Ex-MSNBC host Keith Olberman was reprimanded on Monday for not being a “legitimate progressive” against Sen. Kirsten Cinema – while claiming he dated the MP more than a decade ago.
Olberman, a longtime “SportsCenter” host turned liberal political commentator, took aim at Arizona Democrats in response to GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who referred to Sinema as “the most effective first-term senator” he has ever seen.
“When we dated, in 2010-11, Kirsten was a legal progressive, to my left,” Olberman tweeted. “Now it has embraced the political industry” [trademark] Where there is only process, not policy, and never people.”
Olberman, who was fired from MSNBC a decade ago, said it would be the “right solution” for cinema to become the next host of NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
The reaction was swift, with some joking on Twitter that the cinema – who is openly bisexual – He had changed his political and personal tastes after his relationship with Olbermann.
“No wonder had cinema become a libertarian, it would have concluded that progressives like Keith Olbermann are completely unbearable,” Political Election Conjecture accounts. tweeted,
“It all took Kristen dating Keith Olberman for cinema to stop being progressive, spending the rest of her career angering Democrats, and becoming bisexual. Makes sense,” GOP Strategist Greg Price wrote,
another chimed In: “It is not at all shocking that Keith Olbermann’s ancestors want to go so far from him as to cross political aisles.”
“Keith Olberman was dating Kristen Cinema a decade ago and still hanging on there’s a plot twist I didn’t see coming,” another Told, “Go ahead man, it’s embarrassing.”
“… and now we know why he is no longer among men,” cracked Attorney and podcast host Jeff Bleherwho said in another tweet: “The idea of telling a story on a person I’ve ever had a personal relationship with (I mean) Real personal, you understand)? I’ll shoot myself god-n head. However, I was born with at least a sense of shame, which sets me apart from this man.”
Others pointed to Olberman’s history of dating prominent media women, including MSNBC anchor Katy Toor and Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
“I think I’m starting to see your problem, Keith,” tweeted Spectator USA contributing editor Stephen L. Miller, who said: “Keith has a knack for dating women who are all more successful than him.”
“Soft launching the fact that you dated Kirsten Cinema,” said Boston journalist Sam Mintz, along with screenshots of Olberman’s previous tweets attacking Cinema.
Cinema has become notorious for taking a firm stand against his left-wing Democratic Party allies since President Biden took office.
In January this year, he was criticized by members of his own party Senate Democrats voted against the effort To pass two pieces of comprehensive election reform legislation by replacing or eliminating the chamber’s 60-vote filibuster.
Far-left representative. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) even said she could not see a “compelling case” as to why cinema should continue to represent Arizona in the Senate.
“She has proven herself to be an obstacle to the right to vote in the United States,” New York Rep. Told MSNBC host Mehdi Hassan after the vote.