Keith Olbermann! Come on down! You're the next TV celebrity whose death has been falsely reported on the Internet!The MSNBC Countdown's Wikipedia page reported he had died earlier this morning, possibly due to complications from celiac disease.
I sent emails to two networks officials to confirm this jarring claim. Jeremy Gaines, MSNBC's vice president of communications, responded that he is certain the entry is a "hoax" and that he and other network officials were working to correct it. The section on Olbermann's death has since been removed from the page.
It's been just one of many death hoaxes in the wake of the wave of celebrity deaths that seems to have permeated our consciousness and national news coverage in the last week. Most notably, actor Jeff Goldblum reportedly passed away while filming a movie in New Zealand, only to announce on The Colbert Report that he did not die, and then recant his words in the very same segment. Quite frankly, I can't be sure that any of us are alive at this very moment.
Unfortunately, several other celebrity non-deaths have been severely under reported because of the non-stop coverage of Goldblum's untimely living in the national press. Famous faces like Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, and Ellen Degeneres have all not died in the past week.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to these people and their friends and families during their time of joy.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-01-2009 @ 10:42AM
Han Solo said...
> Keith Olbermann is not dead
But is RATINGS (and brain) ARE dead.
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7-01-2009 @ 8:19PM
I said...
"Exclusive! Keith Olbermann is not dead"
Too bad
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7-01-2009 @ 12:39PM
vickie johnson said...
we could only wish - at least that he had gone away forever.
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7-10-2009 @ 10:00AM
WZ said...
I can see the obituary now, Olbermann suffocates from having his head too far up his ass.
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7-01-2009 @ 9:27PM
StewartIII said...
ChickaBOOMer: Not Dead
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2009/07/not-dead.html
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7-02-2009 @ 1:11PM
youarealldouchenozzles said...
Very classy comments, Fox News drones.
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7-03-2009 @ 10:48AM
Dot Welsh said...
Keith Olbermann Bah humbug!!
He is about the most obnoxious person "In the world".
He is sick.His comments are boring. Take a hike
Olbermann. PLEASE
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7-20-2009 @ 7:50PM
Rodney Stenborg said...
I need Mr. Olbermann's honest opinion: Due to the economy (especially in Detroit, MI) are the Detroit Tigers franchise going to be history?
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7-27-2009 @ 8:06PM
Suzanne Lanoue said...
So why the hell isn't he on his show any more then? No wonder people think he's dead...
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8-13-2009 @ 6:53PM
AmericanMuslim said...
Dear Right Wing Nutters,
Like that rev. who was mentioned on Keith's show, you may not wish a free-thinker dead!! You have to get off your triple X-wearing Triple K-branded doofuses ( I am not sure how the greek would conjugate here =)) and come get some. God Bless him he takes a vacation and you blue-people loose your britches. I know that the three Stooges, Boss Limp Uh! Bill O and Becky Beck are so very un-slanted and steadfast in the righteous path to the 'golden rule'. Leave Keith alone and go get yourselves another bag of Pork Rhindes or something or go Clear the stumps out of 'W's ranch. Since you people managed to alienate Aaron McGruder, Keith is all I got left of A Righteous American Shining Path!!
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