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Olbermann on Letterman: I’m Too Unique and Talented for Current TV

Apr. 3, 2012 9:59pm Mytheos Holt

Former MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann compared himself to a $10 million chandelier in talking about his recent ouster from Al Gore’s Current TV. Mediate caught the appearance and summed it up this way:

On the heels of his firing from Current TV, formerCountdown host Keith Olbermann makes his mildly-ballyhooed first appearance on CBS’ The Late Show with David Letterman. In a preview clip, Olbermann rehashes his passive-aggressive “It was my fault for not knowing everybody but me sucks” apology, and compared himself to “a $10 million chandelier” that Current TV “should have a house to put it in.”[...]

It looks more like Olbermann never really gave the new gig a shot. He liked the idea of being a big fish in a little pond, until he saw just how little the pond was (in part because the pond broke the bank to land him). Then, when Cenk Uygur started beating his ass with younger viewers, it turned out he wasn’t even such a big fish. Although Uygur just started beating Olbermann in the 25-54 demo last Monday, he had been showing Olbermann up with younger viewers than that for months.

Although it was Current who pulled the plug, Olbermann’s set histrionics, scheduling shenanigans, and extensive absences make it pretty clear he had checked out, like an overpaid free agent who suddenly decides he doesn’t like playing for an expansion team, but can’t get out of his contract. Olbermann told Letterman “The nice judge will decide whether or not I get more of my money,” but it’s hard to see what kind of a case he’ll have.

The segment can be watched in full below. See what you think of Olbermann’s “too good for this sinful earth” explanation:

MSNBC has also added a recap of the segment, and it doesn’t paint Olbermann in much of a better light:

Olbermann continued: “I didn’t say, ‘You know, if you buy a $10 million chandelier, you should have a house to put it in. Just walking around with a $10 million chandelier isn’t going to do anybody a lot of good, and it’s not going to do any good to the chandelier.’ And then it turned out we didn’t have a lot to put the house on to put the chandelier in, or a building permit, and I, I should have known that. And it is, it is my fault at heart.” [...]

“But I went home and just sort of had a conversation with myself and said, ‘Look, these – the two important groups that are more important than what I do about myself – the audience who went to struggle to find where the network was and join me, and, most importantly, the staff’,” he said, adding later, “I’m so proud of [the staff] because the show editorially was never better, but I let them down because the thing didn’t continue.”[...]

Olbermann and Letterman also discussed the matter of Olbermann’s unhappiness over car service issues.

“The story is that we changed car services a couple times. I got rid of them. Maybe there were like eight different car services,” Olbermann told Letterman after the talk show host asked about a story that said he was upset about how the transportation was handled at his former employer. “The problem that’s left out of that side of the story was that in at least one occasion, the car service stopped coming to get me because the bill hadn’t been paid. And I know that makes me Attila the Hun because the bill wasn’t paid.”

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whatsitallabout
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:52pm
I guess you could stop reading after he said, “I went home and had a sort of conversation with myself”…
the picture that brings to mind is just too foul…but in keeping with the images of his foul rhetoric on the air for far too long. Let’s hope he sinks into the obscurity he deserves.

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- spirited
  Posted on April 3, 2012 at 11:06pm
  …ha, ha, ha …. screaming “Worst Person In The World”
  
  >Wonder if he slaps himself. ?
  
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Cymry
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:44pm
Right Said Keith – “I’m too sexy for my network”

Fat, Drunk and Stupid is no way to go through life, Keith. (after loosing another anchor gig)

BTW, Keith is gaelic for forest, as in he can’t see them for the trees.

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- thepatriotdave
  Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:56pm
  Hmmm, I guess I see him differently. Everytime I see Olbermanns face on TV, I jump up and tell everyone in the room to shut-up. Then I immediately point to the TV and tell my grandkids that they are looking at the 2nd biggest LOSER in the USA. After they all promise me to never be like him, the room resumes it’s normal level of chatter.
  You can guess who LOSER #1 is.
  
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- WeekendAtBernankes
  Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:58pm
  The guy act likes a spoiled little girl.
  
  Sorry Keith, everybody’s mom thinks their children are special.
  
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- whatthecrazy
  Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:59pm
  Translation-I’m delusional…………..
  
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- Cymry
  Posted on April 3, 2012 at 11:02pm
  barry soetoro, foreign student – education at harvard paid by the Ayers (bill’s father and mother). that’s Loser #1
  
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- TXPilot
  Posted on April 3, 2012 at 11:04pm
  He reminds me of someone else who was convinced they were “winning”…..I wonder if he will soon start drinking “tigers blood” and living with strippers?
  
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- marhee9
  Posted on April 3, 2012 at 11:06pm
  At least he got a last shot in before he fades away into total obscurity. This guy is one of the biggest jerks of all time. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out Keith.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW9-6m6dKZw
  
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- glashole
  Posted on April 3, 2012 at 11:08pm
  The poster child for the post birth abortion crowd. Him and #1 should be test subjects but the stem cells may be fried.
  
