If there were ever three kindred spirits, they would have to be Keith Olbermann, Anthony Weiner and Al Gore. Dickhead, dick, and dickless.
Olbermann, making the rounds of the media to promote the premiere of his new show on Gore’s failed Current TV, responded when Jimmy Fallon asked if Weiner might eventually end up on CNN.
CBS News reports the former MSNBC host’s supposedly witty riposte:
“Well, you know, I’ve got a nine o’clock show that I am probably going to hire somebody for,” Olbermann told Fallon, referring to the space immediately after his upcoming new show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann on Current TV.
Fallon asked Olbermann if would hire Weiner.“Eliot Spitzer is doing okay on CNN at eight o’clock,” Olbermann replied with a smile.
Spitzer’s doing OK? Looks like Olbermann is playing as fast and loose with the truth as ever.
Friday, the night that Olbermann uttered these words, Bill O’Reilly had over 3,000,000 viewers. Nancy Grace wrangled in 1,677,000 on HLN. Lawrence O’Donnell attracted 903,000 to MSNBC. And Spitzer drew a mere 541,000.
So now we know what Current considers the benchmark of success: Half the viewers of the number three show in the time slot.
Source: CBS News, MediaBistro.com
