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All this talk about Kieth Olberdork getting picked up by Algore's nascent network has a couple of websites running contests to try and come up with the best name for Kieth's new show. This is one of those threads that has the potential to bounce around for a while, and the potential for "deleted by Admin Mod" comments is indeed high. Discretion is advised, but this is not a Prayer thread, so be forewarned you may not approve of some of the suggestions. Have fun...!!

With all the talk about what Keith Olbermann’s move to Current TV means for Keith, the bigger question is what it means for Current. If you’re to believe the network’s chairman Al Gore, it means a lot. Gore gave an interview to The Wrap in which he claimed that, ever since yesterday’s announcement, people have already begun looking for the channel. After talking about Olbermann’s passion and “formidable intelligence,” Gore was asked what impact Olbermann was making on the network’s subscriber numbers. From The Wrap: “Do you think he’ll create a groundswell of people asking their cable providers to make...

Fairly enjoyable.

Rush Limbaugh Advises Fox To Ignore Keith 'Olberdork' Now That He's Partnered With Gore By Noel Sheppard Created 02/08/2011 - 7:08pm By Noel Sheppard | February 08, 2011 | 19:08 Noel Sheppard's picture Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday gave some advice to Fox News about how to treat Keith Olbermann now that he's partnered with Al Gore's struggling cable network. "Do not ever talk about what goes on over there and nobody will ever hear about it" (video follows with transcript and commentary): RUSH LIMBAUGH: By the way, Keith Olberdork who left MSNBC is going to Algore's...

(CNN) - Keith Olbermann will be hosting a primetime show on Current TV – the network backed in part by Al Gore, the former MSNBC host announced Tuesday. Olbermann abruptly departed MSNBC two weeks ago. He will begin his show "later in 2011," according to a statement from Current TV. Full statement: NEW YORK – February 8, 2011 – Keith Olbermann, the acclaimed broadcaster and writer whose verbal pyrotechnics and moral passion have outraged, informed, and dazzled viewers of "Countdown With Keith Olbermann" for the past eight years, is bringing his slashing wit, analytical eye, and distinctive commentary to Current...

Well this makes sense. Less than a month after Keith Olbermann was unceremoniously chopped from MSNBC, it’s rumored he’s going to Al Gore’s Current TV network. You forgot Al had a network, didn’t you? That’s OK. The last time Current TV broke news was when two of its own female “reporters” were captured north of the DMZ and charged as spies by Kim’s “government.” (Sorry, but the whole episode invites the use of scare quotes). All ended well, however. Turned out Kim was just jealous that Jimmy Carter was spending all his time coddling Hamas.

Keith Olbermann, the former top-rated host of “Countdown” on the news channel MSNBC, will announce his next television home on Tuesday, and people familiar with his plans pointed Monday to a possible deal with the public affairs channel Current TV. Neither Mr. Olbermann, his representatives, or executives from Current TV would comment on the move, but they did not deny that the channel, which counts former Vice President Al Gore as one of its founders, will become at least one partner in Mr. Olbermann’s future media plans. One of the people with knowledge of the plans said Mr. Olbermann would...

....Current TV. TVNewser learned earlier today that Keith Olbermann would make an announcement tomorrow as to where he’ll be next after he left “Countdown.” But the news broke sooner than expected. The New York Times‘ Bill Carter and Brian Stelter wrote today that Olbermann will be going to Current TV. Carter and Stelter wrote that Olbermann and his representatives would not deny the story and an anonymous source told them that the former MSNBC host would have an equity stake in Current TV.

After a female ESPNer wrote a book, "one day," said the source, "Keith counted how many swear words were in it." He sent the results to the entire newsroom. "Why? To embarrass her? To draw attention to himself? It did not add to the workplace." In 2004 -- seven years after he left -- Olbermann was the only on-air personality excluded from SportsCenter's 25th-anniversary reunion week. His fits of pique are wearing thin. He was fired in a fury from Fox Sports in 2001. Last year, he quit writing for Daily Kos, apoplectic that an online commenter suggested he'd criticized...

