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Olbermann's Full Statement On Dismissal From Current TV
TPM ^ | 3/30/2012 | The voices in Keith Olbermann's head

Posted on 03/30/2012 3:00:40 PM PDT by Hunton Peck

Keith Olbermann released the following statement on his termination from Current TV:

I'd like to apologize to my viewers and my staff for the failure of Current TV.

Editorially, Countdown had never been better. But for more than a year I have been imploring Al Gore and Joel Hyatt to resolve our issues internally, while I've been not publicizing my complaints, and keeping the show alive for the sake of its loyal viewers and even more loyal staff. Nevertheless, Mr. Gore and Mr. Hyatt, instead of abiding by their promises and obligations and investing in a quality news program, finally thought it was more economical to try to get out of my contract.

It goes almost without saying that the claims against me implied in Current's statement are untrue and will be proved so in the legal actions I will be filing against them presently. To understand Mr. Hyatt’s “values of respect, openness, collegiality and loyalty,” I encourage you to read of a previous occasion Mr. Hyatt found himself in court for having unjustly fired an employee. That employee’s name was Clarence B. Cain.

In due course, the truth of the ethics of Mr. Gore and Mr. Hyatt will come out. For now, it is important only to again acknowledge that joining them was a sincere and well-intentioned gesture on my part, but in retrospect a foolish one. That lack of judgment is mine and mine alone, and I apologize again for it.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Humor; TV/Movies; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: algore; currenttv; keitholbermann; orvilleredenbacher
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To: Hunton Peck

This should be in “Breaking”!


21 posted on 03/30/2012 3:15:45 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: Hunton Peck

Getting fired by Current TV is like getting cut by the 62 Mets.


22 posted on 03/30/2012 3:16:09 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Hunton Peck

HAHAHAHAHA!!! The libs eating their own!!!


23 posted on 03/30/2012 3:16:09 PM PDT by Dengar01 (Go Bulls!!! Go Blackhawks!!!)
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To: Hunton Peck

AAWWWWWWW!! Well bless his heart!


24 posted on 03/30/2012 3:16:15 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: jmax
“Kinda like the “sleep with dogs you get fleas” thing.”

Yeah so true...I immediately thought of the story about the scorpion and the frog.

25 posted on 03/30/2012 3:16:42 PM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: Hunton Peck

the ironic part...if they put the trial on Current television, people would actually watch it.


26 posted on 03/30/2012 3:17:14 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: dewawi

This clown Olbermann has been fired more times than I have fingers.

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Just about. I know of ESPN, NSNBC and now Current. There are probably more that I’ve forgotten.

When is Keith going to realize he’s to blame for his failures?


27 posted on 03/30/2012 3:17:21 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Hunton Peck

Who?


28 posted on 03/30/2012 3:18:31 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Hyatt, Metzenbaum,Olbermann, Gore, and their vermin friends like the Clintons, Durbins, Pelosis, Boxers, Feinsteins, Mikulskis; Kerrys, Bidens; Schummers, Reids, Maxine Waters, Sheila Jacksons, Obamas, etc have visited untold misery on this country, that could be regarded as political treason. God help this republic.


29 posted on 03/30/2012 3:20:27 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: arkady_renko

No winners? Oh, yes...the lawyers. And on this occasion I won’t begrudge them their very high fees!


30 posted on 03/30/2012 3:20:57 PM PDT by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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To: Leaning Right

“if Olbermann got only 10% of what his contract called for, he’s a rich man.”

If he gets 10% of Gore’s wealth in the event Cap’n’Trade passes, he can hire Bill Gates to clean his toilet.


31 posted on 03/30/2012 3:22:57 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: Hunton Peck

Olberman’s Job One was to build up Current TV. He failed. He was fired. Big Deal? I don’t think so. It was quite predictable.


32 posted on 03/30/2012 3:24:48 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (TIN)
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To: Hunton Peck

Oh how I love when liberals start hating on each there.I’m sure any secrets Keithy has learned while working for Current will soon be public knowledge. :)


33 posted on 03/30/2012 3:25:16 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Leaning Right

what his contract called for?? or what he claimed he was being paid???


34 posted on 03/30/2012 3:25:30 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5million pay no federal income tax then vote demoKrat)
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To: Hunton Peck

Oh how I love when liberals start hating on each other.I’m sure any secrets Keithy has learned while working for Current will soon be public knowledge. :)


35 posted on 03/30/2012 3:25:39 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Hunton Peck

Do all these Libs go to the same school and study the same subject where they are taught to always blame anyone and everything else for their own failures? Do any of them ever, ever, ever admit responsibility for their own actions; or breaking the law; or saying something vile, ignorant, racist or sexist; or just being stupid? Certainly whatever course they took to learn to avoid accepting the consequences of their own actions is the only course in which they must have excelled.


36 posted on 03/30/2012 3:27:30 PM PDT by CitizenM (Obama's legacy will be to be remembered as The architect of the decline of the USA)
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To: traditional1

Yep I guess that proves that liberals really are the majority in this country.NOT! LOL


37 posted on 03/30/2012 3:27:49 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: fatnotlazy

Didn’t he work once for one of the Networks and was let go from there also?


38 posted on 03/30/2012 3:28:56 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Chuzzlewit

It’s been a great week.
First Ozero gets caught on a hot mike selling out the U.S. to the Russians, next the Supremes mercilessly humiliated his attorneys on Obamascare, then his bungling fool V.P. Biden calls a host “Dr. Pepper”, and now one of his best cheerleaders Keith (the communist) Olbermann gets corn holed by Algore.
How sweet it is.


39 posted on 03/30/2012 3:30:06 PM PDT by Riptides
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To: Hunton Peck

Hee-hee! love to see a chick fight!
No disrespect to women FReepers.


40 posted on 03/30/2012 3:30:42 PM PDT by vpintheak (Occupy your Brain!)
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