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The Spectacle Blog
Current TV (co-owned by Al Gore) has dismissed Keith Olbermann after less than a year on the air. Olbermann has been replaced by former New York Governor (and former CNN Host) Eliot Spitzer. I guess Rick Sanchez wasn’t available.
Olbermann has already announced his intention to bring legal action against Current TV. Discontent between Olbermann and Gore surfaced in January over coverage of the Iowa GOP Caucuses.
The question is where will he end up?
I think there are three possible choices he could land:
1. The MLB Network - Olbermann does know his baseball. It’s one thing for him to make a guest appearance on Clubhouse Confidential but giving him a program would be too much to bear. Even I might have to give up watching the MLB Network if they bring him in. Me giving up watching baseball programming? I shudder to think.
2. The Golf Channel - Although I’m sure he would find a way to tee them off.
3. Al Jazeera English - I think he might find a home with them. But if he runs afoul of them they’ll flog him instead of firing him. Or they could just assign them to their bureau in Zimbabwe.
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SetOurChildrenFree | 3.31.12 @ 4:42AM
How about the circus? When you can't cut it a network that hires Al Sharpton, and at another network that nobody watches, then the circus is definitely worth considering. Hey, everybody, come see a washed-up, formerly famous, arrogant, condescending, broadcaster, who was a legend in his own mind! Al Jazeera wouldn't have him - they're not biased enough!
Dave | 4.2.12 @ 12:41PM
Latest intel from the U.S. Coast Guard is that the coconut the professor left behind on Gilligan's Island is still up and running. But to date, it's still just an urban island rumor. Last time anything was heard on THAT frequency, the Skipper had a show promoting time shares, and Ginger was selling Thigh Masters on the all night show.
Hey, now that Ginger's gone, maybe Olberman could ...
Occam's Tool| 4.2.12 @ 6:11PM
The Professor's PhD was from TCU.
Why that is on my alma mater's wiki, I do not know. Of course, Ben Murphy's character who is an expert welder on MST3K's Riding With Death (co-starring Jim Stafford---yeah, the one in Branson) had a Harvard JD, just like Obama.
Dennis| 3.31.12 @ 5:13AM
No comment- just laughter....lmao!
JimH| 3.31.12 @ 9:29AM
Regarding item three on your list, I have recently learned the Al Jazzeera has a sport channel. So he could combine his twin loves of sports and hating America. I learned of this channel via a post from someone on website for satellite TV called Satellite guys. http://www.satelliteguys.us/ The people who run this site seem to be concerned about offending certain sensibilities because shortly after someone posted an inquiry about the channel and where it might be offered I posted a reply inquiring as to the channels offerings, inquiring specifically about camel racing and buzkashi, my post was deleted along with subsequent inquiries asking why.
Occam's Tool| 4.2.12 @ 6:06PM
What about camel beauty contests? (I am NOT MAKING THIS UP.) They, at least, do not need to wear a burqa.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7325790.stm
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 3.31.12 @ 10:08AM
How long before we hear that Current TV is being sold, or going out of business? What will Al Gore do now? Keith Olberdouche was the only "slightly" interesting thing on that stupid channel to begin with, and now he's gone!! Do you actually think people want to watch Client-#9 over Keith Olberschmuck? If Keith didn't work out, then Elliot isn't either!! Hey, maybe Oprah can hire him now that Rosie's gone, and her OWN channel's going under too!! Or maybe Rosie and Keith can start, and finance their own show, that nobody watches, which will completely bankrupt them in the end!! This is also known as a Win-Win for everybody (except for Keith and Rosie, but who gives a sh*t about them anyway?)!!
beebop2| 3.31.12 @ 10:18PM
Rosie and Keith could call it "Fat and Grumpy."
ReadyforLifeAfterObama| 3.31.12 @ 10:58AM
Forget MLB Network; he'll just drag down their current hosts and their ratings. It'd be Football Night in America in 2009 all over again. That's why he was off that show. How many viewers would have tuned in to see Tony Dungy, but wouldn't with Olbermann on there with him.
Bob Grant| 3.31.12 @ 11:33AM
Aaron, the fact that you're commenting on this clown is disappointing.
He's a narcissist and ego maniac and feeds on attention - good or bad.
He simply needs to be tossed to the curb and forgotten about like yesterday's trash.
Or, in Windows-ese, lets click his icon and slowly drag and drop him in the Recycle Bin... collectively.
A Random Friar| 3.31.12 @ 11:42AM
I feel for him. I don't like his histrionic attacks, but part of me senses that he is a very intelligent man in many ways, but whose own personal demons have put him on the path of anger, bile and self-destruction.
