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Former ESPN and MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann appeared to threaten conservative CNN analyst Scott Jennings in a since-deleted post shared on his X account.
"You're next, motherf**ker," Olberman wrote in the first of two posts directed to Jennings, as shown in a screengrab shared by Townhall.com columnist Dustin Grage. "But keep mugging to the camera."
Olbermann appears to have been responding to a tweet shared by Jennings in response to ABC's decision to return suspended talk show host Jimmy Kimmel days after he was pulled from the air for making comments about the suspect in conservative political activist Charlie Kirk's assassination.
"So basically his employer suspended him for being an insensitive p**ck, and we don’t live in an authoritarian regime? Got it," Jennings wrote on his X account Monday (September 22).
"Now we get the fascists off real tv. That'd mean your career is next, Jennings. Send a tape to Real America 's Voice But keep mugging to camera, amateur," Olbermann responded in a later post that still remains shared.
Olbermann was criticized for his reaction to Sinclair Broadcast Group's decision to air a remembrance to Kirk over Kimmel's show last week, an announcement that was made prior to the talk show host's temporary suspension.
“Burn in hell, Sinclair,” Olbermann wrote on his X account. “Alongside Charlie Kirk.”
Sinclair Broadcast Group announced it will not air the return of Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday (September 23) night, instead airing its local news programming.
"Beginning Tuesday night, Sinclair will be preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live! across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming. Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show’s potential return," the company wrote in a statement shared on its social media accounts.
The Walt Disney Company, ABC’s parent company, announced Jimmy Kimmel Live! would return to the airwaves Tuesday after it was suspended "indefinitely" last week in a statement obtained by the New York Times on Monday.
“Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country,” ABC said. “It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive,” the statement said. “We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”