We do not all the time agree with Keith Olbermann, however that does not imply we do not respect him. The dude landed some solid tail again in the day. He nonetheless does, in all probability, and good for him. But that is not why he is being honored as a Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year. Not precisely.
We selected to acknowledge Olbermann for talking his fact after years of struggling in silence, and for highlighting a really actual however much-forsaken section of the inhabitants: Battered males.
We are sometimes fast to dismiss them. We stigmatize and scorn them with mockery. That wants to vary, and possibly it’ll now {that a} superstar of Olbermann’s magnitude has outed himself as a male survivor of home abuse.
Olbermann was understandably disgusted after watching his kind of enticing ex-lover, MSNBC anchor Katy Tur, bully her husband into getting a vasectomy and turning it right into a feminist publicity stunt. He needed to communicate out. “Bringing this up is obviously painful for me,” Olbermann confessed on his Countdown podcast. “That’s why I have not done it over the course of 15 years, but I’ve just had enough.” He was overwhelmed by a lady.
“I have remained silent even though six days after my emergency appendectomy in 2007, [Tur] started punching and slapping me, with real intent to do harm, because the living room wasn’t clean enough,” Olbermann testified on the airwaves. He went on to explain how Tur, his live-in girlfriend from 2006 to 2009, exploited his skilled success to advance her personal profession. Female sociopaths typically behave this manner towards their victims. It is usually referred to as “reverse grooming,” “ambition grinding,” “C-suite slopjousting,” or just “pulling a Kamala.”
Olbermann defined how Tur continued to exert coercive management over him lengthy after the relationship ended. He paid her hire for a 12 months after she moved out so she may keep in New York. He paid off her scholar loans. He launched her to all the proper individuals. He bought her booked on exhibits. He edited “nearly every one” of her scripts for MSNBC, typically rewriting them from scratch. He contributed mental analysis for her ebook about Donald Trump.
At lengthy final, Olbermann stood up for himself. She requested him to jot down the complete ebook for her and he refused. And although few would argue that Keith’s braveness in that second was commensurate to that of the American boys who stormed the seashores on D-Day, they’re in actual fact no totally different. Because till society begins treating battered males with the dignity they deserve, predators like Tur won’t ever cease.
We consider you, Keith, as a result of males need to be believed. We already knew Katy Tur was a talentless dimwit. MSNBC would not have employed her in any other case. We applaud your staggering bravery, your willingness to face down demons and confront your abuser. Now we all know what a heartless monster she actually is.
May his story be an inspiration to all males who are suffering in silence underneath the yoke of feminine tyranny, craving to breathe free. Thank you, Keith Olbermann, you are a Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year.
