‘Arrogant’ and ‘Immature’: Current TV Countersues Keith Olbermann
- Posted on April 6, 2012 at 9:00pm by
Mytheos Holt
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From a conservative point of view, watching the fight between Keith Olbermann and Current TV is a classic case of Evil versus Evil. And the fight just got a little more entertaining, now that Current TV has decided to sue Olbermann back after he decided to file suit against them yesterday. And unlike Olbermann’s suit, which essentially appeared to amount to Olbermann being insulted, the Current countersuit has some interesting details about Olbermann’s work habits. The LA Times reports:
In a court filing Friday, the network attacked the liberal opinion-maker as “arrogant” and “immature” and said that he had failed to show up for nearly half of his recent workdays. The papers were a response to Olbermann’s $70-million breach-of-contract lawsuit filed Thursday against Current, which hired him as its star last year but dismissed him in late March after months of turmoil.
Current said it doesn’t have to “pay a dime” to Olbermann, “who, having already been paid handsomely for showing up sporadically and utterly failing to keep his end of the bargain, now seeks to be paid tens of millions more for not working at all.” The papers also point out that Olbermann told David Letterman, “I screwed up” at Current during a TV appearance this week.[...]
“[H]e arrogantly and falsely calls ‘cheap’ the company that has paid him the highest compensation he had ever received in his career, provided him the largest staff of any program he had ever anchored, given him the largest studio and custom-designed set on which he had ever worked, and paid over $50,000 in an eight-month period to eight different limousine companies because none of the previous seven were able to meet his patrician standards for how to drive him around New York City,” the papers say.
Olbermann’s attorney has dismissed the filing, though it will not do much good for Olbermann in the court of public opinion.
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Comments (77)
floridacockleburr
Posted on April 7, 2012 at 12:45amThis story gives me a thrill up my leg.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on April 7, 2012 at 7:51amMe too….for Olberman this will be the end of his career. Never thought I would thank Al Gore
Report Post »HKS
Posted on April 7, 2012 at 9:29amCome on libs, where’s the brotherly love. Just kiss and make-up, at the end of the day you both have to crawl back into the same hole.
Report Post »RicohCop
Posted on April 7, 2012 at 10:23amHe will probably be the next Senator from some idiotic state that doesn’t know their elbow from their knee…see Al Franken and Minnesota….www.franken.senate.gov/
or else ESPN will have him calling NFL games again…..that might lead me to call for my first boycott….
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on April 7, 2012 at 5:50pmWhat I would really enjoy is seeing Al and Keith settle this man to man (or pig to whale) in the ring.
Can’t you just visualize the two of them trading slaps and dancing around, now that would be worth a pay for view show.
Poor Keith may not be able to collect anything as ruor has it that Current TV is close to being dropped by all of the cable and dish providers.
OMG 2012
Report Post »QuietBeige
Posted on April 7, 2012 at 11:46pm“ now seeks to be paid tens of millions more for not working at all”
Why is that a negative for Gore? I thought he loves the OWS crowd…?
Report Post »FugMan
Posted on April 7, 2012 at 12:06amOlberman’s ego got even bigger than I thought it ever could. He is such a typical Liberal. No “news” network will ever hire him again. Karma is sweet.
Report Post »brickmoon
Posted on April 7, 2012 at 5:06amWho needs an astronomically overpriced lampshade that’s obnoxious, consummately humorless, pretentious, conceited, insulting, preachy, hypocritical, and sucks every last photon of light out of the room?
But enough about Olbermann’s former boss.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on April 7, 2012 at 7:21amBrick – good one. I was thinking the same thing – Olbermann vs Gore the battle of the fat liberals,, I’ll bet it turns into a slapping, hair pulling fight where each of them accuses the other of being a sissy.
OMG 2012
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 7, 2012 at 12:00amLiberals are all Arrogant & Immature… alike OWS… and Obama! So, how do they sue each other over the same Characteristics?
Report Post »Dde13
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 11:26pmOlberman…He will make some lawyer rich. His ego is in the stratosphere.
Report Post »Anamah
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 11:48pmNext time they could hire Omama to continue practicing the better ways to fire another huge Ego…
Report Post »joe conservative
Posted on April 7, 2012 at 12:04amI just love watching the liberals attacking each other. After three years of constant warfare against everything conservative, this is just so precious. Especially when it’s Olbermann and Gore. It just doesn’t get any better. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW9-6m6dKZw
Report Post »ForMyChildren
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 11:25pmWho is responsible for the current economic malaise? If you ask Bill Whittle, it‘s Obama’s pals like David Axelrod, Harry Reid and Tim Geithner, some of the many Merchants of Despair. These merchants are costing taxpayers trillions and creating deep national divides based on class and race. Will the despair continue for another four years? Find out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-FGgoReyNE
Report Post »FreedomPurveyor
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 11:20pm*popcorn*
Report Post »Smoovious
Posted on April 7, 2012 at 1:48pmI hope they televise the court proceedings on this. Should be QUITE entertaining. :D
Report Post »arty6164
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 11:12pmKeith/Gore; Truly legends in their own mind.
