Linda Cohn torched Keith Olbermann for coming after her over support for USA Hockey and Auston Matthews
This whole Auston Matthews White House situation has now claimed another victim, and his name is Keith Olbermann, courtesy of Linda Cohn.
Quick recap for anyone who has not been following the saga. Toronto Star columnist Damien Cox wrote a piece this week criticizing Auston Matthews for joining his Team USA teammates at the White House to celebrate their Olympic gold medal, arguing he was putting the president ahead of the playoffs.
Much like myself, ESPN veteran Linda Cohn defended Matthews on social media, making the perfectly reasonable point that celebrating a gold medal with your country’s president is not a political statement, it is just what championship teams do.
Keith Olbermann, apparently unable to resist the opportunity, came out and blasted Cohn for it saying that Linda Cohn had to be better and stop being a “politically motivated clown.”
Keith Olbermann tweeting crazy (again)
Linda Cohn on the terrible Toronto Star article:
Linda Cohn Reply on the Toronto Star article
Linda Cohn did not Keith Olbermann go quietly…
“Amazing that you describe me how the world actually describes you. What happened to you? Gaslighting and bullying a former colleague? Is that really your thing now? It’s really sad and disappointing. Everyone knows you’ve been irrelevant since you left sports and decided to share your uninvited warped world views with the rest of us. You sound bitter and miserable. I hope you get the help you need.”
That is a clean, complete destruction and every word of it is accurate.
Linda Cohn was a pioneer. She was one of the best SportsCenter anchors of her era, she carried herself with credibility in an industry that was not always welcoming to women, and her hockey coverage in particular was genuinely excellent. She earned her place at that desk.
Olbermann was excellent too, back when he was actually doing sports. The problem is that somewhere along the way he decided his primary job was lecturing everyone around him about politics, and he has never found his way back.
Cohn made a logical, fair point about Matthews. The same point that has been made repeatedly this week by people across the political spectrum. Attending a White House celebration is not a partisan act. It is what athletes do when they win something significant for their country.
Turning it into a referendum on anything else is the kind of thinking that takes a genuinely unifying moment, both USA Hockey teams winning gold at the same Olympics for the first time ever, and grinds it into yet another culture war argument that nobody needed to have.
There are a lot of bigger things to worry about right now.
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USA Hockey gave this country something to feel good about together. The fact that we could not even have that for a full week without it becoming a political flashpoint says everything about where we are and nothing good.
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