ESPN Suspends Keith Olbermann for Trolling Penn State Students

Did he finally make his own "World's Worst" list?

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Those two words can cause the dander to rise up in many folks. Say what you will about him (and plenty have), but the guy understands TV and PR, and he knows how to push that envelope to the very edge without hacking off the boss.

Take his personal beef with Penn State University. When the news broke about Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno, and all that their names imply, the guy attacked with some sanctimonious venom that inspired headlines. While the angst was more than justified in that case, his latest rant against the Happy Valley institution was not so much.

As noted by our more mature sister site TVNewser, it all started with the university raising more than $13 million for pediatric cancer and this tweet:

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