At IBD, Andrew Malcolm welcomes Gavin Newsom to the Current TV vanity stable:
Since 1996, Newsom has been busy.
He was for a time the only white heterosexual male on the Board of Supervisors. He was the city’s mayor and gained national fame for issuing marriage licenses to gay couples against state law. During the divorce from his first wife, Newsom had an affair with his appointments secretary who was married to his good friend and deputy chief of staff who became his reelection campaign manager but quit after his wife revealed the illicit relationship during substance abuse rehab.
Newsom then married another woman, ran briefly for governor in 2010 and got within 20 points of Jerry Brown before giving up and settling on the lieutenant governor’s “job.”
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Democrat Newsom describes California’s No. 2 job behind Brown as having “no real authority and no real portfolio.” Still, he’s paid $130,490 a year in taxpayer money by a state that may have more annual budget crises than seasons.
Gore, who lost all of his bids for the presidency before hitting on the global warming thing, founded Current TV in 2005 with partner Joel Hyatt. They wanted a liberal alternative to the Fox News Channel. To the surprise of many, San Francisco-based Current TV has been phenomenally successful in that regard except for the absence of viewers, ratings, identity and income.
Last year with great excitement Gore hired a little-known failed sportscaster named Keith Olbermann, who was on the rebound after being fired from pretty much every job he’s ever held on TV. Last month Olbermann racked up another firing when Current canned him. Both parties are suing each other for millions of dollars.
Gore was very excited again Wednesday to announce “The Gavin Newsom Show.” According to Gore, Newsom’s hour-long national show will launch next month and consist of Newsom interviewing lots of cool San Francisco Bay area people.
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Gore called Newsom “a courageous leader who has boldly seized every opportunity to create positive social change. First as a successful entrepreneur, then in his role as mayor of San Francisco, and now as Lieutenant Governor, Newsom touches many worlds — business, politics, entertainment and activism. We are honored that Current TV will be bringing his curiosity, intelligence, insights and enthusiasm to television.”
Many people had thought, accurately, that the lieutenant governor job in the nation’s most populous state was a full-time position. Surprisingly, Newsom’s spokesman agreed with his boss there was no conflict with state duties and would somehow showcase the Golden state nationally. He said Newsom would do little program preparation because he knows most of his guests already.
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At Current, Newsom joins another disgraced Democrat, Eliot Spitzer, who replaced the fired liberal Olbermann late last month. Spitzer was the jut-jawed former prosecutor who became governor of New York, then resigned upon disclosure that he was Client No. 9 in a major prostitution ring, who had so outrageously overpaid call girls.
Meh. Theft, lawbreaking, infidelity, a cavalier view of government positions as status tags for party invites — those are only bad things if you happen do them while mouthing the wrong social and policy positions.
Evidently, issuing licenses for gay marriage against state law buys you a lot of grace with progressives.
Unfortunately for Gore, I suspect it won’t buy many viewers. And will just add to his growing mystique as one of the least admired former Democrat Party bigshots who insists on forcing his way into the public consciousness, in the history of ever.
Couldn’t have happened to a fatter, sweatier, more unlikable guy.
Gavin Newsom reminds me of a reality TV personality. Like some greaseball side character from a Kardashian show.
Al Gore is like an insane Mr Rogers.
When very wealthy people have money to spend on a hobby, sometimes they open a winery. As the saying goes, to make a small fortune in the wine business, start with a large fortune.
Look at the viewership of pathetic little CurrentTV and you know this is nothing but a vanity project. Doubtless the people drawing a paycheck from them think they are doing a real job. I have been in person to the offices of CurrentTV and it looks outwardly like any other creative or communications organization. However, the numbers tell it all. At least a money-losing winery produces something to drink. Nothing but tired leftwing bromides and soporific gabble out of CurrentTV. Can anyone even name one big show they have? Can anyone even find it on the cable box?
Perhaps they can hire Blagojevich when he gets out, if Gore’s money lasts. He’s a perfect fit. He can appear with Jon Corzine on a show dispensing financial advice.
GO, lol is that current as in now? or current as in tide. You know that water under the bridge will eventually make its way back. Still… love the analogy.
How is Barack Obama going to amass his wealth once he’s been tossed out of the White House onto his ample ears come next winter? We can be fairly certain he’s going to want to drive for Buffett-Billionarion status, but the question is, how? He doesn’t know jack-shit about business. He can’t write. He can’t speak extemporaneously. He can’t talk about his own policies and their effects. What’s left? Starring in male-only porn?
He can’t speak extemporaneously. He can’t talk about his own policies and their effects.
Au contraire, he can and will. He will stumble and bloviate about anything he likes and there will be no shortage of corporations and universities which will pay him six figures or more for a speaking engagement. It’s not about what he says, it’s about who he is: a racial totem.
” . . . there will be no shortage of corporations and universities which will pay him six figures or more for a speaking engagement. ”
Them’s peanuts, fit for peanut farmers George. I mean, Empires! We’re talking Empires here. Male on male porn surely has a greater following in Barry’s circles.
‘Course, if Barry’s content to sweep up the leavings off the obscure corporate or academic floor, he’s welcome to them. They just don’t amount to much in the bigger picture. And if they ever did? Woe betide their possessor.
He’ll amass his wealth on the Rubber Chicken Circuit pontificating on his being the second black President.
pontificating on his being the second black President.
Seems to me he’s the first white black president. Like Zimmerman is a white Hispanic.
Wait — this is the San Francisco Creep? Dangit! I thought Current was bringing back old episodes of Love Boat…
• Dead Kennedys California Uber Alles
awesome anti hippy lyrics:
Uber Alles California
Zen fascists will control you
100% natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face
Close your eyes, can’t happen here
Big Bro’ on white horse is near
The hippies won’t come back you say
Mellow out or you will pay
Now it is 1984
Knock-knock at your front door
It’s the suede/denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece
Come quietly to the camp
You’d look nice as a drawstring lamp
Don’t you worry, it’s only a shower
For your clothes here’s a pretty flower.
DIE on organic poison gas
Serpent’s egg’s already hatched
You will croak, you little clown
When you mess with President Brown
“According to Gore, Newsom’s hour-long national show will launch next month and consist of Newsom interviewing lots of cool San Francisco Bay area people.
Like Warhol’s famous soup can, a bubble within a smaller bubble, within a smaller one.
Last I heard, CurrentTV was in danger of being dropped due to lack of a measurable audience.
A politician settling for a show on CurrentTV is like Ralphie settling for orthopedic shoes at Christmas.
A sitting politician getting his own TV show, but the office and the network are such jokes that no one has even mentioned a conflict of interest.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
The ‘Man-Bear-Pig’ is living proof that you need absolutely nothing in the way of talent or charisma to be filthy rich and wildly successful in today’s America.
What you need is a wealthy father.