatening to quit unless his bosses beef up his security, sources say.
Olbermann - upset to be anchoring at the Democratic National Convention from an outdoor set near Denver's train station - "announced that his bosses [had] better find a more secure location for him to broadcast from at the Republican National Convention [in St. Paul, Minn.] or he's not going," one insider said. "He thinks someone will assassinate him." MSNBC had no comment.
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Even before he left New York, the biggest mouth at MSNBC was worried about his safety. When a car was late to take him to the airport, Olbermann threatened via e-mail to stay home, another insider told Page Six. The blowhard whined to producers, "I could have been attacked on the street."
Olbermann is also allegedly throwing his weight around to muzzle Republican analyst Mike Murphy. On Wednesday, after two days of being bumped, the Time columnist was finally put on the air, but Olbermann was caught on an open microphone demanding, "Let's wrap him up, all right?"
Olbermann and Chris Matthews - big Barack Obama supporters - stopped bickering between themselves long enough Tuesday to attack former Hillary Clinton aide Howard Wolfson, who is now a commentator on arch rival Fox News. Matthews called him a "little toy soldier waiting on the shelf." Olbermann piled on: "Tokyo Rose was the thought that came to my mind."
Wolfson responded: "I'm not gonna take any lectures on how to be a good Democrat from two people who spent the last two years relentlessly attacking Bill and Hillary Clinton . . . It's unfortunate that a news organization with a great tradition like NBC has been taken over by those kinds of antics."
Connie Chung, a former news star of both MSNBC and CBS, told The Wall Street Journal yesterday, "They have to just grow up."
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08292008/gossip/pagesix/secret_service_due_for_keith__126549.htm
MSNBC's increasingly paranoid Keith Olbermann is threatening to quit unless his bosses beef up his security, sources say.
Olbermann - upset to be anchoring at the Democratic National Convention from an outdoor set near Denver's train station - "announced that his bosses [had] better find a more secure location for him to broadcast from at the Republican National Convention [in St. Paul, Minn.] or he's not going," one insider said. "He thinks someone will assassinate him." MSNBC had no comment.
Click here for more TV news
Even before he left New York, the biggest mouth at MSNBC was worried about his safety. When a car was late to take him to the airport, Olbermann threatened via e-mail to stay home, another insider told Page Six. The blowhard whined to producers, "I could have been attacked on the street."
Olbermann is also allegedly throwing his weight around to muzzle Republican analyst Mike Murphy. On Wednesday, after two days of being bumped, the Time columnist was finally put on the air, but Olbermann was caught on an open microphone demanding, "Let's wrap him up, all right?"
Olbermann and Chris Matthews - big Barack Obama supporters - stopped bickering between themselves long enough Tuesday to attack former Hillary Clinton aide Howard Wolfson, who is now a commentator on arch rival Fox News. Matthews called him a "little toy soldier waiting on the shelf." Olbermann piled on: "Tokyo Rose was the thought that came to my mind."
Wolfson responded: "I'm not gonna take any lectures on how to be a good Democrat from two people who spent the last two years relentlessly attacking Bill and Hillary Clinton . . . It's unfortunate that a news organization with a great tradition like NBC has been taken over by those kinds of antics."
Connie Chung, a former news star of both MSNBC and CBS, told The Wall Street Journal yesterday, "They have to just grow up."