By:
Nicole Belle on Monday, September 17th, 2007 at 8:50 AM - PDT
Keith Olbermann is recovering from emergency surgery to remove his appendix. The surgery occured late Friday.
You can send get well wishes to countdown@msnbc.com. Keith is scheduled to return to Countdown on Wednesday.
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hope all is well with Kieth ,he is a lone voice in the wilderness
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Do you suppose BillO has a voodoo doll?
Put it in a jar and sell it on e-Bay Keith!
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Well, at least it wasn’t pancreatic cancer this time…
Here’s hoping KO will be fine and back on the TV tout suite.
Oh, and LIAMD? So much for compassionate conservatism. Feel free to go stick your head in a blender.
Reich-wingers are probably praying for his demise….in a “Christian” sort of way
LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder @ 2:
The milk of human kindness. Ahhh, another compassionate conservative.
I was wondering why he wasn’t on Sunday Night football…hopefully he will be on his feet in no time. Lets hope Bill Orally isn’t at the hospital with his loofah waiting for sponge bath time.
LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder @ 2:
Go away LIAMD, you piece of shit.
Anyone that actually quotes Weiner-Savage clearly is an unhinged and perverse subhuman.
The CIA did it. They were out of live cancer cells in the lab and the Russians won’t share their stash of polonium. All that was lying around was some appendicitis that dates back to the Wild Bill days. Initiative and boredom got the best of them and wham-o…Keith’s got pretty new appendectomy scar!
Keith Olbermann’s appendix: Worst organ in the World!
Get well soon!
NevadaBlue @ 12:
lol.
LIAMD brings to mind an interesting question … how many cons are making similar comments? And how much media play does their praying-for-death get? Surely comments like this will be highlighted by people like BOR who are ever so concerned about the level of discourse in blogs.
Feel free to go stick your head in a blender
Will, sticking it’s head into a blender is too good for it. I’d advise pouring honey over it, tethering it to an anthill full of red ants, in 120 degree heat in the Mojave Dessert for that remark regarding KO.
And, he’ll be back on the air on Wednesday. I just hope it isn’t too soon after his surgery, but then again, the marvels of modern medicine and all that.
Get Well Soon KO … We all missed you on Sunday.
AW @ 14:
Hannity and O’Reilly made sure to report any negative comment from “left wing blogs” about Tony Snowjob’s cancer.
i hope they test it for poisons.
Could this be God punishing him for speaking out against the Iraq war?
I think so.
Think about it. God tells Bush to invade Iraq to avenge the attackers of 9/11 (Saddam). Then Democrats get in the way and make it impossible for Rumsfeld to finish the job. Then guys like Olbermann keep spreading facts that make it look like Bush is an idiot.
If I were God, I think I might smite his appendix.
I smell a conspiracy.
That’s the GOP trying to put Keith in that pleasant, restful Terry Shiavo state.
Good luck, Keith! Hurry back. We need you.
But, I would check history and find out if anything bad happened to the last person whose show kicked Billo’s ass!
Keep your eye on the falafel guy.
No big deal. He need a couple of days off.
LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder @ 2:
Damn…they are sure letting you freaks out of your cages today…
Quick…better get back there…before you miss out on feeding time…
Compassionate & Con-servative???
http://www.latimes.com/news/sc.....ome-center
According to that study…con-servatives can’t think….I think after that post above…the defense rests….
Get well Keith!
I had the same surgery 6 weeks ago….take it easy…don’t rush back.
Come back soon, Keith, so you can continue to kick Bill-O’s ass!
Bercebu48 @ 23:
On the contrary Bercebu….you can die from complications and if its not detected and bursts before being removed, this has also lead to death.
Mine was gangrenous (my apologies for those who haven’t eaten yet) and burst while it was being removed….complications followed and I’m still healing…
Hopefully Keith didn’t have any complications and won’t experience any while he is healing.
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Appendectomy? Nah, I wouldn’t be surprised if the real keith Olbermann was just offed by the CIA, and they need a few days to finish training his doppelganger…
Bercebu48 @ 23:
Not if it burst and there is infection. It can be quite serious. I had mine out right as it was bursting (extremely painful), so they thankfully caught it in time and I was back on my feet in 3 days. I know someone who’s appendix burst and he developed an infection. Was in the hospital for almost three weeks with bouts of 104 fever and vomiting. Lost about 20 pounds and looked like sh*t when he got home. The infection can kill you if the sepsis spreads into the blood stream.
