On Tuesday, we were all treated to a rare moment of what appeared to be good news on the Twitter machine.
As we reported at the time, far-left fruitcake Keith Olbermann announced he would no longer be posting there, citing an alleged endorsement from CEO Elon Musk of the "QAnon Pizzagate conspiracy theory" as the final straw.
"After Musk's endorsement of the QAnon Pizzagate conspiracy theory, I won't be posting here any more," Olbermann proclaimed in a lunchtime tweet.
"There are a couple of prescheduled promos for the Podcast, the last runs ~10PM I'm on the other socials under my name or some variation of Countdown With KO/Keith Olbermann," the disgraced former MSNBC/ESPN host went on to write, encouraging his few fans to follow him to other social media platforms.
As I've often said, on any given day, Twitter is an absolute bowl of dumb, so of course anytime someone who contributes to that decides it is time to exit stage left, that is unquestionably welcome news.
Except as is often the case, some of the same folks who make dramatic announcements about quitting Twitter usually end up coming right back, as Olbermann did the very next day.
Though predictable, the especially hilarious part of it was that he claimed in a follow-up tweet that he never said he was leaving Twitter:
Also, I'm sorry you can't read but I never said I was leaving Twitter. I wrote I was no longer posting new material here except for dogs in need.
— Keith Olbermann's X Ghost⌚️ (@KeithOlbermann) November 29, 2023
I never said anything about replies. Especially not to half-witted congresswomen who can't...handle themselves in public.
That so-called "half-witted congresswomen" he was referring to was Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), who previously had written a post essentially saying "good riddance" to Olbermann:
Keith Olbermann, who used this platform to falsely claim my own mother was marching in the Capitol on January 6th, is leaving X because he feels Elon Musk is a conspiracy theorist.
Hard to think of a man who has spewed more false and useless drivel on here than Keith.
We won't miss you!
Do I care that Olbermann is back on Twitter? Outside of the unhinged rantings from Olbermann that sometimes are deranged enough to write about here, no, I don't care one way or another about his presence on Twitter - though admittedly it does make it a tiny bit better of a place when clowns like Olbermann really do leave.
But what his convenient 180 on leaving Twitter brought back to mind is something I wrote a month ago about purported "conservative" David French, another person who put on a very theatrical showing at the time of announcing he was leaving Twitter "for the indefinite future."
To be fair, French so far has been true to his word, at least on that front. But as a point of reference, the day after French waved goodbye to Twitter, alleged "Republican" Adam Kinzinger - not to be outdone - took it a step further, bizarrely writing that he was "mentally preparing" for his exit from the platform - which as of this writing still has not happened.
As I said then, I don't blame anyone who has decided to leave it for whatever reason. What I do wish, though, is that when people decide to do it they leave the drama at the door and just tell people, hey, this is where I'll be now. See ya. And then leave - and save the theatrics for the audience they cultivate at the new place.
Not only that, but I also wish they'd stay away, which Olbermann has not done.
Though I have no hard evidence for this, anecdotal evidence suggests that one big reason people who quit Twitter or any other social media platform come back to it is because they are desperate for the attention, and crave the comments/clicks - even if they are hate comments/clicks, which is probably one big reason why Kinzinger is still slithering around posting the occasional tweet.
Other anecdotal evidence suggests that these same people make such declarations not because they are serious about leaving but because they want people to beg them to stay. As one RedState commenter said in response to my previous post on this topic, it's like doing a hair flip, which is deliberately done to try and make sure people are watching the hair flipper and are paying attention to their every move.
Whatever the case may be, one thing we can thank Olbermann this week for is reminding us that he's still good for a laugh or two if for no other reason than to provide a momentary distraction from the sheer lunacy we're seeing unfold in certain parts of this country right now.
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