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- maccow
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:23am
  Keith said, “But I went home and just sort of had a conversation with myself…”
  That had to be one of the lowest IQ conversations in the history of the world.
  
  “But I went home and just sort of had a conversation with myself and said….” Could I possibly be any more of a looser? I mean how far have I sunk to get fired from Current TV? I mean I got fired by Al Gore? How pathetic must I be?
  “But I went home and just sort of had a conversation with myself and said…” All thats left is to go on Late Night, and then the career will be pretty much over, not that it ever really started.
  “But I went home and just sort of had a conversation with myself and said…” I hope mom still has that basement room available.
  
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- pavepaws
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:59am
  Funny I never envisioned him as a $10 million chandelier. More like a $25.00 toilet.
  
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- HKS
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 7:06am
  Easy to see who this guy’s in love with.
  
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- disenlightened
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 7:13am
  Fat, Drunk and Stupid is right. Especially drunk.
  
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- TaraDodrill
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 8:26am
  http://voices.yahoo.com/delightful-anti-keith-olbermann-video-goes-viral-11191096.html?cat=75
  
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- little big man
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 9:52am
  yes you are unique, and now you have been fired from 3 jobs. at some point in time you have gotten a rep of being an idiot, and I highly doubt you will be hired anytime soon. unless it’s one of obama’s liberal/progressive buddies like the huff post, the koz, media matters.
  
  good luck douche bag.
  
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- OneTermPresident
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 9:55am
  @THEPATRIOTDAVE… Excellent!
  
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- mike119
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 9:59am
  Olberturd dont GET IT. .HE MAKES PEOPLE ILL AND NOBODY WANTS TO WATCH HIM.
  
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- HKS
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:52pm
  Old Hippies always think there important, truth of the matter is, there nuttin.
  
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- Secret Squirrel
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 7:34pm
  .
  “I’m Too Unique and Talented for Current TV”.
  Hey, Keith; hemorrhoids are unique too,
  that doesn’t mean I want to see them.
  The only thing dumber than Oldbermann
  collecting $10 million, is Al Gore who paid it.
  
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KangarooJack
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:41pm
Seriously, WHY do I feel pity for this person?

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- CatB
  Posted on April 3, 2012 at 11:16pm
  LOL . perhaps the only man arrogant enough to give OBAMA a run for his money .. both are too stupid to know how little they REALLY know!
  
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- bitter.clinger
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:09pm
  Olbermann sounds here like the Liberal Media Hack version of Charlie Sheen. Olbermann’s level of wealth is only exceeded by his level irrelevancy. If you take a 10 million dollar turd and put it in a golden toilet it’s still a turd…FLUSH!
  
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- dmerwin
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 2:00pm
  Do you? You need help.
  
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- Secret Squirrel
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 7:35pm
  .
  A $10 million chandelier?
  More like a dim bulb to me.
  
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TSUNAMI-22
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:40pm
Olbermann on Letterman: I’m Too Unique and Talented for Current TV
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That’s like Olberman saying “I’m too brown for toilet paper”.

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- 1casawizard
  Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:48pm
  @TSUNAMI. I gotta admit that is rich. i like ya thinkin.
  
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- Workforit
  Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:57pm
  “Oberman is too brown for toilet paper!!!!!!” Brilliant!
  
  (I know, I know…Why make the effort to spell his name right,,.I mean really)
  
  In this economy why would anyone want a $10,000,000.00 chandelier…
  
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- go2mikerenzi
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 6:46am
  thanks, a good laugh to start the day with!
  
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- countryfirst
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 8:43am
  In reply to PAVEPAWS ” a $25.00 dollar toilet may fulfill a useful propose , Olbermann does not “
  
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Glenn in Virginia
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:39pm
He’s absolutely right! He belongs on Imbecile T.V.

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- TurboCat
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:35am
  He seems like one of those type of people who snap one day and go on a shooting spree.
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 10:35am
  That’w where HE-THE-ONE was fired from.
  
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barber2
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:35pm
Another Charlie Sheen. Just another Media Megalomanic / narcissist. Over dosing on a drug called ego. Maybe he can be appointed Media Czar . Am sure he is a Far Lefty and would fit right in with the Obama / Hurray for Hollywood Crowd.

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- jzs
  Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:45pm
  F Olberman. I guess now he’ll do an internet thing for $10 a month and call it KOTV. Except, to make a go of it, he’d have to appeal to paranoid people.
  
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- seeker9
  Posted on April 3, 2012 at 11:37pm
  @JZS
  No go on the KOTV. That’s a TV station, Tulsa, OK.
  
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- Therightsofbilly
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:21am
  JZSaul,
  
  He couldn’t get anybody to watch for free, let alone charge ten bucks a month.
  
  And Glenn only charges $4.16 a month for the basic package.
  
