Current TV said Friday afternoon that it had terminated the contract of its lead anchor, Keith Olbermann, scarcely a year after he was hired to reboot the fledgling channel in his progressive political image.The cable channel indicated that he had failed to honor the terms of his five-year, $50 million contract, giving the channel the right to terminate it. Starting Friday night, the former New York Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer will take over Mr. Olbermann’s 8 p.m. time slot.
In a stream of Twitter messages, Mr. Olbermann responded to Current’s announcement by stating that “the claims against me in Current’s statement are untrue and will be proved so in the legal actions I will be filing against them presently.”
Jonah Goldberg on Twitter
When they write the history of Gore v. Olbermann, will they call it “An Inconvenient Douche”?
That current is a strong pull toward the drain.
Seems like Current is a kind of junkyard where ol’ worn-out wrecks of media are towed off to rust into oblivion. Crush-ups and meltdowns too?
First MSNBC, now Current.
Keith is unemployable unless he starts his own cable show in NYC, preferably one where he keeps his pants on. He can film it with a camera on a tripod in his living room. His mom will still watch it, so he’ll have the same viewing audience.
It has to be some ginormous performance art.
Kind of like his whole career, JD?
Current TV just learned the value of checking someone’s work history. The place is obviously run like a well-oiled machine.
I so want to live in a world run by these people.
Next local Public Access or his own Youtube Channel, choices, choices, so many choices.
The morons never learn:
That was… twenty years ago.
fresh available talent: dennis kucinich
That took longer than I expected. Replacing him with Eliot Spitzer is hilarious. Spitzer is actually better at this sort of thing than Olby, but if he couldn’t get an audience at CNN, can he even hold on to Olby’s moonbat audience?
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Rush has a job and Olby doesn’t HA HA HA.
At least when Spitzer calls somebody a sl*t, he’ll know from experience.
Maybe CurrentTV’s viewer(s) can boycott and get him back. hahahahahahaha
I’m not as excited as you guys are. How the heck am I going to find out who the worst person in the world is now?
I wonder if Current could demonstrate when those values ever applied to Olbermann?
Not, unfortunately, OT…
You SHALL agree with us, or else.
MISFITS~!
I am not just a misfit, I am not just a nit-wit,
just because my nose glows, why don’t I fit in?
Is that another call for the New-
Soviet-Ecological Man?That Norgaard would be right at home telling us all that we need to support Romney and LIKE IT!!!!1!!!
OT: Here’s a sentence you don’t read every day:
Now that’s a hook.
Over at Insty just now I see an Obama campaign ad in the sidebar that strikes as odd.
It features a picture of Michelle and the language “Join Michelle and Tell Barack you’re in.” along with a selection button labeled in the manner of movie criminals floating a bank heist scheme to a new recruit:
WTF? Do they mean to communicate they’re forming a criminal enterprise up front, so no one can say later “Hey, you didn’t indicate you intended to rob the country blind!” and be absolved of responsibility thereafter?
No, you don’t understand…
There will be no ‘try’. Only ‘you WILL’.
Um, his mom is dead. So, is his Father.
Just an FYI.
Well, he can tape it and watch it with his cat, then.
So, no one will watch it then.
Pretty much.
Ocean’s 99%?
More like Bathtub’s 99%.