The Polarization of Keith Olbermann: A review of his incendiary, conflict-deranged behaviors

For complete podcast episode details, including a transcript, see https://behavior-podcast.com/the-polarization-of-keith-olbermann-a-journey-through-his-incendiary-conflict-deranged-behaviors. In March of 2024, the newsman and sports commentator Keith Olbermann tweeted that the “Supreme Court had betrayed democracy” and called for it to be “dissolved.” This was the second time he’d called for the Supreme Court to be dissolved: he did that also in 2022. This is a review of some of Olbermann’s more unreasonable and incendiary behavior over the last twenty years, with a focus on his political rage and how that relates to America’s toxic polarization problem. Because clearly there are many people around us, like Olbermann, with extreme contempt toward their political opponents, and a lot of biased, unreasonably certain takes about all sorts of events and happenings. What might we learn from Olbermann's behavior?