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RiseLiberty
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:31pm
Your callous arrogance finally caught up with you Keith. I mean just where do you go now? Oprah TV? You’re done, pal. Too much vitriol. Too much hate for decent people. And now finally…
sweet, sweet karma.

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the Anti-Dem
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:31pm
It’s fun to watch little washed up peacocks, (or really fancy chandeliers in Keith’s case), declare that the small world he lives in is to blame for his failure. He is just too bright and shiny for us to understand……bwah hah hah hah hah hah hah…how embarrassing. I imagine we are all due a good scolding from Keith’s mom about our failure to appreciate his genius.

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South Philly Boy
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:29pm
He should start his own… TOAD TV

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- JACKTHETOAD
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 7:06am
  I like the way you think, Philly.
  
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sy212
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:29pm
Never passed a mirror he didn’t pause for. Must be weird to think that you are cute and unbelievably talented when neither are true….

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TruthDetection
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:28pm
This guy is getting progressively more unhinged and narcissistic.

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- EP46
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 6:23am
  Great…he is presidential material !!!!
  
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- johnnycatt
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 8:08am
  how much longer before we find KO in a pool of vomit in an obcure bathroom in an obcure hotel abandoned by an obscure ****** in an obscure Southern California town???
  
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Whirligig
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:26pm
1. There is no such thing as “too unique’. Everyone has his grammar pet peeves. This is mine. Uniqueness is a state of being. There are not degrees of uniqueness, much like there are not degrees of pregnancy. A person or entity is either unique, i.e. one of a kind, singular, the ONLY one, or it is not. So there is literally no such thing as “too unique”, as that implies degrees of uniqueness, which, by definition, do not exist.

2. Fragile? Okay, no disagreement there. You, sir, are quite fragile. When confronted with any well thought-out, logical dissent to your statist talking points, you invariably melt into a puddle of retardation. With this, I can do nothing but agree.

But you are also an unfixable, unapologetic, unmitigated **********. That is quite inexcusable. Go die in fire.

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- TruthDetection
  Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:27pm
  Nailed it. Game. Set. Match.
  
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- matinva
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:12am
  BIngo!
  
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- dmerwin
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:59pm
  Excellent post. I bet that the term “irregardless” gets you going too.
  
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nighttrainno9
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:25pm
What a conceited arrogant A$$, he should be in the WH with his buddy.

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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:30pm
  He is a $50 toilet…full of crap
  
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COFemale
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:23pm
Nope, has not learned a damn thing.

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Baja
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:22pm
Kieth, you may have a future working for Castro.

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- Alessandre
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 6:26pm
  before or after Castro dies? or both?
  
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spirited
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:18pm
“F R A G I L E” –Like the Christmas Story leg-lamp.

;^ >that’s fra’ jeee le

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Rstryker27
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:18pm
Everyone who has ever had to work with this clown seems to have the same opinion of him. He is an arrogant , lazy , self centered jerk who thinks that everyone around him should kiss his ass. Hopefully he will never get another job on TV and end up working a drive thru window somewhere to survive in a pay by the week motel. He can blog from there telling people how stupid Sarah Palin is his opinion.

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ourig
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:17pm
dumb and dumber

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ourig
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:15pm
dumb and dumber …..

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bw3131
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:11pm
Obviously neither man can tell S*1t from shinola, or chandeliers from D1(ks!

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65Mustang
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:10pm
Why give that pompous windbag any air time?

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- db321
  Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:20pm
  See Ya Mr Poopy Pants – wouldn’t want to be ya! You Flake!
  
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piper60
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:07pm
Keith got what he deserved——the screen door.

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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on April 4, 2012 at 10:42am
  Ooooh! don’t run into it …Ya mite STRAIN yo’self! Bwwwaaaahahahahahaha… .:o)
  
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:07pm
Poor Old Olberman, too fragile and precious for the mean old Al Gore.

I bet Gore took long showers with him and whispered sweet nothing in his ear, but he didn’t have the common courtesy to give him a reach around. Probably even threw a box of tissue at him. Pansy.

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Walkabout
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:06pm
He has 30 million dollars form his last contract. How long will that last?

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Jenny Lind
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:03pm
Is it just me or is he just a stupid turkey?

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- Taquoshi
  Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:09pm
  He thinks of himself as a chandelier??? Oh, please!
  
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- Leadthemtothelight
  Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:11pm
  no turkey just reeeeealllllyyy stupid. And precious and fragile like a chandelier………muahhhhhh…sorry laughing my well bum off!
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:22pm
  At least his firing didn’t involve a leather paddle, enema kit, and a visit to the Bad Santa, kind of like the “Clown” Keith’s dad hired for his 9th Birthday, fortunately the Donkey was booked that day.
  
  Sung to Stuck in the Middle with You:
  
  Well I don’t know what I did that’s not right
  And I can’t seem to get to the light
  Well my head is just spinning round
  and Moochelle is starting to look like a hound.
  Mathews to the Left of me, Olbermans to the Right.
  and I’m, stuck in the middle with Chu.
  
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