The Worst of the Worst: A Look Back at Keith Olbermann's Most Outrageous Quotes

The Worst of the Worst: A Look Back at Keith Olbermann's Most Outrageous Quotes

"What would you do, sir, if terrorists were killing 45,000 people every year in this country? Well, the current health care system, the insurance companies, and those who support them are doing just that....Because they die individually of disease and not disaster, [radio host] Neal Boortz and those who ape him in office and out, approve their deaths, all 45,000 of them — a year — in America. Remind me again, who are the terrorists?"

— MSNBC's Keith Olbermann in a "Quick Comment" on Countdown, January 5, 2010. [MP3 audio]

"In Scott Brown, we have an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, teabagging supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees. In any other time in our history, this man would have been laughed off the stage as unqualified and a disaster in the making by the most conservative of conservatives.”

— MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on Countdown, January 18, 2010, the night before Massachusetts’ special election.

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