Olbermann calls open season on the rural South
by Salena Zito
| April 02, 2019 09:03 AM
JACKSON, Miss., — Imagine for a moment you are sitting at your desk in the newsroom when you find out that some celebrity has called for you to be fired from your job, because you reported a story on a local hunter who had bagged a white turkey.
You also find out said celebrity has instructed his two million followers on Twitter to make life for this local hunter “living hell,†because of your story.
That is exactly what happened to Clarion Ledger outdoor reporter Brian Broom earlier this week after ESPN Sports Center anchor Keith Olbermann tweeted about Broom’s report of Hunter Waltman’s well documented account of snagging the rare wild bird on the second day of turkey hunting season in Mississippi on March 16.
“It be rare and beautiful so me should kill it,†the mocking tweet began.
“This pea-brained scumbag identifies himself as Hunter Waltman and we should do our best to make sure the rest of his life is a living hell. And the nitwit clown who wrote this fawning piece should be fired.†— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) March 26, 2019
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