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
This post was last modified on January 26, 2021
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It's ok with me if weiner joins algores tv station. I don't watch any station that promotes a green agenda, a racist agenda or the homosexual agenda.
The introduction for the new Anthony Weiner show:
And now from Current TV, a man with a firm grip on todays political landscape, A man who can point you to the left as no one else can, The man who knows how to grill with the best of them, The hardest liberal on television and friend to porn stars everywhere...It's the AL Weiner show. The Al Weiner show, brought to you by the Stiff Frank's Weiner Company of Boston. And now heres your favorite hot dog...ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL WEEEEEEEEEEEEiner!!!! (slapping sounds)
I love when liberals eat their own: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/At-a-New-Network-Olbermann-nytimes-3688851149.html?x=0&.v=2
i can just see it now! "it's time for the Al's Weiner Show!"
Will they have masseuses as assistants?
I think Olberman saw those Anthony Weiner pictures and he likes them so much he wants Weiner to work near him at that toilet bowl network Current.
903,000 people watch O'Donnell? Scary.
Oh yeah!!! I'm gonna watch th......Wait. No I'm not.
What is the current over/under line on the number of people who will watch Olbermann? Does the Gore channel even show up in the ratings?
It does'nt matter what CurrentTV has done up to this point. They are paying well above market value for Olbermann, & I think the goal is to take out MSNBC's primetime lineup. Olby has a long & bloody track record burning bridges wherever he's worked. I don't think for moment he would'nt enjoy taking down MSNBC after they pushed him out the door after numerous fights with everyone there. I think he can kill O'Donnell in his timeslot, & I hope he does. He may force MSNBC to actually change who is on their primetime lineup, rather then just rearanging the deck chairs.
BTW, FoxNews has nothing to worry about, the ratings fight will be below their ratings altitude, well below it.
Coming to a TV near you, Keith Olbermann, Current TV's latest addition to the swill that's already in the pipeline!
They wouldn't last long, given KO's reputation for 'not playing well with others'.