OutKick founder Clay Travis has branded iconic sportscaster Keith Olbermann an 'idiot' following his shocking comments about James Woods and the fires ravaging Los Angeles.
Firefighters are still trying to control a series of large fires in the Los Angeles area that have killed five people and devastated communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena.
The fires have forced thousands of people, including A-list celebrities and movie stars, to frantically flee their homes.
One of the celebrities forced to evacuate was Oscar-nominated actor James Woods, who He shared images of a house two blocks from his property that was completely burned down.
He fled the Palisades with his family as the wildfire moved rapidly and it is unclear what remains of his property after the evacuation.
Woods also stated that he and many of his neighbors no longer have insurance after a 'major company' allegedly canceled many of the policies four months ago.
OutKick founder Clay Travis has called iconic sportscaster Keith Olbermann an 'ad***head'
Olbermann claimed that compassion for people like Woods was the reason Donald Trump was elected
Woods revealed to CNN on Wednesday that he had also helped his 94-year-old neighbor, who suffers from dementia, flee his property.
“They had left him alone,” Woods said.
“There was so much chaos it was like hell. “All the houses around us were on fire.”
In response to a post about X defending Woods after someone said his house fire was a “karma call,” Olbermann claimed that kind of compassion was the reason Donald Trump won the election.
He wrote: 'This is the attitude that lost the election.
'They will not compromise, they will not convert, they will not be human.
“They must be defeated and any possibility of wounding or psychologically beating them must be taken advantage of.”
'Especially James Woods, who is a despicable human being, especially to women. There's a reason they cast him as Roy Cohn.
In response to Olbermann, a former ESPN SportsCenter host who also hosted MLB on Fox, Travis posted: “What a complete and utter idiot.”
In an appearance on CNN, Woods revealed how he had helped his 92-year-old neighbor evacuate.
Fires in the Los Angeles area have killed five people and devastated communities across the city.
Nearly 2,000 homes, businesses and other structures have been destroyed by the fires.
The fierce winds that drove flames through Los Angeles and prompted chaotic evacuations have calmed somewhat and are not expected to be as powerful on Thursday.
That could provide an opportunity for firefighters to make progress in controlling fires that have spread across the sprawling region, including massive ones in Pacific Palisades and Altadena.
The latest flames broke out Wednesday night in the Hollywood Hills, closing in on the heart of the city and the roots of its entertainment industry and putting densely populated neighborhoods on alert during exceptionally windy and dry conditions.
Within a few hours, firefighters had made significant progress on the Sunset Fire. Los Angeles Fire Department Capt. Erik Scott said they were able to keep the fire under control because “we hit it hard and fast and Mother Nature was a little kinder to us today than she was yesterday.”
A day earlier, hurricane-force winds sent embers high into the air, igniting block after block in the coastal Pacific Palisades neighborhood, as well as in Altadena, a community near Pasadena that is about 25 miles to the east. Planes had to be grounded for a time due to winds, which hampered firefighting efforts.
Nearly 2,000 homes, businesses and other structures have been destroyed in those fires, called the Palisades and Eaton fires, and the number is expected to rise. All five deaths recorded so far were due to the Eaton fire.
Some 130,000 people have been ordered to evacuate as the fires have consumed a total of about 42 square miles, nearly the size of the entire city of San Francisco. The Palisades Fire is already the most destructive in Los Angeles history.