Al Gore Gushes Over ‘Formidable Intelligence’ of New Hire Keith Olbermann
- Posted on February 9, 2011 at 7:41pm by
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Al Gore loves Keith Olbermann.
In case it wasn’t clear before, the former vice president made it evident Wednesday in speaking to reporters about the former MSNBC host‘s move to Gore’s own media company, Current TV.
How much does Gore love Olbermann? Let him count the ways:
He’s a unique talent and he has a magnetic personality and people form a relationship with him because they know that he is brilliant, they know he is speaking from his heart, they know he has passionate beliefs. He cares about them a lot. And he marries that to his formidable intelligence. And I think people appreciate his authenticity and where he’s coming from. …
Less than 24 hours after Olbermann announced his departure from MSNBC on Jan. 21, Gore translated this love into a job offer, extending a personal invitation to join Current TV.
“We’ve been friends for a while,” Gore said of Olbermann Wednesday. “I find myself in substantial agreement with the views I’ve heard Keith Olbermann express” — which is Al Gore’s way of saying, “We agree on lots of stuff.”
Democracy “benefits greatly from having Keith Olbermann’s voice heard,” the one-time presidential candidate added.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Olbermann’s new contract was quickly settled, but it was ultimately Gore who personally convinced Olbermann to join the network. The former MSNBC host’s new venture will likely start up in May after the non-compete clause in his NBC contract expires.
“He had no choice but to go to a place like Current because his non-compete excluded just about every other place,” an MSNBC source told THR.
In the fourth quarter of 2010, Neilsen estimated that Current TV averaged an outreach of just 18,000 homes during primetime. Nevertheless, Olbermann is describing his new venture as “an improved, amplified and stronger version of the show that I just did at my previous network.” As Current’s new chief news officer, Olbermann will also play a role in developing other shows for the network.
“Among his many talents, he has an eye for what works, what doesn’t, who would be good on his show and potentially doing other shows,” Gore said. “And we’re going to let that evolve. He’s always done that. He was more responsible than anyone else by far in making the brand of the network he most recently worked at. Before that he was more responsible than anyone else for Sports Center, the heart of heart of ESPN. So he knows how to do this.”
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Comments (186)
Hisemiester
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:23pmWell, after reading the article. I’d say all 18,000 of you who watch Al Gores TV enjoy the show. It doesn’t get any better comedy than that. Ho ho. What a woosh. Old whorey Gore at it again.
Report Post »B4B
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:23pmPREDICTION:
Report Post »“Current” is the next Air America.
A bunch of fringe leftists, preaching to a bunch of fringe leftists.
Both bunches together wouldn’t score a ratings blip.
All the illegitimate “Carbon Credit” booty in the world won’t be enough to keep this venture afloat.
Taquoshi
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:38pmAt least we‘ll know what he’s doing rather than wondering what he is up to. Just remember, you can always tell alot about a person by the company they keep……
Report Post »jumpinjackflash
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:23pmLooks like Al has found a new love. So soon too.
Report Post »RogueAmeritarian
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:20pmWow, one loser, hiring another loser, should be no change in the amount of viewers!
Report Post »Hisemiester
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:20pmI’ll comment on this, speaking my mind, if you will prior to reading the full article.
Report Post »Gore gushes in his pants all the time. The fat turd. Ha, now said I will faithfully read the article
mermaid7
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:19pmDid Gore get that ‘tingly feeling up HIS leg” thinking of Olberblubber?
Report Post »That really makes me want to barf.
Thank goodness he won’t be seen by too many people now and do minimal damage.
RightPolitically
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:18pmGore and Olbermann, perfect together……..A marriage made IN HELL and consecrated by THE DEVIL!
Report Post »psycodad36
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:13pmas long as they DON’T get public funding,I don’t care.I do not watch television,commercials piss me off . haven‘t had tv in 2 years and don’t miss it ,and lost alot of extra fat
Report Post »SND97
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:13pmBefore that he was more responsible than anyone else for Sports Center, the heart of heart of ESPN. So he knows how to do this.”
Really Al? Remember Al, you invinted the Internet too :-) 8)
Report Post »Silat
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:13pmNow sit there Keith and take it. I am almost done. Really, I’ll pull out.
Report Post »Whostolemypig
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:06pmCheez, Gore must be standing on his head. His root chakra seems to be where the third eye would normally reside. He thought they said turd eye.
Report Post »912anita
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:06pmKeith and Al blathering alone – it just cracks me up
Report Post »orcainohio
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:04pmCurrent tv the name of the new rock olbermann can slither under.
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:03pmWow, Olbey found a media outlet with an even smaller audience than MSNBC. Does Keith realize that CURRENT newbies have to “walk” the “crazed-sex-poodle” – twice a day, rain or shine?
Report Post »Carl1
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:00pmSound like Gore and Keith may become real close???? ;) Plus he gets paid with Carbon credits
Report Post »TennesseeConservative
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 7:42amGood one Carl. Carbon credits thats great.
