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Emails Detail Extended Struggle Between Olbermann And Current TV Bosses

David Taintor | April 2, 2012, 11:42AM

Keith Olbermann

Keith Olbermann's fractious relationship with Current TV had been deteriorating for months before his firing last week, according to email excerpts posted by The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz.

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Keith Olbermann And Current TV Part Ways

David Taintor | March 30, 2012, 5:18PM

Keith Olbermann

Keith Olbermann and Current TV have severed ties, the progressive cable network announced on Friday. In an open letter to Current viewers, the company's founders, former Vice President Al Gore and CEO Joel Hyatt, said the network's values are "no longer reflected in our relationship with Keith Olbermann."

Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who had recently filled in, will replace Olbermann starting Friday night, premiering his new program "Viewpoint."

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Spitzer Spars With Dick Armey On Spending: 'I've Never Heard Such Hokum' (VIDEO)

Jillian Rayfield | January 6, 2011, 1:49PM

Eliot Spitzer wasn't buying what Dick Armey was selling about government spending last night on Parker Spitzer, telling the Republican former House majority leader and head of tea party umbrella group Freedomworks that "with all due respect, I've never heard such hokum, smoke and mirrors, and dancing on a complete flip-flop, lie, and deception in all my years."

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With A Little Help From Roger Stone, Spitzer's Madam Planning Her Political Debut

Evan McMorris-Santoro | February 8, 2010, 5:32PM

Former Manhattan madam and current NY Gov. candidate Kristin Davis

Notorious Republican political operative Roger Stone is getting involved in the New York gubernatorial race. But he's got nothing good to say about the Republican frontrunner in the race. No, Stone told me today, in one of the state's darkest hours New Yorkers should turn to the woman Eliot Spitzer called when he was feeling down -- convicted madam Kristin Davis.

Davis has said she was one of the madams Spitzer dealt with before he resigned from the governor's office in 2008. She spent four months in jail for her crimes and is still in probation. Now, Stone said she's got the platform to shake up the race for Spitzer's old job. He describes it as "pure libertarianism."

"Prostitution, marijuana, gay marriage and guns," Stone said, listing the things Davis would push to legalize if elected.

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