It's A Cunning Plan Actually!| 3.31.12 @ 11:58AM
I agree Friar. Jesus Christ can change Mr. Olbermann's life through the power of God for the better. I will pray for him & will not waste time hating him which is against God's commandments. Everything is possible with God.
Nick| 3.31.12 @ 7:54PM
Friar,
Barf!
Bill| 3.31.12 @ 11:49AM
HELL!
Lanslot | 3.31.12 @ 12:23PM
I think he will end up where he started! Under a desk,in the fetal position,crying like a little baby!! HaHa! what a fit ending to a great week!!
SCPOret| 3.31.12 @ 12:34PM
Who Cares?
Hugh Glass| 3.31.12 @ 12:54PM
Thinking more along the lines of playing the piano in a whorehouse.
Paul McGrath| 3.31.12 @ 1:03PM
I think he would make a good shoe shine boy.
Pete| 3.31.12 @ 1:47PM
The guy has no talent. Let him live on unemployment.
Purple Lips| 3.31.12 @ 2:48PM
KozTV
PCP Smoker| 3.31.12 @ 3:43PM
Where does shit go when one flushes the toilet? This is proof God loves America.
Windy City Commentary| 3.31.12 @ 4:20PM
Where's he go? WHO CARES! Oh yeah, that's right; beltway writers care; they care about many things that don't matter.
Floyd Looney | 3.31.12 @ 6:36PM
FioS carries CCTV4 from commie China but he might be too liberal for them,
jocon307| 3.31.12 @ 7:04PM
I really despise Eliot Spitzer and I think it was a disgrace that he wasn't prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
That being said, I saw that CNN (or wherever it was) show he had with Kathleen Parker (it was she, no?) a couple of times. I thought he was pretty good. Surprisingly good.
But, he should still be in prison right now.
The American Hitman| 3.31.12 @ 7:36PM
O.W.N.
Nick| 3.31.12 @ 7:58PM
Mr. Goldstein,
"Olbermann does know his baseball."
Like that is some kind of skill?
Teenage boys know their baseball.
Scott| 3.31.12 @ 8:27PM
I don't know about Al Jazeera. I mean, I'm pretty sure they have standards.
Stephanie| 3.31.12 @ 9:05PM
How about NPR?
Left Winger| 3.31.12 @ 10:06PM
He was replaced by Eliot Spitzer. That is like hell on Earth.
Occam's Tool| 4.1.12 @ 4:37AM
Al Jizz sounds about right. A loathsome, treasonous scumbag, whose views on Foreign policy are indistinguishable from those of Ron Paul.
Clint| 4.1.12 @ 7:37PM
Tool Job's The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooge,Who Said He'll Vote For The RINO-CINO Fop Frontman, Mittens Romney.
Tool Job Wouldn't Know Real Conservatism If It Jumped Up And Bit Ya RINO-CINO Mittens' Kitten.
Read George Washington's Farewell Address, Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address, The Old Right And Get Back To Us.
" George Will, "Today, we have a very different kind of foreign policy. It’s called Wilsonian. And the premise of the Bush Doctrine is that America must spread democracy, because our national security depends upon it. And America can spread democracy. It knows how. It can engage in national building. This is conservative or not?"
William F. Buckley, " It’s not at all conservative. It’s anything but conservative. It’s not conservative at all, inasmuch as conservatism doesn’t invite unnecessary challenges. It insists on coming to terms with the world as it is …”
The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To An Open Convention.
Occam's Tool| 4.2.12 @ 6:09PM
The USA's power and world position was very different in the 1790s, as Rome was different when it was just a city. Get back to me on that,child rape supporter.
Oldefarte| 4.1.12 @ 3:33PM
Where will he go now? I sincerely hope to a place known as HADES [and I hope also that he'll stay there]!!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 4.1.12 @ 3:37PM
Maybe he could get a job on Oprah's Network, but since they bleeding money and are about ready to tank financially [and also have recently fired another idiot (Rosie)], so I don't see them replacing one with another!!!!
Bob Grant| 4.1.12 @ 5:17PM
Keith Olbermann = Part Ted Baxter, Part Ron Burgundy.
Oldefarte| 4.1.12 @ 9:51PM
Ron Burgandy? Me thinks you give him way too much credit. Supposedly he tried to come onto Ann Coulter and she laughed in his face!!!!!
Stan Redmond| 4.1.12 @ 8:39PM
When Carney quits he can be Obama's press secretary.
spike59| 4.2.12 @ 7:34AM
i expect him to be on the Oprah Winfrey Trainwreck very soon
Nancy in NC| 4.2.12 @ 9:39AM
Who cares? Just as long as he goes AWAY.