Biden Asked Olbermann For Anger Advice: NYT

In an interview conducted before his suspension from MSNBC, Keith Olbermann revealed that Vice President Joe Biden once asked him for tips on how to channel his anger.

Olbermann told the New York Times Magazine's Deborah Solomon that, when he was still in the Senate, Biden had "asked me for advice about how to turn anger into righteous inspiration."

"Joe Biden took you to lunch to ask you for tips on getting angry?" Solomon asked.

"He said, ''I just come across like I'm angry and out of control, and you seem to focus it and make it look useful and expressive,'" Olbermann said.

Solomon also asked Olbermann, who is well known for his impassioned commentary, whether he had an anger-management problem.

"No, not at all," Olbermann replied. "That's another thing that would have come to the surface long ago in television if it was actually clinical in any way. No, I've worked for people with anger-management issues. I am a happy amateur on the subject."

Olbermann also told Solomon that the "Worst Persons In The World" segment will "probably permanently" be removed from "Countdown."

To read the full interview, including more of Olbermann's thoughts about Jon Stewart and the Rally to Restore Sanity, click here.

Comments

[amaboss52]

06:39 PM on 11/10/2010

Hey Keith if you help Biden out could you also please call on the President and give him some tips on @$$ kicking?

[winstonian22]

10:40 AM on 11/10/2010

KO is a bitter angry little man.

[amaboss52]

06:34 PM on 11/10/2010

No, he is a concerned citizen who has a bully pulpit to voice his concerns, unlike Pox Noise, he tells the truth.

[Eagleman]

08:28 PM on 11/09/2010

Like Biden says - This is a big F^^^^^g deal

[TaxtheRichMorePlz]

08:03 PM on 11/09/2010

"Biden Asked Olbermann For Anger Advice: NYT"
lol who writes these headlines.

[retreadite]

08:39 PM on 11/09/2010

I didn't notice that---thanks ---funny

[thejackass]

05:25 PM on 11/09/2010

I hope Obama lives until his term is up If Biden gets to President the country could be lost in a matter of days.

[libwithaclue]

09:37 AM on 11/09/2010

Teach me, Keith? Haven't these GOPers done enough to make you spir fire out of your mouth? Your boss is the one who REALLY needs the lessons.

[steamboat]

09:16 AM on 11/09/2010

And Keith can ask Biden tips on how to twice PLAGERIZE and still say in power.

[amaboss52]

06:36 PM on 11/10/2010

Get over it, your side lost TWO YEARS AGO!

[FerrellGummitt]

03:39 PM on 11/08/2010

Gees Joe you would have been off going to Janeane Garofalo or Rosie O'Donnell...

[KJLSanDiego]

03:30 PM on 11/08/2010

I'm glad Keith Olbermann got rid of that bit.
His show will be much better without the hyperbole!
Just keep it real! He's good at that!

[notillegal2]

02:04 PM on 11/08/2010

Ahhhhh...........Keep your mouth shut?

[Mark Olmsted]

12:18 PM on 11/08/2010

Wish Obama would call Olbermann and ask the same.

[Paintio]

10:44 AM on 11/08/2010

The headline for this article always makes me chuckle.

[Kassandra]

10:42 AM on 11/08/2010

Ahhhhh...the REAL reason for the suspension emerges.

[bluejean1951]

10:38 AM on 11/08/2010

I think Worst Persons would be more effective if he took it out on special occasions for really egregious acts. It would have more impact then.

[maxhnb]

02:54 AM on 11/08/2010

DIGNITY was totally absent from the election that just passed. There was no attempt, by our most prominent leaders to express that self respect and ethical behavior was essential to American character. If DIGNITY was at stake in this election America no longer has any.

In front of our children, we have put on a display of crassest exhibition of unethical, undignified and indecent theater. If this represents FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY , what are we defending.
What have we been reduced to, what possible good can all this come to. All the rhetoric means nothing, and as usual the election is part of that context. Think about it.

[bluejean1951]

10:39 AM on 11/08/2010

DITTO well said!