Cable Windbag Returns (To Channel No One Watches)

Michael Moynihan | 4.27.2011 11:22 AM

He's back! And the man who last year earned $7.5 million from General Electric, promises there will be no "corporate" compromises on his new show with the same name, Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

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Joe M 14 years ago

To quote Paul Anka: "Just don't look!"
1. ClubMedSux 14 years ago
  
  But what if I live in Tennessee?
  1. fish 14 years ago
    
    Guarantee void in Tennessee.
sage 14 years ago

Cable Windbag Returns (To Channel No One Watches)

He's going back to MSNBC?
1. Rachel Maddow 14 years ago
  
  That's reallyreallyreallyreally not funny.
  1. Maddow (Redux) 14 years ago
    
    I'm reallyreallyreallyreally a dude.
2. Anonymous Coward 14 years ago
  
  And nary a sole fuck was given on that day.
Rich 14 years ago

Oh, allow me.
1. MWG 14 years ago
  
  Thank you Rich.
2. Southerner 14 years ago
  
  Don't mind if I do...
rather 14 years ago

Well, he doesn't dress like a libertarian
1. Old Mexican 14 years ago
  
  Re: rather,
  
  Well, he doesn't dress like a libertarian
  
  He doesn't sound like one, either. Maybe he is defective.
  1. Dello 14 years ago
    
    Naw, if he was a defective, people would watch him...
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO_sDtI2bYk
Ska 14 years ago

And the man who last year earned $7.5 million from General Electric

I might have to point to this little gem next time some jealous coworker complains about jersey shore talent making millions.
1. Otto 14 years ago
  
  You might want to put talent in quotes in your above sentence, lest you offend people with actual talent.
jerry 14 years ago

Harumph! Rabble rabble rabble. Outrage!!
DJF 14 years ago

Look at the good side, if he did not get this TV program then he would be standing on street corners ranting. At least this way he will bother less people.
1. Pedant 14 years ago
  
  "Fewer" people.
  1. DJF 14 years ago
    
    He's going to Current TV, the Gore propaganda network, so its less people, since anyone seeing Gore will tell you that he is not fully human. He is some sort of cross between shrubbery and human which is less human.
    1. Some Internet Lurker 14 years ago
      
      ManBearPig?
    2. Ted S. 14 years ago
      
      Thanks for pointing out which channel he's going to.
      
      I find it interesting in that Current was originally positioning itself as a youth-driven channel with content created by its young viewers. I don't think Olbermann fits that in any way.
      
      (I remember when Current first took over the Newsworld International slot on DirecTV, and wondering to myself how long it would take before I saw the Ernie G. image. I only tuned in from time to time, but it was within the first weekend that it showed up.)
    3. fresno dan 14 years ago
      
      sir, I have known shrubberies, and Al Gore is no shrubbery. He is an offence to shrubbery, an obamanation to shrubberis, nay even to small trees, and all decent shrubberies everywhere.
      Retract your low insult of shrubberies, or I will be forced to transplant all shrubberies from your landscape!
      1. Rob 14 years ago
        
        As a landscaping contractor, I find this comparison to shrubbery to be quite offensive. (to the shrubbery)
    4. Knights Who Say Ni 14 years ago
      
      That is not a shrubbery, that is an algor
P Brooks 14 years ago

Hurray!

Take that, Power; now you'll get a stern talking-to.
Dee 14 years ago

Obama is leading a scam. America is in trouble. Things must change.
Listen to me speak on it in my video.
"The analogy of War in The Heavens & War in America"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28fM9DQ0cuA
1. Almanian 14 years ago
  
  SPEAK, Dee! SPEAK! Good Dee!! Gooood Dee!
  
  Now roll over...
  1. Otto 14 years ago
    
    Did It's Always Sunny... get canceled?
  2. Arf Yip Nip Snap 14 years ago
Colin Fraizer 14 years ago

Has the Hit and Run post from 26 April 2011 about the "Las Vegas Man Beaten" by a police officer been "disappeared"?

What's up with that?
1. The Onion 14 years ago
  
  Maybe it wasn't true.
  1. Colin Fraizer 14 years ago
    
    I wonder that too, but I think it would be better to say, "Hey, we got this wrong, so we took it down."
2. Chuck 14 years ago
  
  It got memory-holed after warnings from Righthaven.
  
  http://www.theagitator.com/201.....vegas-cop/
Almanian 14 years ago

If Olberdouche brings the chipmunk on his show as his sidekick, I'll watch.

Well, just as soon as my Cable Provider? gets this "Current TV" channel...
Joshua 14 years ago

What is "Current"?
fish 14 years ago

I thought that the name of the show was going to be changed to "Countdown to no Ratings with Keith Olbermann".

Thanks I'm here all week!
P Brooks 14 years ago

He should wear a bow tie.

The kind which spins, and squirts water.
1. fish 14 years ago
  
  I wouldn't watch that if he was Mel Zetz.
  1. fish 14 years ago
    
    Of course I might watch him if he opened the show with a rendition of "Kung Fu Fighting"...but he'd probably just get in trouble.
    
    Yes OT....but SFW!
    
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....hting.html
Bee Tagger 14 years ago

promises there will be no "corporate" compromises on his new show

At least we have the litany of other compromises to still look forward to!
Mike M. 14 years ago

Worst third-tier cable channel in the wooooooorld?
TheZeitgeist 14 years ago

I knew Gore owned a TV channel out there somewhere. Thought maybe it was Versus or something. Guess not.

Dan Rather is now all lonely and ranting on...I wanna say HD Theater or something like that? Olbermann's even more out in the sticks than he is.

Now that I think about it, will Olberpuke be on before Ghandi II or after Conan the Librarian on U62? Because I like those shows, but want to miss Olbermann.
Carston 14 years ago

Why did I watch that? That was the longest three and a half minutes of my life.
Atanarjuat 14 years ago

Semi-OT:

A disturbing daily show clip of an expensive Obama fundraiser that starts with a singing protest but ends with these maroons admitting they'll still vote for him in 2012.
A.G. Pym 14 years ago

There are actually a couple good shows on "Current," but they're mostly apolitical snarky technology shows. And one interesting animated news commentary show. Much of the rest looks like leftovers from "democracy now" or whatever it is that's up by Link TV on Dish's channel array.
ChrisO 14 years ago

Maybe they could just leave the cameras turned off and not tell Olbermann. It's not like it would make much difference in the ratings, and it would save some energy.
1. 0x90 14 years ago
  
  Naturally, I read that as: "It's not like it would make much difference in the rantings..."
The Derider 14 years ago

Given the heavy investment and promotion Reason has given to Atlas Shrugged, I'd be careful about making fun of a channel that "no one watches"

Stones, glass houses, pots and kettles, you know?
jasnos 14 years ago

Haha. He "has a free hand in assembling the finest staff."

Good luck to Olby and his journalistic integrity. Good luck and good night, sir. America's Roast Beef Yes, sir.
Authentic jerseys nfl 14 years ago

So cool!

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