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Olbermann tells Letterman he "screwed up" on Current TV deal
cnn.com ^ | 4/4/12 | Chris Dignam

Posted on 04/04/2012 3:25:47 PM PDT by ColdOne

(CNN) -- Days after a very public termination from the Current TV network, controversial on-air personality Keith Olbermann admitted he "screwed up," in an appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman" Tuesday evening.

"I screwed up really big on this," the former "Countdown" host conceded. "It's my fault that it didn't succeed, in the sense that I didn't think the whole thing through."

However, the transient host's admission of guilt was not without a backhanded analogy.

"If you buy a $10 million chandelier, you should have a house to put it in," Olbermann said. "Just walking around with a $10 million chandelier isn't going to do anybody a lot of good" -- a comparison that invited Letterman to quip, "You're the chandelier?"

Letterman also presented Olbermann with an adjustable business card that could switch out Olbermann's various former employers.

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1 posted on 04/04/2012 3:25:50 PM PDT by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

As Obama, Overbite screws up everything he does.


2 posted on 04/04/2012 3:35:06 PM PDT by boomop1 (term limits is the only way to save this country.)
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To: ColdOne

His best bet would be to either go on the internet or satellite, because the normal next step for somebody having made it big on a small channel like Algore tv would be to either yet a slot on the weekend or at night on one of one the cable networks.


3 posted on 04/04/2012 3:37:04 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: ColdOne

I can’t imagine that anyone’d even watch either of these two jackasses.


4 posted on 04/04/2012 3:38:04 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: ColdOne

It’s Bush’s fault.


5 posted on 04/04/2012 3:44:47 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: ColdOne
"If you buy a $10 million chandelier, you should have a house to put it in," Olbermann said.

But in Al's defense (did I just say that), if all you have is a crank flashlight with a broken bulb you get rid of it.

6 posted on 04/04/2012 4:25:38 PM PDT by mykroar (Please be aware any /sarc tag is for the lurkers, not the Freepers.)
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To: ColdOne

Like the offers were pouring in after you got the boot from MSLSD, Keith? I imagine you grabbed the only one that was offered.


7 posted on 04/04/2012 4:37:45 PM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Ronald Reagan: "our liberal friends....know so much that isn't so...")
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To: ColdOne

Like the offers were pouring in after you got the boot from MSLSD, Keith? I imagine you grabbed the only one that was offered.


8 posted on 04/04/2012 4:38:02 PM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Ronald Reagan: "our liberal friends....know so much that isn't so...")
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To: ColdOne

Maybe if he ran full-tilt into another forehead-level steel bar he’d screw up less often.


9 posted on 04/04/2012 4:39:24 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: ColdOne

Olbermann and Letterman are the same mentality..
They suit each other.. could be fast friends..
Next time you see Letterman think Olbermann..


10 posted on 04/04/2012 4:54:56 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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Hey Overkill!

If I ever saw you flipping burgers, I would only stop long enough to insult you till you wet your pants and your head exploded. Then I’d have a little talk with your boss about your child molesting problem.


11 posted on 04/04/2012 4:57:39 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER ( Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
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To: ColdOne

If Olbermoron would just catch his farts in a bottle, Al would give him his job back.


12 posted on 04/04/2012 5:21:56 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (6 November, 2012, the day our embarrassment is sent back to Kenya.)
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To: ColdOne

OLbermann, The WORST TALKING HEAD EVER!


13 posted on 04/04/2012 5:25:13 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ColdOne

He has to go on Ted Baxter’s show. He just has to.


14 posted on 04/04/2012 5:29:01 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: ColdOne

He has to go on Ted Baxter’s show. He just has to.


15 posted on 04/04/2012 5:29:37 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: ColdOne

Olberdork is far more dim bulb than chandelier....


16 posted on 04/04/2012 5:39:11 PM PDT by Clintons Are White Trash (Lynn Stewart, Helen Thomas, Rosie ODonnell, Maureen Dowd, Medea Benjamin - The Axis of Ugly)
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To: mykroar
But in Al's defense (did I just say that), if all you have is a crank flashlight with a broken bulb you get rid of it.

Of course Al, having spent his life on the government payroll, paid 10 million dollars for the crank flashlight with a broken bulb.

Now Mr. Chakra and the Chandelier can fight it out in court, hopefully both spending megabucks on lawyers.

17 posted on 04/04/2012 6:27:39 PM 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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