Keith Olbermann's Special Comments

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Keith Olbermann occasionally delivers "special comments", commentaries usually several minutes long that are often directed at a political figure, on his MSNBC news show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann. The first commentary specifically designated as a special comment was delivered on August 30, 2006.Olbermann originates and writes his special comments himself, which he has described as a two-day process that begins with "[getting] pissed off" and involves a number of rewrites and rehearsals before the show airs. To date, Olbermann has delivered a total of 48 Special Comments on Countdown. The special comments almost always take the form of criticism of the Bush administration or other conservatives, such as Newt Gingrich or Tom DeLay,. His criticism of Hillary Clinton's response to the comments of Geraldine Ferraro about Barack Obama and the comments aftermath was the first time a special comment has been "directed exclusively at a Democrat." View Less