I get the feeling Katherine Thomas might feel the same way after reading her item today in the New York Daily News:

Now that Dan Abrams has given up his MSNBC show to run the third-place cable news outlet, he might want to focus on the rising tensions between two of his prime-time personalities: Keith Olbermann and Rita Cosby.

Olbermann, whose “Countdown With Keith Olbermann” airs weeknights at 8, apparently has precious little respect for Cosby, whose “Rita Cosby: Live & Direct” airs at 10 p.m.

“Rita’s nice,” Olbermann wrote to a fan from his MSNBC E-mail account, “but dumber than a suitcase of rocks.” Yesterday Cosby retorted: “Keith got it wrong. I’m not that nice.”

But a Cosby intimate gasped when informed of Olbermann’s E-mail. “That’s incredibly disappointing,” he said.

An MSNBC spokesman didn’t dispute the authenticity of the months-old E-mail, which came to light this week after the recipient shared it with this column on condition of anonymity.

In his E-mail, Olbermann was also dismissive of then-MSNBC President Rick Kaplan,

who left the network last week with six months to go on his three-year contract.

“And Kaplan?” Olbermann wrote to his fan. “He was the producer of that special last night — now known as the Kanye West Show.” It was a reference to an embarrassing incident during NBC’s Hurricane Katrina telethon on which the popular rapper departed from his script to claim President Bush “doesn’t care about black people.”

Olbermann, who didn’t comment yesterday, was said to be on vacation — though he managed to turn up Monday night at a book party for Al Gore at the American Museum of Natural History.

There, the media blog Jossip.com asked Olbermann — who was accompanied by “his self-described ‘friend’ Katie” — if he’ll now be answering to Abrams.

“I don’t answer to anybody,” Olbermann insisted.

We’ll see.

When Olbermann stuck to sports he came across as smart and funny. Since he switched to hard news he’s more self important and rude. Can you say Brian Gumbel.

Add Scared Monkeys, Ace of Spades, and Outside the Beltway, to the list of people who don’t care of Olbermann.

You have to read all of Ace’s post. I started laughing reading the first line:

Kind of a non-story. So, the guy’s an arrogant dick, spends too much of his time sending emails to people he can’t trust, and talks badly about colleagues.

Not really the biggest scandal ever.

The dope even responded to my emails, until I grew bored with the exchange. Shouldn’t he have something better to do? I should have something better to do, too, but I don’t have any money, am stuck in a crappy Boston suburb, and I couldn’t get my leg humped in a kennel with a pocket full of Snausages and dog-porn.

and it gets better.

***Update***

add Michelle Malkin to the list of non Olberman fans.