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OLBERMANN ATTACKS: Al Gore's Network Is A Penny-Pinching, Incompetent Clown Show
Business Insider ^ | 4/1/12 | Henry Blodget

Posted on 04/01/2012 9:08:55 AM PDT by jimbo123

Keith Olbermann's team has wasted no time getting their version of his latest network departure into the public realm.

First, Olbermann himself exploded on Twitter less than an hour after getting fired, accusing Current TV bosses Al Gore and Joel Hyatt of being incompetent and dishonest and vowing to sue them.

And now, Olbermann's team have apparently spent considerable time with Howard Kurtz of the Daily Beast, showing Kurtz a trail of emails designed to prove their case.

This aggressive promotion effort has, thus far, been effective: Two days after the show host was canned, it's Al Gore's TV network, Current TV, that is on the defensive.

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To: jimbo123

Eating popcorn waiting for Al Gore to be named Worst Person In Universe.


41 posted on 04/01/2012 10:35:43 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

” so who’s next—Anthony Weiner? By their fruits shall ye know them.”

If fruits are the standard, my guess is Barney Frank would be next.


42 posted on 04/01/2012 10:37:31 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: mardi59

“There’s nothing better than watching liberals eat their own.”

THAT is a visual I could have done without!


43 posted on 04/01/2012 10:39:47 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: jimbo123

Is this news to anyone?


44 posted on 04/01/2012 10:45:25 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: jimbo123

To prove his case, all Olbermann has to say is “They hired me, didn’t they?”


45 posted on 04/01/2012 10:48:26 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Burning the Quran is a waste of perfectly good fire.)
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To: jimbo123

“Basically, Olbermann accuses Current TV of being cheap and incompetent.”

That’s the only reason you got hired there, retard.


46 posted on 04/01/2012 10:51:18 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Burning the Quran is a waste of perfectly good fire.)
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To: jimbo123
Olberdork may have a point ... imagine if your car service pulled up in one of these:


47 posted on 04/01/2012 10:51:36 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Steyn: "If Greece has been knocking back the ouzo, we're face down in the vat.")
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To: jimbo123

You mean ideological socialists don’t make good businessmen? Shocking!


48 posted on 04/01/2012 11:01:10 AM PDT by douginthearmy (Obamagebra: 1 job + 1 hope + 1 change = 0 jobs + 0 hope)
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To: jimbo123

Well then I guess he fit in really well there....LOL


49 posted on 04/01/2012 11:02:05 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: jimbo123

Giving him $50 million over five years proves two things.

1) They really are imcompetent clowns

2) They had to pinch pennies. Pennies were all they had left.


50 posted on 04/01/2012 11:06:23 AM PDT by Terry Mross ( a)
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To: jimbo123

Believe it or not, I actually AM eating popcorn as I type this!


51 posted on 04/01/2012 11:11:56 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
That’s like Goering calling Goebbels a stooge.

Ping me when the Hitler as Olbermann video comes out......

52 posted on 04/01/2012 11:17:00 AM PDT by spokeshave
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To: dfwgator
There’s nothing better than watching liberals eat their own.

Hearing the lamentations of their women is OK too You mean, "Hearing the lamentations of their men...."

Make that:

lamentations of their women and the ululations of their girlymen.

53 posted on 04/01/2012 11:19:07 AM PDT by spokeshave
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To: Beagle8U
If fruits are the standard, my guess is Barney Frank would be next.

Maybe he won't appear on that program, but my guess is we haven't seen the last of Barney. He loves spouting off about how smart he is and how great is lifestyle is. He's just retiring, but he won't stay out of the limelight.

54 posted on 04/01/2012 11:57:42 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: jimbo123

LMAO, I love it when the left eats their own........totally entertaining..........


55 posted on 04/01/2012 12:24:32 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: Aria
Emphasis on “penny pinching” I’m sure.

Yeah, Algore's network only shelled out half a million bucks for Olbermann's studio set, and paid him a measly $50,000 a week.

What a bunch of tightwads.

56 posted on 04/01/2012 1:47:39 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: jimbo123
Al Gore's Network Is A Penny-Pinching, Incompetent Clown Show

Well...
He's not a perfect idiot.

Just S---L---O---W

57 posted on 04/01/2012 1:49:14 PM PDT by Publius6961 (ItÂ’s easy to make phony promises you canÂ’t keep. - Obama, Feb23, 2012)
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To: NonValueAdded
Olberdork may have a point ... imagine if your car service pulled up in one of these:

Actually I had this in mind instead:


58 posted on 04/01/2012 3:25:24 PM PDT by QT3.14 (MSM has a TDD (Truth Deficit Disorder) as it pumps out Kulturkrap to the masses)
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To: jimbo123

How many layers of incompetence can one network have?


59 posted on 04/02/2012 3:53:36 AM PDT by Tolkien (Grace is the Essence of the Gospel; Gratitude is the Essence of Ethics.)
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