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Keith Olbermann Tries to Give Elon Biz Advice, It Doesn’t Go Well When Elon Responds

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The continued freakout of leftists over Elon Musk owning Twitter is a continuing source of entertainment. They’re so upset that liberals are no longer controlling the platform and that people are now permitted to challenge the prevailing narrative they are pushing. It’s just something to see.

One of the people who just can’t seem to deal with it is Keith Olbermann.

I wrote earlier about how Twitter owner Elon Musk had posted a video of Jan. 6 defendant Jacob Chansley urging people to be peaceful and go home outside the Capitol. This appears to have been after he was inside the building. Musk made the point that he hadn’t been violent to anyone, while walking around with the police, plus he urged people to go home. In response, someone painted him as MAGA. Musk said he wasn’t MAGA, but he was concerned about fairness and justice.

That’s when Olbermann lost it. If you can believe it, he appeared to be trying to get Musk suspended from his own platform, claiming Elon was “denying a violent event.”

Now, Olbermann doesn’t seem to get it; there are no longer liberals rules to suppress speech you don’t like that are pulled out of the air like that. There is no such “rule” because we no longer live in Twitter Stasi-land. Moreover, Musk was not “denying a violent event” — he was saying that Chansley had not been violent with anyone, which is quite true. It’s Olbermann who was not correct. Musk wasn’t violating any Twitter rules by posting the truth.

Musk asked him if he had considered a career in comedy. After all, Olbermann keeps moving from job to job; he’s been reduced to being a podcaster. Maybe being a clown is the right fit for Olbermann, since he’s already there.

But Olbermann kept digging that hole, asking if Musk had “considered a career in business.”

Musk teased him back—since Olbermann didn’t seem to understand—that he did “hope to succeed in business.” That’s when Olbermann said something truly funny, that Musk should take his advice on business.

It didn’t go well. Olbermann got ratioed into next week.

Yes, that thing about the dog was true, as we reported. That’s how desperate for validation from Twitter Keith Olbermann is.

Musk is one of the richest men in the world, who has several businesses which have done ground-breaking things. And Olbermann is…a guy who yells at people on the internet. It’s not even close. Going from job to job in liberal media is not a “career in business,” nor is it success. It’s the opposite. It’s a “career” in propaganda pushing. Yet, even that hasn’t gone very well for Olbermann. He spends his days throwing tantrums on social media. So, he’s the last person who should be talking to anyone else about taking his advice. That’s some Grade-A-level liberal delusion right there.

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Amy Swearer owns Keith Olbermann in tweet

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I have a confession to make.

I used to be a fan of Keith Olbermann.

Now, before you get worked up, it was when he was just a gun on ESPN. It was before he decided he needed to get into discussing politics. I can’t say it was before he was deranged, mostly because I don’t know when his derangement started, but it was before it was so obvious to the rest of us.

Why am I talking about Olbermann, though?

Well, probably because he stepped in it again.

It started with a simple tweet:

Now, this is a nothing story. It won’t do much of anything, though I find it amusing and would love to see it pass, but it’s unlikely to be signed into law by this administration, so it’s nothing in the grand scheme of things.

Olbermann, however, had to try and show off a bit and replied with this:

That’s a bold statement to make. After all, how can one keep and bear arms if they don’t actually own any? It makes no sense.

Yet Twitter isn’t exactly a venue known for reasoned debate. It’s a platform for pithy one-liners and that level of stupid is likely to require a lot more than 240 characters. It’ll take, I don’t know, a thousand words, maybe?

Luckily, Twitter also allows pictures, and Heritage Foundation’s Amy Swearer used to beautifully.

That’s right, a screenshot from Dictionary.com showing just how wrong Olbermann is.

Beautiful.

However, let’s also face one inescapable fact. Olbermann is far from the only person to try to get hyperliteral on the Second Amendment, generally without actually knowing the text particularly well.

First, it’s funny that the people who declare abortion a constitutional right or cry about the separation of church and state would get that literal about the specific words used in the Second Amendment. Neither the phrase “separation of church and state” nor the word “abortion” appears, either, but suddenly that’s not an issue. Funny how that shakes out.

Second, though, is that a lot of people trip over themselves over this attempt at being literal. They claim that the Second Amendment says nothing about carrying guns, despite protecting the right to “bear arms.” It’s not even a term that’s particularly archaic. We still talk about people’s “cross to bear,” for example. People know that bearing something can mean carrying it.

I mean, at least the phrase “well regulated” is rarely used today in the same manner it was in the 1780s. I get why people get confused on that one, though claims that it justifies gun control are still wrong. Yet words like “keep” and “bear” aren’t remotely in the same camp.

So why go down such an empty and fruitless path in an effort to try and oppose the Second Amendment by claiming it doesn’t stay things it clearly does?

In my more charitable moments, I have to believe it’s simply because they don’t know the text. They don’t know what the words actually are, so they assume there’s no mention of something because they don’t know that there is.

Then in my less charitable moods, I just figure they’re lying and hoping people don’t know any better.

Regardless, Olbermann got “owned” by Swearer. He should probably be used to being owned on Twitter by now.