Report Post »BloodSweatandTears
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 11:50amFrom the “Father of the Internet,” anyone with ‘formidable intellect,’ is just about everyone…(Second thought, I think that would be everyone.) * Also, this is the state run dribble you would HAVE to listen to if there was no Capitalism folks. * When is Chris Matthews and Katie Couric joining? * He just proved Keith is the only one taking him seriously and finally…does anyone know where he get all his money? Is he subsidized too?
Report Post »Waltermelon
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 7:56pm“He was more responsible than anyone else by far in making the brand of the network he most recently worked at. ”
Ha ha. Which is why he is no longer there. And may the rest of them fall by the wayside…
Report Post »Oatsy
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 7:56pmWhy waste this space in the Blaze on PR for Olbermann? The best way to make him go away is to ignore him. That’s how the MSM treats conservatives
Report Post »s.n.
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 7:54pmGood for Kieth, now he’ll have…………….one viewer
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 7:54pmAnd right on time for Valentines day
Report Post »Silat
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 7:54pmAdd your comments
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:00pmOk, here is a comment. I believe I just heard the spawn of Olberman and Gore was born in Isreal, a Red-Headed Baboon.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 10:11pmBy the way, actual news item, Red-Headed baboon born at Isreali Zoo.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 12:31am@Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Report Post »..I just heard the spawn of Olberman and Gore was born in Isreal, a Red-Headed Baboon.
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Redheaded, you say? Dang, Olby, you’ve already been cuckolded.
Waltermelon
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 7:53pmCurrent TV huh? Kieth is moving down in the world.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 9:36pmThat‘s a channel that I won’t click it .
Report Post »ANTISOCIAL-IST
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 10:08pmlateral move, imo. can’t get lower than msnbchowstupidweare.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 11:05pmI blocked it on our Direct TV, I don’t want my kids watching smut.
Report Post »Silat
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 7:53pmI bet Gore is on top.
Report Post »NancyPalousy
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:37pmI’ll bet Olbermann is “Leaning Foreward”!
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 9:07pmGood one.
Report Post »ANTISOCIAL-IST
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 10:05pmi hate to vehemently disagree, but just picture: al gorey is so soft and cuddly – and dumb as a goldfish – and with that angry snarl that oberdork has, ober‘s gotta be slammin’ that. sorry for that picture, but it is funny as all get out.
Report Post »parmajohn
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 7:52pmStewart and Colbert got some comedy competion
Report Post »TennesseeConservative
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 7:39amI wanted to post something funny, but I just can not compete with the hamster and you tube. That was great. You people are funny.
Report Post »ChasVS
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 7:48pmGiven the stupidity of Algore, it’s no surprise he thinks Olberdumbass is smart!
Report Post »franknshadow
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 7:59pmAlgore is about the only person i can think of thats not as smart as Olberman.. Except Ed Shulz… and Sanchez… and that matthews person…
Report Post »pscully17
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:18pmHuffingtonpost.com : Obama proposes Budget, including cuts to energy assistance for the poor!! $3 billion in cuts citing fuel/energy prices are now well below the peak of 2008. Really? hmmm interestingly the facts are this heating oil is at $3.60/gal in 2008 it was at $3.29/gal for february, same week. so how again are you justifying freezing out the poor who need heat? like now, when its the coldest snowiest winter in decades in the northeast? obama, youre an Idiot elitist, RESIGN NOW!!
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 9:30pmMisery loves company! The blind leading the blind! Bendover and Phil McCrackin!
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 7:44am@crackerone Dont forget Richard Goesinya.
Report Post »Intellectual Honesty
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 7:44pmchannel 358 right between Fox and MSNBC on Direct TV
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 7:47pmSo, he gushed or hosed him? I think Al Gore might have been confused when he hire Olberman, He thought he was getting ManBearPig, Cereal. This could be an elaborate plot by Al to get everyone to turn off their TV, thus reducing greenhouse gases, cereal.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 7:51pmOlby… what Gore’s 2nd chakra desires
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 7:51pmGood luck with that Al. Best thing is maybe after Keith’s show he can come to your house and give you a massage, or send his little brother Rachel Maddow over. Al, your a has been and total clown.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 7:55pm“Among his many talents, he has an eye for what works, what doesn’t,
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hahahahhahahhaaaahhhaaaa
I’d rather believe Comcast
DashRipRock
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 7:57pm18,000 veiwers?
There is a hamster eating popcorn on youtube
Report Post »that gets more viewers than that each week.
cnsrvtvj
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:00pmThis is truly a dynamic duo; Keith Olbermann and Al Gore………perfect fit. As for formidable intelligence, that is hilarious. Olbermann is one of the biggest idiots on the air.
http://www.donsmithshow.com – see the chamber of commerce video
Report Post »HappyStretchedThin
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:12pmYup. It’s now Pinky and the Brain all right.
Report Post »joseph Fawcett
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:12pmHahahaha, let Gore have him just please Blaze drop both guys and stories about them. We don’t care. This is not news this is just plain stupid. I wonder if you here at the blaze are as good as Glenn said you are. Some of the nitpicky stuff you put here is so far below normal jounalistic standard I am surprised that Glen hasn’t yet come down on you. You are suppose to be a top notch investigative reporter team that has high standards. Isn’t there good informative stories you could be investigating instead of this crap. Yes I said crap and I am sorry to use the language, but it really fits these kind of stories.
http://www.josephfawcettart.com Western artist
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:33pmDash,
Great comment. My two cats are jealous. They want some popcorn, too.
