Say Hello To Keith Olbermann’s Squeeze, 25-Year-Old Katy Tur

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Former ESPN SportsCenter anchor Keith Olbermann has been gushing on-air about his 25-year-old girlfriend Katy Tur, an aspiring journalist that is half his age.

On the surface, having a girlfriend that wasn’t alive when Olbermann was out in the world trying to achieve success sounds like kudos would be in order.

But on Tuesday Tur, whose professional credentials are limited at best, landed an on-air reporting job at the Weather Channel.

MSNBC, the network which Olbermann’s show Countdown With Keith Olbermann can be seen, and the Weather Channel are both owned by NBC Universal.

According to the New York Post’s Page Six, Olbermann scoffed at the notion the inexperienced Tur got the job based on her association with him.

“Anybody who suggests so is misinformed, and/or sadly unaware that in this time when the industry is collapsing around us, nobody gets a job based on ‘influence,’ only talent,” said Olbermann.

That “talent” Olbermann speaks of is Tur’s background which supposedly began in 2001 – at the age of 16 – as Field Producer/ Video Library Manager/Sales at the Los Angeles News Service, a job that Tur claims she “produced, edited and shot for ‘A Defense of Marriage’ and ‘Softwar’ documentaries.”

Yea, right.

The only talent seen here is Olbermann’s ability to engage in subterfuge.

Tur is Olbermann’s live-in girlfriend and he allegedly made calls all around New York to secure Tur employment.

Tur, who does have some producing credits in her background, once wrote an article in college deriding the television news industry:

“When are the people in charge going to realize that we, the youth, the ones who are in high school and college or who, like me, have just graduated, do not want to be read the news by another cheesy blonde anchor who looks like the girl who does keg stands and dances on coffee tables at frat parties?

Respectable journalists don’t wear hot pink and they don’t die their hair blonde if they are Korean like Mia Lee, one of the anchors at KCAL.

The women shouldn’t have fake tits that are pushed up to their neck and the men shouldn’t be orange. Do you respect the guy in your psych class that has frosted tips and highlights?

No.

Then why would you feel differently toward the guy reading the news?”

Hmm. I’m wondering if Tur recalls these words she uttered not too long ago. I’m guessing she doesn’t.

Whatever the circumstances surrounding Tur’s employment with the Weather Channel, here’s a few images of Olbermann’s squeeze.

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