So, Countdown will actually be watchable for a few days?
Get well Keith,
This type of emergency appendectomy statistically is shown to be caused by frequent listening to Bill O’ Rielly………………………………………
liberalasskicker @ 20:
I honestly have trouble telling if people are kidding or not these days. When you try to say something so outrageous that it’s obviously a joke, it just sounds like something you’d hear on fox.
KO’s interview in this month’s Playboy was quite good.
I understand that John Stossel is already working on a documentary about how Olbermann would have waited six months for treatment in Canada.
First, get well soon Keith. You are “a voice in the wilderness” on the MSM.
Second, I find many people on the right just plain sick. The comments by some on here rejoicing at Keith’s troubles are simply incredible. I agree with an earlier poster that when snowjob had his cancer problems I saw nothing on the left the would compare. That’s not to say there was nothing, just that I saw none. This seems to be what defines the right. They want all those on the left to simply die. It’s just sad. And shows once again that there is no way to compramise with the right. For them it’s “my way or the highway.”
There’s nothing more I can say. Get well Keith, and hurry back. We need you and people like you more and more.
E @ 34:
It’s gotta be parody, right? No person with brains would open themselves up to counter arguments by claiming he knows what God wants and also knows God speaks to the shrub. And from what he infers, I guess God didn’t mean to really hand down the commandment of “Thou Shalt not Kill”.
The one I love most in this parody, however, is the line about Olbermann spreading facts that make it look like gw is an idiot. Perfect!
Get well soon, Keith!
God, I hope nothing happens to him while he’s in recovery… He will have friends and family watching over him, right?
KO just a little heads up. If you wake in the middle of the night to see fredo and Andrew Card staring down at you, its just the drugs, go back to sleep. Get back soon!
Wait for it. Reichwingers will make fun of Olbermann for accepting anaesthtic for his appendectomy, instead of biting down on a bullet like John Wayne would’ve.
liberalasskicker @ 20:
Nah, he’s into drowning people like in Noah’s day and New Orleans, because He’s pissed at his name being dragged into Iraq.
We need Keith back on the air - Get well my friend. Keith is the only one who even remotely comes close to putting the cable media somewhat in balance. When you’ve got BillO, Glenn Beck, Brit Hume, Tucker Carlson…OK, mostly FoxNoise spitting right-wing ideology on a nightly basis we need someone to call them out when blatant lies are relayed to the American people.
This war and many other things about this administration are unjust. Someone on TV has to have the balls to call them on their lies.
Get well K & speedy recovery, from all the crew at ANARCHY-TV.COM !
God, that sucks. Appendicitis is one of the most painful things one can experience in this life.
Dr. Matt @ 7:
Oxymoron Doc, real Christians wouldn’t do that. Call them what they are …. anti-christ.
Mike Mid City @ 45:
no real christians WOULD do that.
Freakaloin @ 46:
No, not real Christians. Don’t let anyone who claims to be Christian and talks about Gods retribution or wishing people dead go unchallenged.
Christ said, “Many will come and call in my name. By their fruits you will know them.”
I’m not looking for an theocratic argument here, if you don’t believe, just say so. But to call these people Christians is to crucify Jesus all over again and offensive.
Get well soon, Keith
From a VERY loyal viewer, all best wishes for a speedy recovery. Stay well, Keith, the country needs you.
All well wishes… You rock, Keith. I like many sane Americans never miss the show and get a deep sinking feeling when at 8pm I hear someone ELSE’s voice say, “Which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow?!”
Be well. See ya soon.
I understand that at one time Catholic priests used to read the Service of the Dead over living persons as a method to kill them.
You know, he wouldn’t need an appendectomy if he’d gotten his appendix removed as a child like the rest of us (er, well, just me). It sucks, though, because he won’t be able to laugh for a while without lots of pain…
Get well, Keith. I’m surprised you don’t blow a blood vessel on a regular basis with the news you have to report.
Don’t you go anywhere Keith.
We need you.
Get well soon Keith! We LOVE you!
Mike Mid City @ 45:
Hence, the term “Christian” was placed in quotes in the original post. 99% of reich-wingers that claim to be “Christian” are hardly Christian in any way or form.