Former ESPN and MSNBC personality Keith Olbermann once again made a complete fool out of himself when he tried to troll Riley Gaines over her career as an acclaimed NCAA swimming star.
Gaines, who has gone on from her collegiate athletic days at the University of Kentucky to a new career as an outspoken advocate for women’s and girls’ sports, mixed it up with the unhinged leftist crank who has spent the years since being dumped as the liberal network’s featured host holed up in his New York City apartment making self-produced videos and shooting off foul-mouthed missives on Twitter, now known as X.
The former women’s swimming star reacted to remarks from Democrat Nebraska State Senator Megan Hunt attacking the state’s Republican Governor Jim Pillen’s executive order establishing a “women’s bill of rights” to protect biological females from radical transgender incursions into women’s sports when the unhinged Olbermann chose to poke his nose into it.
“Can you just address the reality and move past it? You sucked at swimming. That’s why you lost,” sniped the angry 64-year-old leftist.
Can you just address the reality and move past it? You sucked at swimming. That’s why you lost.
— Keith Olbermann⌚️ (@KeithOlbermann) August 31, 2023
Olbermann’s post was quickly flagged as B.S. by the platform’s community notes, but that was the least of his problems as he was slapped by Gaines and flogged by other users who showered him with the mockery and scorn that he totally invited upon himself.
“Ah, makes sense now why you got fired from ESPN,” Gaines shot back, referring to the left-wing crank’s inability to hold down a job at America’s foremost sports network, not once, but twice.
Ah, makes sense now why you got fired from ESPN. https://t.co/Js2q0NMSxu
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) August 31, 2023
She also provided a visual for the ousted former ESPN employee.
https://t.co/rTyZMNcc34 pic.twitter.com/vGPlXrEJoP
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) August 31, 2023
“The reality is staring you in the face. And you’re a nasty ignorant man. Sucked at swimming,” wrote Professor Emeritus Colin Wight who shared a link to a University of Kentucky webpage listing Gaines’ swimming achievements.
The reality is staring you in the face. And you’re a nasty ignorant man. Sucked at swimming. https://t.co/GxcTCp4kXt
— Colin Wight (@colwight) August 31, 2023
Other X users joined in the fun, whacking the bitter old recluse around like a pinata filled with stupid.
Don’t forget NBC, Current, GQ, Fox Sports, TSN, TBS and the two other times he got fired from ESPN
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 31, 2023
Dude has a rap sheet of getting fired.
— I Am King (@IamKingUSA) August 31, 2023
I hope he never leaves this platform. Pure gold. https://t.co/vpPHrfrgLs
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) August 31, 2023
Community notes for the win
— Kristen (@Kriscilicious) August 31, 2023
Sports analysis from the guy who got fired from three sports analysis jobs.
Or was it four?
— The Sarcasticat (@TheSarcasticist) August 31, 2023
Keith, not everyone has to settle for your destiny of just screaming into their iPhone in their kitchen to an audience of nobody for the rest of their lives.
— Damin Toell (@damintoell) August 31, 2023
It seems he’s in dire need of treatment for advanced stage syphilis.
— King John the Furious (Eerie quiet before the..) (@ZonaSunrise2024) August 31, 2023
He is insane.
— Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) August 31, 2023
— ♠️Audsauce♠️ (@Audjuice9989) August 31, 2023
Imagine being Keith Olbermann and claiming someone sucks at something.
— Kate c (@katec1956) August 31, 2023
Once a dapper, well-spoken, and witty commentator for ESPN and MSNBC, Olbermann has become a mangy and pathetic figure whose obsession with former President Donald J. Trump has had him locked in a yearslong downward spiral and looking more and more desperately in need of an intervention by the day.
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