Report Post »Free2speakRN
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 10:57pmWhat goes around comes around. They deserve each other.
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 10:56pmWoooo hoooo, This is getting to be fun. What could be more enjoyable than a Olbie-Gore cat fight?! I mean, no one could have hoped for anything funnier than this.
Report Post »DV
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 10:46pmDoes Olbermann have any friends left? What kind of women would go with him except one interested in his money?
Report Post »patriotjax
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 10:26pmOf course Keith Olberman is arrogant and immature…HE’S A LIBERAL! They’re all arrogant and immature.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 10:41pmHope it costs algore a bundle….anything to destroy the bane of my state – though it probably doesn’t matter anyway since according to algore the world will end in in 3 years 295 days 3 hrs and 25 minutes because of man-made global warming (based upon algores’ past decrees as recorded on the count down clock posted of Rushlimbaugh.com – pretty funny)
In any event, I think the rapture will happen before then. Since all of the prophecies are now fulfilled- the last was the re-creation of the land of Israel (that was in 1948 – get ready, pack up, pray up, we are going Home)
Report Post »PrfctlyFrank
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 10:22pmKeith Olbermann is nothing more than a malignant narcissist with a completely undeserved ego. He delivers verbal pornography to the lowest common denominator in society and even they’ve gotten sick of him. It’ll be interesting to see how much longer the Rev. Sharpton will actually last in front of TV cameras.
Report Post »DV
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 10:45pmRight.
Report Post »IndyGuy
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 10:15pmClassic Pot Calling the Kettle Black….Gore calling Olbermann Arrogant and Immature…
Report Post »Hickory
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 10:13pmHmmmm, progressive cross fire.
Report Post »strawberry411a
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 9:58pmArrogant? Immature? Keith Olberman??????
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on April 7, 2012 at 7:54amwould this be called friendly fire?
Report Post »glennrocks
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 9:58pmOh it couldn’t have happened to two nicer guys. BWaaahehahaheheha
Report Post »strawberry411a
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 9:57pmArrogant? Immature? Keith Olberman?????????
Report Post »4BlueStars
Posted on April 7, 2012 at 3:36amWe have known that all along.
Report Post »CATPBJ
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 9:56pmOlbermann really is a sad, sad specimen of a man. If he had not already given up any semblance of a ‘political pundit’s’ career, he has now. He is certainly a tool. A tool that is kinda bent and rusty and just not that useful anymore.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 9:31pmI believe that I said a few days ago about reading elsewhere that Olberman was about to sue Current and this could only get funnier. Oh well, can’t really brag about that, we all saw it coming…and it is definitely getting funnier. Pass the popcorn, please.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 9:23pmThis reminds me of Pee Wee Herman vs The Three Stooges, with Abott and Costello refereeing. Let the Noook Noook Noook and I know you are what am I, Begin. I am rooting for the Ambulance.
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 9:33pmI hope they sue each other until one or both go broke… fun reading to be had by all!
Report Post »Smug
Posted on April 7, 2012 at 2:20amLol………….MSSMUG
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 9:18pm‘Arrogant’ and ‘Immature’
LOL .. thought it was going to be about Obama … or any other number of progressives .. including ALGORE! (oh and Olbubberman man too!) This might get “interesting” ;-)
OMG 2012
Report Post »KingDork
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 9:16pmEver played an RTS game where you’re two of your enemies are turning against each other and hitting each other hard where you just sit back and enjoy the show? This is like that moment.
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 9:22pmGet your popcorn, get your peanuts, get your red hots!
Report Post »Cosmos102
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 9:13pmThese people are jokes.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on April 7, 2012 at 8:02ambut not very funny
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 9:10pmI never thought I would live to see the day that I would be rooting for Al Gore, but I hear they’re serving snowcones in H3ll.
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 9:10pmHave we not figured out yet that Olberdouche is an *******? Al F’n snore is just as guilty!
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 9:31pmMost of the time, I’d agree with you, but Al did hire Keith and gave him a second (third, fourth, fifth?) chance. And Keith just couldn’t get over himself to actually do some work.
Now by getting his knickers all in a twist, Keith may have inadvertently performed a public service with his two year old behavior since the lawsuits are going to be costly and Current TV is not exactly on a stellar path of popularity. So we’ll see how deep the pockets really are at Currrent.
And note to prospective employers, you might want to think once, twice and then a few more times before hiring a liability like this guy. He’s giving Charlie Sheen a run for his money.
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