Keith Olbermann Is Back, Weighs In On "Very Well-Educated" Metro-North Rider
Keith Olbermann returned to cable television last night with his Current TV version of Countdown with Keith Olbermann. The former ESPN anchor-turned-vocal libtard left MSNBC in January and announced his move to Al Gore's network in April. His show is pretty much the same as before, if only on a different channel, and he's still "madder than hell." His first "Worst Persons In The World" segment featured everyone's favorite "very well-educated" Metro-North rider, Hermon Raju (see video below), but to some MSNBC viewers, Olbermann is a Worst Person for running four minutes in the 9 p.m. Rachel Maddow hour!
Worst person in the world? Please! I see worse people on the news every day. Like Steangeli Medina today, for example.
airtech1
@Ms Raju - well-educated? "...you just dropped 150K on an education that you could have gotten for a buck-fifty in late charges at the public library...."
Two slob asses on MetroNorth to Westchester....... The broad, blabbing loudly on her cell phone as both of them doffed their shoes and proceeded to luxuriate with their feet on the seats !!!!!!!!!! Conductor never said anything to them.. Should I have ??? I just gave the woman a dirty look..
armchair_warrior
he should mind his fing own business so should those people on that fing train.
Guest
I take "minding business" as "crushing her skull" Potato/ potahto.
jaycjay
"Olbermann is a Worst Person for running four minutes in the 9 p.m. Rachel Maddow hour!"
Unless he somehow can reach the control board from that desk, that isn't his decision.
ItchyGoiter
I think it's been reported that he is a part owner of the network as well. So he can pretty much do whatever he wants.
Len_Drexler
Olbermann writes most if not all of his show. And if Olbermann goes over, Current ain't pulling the plug. When you hear enough stories about Olbermann's temper you have to assume at least some of it's true.
ddhboy
they aren't pulling the plug because Current gets something like 2K viewers on a good day on primetime. Olberman got them 179K. It pales in comparison to Lawrence O'Donnell's 237K and Bill O'Reily's 735K, but they did beat CNN, who's sitting at a pitiful 89K, and again, its far beyond what they were getting before.
Expect CurrentTV to pretty much assert itself as the fourth news channel next year once Olberman, who's now an executive at the network, fills out the programming with more opinion shows and more Vanguard-esque documentary series.
jaycjay
"Current ain't pulling the plug"
OK, that's their decision.
Len_Drexler
If they let him go over because they don't want to deal with the legendary tantrums I would question who is really in control.
Rocknrope
Someone better be making sure that Raju doesn't kill herself after being humiliated on television on top of becoming a laughingstock on the internet.
Guest
Way to jump on the bandwagon and bash someone who's likely mentally ill, Keith.
Guest
So, being a spoiled brat piece of shit is now a mental illness?
Rocknrope
Do you know how many people are like this in NY? Why assume she's mentally ill?
Whatever happened to simply being 'cunty'?
schmeep
Because her affect was just 'not right' to clinician's eyes (like my own). Perhaps she's just characteralogical, but even a 'normal' person under such stress is likely to face severe trauma.
xsweety101x
She's just embarrassed and is using her biases and superiority complex to deflate her embarrassment. I dropped out of Psych and could pick that up more easily...
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