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Keith Olbermann’s Angry Email Trail Traces Breakup With Current TV (Metrosexual purse fight)
Daily Beast ^
| 4/1/12
| Howard Kurtz
Posted on 04/01/2012 8:59:47 AM PDT by jimbo123
His bitter divorce from Al Gore’s network followed months of escalating complaints to Current TV executives. Howard Kurtz unearths the acrimonious correspondence.
Just weeks after Keith Olbermann launched his nightly program on Current TV last June, his team was complaining that the network founded by Al Gore and attorney Joel Hyatt wasn’t living up to its promises to support a professional cable news show.
The arguments escalated for months, with Olbermann directly appealing to the former vice president on three or four occasions, until relations had become so poisoned that, on Friday, Current fired Olbermann for breach of contract. He has vowed to take the matter to court and questioned the ethics of Gore and Hyatt.
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posted on
04/01/2012 8:59:53 AM PDT
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jimbo123
To: jimbo123
Metrosexual purse fight
LOL!
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posted on
04/01/2012 9:01:55 AM PDT
by
samtheman
To: jimbo123
How would Olbermann know about a “professional news show”? He has never been on one.
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posted on
04/01/2012 9:02:11 AM PDT
by
RightWingConspirator
(Obamanation--the most corrupt regime since Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe)
To: RightWingConspirator
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posted on
04/01/2012 9:06:14 AM PDT
by
JmyBryan
To: jimbo123
I dee you got your popcorn and are ready for the fun to really start
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posted on
04/01/2012 9:06:23 AM PDT
by
munin
To: munin
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posted on
04/01/2012 9:07:34 AM PDT
by
munin
To: jimbo123
I’m offering to let Olbermann mow my lawn if he showers and knows his place and doesn’t speak to me.
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posted on
04/01/2012 9:11:04 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: jimbo123
Kieth, a word to the wise:
Just don’t get snippy.
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posted on
04/01/2012 9:12:05 AM PDT
by
stanne
To: jimbo123
Gay break-ups are bloody gut-ripping. There is no bottom to how far this will go.
To: jimbo123
His ego got in the way! His drivers smell, speaks to him! Wants to be treated as King! Wants a “Professional News Format”!
He wants this! He wants that!
To hell with him! He is no professional! Just a whiner!
To: jimbo123
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posted on
04/01/2012 9:24:52 AM PDT
by
mountn man
(Happiness is not a destination, its a way of life.)
To: jimbo123
I wonder if Hyatt gave Olbermann his “you have my word on it” routine.
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posted on
04/01/2012 9:27:26 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(If the Constitution is a living, breathing document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
To: jimbo123
Gore had dealt with big egos in politics, but he and Hyatt told colleagues they had never dealt with anyone quite like Olbermann. On the few occasions when Olbermann wrote to Gore, the onetime presidential candidate sent back polite but vague notes that essentially referred the questions to Hyatt.He was vice president under Clinton and he still said he'd never seen anything like Olbermann. That is really saying something.
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posted on
04/01/2012 9:28:43 AM PDT
by
retrokitten
(It took so long to see that truth was all around me. - Ray LaMontagne)
To: jimbo123
I so hope they both check each other for hemorrhoids..
This could get funny..
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posted on
04/01/2012 9:29:23 AM PDT
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hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
To: jimbo123
Olbermann never came close to the more than 1 million viewers he had averaged at MSNBC, but his Current show was drawing more than 100,000 in the prized 25-to-54 age group last summer—and that gradually dwindled to 30,000.30,000 viewers ???...
Must be the libtards living in their mommies basement...
Snort!!!
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posted on
04/01/2012 9:30:05 AM PDT
by
Popman
(America is squandering its wealth on riotous living, war, and welfare.)
To: reagandemocrat
Gay break-ups are bloody gut-ripping. There is no bottom to how far this will go.Never put the words "gay" and "bottom" together in a comment.
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posted on
04/01/2012 9:30:34 AM PDT
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mountn man
(Happiness is not a destination, its a way of life.)
To: jimbo123
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posted on
04/01/2012 9:33:53 AM PDT
by
bigbob
To: reagandemocrat
gay breakups... no bottom... I see what you did there.
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posted on
04/01/2012 9:34:17 AM PDT
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ponygirl
(Be Breitbart.)
To: bigbob
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04/01/2012 9:35:44 AM PDT
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jimbo123
To: jimbo123
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posted on
04/01/2012 9:36:23 AM PDT
by
Cheburashka
(It's legal to be out at night in spacesuits, even carrying a rag dolly. Cops hauled us in anyway.)
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