We have bad news for those of you hoping for a reunion between Rupert Murdoch and Keith Olbermann. It ain’t gonna happen. Murdoch has made it clear he doesn’t want the obnoxious former MSNBC host anywhere near Fox Sports.
The Daily Caller has the disappointing details:
In a FNC interview that aired Wednesday, host Neil Cavuto asked News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch if he would consider rehiring Olbermann, who was canned from the network.
“No,” Murdoch said. ”We fired him once, we don’t believe in firing people twice.”
“You called him a ‘nut,’” Cavuto said.“Well he was a nut on…We had him on ‘Late Night Fox Sports’…It was impossible,” Murdoch said.
Olbermann worked at Fox from 1998 to 2001, when Murdoch gave him the boot.
“I fired him…He was crazy,” Murdoch said.
C’mon, Rupert. Don’t you think it would be fun to rehire Olbermann just so you can fire him again? Kind of like Val Halen does with David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar every couple years.
Hire him, Rupert. Fire him, Rupert. Make his head spin like Linda Blair in the Exorcist.
Source: Daily Caller
This post was last modified on February 4, 2011
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Keith Olbermann is old news and because of other worse crap going on in the world right now we have to drag this human anchor up off the bottom of the swamp?!?
It might be fun to watch Ruppert walk on the set and jerk the ear piece right out of Olbermans ear then escort him out the door. However, it appears that once burnt twice shy is the motto here.
Now that Olberman is unemployed will he stay that way through out the 90 some weeks before he goes out and looks for a job. Personally, its my wish that he remain unemployed and off the air forever!!! If he waits long enough, the Obama's might have a job for him either in the adminstration or at the Obama (Capone) library in Chicago's Southside.
I thought Obama was with the Northside Gang.
He is an equal opportunist gangster. He could care less which side of town he controls :)