KEITH OLBERMAN....FIRED BY AL GORE.

gimmesometruth27

The Juggler wrote:

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

EdsonNascimento wrote:

Fraud.

how is being a loudmouth, blowhard, and a prick to his co-workers being fraudulent?

olberman has been right about a lot of things over the years. i admire his passion, but his delivery is annoying and sanctimonious more often than not... he was rightfully canned in this situation.

olberman will be back and because he is unable to work for others he will probably start his own website like huffington and breitbart did.

interesting that none of you laughed and mocked glen beck when he was dismissed from fox...because those two men are different sides of the same coin....

nobody laughed and mocked glen beck?

do a search for his name in the amt.

the people mocking olbermann in this thread said nothing about beck...especially not in the tone they used in this thread....i suggest you do a search for his name..

MotoDC

I thought we'd established the relevant difference between the Becks/Hannitys and the Olbermans of the world -- the former are purported as talking head opinionators and the latter as a journalist.

Granted, not all viewers are aware of or understand the difference, but it's still relevant.

EdsonNascimento

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

EdsonNascimento wrote:

Fraud.

how is being a loudmouth, blowhard, and a prick to his co-workers being fraudulent?

olberman has been right about a lot of things over the years. i admire his passion, but his delivery is annoying and sanctimonious more often than not... he was rightfully canned in this situation.

olberman will be back and because he is unable to work for others he will probably start his own website like huffington and breitbart did.

interesting that none of you laughed and mocked glen beck when he was dismissed from fox...because those two men are different sides of the same coin....

Fraud in the sense that he preaches complete liberal bs, then turns around and finds himself entitled bc of his money. That's the definition of a fraud. You should be appalled.

gimmesometruth27

EdsonNascimento wrote:

Fraud in the sense that he preaches complete liberal bs, then turns around and finds himself entitled bc of his money. That's the definition of a fraud. You should be appalled.

i agree with everything you said here. it is well documented that he is an entitled prick yet plays the caring liberal firebrand on tv...same schtick he had been doing for years.

money changes people. always has, always will.

look at ed schultz...he used to be on conservative radio, but he found he could not compete with rush and co so he completely changed his politics and he is making a ton of money now on satellite radio and msnbc.

my general rule of thumb is "nobody is who they portray themselves to be in the media"... they are all self serving, rich, entitled jerks...

EdsonNascimento

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

EdsonNascimento wrote:

Fraud in the sense that he preaches complete liberal bs, then turns around and finds himself entitled bc of his money. That's the definition of a fraud. You should be appalled.

i agree with everything you said here. it is well documented that he is an entitled prick yet plays the caring liberal firebrand on tv...same schtick he had been doing for years.

money changes people. always has, always will.

look at ed schultz...he used to be on conservative radio, but he found he could not compete with rush and co so he completely changed his politics and he is making a ton of money now on satellite radio and msnbc.

my general rule of thumb is "nobody is who they portray themselves to be in the media"... they are all self serving, rich, entitled jerks...

Agreed (we should mark this down ). A great former coworker who I respect immensely once said - people suck and when it comes to money, people suck more. Always stuck with me and unfortunately proves itself time and again. To be honest, that's kind of why I like this place. I feel like we suck a little less than the average folk. :?

The Juggler

MotoDC wrote:

I thought we'd established the relevant difference between the Becks/Hannitys and the Olbermans of the world -- the former are purported as talking head opinionators and the latter as a journalist.

Granted, not all viewers are aware of or understand the difference, but it's still relevant.

olberman is the definition of the former...just on the other end of the spectrum. in no way, shape, or form is he considered a journalist.

Jason P

Maybe he can get a job at GBTV ... I'm kinda being serious. Have the two square off at the same time. Why corner part of the market when you can have it all?

Jason P

Perhaps he was fired by Gore due to lack of investigative journalism on Man-Bear-Pig.

Bronx Bombers

Liberal bloviator Keith Olbermann spent his last days at Current TV driving colleagues nuts with rants about “smelly’’ drivers who had the audacity to talk to him, according to startling e-mails obtained by The Post.

“The problem is with him . . . the man who professes to be for the 99% doesn’t want any of the 99% talking to him or being near him,” an accounting executive complained in one of the missives.

Meanwhile, Olbermann appeared last night on “Late Show with David Letterman,” where he bizarrely compared himself to a “$10 million chandelier’’ and suggested Al Gore’s network was not up to his standards.

“It’s my fault that it didn’t succeed, in the sense that I didn’t think the whole thing through,’’ he said.

“I didn’t say, ‘You know, if you buy a $10 million chandelier, you should have a house to put it in. Just walking around with a $10 million chandelier isn’t going to do anybody a lot of good.”

http://m.nypost.com/p/news/local/keith_ ... uK5VBqWi8N

peacefrompaul

Jason P wrote:

Perhaps he was fired by Gore due to lack of investigative journalism on Man-Bear-Pig.

Ha.. Ha hahaha

tybird

EdsonNascimento wrote:

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

EdsonNascimento wrote:

Fraud.

how is being a loudmouth, blowhard, and a prick to his co-workers being fraudulent?

olberman has been right about a lot of things over the years. i admire his passion, but his delivery is annoying and sanctimonious more often than not... he was rightfully canned in this situation.

olberman will be back and because he is unable to work for others he will probably start his own website like huffington and breitbart did.

interesting that none of you laughed and mocked glen beck when he was dismissed from fox...because those two men are different sides of the same coin....

Fraud in the sense that he preaches complete liberal bs, then turns around and finds himself entitled bc of his money. That's the definition of a fraud. You should be appalled.

I would refer to him as a "limousine liberal"

EdsonNascimento

tybird wrote:

EdsonNascimento wrote:

Fraud in the sense that he preaches complete liberal bs, then turns around and finds himself entitled bc of his money. That's the definition of a fraud. You should be appalled.

I would refer to him as a "limousine liberal"

Ironic that Al Gore hired him. :? Wait. Nevermind. Takes one....

mikepegg44

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

EdsonNascimento wrote:

Fraud.

how is being a loudmouth, blowhard, and a prick to his co-workers being fraudulent?

olberman has been right about a lot of things over the years. i admire his passion, but his delivery is annoying and sanctimonious more often than not... he was rightfully canned in this situation.

olberman will be back and because he is unable to work for others he will probably start his own website like huffington and breitbart did.

interesting that none of you laughed and mocked glen beck when he was dismissed from fox...because those two men are different sides of the same coin....

I agree. I have a feeling Olberman would be a prick no matter how much money he had...he was just being himself.

hedonist

I could've sworn I saw a news piece this week (on Letterman?) where he said his firing was his fault.

And now he's suing for 70 million?

WaveCameCrashin

:wave:

peacefrompaul

This compares him to Charlie Sheen: http://rt.com/usa/news/olbermann-sheen- ... fired-466/

Monster Rain

peacefrompaul wrote:

This compares him to Charlie Sheen: http://rt.com/usa/news/olbermann-sheen- ... fired-466/

That's really not fair. Charlie Sheen got good ratings.

peacefrompaul

Monster Rain wrote:

peacefrompaul wrote:

This compares him to Charlie Sheen: http://rt.com/usa/news/olbermann-sheen- ... fired-466/

That's really not fair. Charlie Sheen got good ratings.

Hahaha