Keith Olbermann Rips 'Scumbag' Bill Maher for Bringing HBO Show Back During Hollywood Strike: F**k You, Bill
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Extreme left-wing bomb thrower and fired ESPN commentator Keith Olbermann took a blowtorch to HBO comedian Bill Maher in an expletive-laden attack on social media Thursday for deciding to get his show back on the air and disregarding the Hollywood writers and actors strike. Olbermann’s Sept. 14 attack came after Variety reported that Maher is putting his HBO Real Time show back into production without writers despite the strike that is lumbering onward without an end in sight. “Without writers, the new weekly SCAB edition of ‘Real Time With @billmaher’...
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