Keith Olbermann

Keith Olbermann Sues Current TV

David Taintor | April 5, 2012, 5:42PM

Keith Olbermann

Updated 6:08 p.m. ET

Keith Olbermann filed suit against Current TV on Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleging the network breached his contract.

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Keith Olbermann

Olbermann On Current TV: 'I Didn't Think The Whole Thing Through'

David Taintor | April 4, 2012, 10:11AM

Keith Olbermann on the Late Show.

Keith Olbermann on Tuesday opened up on the Late Show, explaining his turbulent departure from Current TV.

"I screwed up really big on this," Olbermann told David Letterman. "It's my fault that it didn't succeed, in the sense that I didn't think the whole thing through."

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current tv

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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Current TV

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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Jennifer Granholm

Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm To Host Show On Current TV

David Taintor | October 12, 2011, 1:04PM

Former Governor Jennifer Granholm (D-MI)

Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm will host a new prime-time show starting January 2012 on the expanding Current TV network.

"The War Room will be a nightly show for political junkies like me and anyone who cares about the future of our country, focusing on the 2012 election from all angles," Granholm said in a statement on Wednesday. "We will actively engage viewers with a blend of smart analysis and relevant commentary from guests on the cutting edge of politics, business and entertainment."

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Newt Gingrich

McConnell And Gingrich At CPAC: Dems Need To Stop Co-Opting Reagan

Jillian Rayfield | February 10, 2011, 2:03PM

Rep. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Newt Gingrich took the stage at CPAC today, and both chastised Democrats for going around talking about how much they love Ronald Reagan.

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Keith Olbermann

Keith Olbermann Out At MSNBC (VIDEO)

Evan McMorris-Santoro | January 21, 2011, 9:36PM

Keith Olbermann

Countdown with Keith Olbermann, a staple of the progressive media diet, and the cable news network's top-rated show, is no more. In a surprise announcement at the end of Friday's show, Olbermann said the episode would be his last. A release from MSNBC released shortly after the show ended announced "MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their contract."

The release from MSNBC, in full:

MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their contract. The last broadcast of "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" will be this evening. MSNBC thanks Keith for his integral role in MSNBC's success and we wish him well in his future endeavors.

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Fox News

Keith Olbermann: 'Fox News Is 100% Bullsh*t'

Jon Terbush | December 30, 2010, 1:14PM

Keith Olbermann

It's well known that MSNBC's Keith Olbermann really hates Fox News, the right-leaning cable news network he often attacks on his own nightly show. But last night, Olbermann encapsulated his loathing in perhaps his most concise criticism yet, taking to Twitter to declare that "Fox News is 100% bullshit."

Then he said it again. And again.

Olbermann's Internet assault began when another Twitter user questioned his support for the liberal blog DailyKos despite his frequent disparagement of Fox News for its overt bias. To that, Olbermman unleashed the first tweet in his salvo:

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Barack Obama

Maddow And Olbermann Slam Obama's Tax Cut Compromise (VIDEO)

Megan Carpentier | December 8, 2010, 10:03AM

Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann

If you were first astonished at the outlines of President Obama's tax cut compromise with GOP leaders on Monday and then angry yesterday when Obama called liberals "sanctimonious" for suggesting that he compromised too soon, you weren't alone. MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann came out last night with guns blazing, and spared few shots.

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MSNBC

Scarborough, Buchanan Also Made Political Contributions

Jillian Rayfield | November 5, 2010, 3:16PM

Pat Buchanan and Joe Scarborough

MSNBC suspended host Keith Olbermann today, following revelations that he made campaign contributions to three Democrats in the elections -- a violation of MSNBC policy.

But a search of OpenSecrets.org reveals that MSNBC host Joe Scarborough and MSNBC contributor Pat Buchanan have also made contributions to political campaigns. Here's what we found...

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Howard Dean

Olbermann Pushes Dean On Cordoba House Stance (VIDEO)

Eric Kleefeld | August 20, 2010, 10:54AM

Former DNC Chairman Howard Dean

Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean appeared last night on Countdown, to defend his remarks that the Muslim community center project near Ground Zero in New York should be moved to a different location. During the interview, Dean called for a dialogue between 9/11 families and the center's organizers -- and insisted that he was not associating himself in any way with the outspoken opponents on the right such as Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin.

Keith Olbermann mentioned during his introduction of Dean that Arshad Hasan, the head of the Dean-founded liberal political group Democracy For America, has criticized Democrats -- without directly mentioning Dean -- who have sought to compromise with an "implacable opposition." And Olbermann put tough questions to Dean, such as asking what compromise he can imagine people like Gingrich and Palin would accept.

"Yes, I don't think the Sarah Palins and Newt Gingriches have any interest. They're clearly exploiting this for whatever political gain they think they can get out of it," said Dean. "But I think there are some people of good will, perhaps, including some of the families of the victims that we might actually sit down around a table with. This is a tough issue I think some of my own folks on my end of the spectrum of the party are demonizing some fairly decent people who are opposed to this. And, again, in no way am I defending, you know, the right wing of the Republican Party.

"But there are 65 percent of the people in this country are not right-wing bigots. Some of them really have deep emotional feelings about this. And I think we at least ought to respectfully hear them and sit down with Muslim-Americans and with some of the people that object to this, and have a thoughtful, reasonable dialogue and see what comes out of it. And in order for it to be a fair, thoughtful and reasonable dialogue, you have to be willing to move."

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KY-SEN

Dick Armey: Rand Paul Made 'Rookie Mistake' Going On Maddow

Christina Bellantoni | June 16, 2010, 1:03PM

Former Rep. Dick Armey (R-TX)

Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey told reporters today that Senate candidate Rand Paul is an "amateur" who made two big mistakes -- appearing on Rachel Maddow's show and declaring himself as a leader of the tea party movement.

"Rand Paul made an amateur, freshman, rookie mistake -- he thought MSNBC was a legitimate news organization," Armey said at a lunch today hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. "These are not professional people. ... Bless his heart, he walked right into a buzzsaw."

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Health Care

VIDEO: Howard Dean Says 'This Is Not Real Reform'

Christina Bellantoni | December 16, 2009, 9:20AM

Fmr. DNC Chair Howard Dean

Former DNC Chairman Howard Dean sounds off on the health care bill on MSNBC's Keith Olbermann show last night.

"They're not thinking about what they are doing here," Dean says, calling the negotiations a "real disappointment."

He said "to make Joe the issue" is a mistake, though he told TPMDC last month that Sen. Joe Lieberman and others have a "moral obligation" to vote with the caucus on procedural issues.

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