As RedState previously reported, failed former MSNBC/ESPN anchor Keith Olbermann found himself on the receiving end of an alert posted to FBI Director Kash Patel following disturbingly unhinged comments made amid the debate over the suspension of late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, who was briefly yanked off TV after insensitive remarks made about the alleged assassin of conservative icon Charlie Kirk.
To quickly recap, Scott Jennings, a Salem Media Network radio host and conservative CNN political commentator, reacted to breaking news on Monday that Kimmel had been reinstated by tweeting, “So basically his employer suspended him for being an insensitive pr**k, and we don’t live in an authoritarian regime? Got it.”
This enraged Olbermann, who proceeded to tweet what many, including Jennings, perceived to be a threat. “You’re next, motherf**ker. But keep mugging to the camera.” Jennings tagged Patel and included a screengrab of the tweets in response.
READ MORE: Keith Olbermann Threatens Scott Jennings in an Extreme Way—Will the FBI Get Involved?
Though the FBI hasn’t commented as to whether an investigation was launched, Olbermann ostensibly appears to have thought twice about what he tweeted and deleted, apologizing profusely in tweets posted on Tuesday and claiming what he wrote was “misinterpreted”:
I apologize without reservation to @ScottJenningsKY
Yesterday I wrote and immediately deleted 2 responses to him about Kimmel because they could be misinterpreted as a threat to anything besides his career. I immediately replaced them with ones specifying what I actually meant. pic.twitter.com/SPWLb73nEk
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) September 23, 2025
I oppose and condemn political violence, and the threat of it. All times are the wrong time to leave even an inadvertent impression of it – but this time is especially wrong
I should’ve acknowledged the deletion and apologized yesterday. I’m sorry I delayed.
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) September 23, 2025
Jennings, speaking on his radio program Tuesday, quipped that he had marked himself safe from Olbermann, whom he referred to as “the poster boy for complete broken-brain progressivism”:
SCOTT JENNINGS: “Marking myself SAFE from that NUT, Keith Olbermann!” 😂 pic.twitter.com/EYZX6vm5Oh
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) September 23, 2025
Later, Jennings would add on the X machine, “But now that I think about it…am I really?”
This is not the first time Olbermann has seemingly openly fantasized about a GOP public figure dying or getting killed. For instance, four months before the first assassination attempt on then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, Olbermann appeared to express “hope” that Trump would get treated worse than President Abraham Lincoln, who was… assassinated.
We’ve written a lot here about people whom conservatives believe should delete their accounts, and Olbermann, perhaps more than just about any of the unhinged leftists still left on X, should consider doing just that, and follow it with some soul-searching, because stuff like this is not normal and should never be normalized, no matter how much many among the Very Online Left want it to be.
In fact, Olbermann once declared in late 2023 that he was once and for all leaving what was then known as Twitter, only to return and once again claim, in a post to Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), that he had been misinterpreted.
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.
I never said anything about replies. Especially not to half-witted congresswomen who can’t…handle themselves in public.
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) November 29, 2023
Poor Keith. Always misunderstood. Bless his heart.
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