Liberal podcaster Keith Olbermann once called for him to be murdered, but now he only wants him to be fired – and that’s a movement in the “right direction,” conservative commentator Scott Jennings said in an interview Monday. “Suddenly, everybody wants you to get fired, for that moment. How do you respond to them, like Jim Acosta and Keith Olbermann?” nationally-syndicated radio Host Larry O’Connor asked Jennings. Violent rhetoric targeting him from liberal firebrands is nothing new – but, at least in Olbermann’s case – their relationship is moving in the right direction, Jennings mused: “Look, it’s not the first time Jim Acosta and Keith – Keith Olbermann said I should be murdered one day, now he only says I should be fired, so I guess I’m moving in the right direction. So, there you go: we’re headed in the right direction with Keith.” Olbermann did, indeed, appear to call for Jennings to be assassinated last year in a now-deleted X.com post on September 22. When Jennings published a post about ABC late-night Host Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension for a hateful comment about the assassination of conservative Charlie Kirk, Olbermann replied with an apparent threat: “You’re next, motherf***er.” On Friday, however, a post by Olbermann simply called for Jennings to be fired, after Jennings dropped the F-bomb on liberal commentator Adam Mockler, who was waving his hand in Jennings’ face on CNN. “It's the morning after and @cnn has still not fired @ScottJenningsKY for threatening, in another burst of paranoid rage, @adammocklerr,” Olbermann wrote. “This event needs to be reported to the New York DA - and if CNN has not fired Jennings by Monday it MUST be just boycotted.” “There’s sort of a cottage industry on the left; it’s been going on for years,” Jennings told O’Connor Monday, noting the liberal media’s pervasive intolerance of free speech with which they disagree: “They don’t think conservatives should be allowed to speak. I mean, they don’t think any conservative should be allowed to speak, on CNN or, frankly, anywhere else.” “A little more civil debate would be a good thing,” Jennings said. “Debates are good,” – but, just “Keep your hands to yourself,” Jennings added. BOOM: @ScottJenningsKY takes down Keith Olbermann and Jim Acosta for demanding CNN fire him... "It's not the first time...Keith Olbermann said I should be murdered...Now he only says I should be fired!" "With Jim...He sounds like a bitter person...They don't think any… pic.twitter.com/p4d4LUVSeh — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 4, 2026