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The big mouth of ESPN's Keith Olbermann's is even more like a turkey.
The former MSNBC political commentator asked Twitter followers to turn the life of a turkey hunter into a "living hell" for posing with a rare albino turkey he had killed.
"Making life a living hell is a threat," said Hunter Waltman, a 22-year-old Mississippi hunter. "I would be happy to see him fired. He went to the sea. "
Olbermann, 60, was summoned to the ambush – and his bosses bandaged the network that had him fired twice before.
"We told him not to make personal attacks," ESPN said in a statement.
Olbermann, 60, sparked the Twitter war on an article in the Mississippi Clarion Ledger showing Waltman with an all-white turkey that he had shot on Sunday.
"It's rare and beautiful, so I should kill him," Olbermann told his million followers on Tuesday. "This deer bastard calls himself Hunter Waltman and we should do our best to make sure the rest of his life is hell."
He also attacked the newspaper for even covering the story. "And the clown who wrote this piece of fawn must be fired," he asked.
The hunter complained to Clarion-Ledger about the new personality who was calling him with "so many subscribers".
"They've sent me all kinds of text messages," he complains, saying that if Olbermann had not become public, "none of this would have happened."
The editor of Clarion-Ledger, Sam Hall, described Olbermann's tweet as "recklessly irresponsible".
"Someone who follows must understand the possible impact of his words. To tell more than one million people to make a person's life a hell could have serious consequences. "
He also pointed out the irony of attacking his reporter for covering a hunting story.
"I would imagine that I should have fired our writer from the street for writing about a hunter who had killed an unusual turkey during the turkey hunting season," he wrote.
"In our newsroom, it would be a punishable offense, not to write a story about a hunter who would pocket a turkey."
Other observers also attacked the journalist's position.
"It's the American cultural divide in a glorious and almost defamatory tweet," tweeted a user by the name of Reid Vance.
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