‘I Bet You Wish I Was Joking About This’: Emails About Olbermann‘s ’Diva’ Car Needs Revealed
- Posted on April 4, 2012 at 10:56am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Emails obtained by the New York Post appear to shed some additional light on the circumstances surrounding Keith Olbermann’s firing from Current TV last week — particularly his complaints about smelly, talkative drivers.
As The Blaze previously reported, Olbermann had apparently complained that drivers from the car services Current employed “smelled” and “talked to him” — resulting in the network going through eight car companies during the host’s less-than-a-year tenure.
“The problem is with him…the man who professes to be for the 99% doesn’t want any of the 99% talking to him or being near him,” one Current TV accounting executive complained in an email published by the Post.
In a separate email, an assistant emailed the accounting department to say she had just maxed out her corporate credit card in trying to find a service whose drivers would meet Olbermann’s “exacting standards.”
“I bet you wish I was joking about this…but we have yet another car service we need to open an account with,” the assistant wrote. “Any chance we can get this ASAP? I keep putting the charges on my corporate card and I’m afraid it will go over the limit soon!”
The assistant reportedly settled on a new car service called “Diva.” It wasn’t to last long, however — Olbermann was dumped from the network shortly after the company was hired.
Olbermann appeared on “The Late Show with David Letterman” Tuesday, during which he addressed some of the car service controversy.
“The story is that we changed car services a couple times and that I got rid of them — maybe there were like eight different car services,” Olbermann said. “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. So — and I know that makes me Attila the Hun because the bill wasn’t paid.”
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Comments (121)
Treaty
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:53amLimo driving Liberal.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:01pmI suppose folks out there really think this idiot is one of them and not an elitist. As if you couldn’t tell that in 60 seconds of listening to him.
He has a “job” because big dollar producers like his snottiness. They like his elitist attitude, because t u r d s of a feather float together. Sounds cliche’, I know, but it’s true.
Report Post »ThatsJustCrazyTalk
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:53pm“Driving?” He may be a Limo Leftist, but it sounds like he has the help do all the work.
Report Post »muhamed
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:59pmThis is the guy who yelled at a worker for not having enough ketchup packets….how quickly we forget.
Report Post »maccow
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 2:51pmLets see, a couple times in the less than one year turns into eight and only one of those involved the bill not getting paid. What then was the reason for the other seven?
The common denominator Keith, is that you were in the car.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 2:55pmTypical liberal hypocrisy!
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 3:20pmSome of the craziest Liberal elitists I’ve heard:
1) Ate her placenta
2) Paid a woman to breast feed her pet opossum
3) Believed she discovered the cure to cancer – quitting coffee
4) Had a limo drive him a measly 100 yards to work each day and had the limo followed by a golf cart in case the limo broke down
5) “For the return of the guillotine” – psychopath
6) Rosie O’Donnell – Too many to list
7) Garoffallo – Idiot believes the root of Conservative motivation is race. Look in the mirror, crazy lady, we aren’t the ones obsessed with race. No one I know ever talks about race nor seems to care about anyone’s race and I know and work with people of all races
8) Sean Penn – Lover of dictators
9) All of the stupid hypocritical millionaires that call themselves the 99% – most notably Michael Moron
10) Olbermann – This story gives us another glimpse into the hypocritical and twisted “Liberal pseudo-intellectual snobs’” minds
11) Idiotic environmentalist whackos protesting oil and coal in America “to save the planet” sending jobs overseas which produces even more pollution than if the jobs stayed here and the nuts that value insects’ lives over food production and human safety etc…
There is literally no end to the examples of Liberal insanity, dishonesty, and hypocrisy and, unlike Wasserman-Schultz, I know what “literally” means.
Report Post »neverfinal
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 3:25pmI can’t believe these THESE 99%’s ARE SOOOOO IGNORANT, they can’t see the elite hippocracy until it hits them right between the eyes. Oh well, birds of a feather flock together. No morals or values always gets you bad bed fellows. They need each other just to feel good about themselves. Losers always pick losers. It some how makes them feel better.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 4:25pmTrully one of the 99%…Haaaaaa haaaaa haaaaa priceless
Report Post »Miami
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 4:26pmI hope they wake up and eat him
Report Post »flrick
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 5:16pmWorst person in the world. Of course I use the term “person” loosely.
Report Post »Ishmot2
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 9:17pmRULER4YOU He does not have a job.
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 9:36pm@TREAT.I think that boy is a little light in the loafers. prissyboy.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:50amRich Liberal hippocrates ……poor people are just their useful idiots……they could not care less about poor minorities……..
Report Post »piper60
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:49amEnough. Let’s move on.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:03pmAgree….until the Obama stories come out.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:49amOne more example of the leftist wing propagandists hypocricy revealed. Their sheer and uttermost arrogance is beyond description.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:46amLiberals hate the poor, and the minorities, it’s just so convenient to use them to further a socialist agenda….
Report Post »Slowman101
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:46amLets all throw a pity party for Keith! NOT! What a hypocrite.
Report Post »Agnes
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 3:44pmMaybe we can arrange to have him “shipped” somewhere permanently.
Report Post »Athinkerinaseaoflibs
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:42am“Attila the Hun”? Stop maligning both Attila and the Hun, they were never this bad. Keith Ubermen took obnoxious to a level that is yet to be obtained by any Rock Star, Hollywood Elite, or a professional athlete who got rich overnight.