The time to vomit is now. Aaron Sorkin's Cable News Drama Is A Go At HBO With Pilot Order, Scott Rudin Producing EXCLUSIVE: Aaron Sorkin's long-gestating drama set behind the scenes of a nightly cable news show is becoming a reality. HBO has closed a deal for a pilot order to the project, which reunites The Social Network writer with the movie's producer Scott Rudin. Both are executive producing the pilot, which will be filmed later this year. UPDATE: Word is the project's working title is More As the Story Develops. In his research for the show, Sorkin spent time...

He is the voice of the wide-eyed Progressive Liberal lunatic fringe. Keith Olbermann said outrageous nonsense better than most. Make no mistake this is not to Olbermann’s credit. However if you ever wondered how Jim Jones got so many of his followers to drink the kool-aid Olbermann showed us the Jim Jones technique nightly on MSNBC. That’s correct I said showed us, past tense because Olbermann was abruptly fired from the MSNBC network at the end of last week. (see3:10min video)

"This will be the last edition of your show," MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, on the air, claimed he was told by management. What to make of Olbermann's abrupt departure, an apparent firing? Did post-Tucson concern over "vitriolic rhetoric" cause Comcast, MSNBC's new owner, to recoil at Olbermann's greatest hits? They include, but are by no means limited to: Calling opposition to ObamaCare the equivalent of "terrorists ... killing 45,000 people every year"; blaming Rush Limbaugh for the Oklahoma City bombing; calling the tea party-backed Republicans racists who would bring back "Jim Crow ... bread lines ... robber barons" and "hanging union...

Olbermann Replacement, Young Turk, Cenk Uygur Compares Beck to a Nazi Says His Plan is to Go After Fox News http://www.theblaze.com/stories/olbermann-replacement-young-turk-cenk-uygur-compares-beck-to-a-nazi-says-his-plan-is-to-go-after-fox-news/

“Draft Olbermann for Senate.” The notion that former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann should run for office is out there. Already. Not four days after his hasty exit from the network. Specifically, fans want him to run for retiring independent Sen. Joe Lieberman‘s seat in Connecticut.

Keith Olbermann broke his silence about his split from MSNBC on Monday night, taking to Twitter to thank his fans for their support. "Citizens Of The Free World: Greetings!" he wrote, three days after announcing he would no longer host "Countdown" for the network. "My humble thanks to all Friends of Keith for the many kind words. The reports of the death of my career are greatly exaggerated." While fans of Olbermann were shocked on Friday night when he announced his immediate departure from MSNBC, there was at least one person not surprised by the news: Glenn Beck. "You can...

Friday night’s shocking announcement that Keith Olbermann was immediately leaving MSNBC has had an interesting effect on both detractors and supporters. Right of center media outlets appear to a have embraced a measured yet celebratory tone, while those on the left have called it an “end of free speech,” and have begun to hypothesis what could be Olbermann’s next steps. Some enterprising members of the left wing DailyKos website have begun a DraftOlbermann campaign for the Connecticut Senate seat soon to be vacated by Joe Lieberman. Hey if Linda McMahon can run… Started by DailyKos contributor who goes by the...

Breaking: Fox News Hires Keith OlbermannAfter careful consideration of his qualifications, Fox News has hired Keith Olbermann.

Whatever the particulars of Keith Olbermann's abrupt departure from NBC, the fact is that Olbermann had come to define the network. By separating with Olbermann at this moment, NBC is speaking volumes about the debate that has consumed the country for the past two weeks. Olbermann's broadcasts in the immediate aftermath of the murders and mayhem in Tucson, Ariz., were astonishingly dyspeptic. Led by Olbermann, Paul Krugman and a few others, many on the Left attempted to link the violent actions of an insane killer to conservative political rhetoric and goals. George Will rightly pegged this reaction as the latest...

If there was some strange parallel universe in which Keith Olbermann and I were members of Congress, I suspect we would vote together about 99 percent of the time. But when the "Countdown" host announced his abrupt departure from MSNBC on Friday night, I felt only relief. First reactions to Olbermann’s exit have broken along lines as partisan as they were predictable. That the New York Post would respond to the news with glee and The Huffington Post with a gnashing of teeth was hardly a shock. But back in the real world, I cannot imagine I am the only...