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:39pmAl Gore has hired the perfect man to shout insults at those who scoff about “Global Warming!” Maybe Al can nominate KO for a Nobel prize. If they give a Nobel for unresearched hysterical rant, Kieth will be a shoo-in for it!
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
Report Post »Albert Einstein
seemsew
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:40pmHad no idea that there was a Gore channel, or the number. Just warned everyone I know to avoid that number to keep from having their electricity being turned off, their car stalling on the highway or all their fresh venison becoming tainted.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:41pmIt’s an air tight cinch that K.O. is a order of magnitude smarter than Algirl. Still a few watts short of an LED, though.
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 9:06pmAl left his wife for Overbit! Wish them well in their new union. Think Overbit wears the pants!
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 9:25pmI think I hear the Love Boat theme playing….
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 9:26pmepic hire fail. Who is in charge of al’s HR team? He has an eye for what works? If being an ignorant a-hole worked, Al would have been elected President!
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 9:27pmI wonder if he feeds him popcorn like Camren Diaz feeds A-Rod…
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 9:34pmCurrently (unseen) TV….good place for him
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 9:45pmLOL .. only people of little intelligence themselves .. could think Olbermann is “formiddable”.
Report Post »FormerLib
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 9:48pmHa ha! Al should ask Keith’s ex-girlfriends and ex-female co-workers about his magnetic personality and forming relationships. When he’s not verbally abusing them, that is.
Report Post »ANTISOCIAL-IST
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 9:59pmactually, since gore is now without wife, and the way he gushes over oberdork, they would make a cute couple: two clueless bobbleheads.
Report Post »ANTISOCIAL-IST
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 10:01pmoh my goodness. scary dude, jr. said oberdork is brilliant. where have i heard that before? oh, yeah, totus was also called brilliant. it’s just so funny that whatever the libturds say you could always bet the house the opposite is the truth. lolololol
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 10:21pm.
Report Post »I wonder what leg Al got a thrill up?
Abby Normal
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 10:51pmI’m happy for them, they make such a fine couple! Handsome together too! I bet they’ll start cooking up some really good spew for us real soon.
Report Post »CatholiConservative
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 11:12pmDear al, I’m sorry to inform you, but just because MSNBC says he’s good- doesn‘t mean it’s true… Though with your brilliant powers combined you could make capital pla…uh… Low ratings
The final lesson to the left- this is what happens when you trust & don’t verify!
Report Post »Melvin Spittle
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 11:23pm“He had no choice but to go to a place like Current because his non-compete excluded just about every other place,” an MSNBC source told THR.
That is lame. Non-compete clauses end if you are fired and are unenforceable 99% of the time. They are just a scare tactic.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 11:46pmAl, you know what you can do with that thumb? That will take care of some of that green gas.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 11:53pmAl gushed over KO’s intelligence. That tells you something about Al’s intelligence, which might be a little over the IQ of a single-cell amoeba. KO’s IQ is after the amoeba split.
Report Post »Any lawyers out there, PLEASE file a lawsuit charging Al Gore for perpetrating a fraud on the American people and the people of the world. He should have to give back all the money he took, because Global Warming has been proven to be a hoax. Put the big sissy and his collaborators in jail for about 10 years.
c10win
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 12:07am“he has a magnetic personality”… I think that means olby‘s nose is stuck tight to Big Al’s fat azz….. wonder if he smells any hot air…
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 12:11amDustyluv: I wonder if he feeds him popcorn like Camren Diaz feeds A-Rod…
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Popcorn?
Wartface
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 4:37amFat boy Al Gore has used his income from all of his Green Energy Investments to buy lots of cheese cake…. Or so it looks. I was hoping Gore would stay in hiding after his Global Warming bullish/t turn out to be nothing but lies. I knew they were all lies but, when he bought that big mansion on the ocean shore, after he got rich and dumped his wife, that he knew the tides were not going to flood his big new investment.
Now that is eating all that high calorie food the EPA ought to tax him at a higher rate for all of the methane he is releasing into the atmosphere. I think I’ll patent a Fart O Meter and sell it to the EPA. Man I could get filthy rich like Big Al.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:16amWhen they fail, and fail big, I’m gonna LAUGH, LAUGH, LAUGH!!!
Report Post »brntout
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:41am@DASHRIPROCK The A-rod video?
Report Post »Phreedom
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 11:13amThis is the equivalent of saying “One ****** in the mental institution thinks another ****** in the mental institution is smart”
Report Post »TheLascone
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 11:28amThese 2 deserve each other …..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23630227@N06/4692043790/in/photostream/
Report Post »1proudAmerican
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 12:45pmOne monotone, boring man with no personality talking about another.
Report Post »ATexasFan
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 4:00pmNext hire, Chris Matthews. That should be a real uplifting channel to watch. :( NOT!!!!!
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