Posted on 06/14/2006 9:43:36 AM PDT by Quilla
Now that Dan Abrams has given up his MSNBC show to run the third-place cable news outlet, he might want to focus on the rising tensions between two of his prime-time personalities: Keith Olbermann and Rita Cosby.
Olbermann, whose "Countdown With Keith Olbermann" airs weeknights at 8, apparently has precious little respect for Cosby, whose "Rita Cosby: Live & Direct" airs at 10 p.m.
"Rita's nice," Olbermann wrote to a fan from his MSNBC E-mail account, "but dumber than a suitcase of rocks." Yesterday Cosby retorted: "Keith got it wrong. I'm not that nice."
But a Cosby intimate gasped when informed of Olbermann's E-mail. "That's incredibly disappointing," he said.
An MSNBC spokesman didn't dispute the authenticity of the months-old E-mail, which came to light this week after the recipient shared it with this column on condition of anonymity.
In his E-mail, Olbermann was also dismissive of then-MSNBC President Rick Kaplan, who left the network last week with six months to go on his three-year contract.
"And Kaplan?" Olbermann wrote to his fan. "He was the producer of that special last night now known as the Kanye West Show." It was a reference to an embarrassing incident during NBC's Hurricane Katrina telethon on which the popular rapper departed from his script to claim President Bush "doesn't care about black people."
Olbermann, who didn't comment yesterday, was said to be on vacation though he managed to turn up Monday night at a book party for Al Gore at the American Museum of Natural History.
There, the media blog Jossip.com asked Olbermann who was accompanied by "his self-described 'friend' Katie" if he'll now be answering to Abrams.
"I don't answer to anybody," Olbermann insisted.
We'll see.
Thank God for her sources. ;-)
Olberman comes off much worse than Cosby in this story. It seems he has quite an unjustified opinion of his own intelligence.
With Karl Rove off the Fitz List KO has run out of material.
Where Al was indistinguishable from the stuffed dodo.
Olbermann, who didn't comment yesterday, was said to be on vacation though he managed to turn up Monday night at a book party for Al Gore at the American Museum of Natural History
Yeah, I was wondering if she is still lurking here at FR. She broke a couple of stories based on info from here, including one from me.
He's too much of a moonbat for even the Gore campaign. He should work for Dennis Kucinich.
Now, I'm no fan of Rita, simply because I am not a fan of her style or her voice. But that comeback was pretty good Rita!
And it makes me wonder which one of them is actually dumb. Well, no it doesn't.
I was thinking he might do well on Cindy Sheehan's campaign--didn't she say she would run against Hillary? ;)
She was probably lurking at DU just before announcing the Supreme Court decision on Bush v Gore in 2000. Man, did she blow that one.
Is that where the dinosaurs are exhibited?
Excellent point. Dennis should have about the same Star Trek IQ as KO.
I don't think Rita's dumb, just incredibly self-serving. But then, that's most of the media, isn't it?
My prediction is that his days are numbered..
With attribution, of course.
And she is dumb as rocks. Her whole act is the bobbing, nodding and weaving delivery. Made me dizzy, when she was at FOX. All breathless appearance; no substance. Wannabe actress, talk about aiming low...
The one she broke of mine what when Clinton pardoned Rick Hendrick, after Hendrick's buddy Hugh McColl of NationsBank (Now BankofAmerica) donated a huge sum to the Clinton Library.
Olbermann continues to burn every bridge on cable television...soon enough he will be hosting a show on how to paint yourself into a corner on the DIY Channel.
I suddenly have some newfound respect for Ms. Rita. I hope she uses that gravel voice of hers to publicly bitch-slap that twit.
Of course NOT! I did get it to Congressman Dan Burton, however, and he included in in his investigation, which went nowhere.
Oh, come on! These two are doing the nasty with each other!
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