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Far-left talking head Keith Olbermann has been getting pummeled on Twitter for trying to connect a story about a hero student who died after charging at the Michigan high school shooter this week to what Olbermann termed the "Trumpist Fascism" of the shooter's mother — as well as Barstool Sports and its founder, Dave Portnoy.
Barstool Sports ran a story Wednesday about Tate Myre — a 16-year-old football player for Oxford High School — who was killed after reportedly charging at and trying to disarm the fellow student who also fatally shot two other classmates.
After Barstool posted a tweet about the piece, Olbermann barged in and — with a handful of words — essentially stole the spotlight from Myre by making the story about former President Donald Trump and the alleged "Trumpist Fascism" of the shooter's mother, Barstool Sports, and Portnoy.
This kid died to stop a school shooter whose mother echoed the Trumpist Fascism of @stoolpresidente and @barstoolsportshttps://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1466121181631762440\u00a0\u2026— Keith Olbermann (@Keith Olbermann) 1638407331
He followed that up with a tweet highlighting excerpts from a Daily Beast story that points a finger at the shooter's parents.
Olbermann's accusatory tweet to his nearly 1 million followers elicited a massive "ratio" — meaning that comments (about 11,000 as of Thursday morning) far outnumbered likes (about 5,700 as of Thursday morning).
While a number of folks actually agreed with Olbermann, many commenters were angry at and disgusted with the leftist pundit — including Portnoy himself:
Dude wtf is wrong with you?https://twitter.com/keitholbermann/status/1466212735113383941\u00a0\u2026— Dave Portnoy (@Dave Portnoy) 1638408162
Here's a sampling of the rest of the outrage directed toward Olbermann:
For all of Olbermann's faults, he's not one to shy away from the spotlight or criticism — and amid the firestorm around him, he simply doubled down:
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And previous to his tweet about "Trumpist Fascism," Olbermann posted the following:
Can we PLEASE approach this the way the fascists were, were this kid from a wildly liberal family?\n\nMICHIGAN SCHOOL SHOOTER WAS SON OF TRUMPIST GUN NUTS?https://www.thedailybeast.com/ethan-crumbley-identified-as-oxford-high-school-michigan-mass-shooter\u00a0\u2026— Keith Olbermann (@Keith Olbermann) 1638405848
As you probably already know, this wasn't the first time Olbermann elicited large-scale outrage: