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Today's commentary is a Rudy roast.
Rudy Giuliani mocked President Obama as a stutterer while giving a campaign speech in New Hampshire. Keith has a deep dislike of Rudy Giuliani and declares open season on Mr. 9-11.
This is what Rudy said,
"When France proposed instituting a no-fly zone, “Our president, the leader of the free world, said, ‘A what? That’s hard! A no fly zone is r-r-r-really hard!’”
Giuliani, according to Keith, "mistook the nuanced leadership of the President and an actual coalition involving Middle Eastern countries, for the worst foreign policy he’s ever seen."
Kieth Olbermann has history with Rudy that goes back to the mid 90's when he was asked to emcee a baseball Hall of Fame event and was to be introduced by Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
The Mayor Giuliani I met was glassy-eyed and a little reminiscent of an automaton. Fran Reiter had a great big booming voice and she was using it emphatically as she ran through the sequence of speakers. “After you speak, you introduce him,” she grabbed me by the shoulders and shoved me in front of the mayor as if I were a two-headed heifer at a county fair. “This is Keith Olbermann. He is from the sports tv network, ESPN. He is the emcee. Got it?”
Giuliani nodded mechanically. Reiter was not satisfied. “Got it? Then repeat it!”
He looked at me. “You’re Keith Olbermann. You’re from the sports tv network, ESPN. You are the emcee.”
They sat together as as the moment neared when Rudy would speak.
He turned to Keith and said,
You’re Keith Olbermann. You’re from the sports tv network, ESPN. You are the emcee.” I agreed with him and he seemed delighted with himself for remembering.
But when the Mayor was on stage and was ready to introduce Keith, he froze and bellowed to Fran, "What's his name?"
Rudy was given the information one more time, and then he said into the mcirophone...
"And here he is, our encee, from ESPM, Keith Oblermann.”
Keith ends this column with a promise.
I’d like to thank the Mayor for thus giving me implicit permission to resume doing my impression of how he stammers and spits and shlobbers whenever he talks, when I return to television in late spring.
I can hardly wait.