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If you used to watch Countdown With Keith Olbermann when it was on MSNBC, then you have a pretty good idea what it’s like on Current based on the first show tonight. The theme music from Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, the “Worst Persons In The World” segment, story, and guest selection, throwing his script at the camera, righteous indignation – all virtually identical. But there are two differences: Olbermann says his show will run 63 minutes a night, which means it will cut into the opening of Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. Also, Olbermann’s attacks on big business sound like he’s more interested in wooing viewers from public access television than from MSNBC. Tonight’s segments included filmmaker Michael Moore blasting the war in Libya, former Nixon lawyer John Dean attacking Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ alleged conflicts of interest, and Daily Kos’ Markos Moulitsas discussing the GOP presidential candidates and his run-ins with MSNBC. We’ll see how well it wears.
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Just seeing his ugly mug on here makes me want to wash my eyeballs.
Enough already.
Bingo. KO is a far left whackjob who still wants Bush arrested for Iraq. Let him die on the vine on an obscure channel–it will be proper.
GOP fears Olbermann.
>Olbermann’s attacks on big business sound like he’s more interested in wooing viewers from public access television than from MSNBC
What does that mean? Because only hippies who watch public access TV are aware that the vast majority of media is corporate propaganda? Maybe now that KO isn’t on corporate cable he feels more free to criticize corporations. We might even hear a real discussion of net neutrality and media mergers.
PBS doesn’t exist in your world, does it?
YAWN Olbermann’s such old news. Truth be known, he reached his zenith doing sports in LA. How he got from that to political commentary I’LL NEVER KNOW. I’m so over him now I can’t even watch him talk football on NBC.
David Lieberman,
How does” attacking big business” equate with public access viewing? Nikki Finke regularly decries the major studios, all of which are part of big conglomerates. Like Olbermann, Finke isn’t afraid of saying that corporate heads are clueless or corrupt. Right?
I’m shocked that you would twist the long recognized art of tweaking corporate power into something beyond the pale.
It is funny he has John Dean as a correspondent. The guy is morally bankrupt.
this pompous blowhard will face terrible ratings in 10 days. Everyone is sick of him.
Why do you fear truth?
Thank God Keith is back! Any voice that bashes these teabaggers the way they deserve is welcome! The bad news: not watchable online. Boooo!
Easy on the Kool-Aid, pal. If you drown, KO’s audience drops 33%.
HA! too funny.
Also funny – SoC cannot see that he is every bit as overzealous and moronic as those he criticizes. Kool-aid indeed.
Online? Countdown is now a free download on iTunes.
It’s great to have Keith back.
I wanted to tune in. I really did. But as I was flipping through the channels to get there, I got stuck on the Albanian QVC channel. It’s right before Current and right after the Lithuanian Weather Channel. Anyway I bought a beautiful teak towel rack. I’m gonna hang it in my upstairs bathroom. Did anyone make it to Current? How did Groucho do tonight? I miss him so. I can’t fall asleep at night. I used to DVR the show and watch it to cure my insomnia. Maybe I’ll try again tomorrow. But I can’t promise. I saw some very exotic soaps and oils that I might get tomorrow on QVC. By the way. Sunny and 75 in Lithuania.
hahaha.
Olbermann is alright, too much for sports, too little for politics. If you you take your Huffpost Goggles off for a minute you’d realize O’Reilly is the better man and truly believes in the U.S. with all of it’s problems. Don’t get me started on the Current Staff as well. Teenage Burger King employees have more wit and smarts about them. Without funding these are all spineless jelly fish with a cool factor circa 1992. Time to read book.
Hey, I work the window at Burger King. I can assure you that I DO NOT have more “wit and smarts” than the folks at Current. But I can run circles around those twits at CNN.
I’m sick of polly.
I enjoyed Olbermann. But then, I’m not “everyone”. Liked that KO just pushed forward as if he had never gone away. What I didn’t like is that I missed the last few minutes because my DVR wasn’t set for the show to run over.
Be odd if his hurt Maddow as some suggest. I DVR them both, so it’s pretty simple really.
i find it hard to believe there is anyone even remotely interested in what this lowlife has to say on his new show. even if you put aside his political/social ideology, the guy is just a world-class sleazeball. his time, as pathetic as it was, has passed.
so nobody needs to be talking about how Justice Clarence Thomas has a rich guy in Dallas flying him around the country for free, giving his wife half a million bucks to start her Tea Party group and blowing millions on a museum that Thomas wanted built in his hometown?
Maybe Keith should do a whole episode based on cool tweets and the deal of the guy from Jackass.
I see the conservatives all logged on to their Prodigy and AOL dial up accounts to post cranky complaints here…..
I think he’s wise to focus on business….he is correct that corporate influence in political decisions is surging in a dangerous way.
I am unoffended by mr Lieberman’s characterization of public access channels, but what does it mean? You mean like those old channels like the ones with the weird dancing naked lady in NY? Or do you mean PBS? Anyway thanks for trumpeting another classic to link to on drudge report.
Current TV….hilarious, let us know how it goes…if successful maybe he can add an AM radio show!
It’s not Beethoven’s 9th – that’s the one with “Ode to Joy”, which makes no sense.
Worst Persons’ theme is Bach’s Toccata and Fugue.
As an avid football fan, the only silver lining in an NFL lockout means I won’t have to listen to KO on NBC doing the most lame re-caps and analysis.
Good to see KO back. I’m sure the ratings weren’t as big as he normally had on MSNBC, but it was probably a lot better than Current is used to.
Hopefully Current will grow its news division not just into a liberal media outlet, but balanced news organization. If so, I’m in.
The only people who watch Current are twentysomething slackers who awake at noon and take their first hit off the bong. In other words, Olbermann should be right at home with the rest of the drug addicts and brain-deads.
I am so glad I found your info about KO. I am neither 20 something,don’t own a “bong” but I think I know what it is. I’m up at 8 am each day, run my dog by 9, start writing at about 9:30 and have whipped off a chapter or so of my latest book by 3PM.
So far, I don’t recognize myself as your description of KO’s fans but hey, brain deads only recognize other brain deads. So keep looking.
I’ve missed KO’s irreverent pushes and shoves at the greedy and kiss a**es of our political world. For instance, I think Bachman — who appeared several times on his old show — makes Palin look like Einstein. But thanks for the reminder that he irritates lots of brain dead. He makes ME laugh — with,not at. Cant wait to see his new show.
A vet for FOS.