Archive for the 'Keith Olbermann' Category

Keith Olbermann Not Amused By Jimmy Kimmel's Jokes at White House …

Keith Olbermann fired back at Jimmy Kimmel, who took several shots at the former Current TV host in his White House Correspondents Dinner speech. Olbermann was one of Kimmel's many targets in his set. LOS ANGELES — Keith Olbermann is moving his grievances with his former employer Current TV from the airwaves to the courtroom, [...]

Keith Olbermann Hits Back At Jimmy Kimmel, Says He Reminds Him Of Bill O'Reilly

OLBERMANN: Hit them with your wallet, Mitt! More trouble for Mr. Romney on another front, and it may seem trivial, but think long and hard about this — the Seamus card is in play. Seamus, the family dog, which Ramney — or Keith Olbermann, who's been Tweeting all night mostly about baseball, took time to [...]

Keith Olbermann: the cautionary tale of why he was fired, again

Rush Limbaugh on Monday reveled in the news that Keith Olbermann was fired from Current TV last week, calling the TV personality an “insane lunatic leftist.” “The month of March in the United States opened with the left convinced that they were finally Rush Limbaugh on Monday reveled in the news that Keith Olbermann was [...]

Keith Olbermann tells David Letterman: 'I screwed up'

By FRAZIER MOORE AP Television Writer NEW YORK—Keith Olbermann is looking for a new job after less than a year as a talk show host at Current TV. The left-leaning cable network announced just hours before airtime on Friday that Olbermann's show Keith Olbermann says it's his fault his Current TV gig ended in disaster [...]

Rush: Olbermann 'insane lunatic leftist'

Eliot Spitzer introduced Viewpoint, Current TV 's unexpected new program, just hours after the network announced its firing of Keith Olbermann. The former New York Governor made no mention of Olbermann during the Keith Olbermann wanted out of Current TV well before he was fired yesterday because he felt the network was mismanaged and wouldn't [...]

Acid-tongued broadcaster Keith Olbermann gets the boot from Al Gore's Current TV

Keith Olbermann has been fired by Current TV, the network announced Friday. He will be replaced by former New York governor and CNN host Eliot Spitzer. Keith Olbermann is officially unemployed again cause the political host has just been FIRED from his gig on Al Gore's Current TV network.… Keith Olbermann is looking for a [...]

Current TV ousts talk show host Keith Olbermann

Keith Olbermann and Current TV have parted ways. Olbermann tweeted his full statement before posting it to Twitlonger. After barely a year, Current TV has sacked fiery host Keith Olbermann. In a statement Friday afternoon, former Vice President Al Gore and legal entrepreneur Joel Hyatt, who cofounded the upstart cable network, took an So I [...]

Same old Olbermann returns

A day after his Current TV show premiered, Countdown host Keith Olbermann went on CBS' Late Show With David Letterman to present the Top 10 list — and drum up more viewership for his show. After six months off the air, Keith Olbermannreturned to television Monday night with a new edition of "Countdown" on Current [...]

Keith Olbermann Defends Cutting Into Rachel Maddow's Show on Twitter

"So I'm assuming you're mad at her for doing the last five minutes of O'Donnell's show in competition with me? I'm not," he Tweets. Keith Olbermann returns to television Monday night in his new gig at Current TV. The show will air at a familiar time (8:00 p.m.) and with a familiar name, Keith Olbermann [...]

How MSNBC is surviving after Olbermann

Keith Olbermann and his Countdown returned to TV on Monday night on Current with an hour that was loaded with obviousness and an unfortunate amount of fawning on the part of his guests. Keith Olbermann's version of 'Countdown' premieres on Current. What's it like? Call it Olbermann Unleashed. The Current TV personality plans to run [...]