Tweet of the Day — Current TV Edition

10 Responses to Tweet of the Day — Current TV Edition

1. Miranda | March 30, 2012 at 2:59 pm | Reply

   I have been laughing at that tweet for the last 10 minutes.

2. Norbrook | March 30, 2012 at 3:35 pm | Reply

   OK, who didn’t see this coming?

   Seriously, Keith’s ego has been running out of control for a while, and maybe this will cause him to step back and think about what he’s been doing. There’s only so much employers will put up with, and Keith has pretty much found that limit several times.

   • Allan | March 30, 2012 at 4:04 pm | Reply

     Nope, he’s suing everybody.

3. Aquagranny911 | March 30, 2012 at 4:26 pm | Reply

   Keith, Keith….the best part of your old gig on MSNBC was when you read excerpts from James Thurber on Friday nights. It all went down hill after that. You really do need to find a new focus in your life outside of politics and pumping your own ego. You should have enough $$$. Please take some time to reflect & mediate.

4. Cappadonna | March 30, 2012 at 4:45 pm | Reply

   You know, its says something when you’re such a jackass egomaniac that that Current TV, which is one step above Public Access, doesn’t want you around. Dude’s down to doing spots on Pacifica. Or CNN, both are just about relevant.

   When Cenk Uguyur and the Young Turks can hold on to a TV gig longer than you, it says something.

   Maybe Mr. Olbermann could learn a little humility on his way – one monkey don’t stop no show. You can’t get fired twice in 3 years and it not be your fault. And for God’s Sake, Olbermann, you lost your job to Elliot Spitzer, the dullest pundit ever.

   Nah, he’ll just hit the blog claiming that he was wronged.

5. Admiral_Komack | March 30, 2012 at 5:27 pm | Reply

   Dear Keith,

   It’s not them.
   IT’S YOU.

6. bdog | March 31, 2012 at 1:00 am | Reply

   I know Olbermann can be a pompous asshole (and it’s a funny tweet!), but I keep thinking there’s something about this that kind of smells. I’m sure as the lawsuits begin, all kinds of good anecdotes will come out and explain the situation, but I suspect it’s not just KO’s ego that was in play here, and I really have to question the “progressivism” of a network that drops Olbermann but keeps on Cenk Uygur and adds Eliot Spitzer. It suggests either really bad management, a misread of their audience (well, potential audience, because Current isn’t on most cable networks, making Gore/Hyatt’s statement equally, hilariously as pompous as KO’s, and far more presumptuous), a strange read of the election-year landscape, or…something. But between Uygur, Bill Press, and Spitzer, this feels more like a cable access HuffPo than anything worth defending.

7. Parrotlover77 | March 31, 2012 at 10:09 am | Reply

   why do liberals always bash their own pundits and media? current has been doing a damn good job considering budget and market penetration. KO most of the time does great too. i disagree with all of cenk’s Obama rants, but young turks on current has had some pretty solid shows of late (beats tweety on MSNBC).

   yea it’s not high budget but neither is this blog, but it’s awesome too.

   we’re just too cool for school to watch those shows! also, i liked the band before they became known and sold out.

8. Arrogant Demon | March 31, 2012 at 4:06 pm | Reply

   So, seeing that Olbermann has bit teh dust, again…..

   How long will it be before Cenk gets the Apollo clown to chase him off back to youtube?

   I liked Keith, but he got to teh point where he thought his shit didnt stink, and it all went to shit from there.

   If he doesnt go to FOX, he might have to troll and become an emo-prog blogger on HuffPo.

   Maybe Airy will create a TV network for him tog et hired, then fired off from next year

9. joe from Lowell | April 3, 2012 at 9:20 am | Reply

   Olbermann, Greenwald, Daily Howler…quite a few people whose reputations were built as political critics during the Bush presidency have seen those reputations fall since then.

   Sometimes, a player in the minor leagues will look like a future Hall of Famer, but when he gets to the majors, he’s exposed.

   The Bush years were a good time for people with blunt minds. There were such great, obvious evils being done – people being tortured, sometimes to death; invading Iraq; people being arrested in the United States, by law enforcement, and disappeared into military prison to be abused – that it didn’t require a highly-developed ability to draw fine distinctions or put facts into perspective in order to have a useful working understanding of the issues. At the same time, the rally-round-the-flag effect of 9/11 caused the media and our political culture as a whole to project respectability onto the Bushies and give them the benefit of every doubt. What was needed was someone willing and able to use their mind, and their words, as a battering ram.

   Today, things have changed. A question like “What should the United States do to support indigenous democratic movements as they seek to overthrow a dictator? What if a great massacre is about to occur?” is a very difficult question. It requires one to take several different imperatives into account, and to weigh them against each other, and to come to a nuanced conclusion. These questions aren’t answered by screaming “Dead brown people! Military-industrial complex! Down with imperialism!”