Report Post »Can you imagine being on an airliner in coach and seeing this piece of work come down the aisle and realizing that the only seat on the plane is in the middle next to you? He probably missed his previous flight because he did not want to be strip searched by a Middle Eastern woman who had too much facial hair and/or smelled bad. He has to be on the plane you are on for some stupid reason that clearly centers around just how important he is. I would just off myself at that point. I don’t know how I would do it on a plane but I would figure out a way to do with the plastic fork or some other object similarly suited.
Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:39amI wonder how many of those smelly drivers looked like Trayvon Martin ???
Report Post »JAMACAMECRAZYMAN
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:52amI am trayvon – you are trayvon – we are all trayvon (NOT)
What the hell is a trayvon?
Report Post »ThePostman
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 2:45pmI trayvonned some candy at the store the other day.
Report Post »Gamaliel
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:33amOlberman reminds me of the liberals around here that stay in their exclusive neighborhoods and only shop at particular trendy stores so as not to rub shoulders with the horde their open borders policies have allowed to run over other neighborhoods. Then they look down on conservative Americans who shop at Winco & Walmart.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:33amMaybe it is time this man learn what humility is all about? I certainly don’t want to begrudge him a new job, but maybe just maybe it is time he gets the door slammed in his face for awhile, he might learn he is the problem, not everyone else. I guess the last car service was appropriately named. It is too bad they lost their gig because of Olbermann.
Report Post »cliffattheblaze
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 2:25pmI don’t begrudge him a new job. I think he’d be a fine limo driver.
Report Post »teebubba
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 7:51pmNo Cliff..he wouldn’t make a good limo driver….he‘s cross eyed from a head injury back in the early 80’s that turned him into the idiot he is today.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:31amSomething about these old hippies, they all seem to want to ride their high horses into the sunset as they become more and more irreverent and generally worthless. Just look at them, Soros, Ayers, Piven and you know the gang. Making some noise at the end of their ride to try and be something relevant and at the same time being the hypocrite of all hypocrites.
Report Post »wolverine
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 2:32pmI don’t think he speaks any arabic languages so that eliminates limo herding
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:29am.
I think his new job should be “Boy Toy”, for that Big Woman from the baseball fight story……
She could floss with him………..
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:33amOnce again the criticisms about Olbermann seem to be founded in reality.
Report Post »MHM
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:56pmNo way! I think he and Chris Mathews are much more compatible!
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:29amRich white Democrat Liberals, the ignorant Blacks worst Enemy….. Too bad they don’t see it ……
Report Post »Silversmith
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:28amThis muck raker is done. You can only peddle hate and disdain for so long before your soul goes dark. So many comedians go this route!! Hate is poison. Love is the only cure. If we don’t start to care about each other soon we may be in for another big lesson.
Silversmith
Report Post »skiz
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:28amWhat a total pansie!
Report Post »GoodCook
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:45amYeah, does he still live in his mother’s basement?
Report Post »teebubba
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 8:02pm@Good Cook….I heard that his mother publicly hated him and then died without reconciliation.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:24amHow many times has he been fired, now? THAT will look good on his resume, but I’m sure Soros will find something for him to do. These bed-wetters always have their butt buddies find them another job.
Report Post »One has to be a pretty big butt hole to be fired from Current TV.
canyousmellmenow
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:34amSomething smells and It is not the car service. By by Mr.Overbite. Im sorry that is an insult to people with an over bite.peeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:20amKeith, Just stay on your high horse
>and ride happily into your sunset.
Report Post »TennBill
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:20amIs it just me or does this Bag of Wind resemble Alec Baldwin. They seem to share an ego!
Report Post »Dale
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:50amSorry, Tennbill, they each have one; go figure.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:19amI guess the drivers are the worlds worse person, or at least the smelliest.
Smelly cat, smelly cat, why do you stink.
Report Post »Mrs. Bowers
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:10amWe have the same problem here in Mn. We have MPR or also known as NPR to the rest of America. They are constantly beating the drum about urban living and suburban sprawl. The other day one of the callers asked the host, “where do you live?” You should have heard the squirm. She replied, “The Greater Minneapolis Area.” The caller knowing there is no such thing as the TGMA then asked again . After a brief throat clearing, and a little sheepishly we heard near Lake Minnetonka. The ritziest place in the entire state! They have their own yacht club and it’s nothing but mansions and high dollar luxury cars a plenty! We laughed our butts off!!! Hypocrites!
Report Post »OurFoundingFather
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:10amWorking for this guy or with or near this guy must be a real, “I‘m going to close my eyes now and check to see if i’m awake” – things bad dreams are made of.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:07amFor Mr Olbermann’s sake I hope he has Invested his Money Well fore he is running out of markets that would want to hire his Sorry As&%
Report Post »JayCee
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:14amGBTV should hire him.
Report Post »He could be a studio prop.
A dummy in a dunce cap sitting in the corner.
paperpushermj
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 7:49pmIn a way you made my point of it now being common knowledge of his proclivities of being smug and difficult to work with. Just how large is the market for his type of Act. I guess he could always go back to his roots of being a sportscaster.
Report Post »drago
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:06amOne way they could have fixed that, put him in a taxi with achmed,and send him on a round trip through Jersey……..
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:01amNo 1 want uesless,freeloaders, idiots with fleas crawling on them. This is Americas get a dream & pursue it. Oh , work 4 it.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:01amWhat an enormous ego this guy has.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:21am.
Report Post »It tries to make up for his tiny hands……
WAR PIGS CRAWLING
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:27amA stronger man, I do not know……I mean…..to carry around a head that is so inflated……you may be the Richard Lupkes of strength…….(NOTE…Richard Lupkes is NOT a progressive douche bag……just one heck of a strong guy)….. anyways….Keith is a ___ ___ __ _____ ____ ___yep…….a self-proclaimed douche…
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